{"id":"sn20.3","title":"Families","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn20.3","title":"Families","units":[{"id":"sn20.3:0","sourceIds":["sn20.3:0.1","sn20.3:0.2","sn20.3:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 20.3\n1. Opammavagga\nKulasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 20.3\n1. Similes\nFamilies"}},{"id":"sn20.3:1","sourceIds":["sn20.3:1.1","sn20.3:1.2","sn20.3:1.3","sn20.3:1.4","sn20.3:1.5","sn20.3:1.6","sn20.3:1.7","sn20.3:1.8","sn20.3:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yāni kānici kulāni bahutthikāni appapurisāni tāni suppadhaṁsiyāni honti corehi kumbhatthenakehi;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, yassa kassaci bhikkhuno mettācetovimutti abhāvitā abahulīkatā so suppadhaṁsiyo hoti amanussehi.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yāni kānici kulāni appitthikāni bahupurisāni tāni duppadhaṁsiyāni honti corehi kumbhatthenakehi;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, yassa kassaci bhikkhuno mettācetovimutti bhāvitā bahulīkatā so duppadhaṁsiyo hoti amanussehi.\nTasmātiha, bhikkhave, evaṁ sikkhitabbaṁ:\n‘mettā no cetovimutti bhāvitā bhavissati bahulīkatā yānīkatā vatthukatā anuṭṭhitā paricitā susamāraddhā’ti.\nEvañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, those families with many women and few men are easy prey for bandits and  grain-jar thieves.\nIn the same way any mendicant who has not developed and cultivated the heart’s release by love is easy prey for non-humans.\nThose families with few women and many men are hard prey for bandits and grain-jar thieves.\nIn the same way a mendicant who has developed and cultivated the heart’s release by love is hard prey for non-humans.\nSo you should train like this:\n‘We will develop the heart’s release by love. We’ll cultivate it, make it our vehicle and our basis, keep it up, consolidate it, and properly implement it.’\nThat’s how you should train.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn20.3/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."}