{"id":"sn17.8","title":"A Jackal","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn17.8","title":"A Jackal","units":[{"id":"sn17.8:0","sourceIds":["sn17.8:0.1","sn17.8:0.2","sn17.8:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 17.8\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nSiṅgālasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 17.8\nChapter One\nA Jackal"}},{"id":"sn17.8:1","sourceIds":["sn17.8:1.1","sn17.8:1.2","sn17.8:1.3","sn17.8:1.4","sn17.8:1.5","sn17.8:1.6","sn17.8:1.7","sn17.8:1.8","sn17.8:1.9","sn17.8:1.10","sn17.8:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Dāruṇo, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko …pe… adhigamāya.\nAssuttha no tumhe, bhikkhave, rattiyā paccūsasamayaṁ jarasiṅgālassa vassamānassā”ti?\n“Evaṁ, bhante”.\n“Eso kho, bhikkhave, jarasiṅgālo ukkaṇḍakena nāma rogajātena phuṭṭho neva bilagato ramati, na rukkhamūlagato ramati, na ajjhokāsagato ramati;\nyena yena gacchati, yattha yattha tiṭṭhati, yattha yattha nisīdati, yattha yattha nipajjati; tattha tattha anayabyasanaṁ āpajjati.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, idhekacco bhikkhu lābhasakkārasilokena abhibhūto pariyādiṇṇacitto neva suññāgāragato ramati, na rukkhamūlagato ramati, na ajjhokāsagato ramati;\nyena yena gacchati, yattha yattha tiṭṭhati, yattha yattha nisīdati, yattha yattha nipajjati; tattha tattha anayabyasanaṁ āpajjati.\nEvaṁ dāruṇo kho, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko …pe…\nevañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Possessions, honor, and popularity are grim …\nMendicants, did you hear an old jackal howling at the crack of dawn?”\n“Yes, sir.”\n“That old jackal has the disease called mange. He’s not happy in his den, or at the root of a tree, or out in the open.\nWherever he goes, stands, sits, or lies down he meets with tragedy and disaster.\nIn the same way, take a certain mendicant whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity. They’re not happy in an empty hut, at the root of a tree, or out in the open.\nWherever they go, stand, sit, or lie down they meet with tragedy and disaster.\nSo grim are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn17.8/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}