{"id":"sn21.9","title":"With Tissa","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn21.9","title":"With Tissa","units":[{"id":"sn21.9:0","sourceIds":["sn21.9:0.1","sn21.9:0.2","sn21.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 21.9\n1. Bhikkhuvagga\nTissasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 21.9\n1. Monks\nWith Tissa"}},{"id":"sn21.9:1","sourceIds":["sn21.9:1.1","sn21.9:1.2","sn21.9:1.3","sn21.9:1.4","sn21.9:1.5","sn21.9:1.6","sn21.9:1.7","sn21.9:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\nAtha kho āyasmā tisso bhagavato pitucchāputto yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi dukkhī dummano assūni pavattayamāno. Atha kho bhagavā āyasmantaṁ tissaṁ etadavoca:\n“kiṁ nu kho tvaṁ, tissa, ekamantaṁ nisinno dukkhī dummano assūni pavattayamāno”ti?\n“Tathā hi pana maṁ, bhante, bhikkhū samantā vācāyasannitodakena sañjambharimakaṁsū”ti.\n“Tathāhi pana tvaṁ, tissa, vattā no ca vacanakkhamo;\nna kho te taṁ, tissa, patirūpaṁ kulaputtassa saddhā agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajitassa, yaṁ tvaṁ vattā no ca vacanakkhamo.\nEtaṁ kho te, tissa, patirūpaṁ kulaputtassa saddhā agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajitassa:\n‘yaṁ tvaṁ vattā ca assa vacanakkhamo cā’”ti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen Venerable Tissa—the Buddha’s cousin on his father’s side—went to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. He was miserable and sad, with tears flowing. Then the Buddha said to him:\n“Tissa, why are you sitting there so miserable and sad, with tears flowing?”\n“Sir, it’s because the mendicants beset me on all sides with sneering and jeering.”\n“That’s because you admonish others, but don’t accept admonition yourself.\nAs a gentleman who has gone forth out of faith from the lay life to homelessness, it’s not appropriate for you to admonish others without accepting admonition yourself.\nIt’s appropriate for you to\nadmonish others and accept admonition yourself.”"}},{"id":"sn21.9:2","sourceIds":["sn21.9:2.1","sn21.9:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca bhagavā.\nIdaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā:","en":"That is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn21.9:3","sourceIds":["sn21.9:3.1","sn21.9:3.2","sn21.9:3.3","sn21.9:3.4","sn21.9:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kiṁ nu kujjhasi mā kujjhi,\nAkkodho tissa te varaṁ;\nKodhamānamakkhavinayatthañhi,\nTissa brahmacariyaṁ vussatī”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"“Why are you angry? Don’t be angry!\nIt’s better to not be angry, Tissa.\nFor this spiritual life is lived\nin order to remove anger, conceit, and denigration.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn21.9/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."}