{"id":"sn20.7","title":"The Drum Called Plugger","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn20.7","title":"The Drum Called Plugger","units":[{"id":"sn20.7:0","sourceIds":["sn20.7:0.1","sn20.7:0.2","sn20.7:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 20.7\n1. Opammavagga\nĀṇisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 20.7\n1. Similes\nThe Drum Called Plugger"}},{"id":"sn20.7:1","sourceIds":["sn20.7:1.1","sn20.7:1.2","sn20.7:1.3","sn20.7:1.4","sn20.7:1.5","sn20.7:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Bhūtapubbaṁ, bhikkhave, dasārahānaṁ ānako nāma mudiṅgo ahosi.\nTassa dasārahā ānake ghaṭite aññaṁ āṇiṁ odahiṁsu.\nAhu kho so, bhikkhave, samayo yaṁ ānakassa mudiṅgassa porāṇaṁ pokkharaphalakaṁ antaradhāyi.\nĀṇisaṅghāṭova avasissi.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, bhavissanti bhikkhū anāgatamaddhānaṁ, ye te suttantā tathāgatabhāsitā gambhīrā gambhīratthā lokuttarā suññatappaṭisaṁyuttā, tesu bhaññamānesu na sussūsissanti na sotaṁ odahissanti na aññā cittaṁ upaṭṭhāpessanti na ca te dhamme uggahetabbaṁ pariyāpuṇitabbaṁ maññissanti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Once upon a time, mendicants, the Dasārahas had a mridangam drum called the Plugger.\nWhen the Plugger cracked, the Dasārahas patched it with another plug.\nEventually, there came a time when the old wooden shell for the drumskin disappeared\nand all that was left of the mridangam Plugger was a mass of plugs.\nIn the same way, in a future time there will be mendicants who won’t want to listen when discourses spoken by the Realized One—deep, profound, transcendent, dealing with emptiness—are being recited. They won’t actively listen or try to understand, nor will they think those teachings are worth learning and memorizing."}},{"id":"sn20.7:2","sourceIds":["sn20.7:2.1","sn20.7:2.2","sn20.7:2.3","sn20.7:2.4","sn20.7:2.5","sn20.7:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye pana te suttantā kavikatā kāveyyā cittakkharā cittabyañjanā bāhirakā sāvakabhāsitā, tesu bhaññamānesu sussūsissanti, sotaṁ odahissanti, aññā cittaṁ upaṭṭhāpessanti, te ca dhamme uggahetabbaṁ pariyāpuṇitabbaṁ maññissanti.\nEvametesaṁ, bhikkhave, suttantānaṁ tathāgatabhāsitānaṁ gambhīrānaṁ gambhīratthānaṁ lokuttarānaṁ suññatappaṭisaṁyuttānaṁ antaradhānaṁ bhavissati.\nTasmātiha, bhikkhave, evaṁ sikkhitabbaṁ:\n‘ye te suttantā tathāgatabhāsitā gambhīrā gambhīratthā lokuttarā suññatappaṭisaṁyuttā, tesu bhaññamānesu sussūsissāma, sotaṁ odahissāma, aññā cittaṁ upaṭṭhāpessāma, te ca dhamme uggahetabbaṁ pariyāpuṇitabbaṁ maññissāmā’ti.\nEvañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"But when discourses composed by poets—poetry, with fancy words and phrases, composed by outsiders or spoken by disciples—are being recited they will want to listen. They’ll actively listen and try to understand, and they’ll think those teachings are worth learning and memorizing.\nAnd that is how the discourses spoken by the Realized One—deep, profound, transcendent, dealing with emptiness—will disappear.\nSo you should train like this:\n‘When discourses spoken by the Realized One—deep, profound, transcendent, dealing with emptiness—are being recited we will want to listen. We will actively listen and try to understand, and we will think those teachings are worth learning and memorizing.’\nThat’s how you should train.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn20.7/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."}