{"id":"sn35.229","title":"The Ocean (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.229","title":"The Ocean (2nd)","units":[{"id":"sn35.229:0","sourceIds":["sn35.229:0.1","sn35.229:0.2","sn35.229:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.229\n18. Samuddavagga\nDutiyasamuddasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.229\n18. The Ocean\nThe Ocean (2nd)"}},{"id":"sn35.229:1","sourceIds":["sn35.229:1.1","sn35.229:1.2","sn35.229:1.3","sn35.229:1.4","sn35.229:1.5","sn35.229:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Samuddo, samuddo’ti, bhikkhave, assutavā puthujjano bhāsati.\nNeso, bhikkhave, ariyassa vinaye samuddo.\nMahā eso, bhikkhave, udakarāsi mahāudakaṇṇavo.\nSanti, bhikkhave, cakkhuviññeyyā rūpā iṭṭhā kantā manāpā piyarūpā kāmūpasaṁhitā rajanīyā.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, ariyassa vinaye samuddo.\nEtthāyaṁ sadevako loko samārako sabrahmako sassamaṇabrāhmaṇī pajā sadevamanussā yebhuyyena samunnā tantākulakajātā kulagaṇṭhikajātā muñjapabbajabhūtā, apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ saṁsāraṁ nātivattati …pe….","en":"“Mendicants, an unlearned ordinary person speaks of the ocean.\nBut that’s not the ocean in the training of the Noble One.\nThat’s just a large body of water, a large sea of water.\nThere are sights known by the eye, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing.\nThis is called the ocean in the training of the Noble One.\nAnd it’s here that this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans—is for the most part sunk. It’s become tangled like string, knotted like a ball of thread, and matted like rushes and reeds, and it doesn’t escape the places of loss, the bad places, the underworld, transmigration."}},{"id":"sn35.229:2","sourceIds":["sn35.229:2.1","sn35.229:2.2","sn35.229:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, jivhāviññeyyā rasā …pe… santi, bhikkhave, manoviññeyyā dhammā iṭṭhā kantā manāpā piyarūpā kāmūpasaṁhitā rajanīyā.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, ariyassa vinaye samuddo.\nEtthāyaṁ sadevako loko samārako sabrahmako sassamaṇabrāhmaṇī pajā sadevamanussā yebhuyyena samunnā tantākulakajātā kulagaṇṭhikajātā muñjapabbajabhūtā apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ saṁsāraṁ nātivattatīti.","en":"There are sounds … smells … tastes … touches … ideas known by the mind, which are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing.\nThis is called the ocean in the training of the Noble One.\nAnd it’s here that this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans—is for the most part sunk. It’s become tangled like string, knotted like a ball of thread, and matted like rushes and reeds, and it doesn’t escape the places of loss, the bad places, the underworld, transmigration."}},{"id":"sn35.229:3","sourceIds":["sn35.229:3.1","sn35.229:3.2","sn35.229:3.3","sn35.229:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yassa rāgo ca doso ca,\nAvijjā ca virājitā;\nSo imaṁ samuddaṁ sagāhaṁ sarakkhasaṁ,\nSaūmibhayaṁ duttaraṁ accatari.","en":"Those in whom greed, hate, and ignorance\nhave faded away;\nhave crossed the ocean so hard to cross,\nwith its saltwater crocodiles and monsters, its waves and dangers."}},{"id":"sn35.229:4","sourceIds":["sn35.229:4.1","sn35.229:4.2","sn35.229:4.3","sn35.229:4.4","sn35.229:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṅgātigo maccujaho nirupadhi,\nPahāsi dukkhaṁ apunabbhavāya;\nAtthaṅgato so na puneti,\nAmohayī maccurājanti brūmī”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"They’ve slipped their chains, given up death, and have no attachments.\nThey’ve given up suffering, so there are no more future lives.\nThey’ve disappeared, and cannot be measured;\nand they’ve confounded the King of Death, I say.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.229/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."}