{"id":"sn22.47","title":"Ways of Regarding","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn22.47","title":"Ways of Regarding","units":[{"id":"sn22.47:0","sourceIds":["sn22.47:0.1","sn22.47:0.2","sn22.47:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 22.47\n5. Attadīpavagga\nSamanupassanāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 22.47\n5. Be Your Own Island\nWays of Regarding"}},{"id":"sn22.47:1","sourceIds":["sn22.47:1.1","sn22.47:1.2","sn22.47:1.3","sn22.47:1.4","sn22.47:1.5","sn22.47:1.6","sn22.47:1.7","sn22.47:1.8","sn22.47:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\n“Ye hi keci, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā anekavihitaṁ attānaṁ samanupassamānā samanupassanti, sabbete pañcupādānakkhandhe samanupassanti, etesaṁ vā aññataraṁ.\nKatame pañca?\nIdha, bhikkhave, assutavā puthujjano ariyānaṁ adassāvī ariyadhammassa akovido ariyadhamme avinīto, sappurisānaṁ adassāvī sappurisadhammassa akovido sappurisadhamme avinīto\nrūpaṁ attato samanupassati, rūpavantaṁ vā attānaṁ; attani vā rūpaṁ, rūpasmiṁ vā attānaṁ.\nVedanaṁ …\nsaññaṁ …\nsaṅkhāre …\nviññāṇaṁ attato samanupassati, viññāṇavantaṁ vā attānaṁ; attani vā viññāṇaṁ, viññāṇasmiṁ vā attānaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, whatever ascetics and brahmins regard various kinds of things as self, all regard the five grasping aggregates, or one of them.\nWhat five?\nIt’s when an unlearned ordinary person has not seen the noble ones, and is neither skilled nor trained in the teaching of the noble ones. They’ve not seen true persons, and are neither skilled nor trained in the teaching of the true persons.\nThey regard form as self, self as having form, form in self, or self in form.\nThey regard feeling …\nperception …\nchoices …\nconsciousness as self, self as having consciousness, consciousness in self, or self in consciousness."}},{"id":"sn22.47:2","sourceIds":["sn22.47:2.1","sn22.47:2.2","sn22.47:2.3","sn22.47:2.4","sn22.47:2.5","sn22.47:2.6","sn22.47:2.7","sn22.47:2.8","sn22.47:2.9","sn22.47:2.10","sn22.47:2.11","sn22.47:2.12","sn22.47:2.13"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Iti ayañceva samanupassanā ‘asmī’ti cassa avigataṁ hoti.\n‘Asmī’ti kho pana, bhikkhave, avigate pañcannaṁ indriyānaṁ avakkanti hoti—\ncakkhundriyassa sotindriyassa ghānindriyassa jivhindriyassa kāyindriyassa.\nAtthi, bhikkhave, mano, atthi dhammā, atthi avijjādhātu.\nAvijjāsamphassajena, bhikkhave, vedayitena phuṭṭhassa assutavato puthujjanassa ‘asmī’tipissa hoti;\n‘ayamahamasmī’tipissa hoti;\n‘bhavissan’tipissa hoti;\n‘na bhavissan’tipissa hoti;\n‘rūpī bhavissan’tipissa hoti;\n‘arūpī bhavissan’tipissa hoti;\n‘saññī bhavissan’tipissa hoti;\n‘asaññī bhavissan’tipissa hoti;\n‘nevasaññīnāsaññī bhavissan’tipissa hoti.","en":"So they’re not rid of this way of regarding things, and the conceit ‘I am’.\nAs long as they’re not rid of the conceit ‘I am’, the five faculties are conceived—\nthe eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body.\nThe mind, ideas, and the element of ignorance are all present.\nStruck by feelings born of contact with ignorance, an unlearned ordinary person thinks ‘I am’,\n‘I am this’,\n‘I will be’,\n‘I will not be’,\n‘I will have form’,\n‘I will be formless’,\n‘I will be percipient’,\n‘I will not be percipient’,\n‘I will be neither percipient nor non-percipient’."}},{"id":"sn22.47:3","sourceIds":["sn22.47:3.1","sn22.47:3.2","sn22.47:3.3","sn22.47:3.4","sn22.47:3.5","sn22.47:3.6","sn22.47:3.7","sn22.47:3.8","sn22.47:3.9","sn22.47:3.10","sn22.47:3.11","sn22.47:3.12"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tiṭṭhanteva kho, bhikkhave, tattheva pañcindriyāni.\nAthettha sutavato ariyasāvakassa avijjā pahīyati, vijjā uppajjati.\nTassa avijjāvirāgā vijjuppādā ‘asmī’tipissa na hoti;\n‘ayamahamasmī’tipissa na hoti;\n‘bhavissan’ti …\n‘na bhavissan’ti …\nrūpī …\narūpī …\nsaññī …\nasaññī …\n‘nevasaññīnāsaññī bhavissan’tipissa na hotī”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"The five faculties stay right where they are.\nBut a learned noble disciple gives up ignorance about them and gives rise to knowledge.\nWith the fading away of ignorance and the arising of knowledge, they don’t think ‘I am’,\n‘I am this’,\n‘I will be’,\n‘I will not be’,\n‘I will have form’,\n‘I will be formless’,\n‘I will be percipient’,\n‘I will be non-percipient’,\n‘I will be neither percipient nor non-percipient’.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.47/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."}