{"id":"sn35.237","title":"The Simile of Hands and Feet (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.237","title":"The Simile of Hands and Feet (2nd)","units":[{"id":"sn35.237:0","sourceIds":["sn35.237:0.1","sn35.237:0.2","sn35.237:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.237\n18. Samuddavagga\nDutiyahatthapādopamasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.237\n18. The Ocean\nThe Simile of Hands and Feet (2nd)"}},{"id":"sn35.237:1","sourceIds":["sn35.237:1.1","sn35.237:1.2","sn35.237:1.3","sn35.237:1.4","sn35.237:1.5","sn35.237:1.6","sn35.237:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Hatthesu, bhikkhave, sati ādānanikkhepanaṁ hoti;\npādesu sati abhikkamapaṭikkamo hoti;\npabbesu sati samiñjanapasāraṇaṁ hoti;\nkucchismiṁ sati jighacchā pipāsā hoti.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, cakkhusmiṁ sati cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati ajjhattaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhaṁ …pe…\njivhāya sati …pe…\nmanasmiṁ sati manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati ajjhattaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhaṁ …pe….","en":"“Mendicants, when there are hands, there’s picking up and putting down.\nWhen there are feet, there’s coming and going.\nWhen there are joints, there’s contracting and extending.\nWhen there’s a belly, there’s hunger and thirst.\nIn the same way, when there’s an eye, pleasure and pain arise internally conditioned by eye contact.\nWhen there’s an ear … nose … tongue … body …\nmind, pleasure and pain arise internally conditioned by mind contact."}},{"id":"sn35.237:2","sourceIds":["sn35.237:2.1","sn35.237:2.2","sn35.237:2.3","sn35.237:2.4","sn35.237:2.5","sn35.237:2.6","sn35.237:2.7","sn35.237:2.8","sn35.237:2.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Hatthesu, bhikkhave, asati ādānanikkhepanaṁ na hoti;\npādesu asati abhikkamapaṭikkamo na hoti;\npabbesu asati samiñjanapasāraṇaṁ na hoti;\nkucchismiṁ asati jighacchā pipāsā na hoti.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, cakkhusmiṁ asati cakkhusamphassapaccayā nuppajjati ajjhattaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhaṁ …pe…\njivhāya asati jivhāsamphassapaccayā nuppajjati …pe…\nmanasmiṁ asati manosamphassapaccayā nuppajjati ajjhattaṁ sukhaṁ dukkhan”ti.\nDasamaṁ.\nSamuddavaggo tatiyo.","en":"When there are no hands, there’s no picking up and putting down.\nWhen there are no feet, there’s no coming and going.\nWhen there are no joints, there’s no contracting and extending.\nWhen there’s no belly, there’s no hunger and thirst.\nIn the same way, when there’s no eye, pleasure and pain don’t arise internally conditioned by eye contact.\nWhen there’s no ear … nose … tongue … body …\nmind, pleasure and pain don’t arise internally conditioned by mind contact.”"}},{"id":"sn35.237:3","sourceIds":["sn35.237:3.0","sn35.237:3.1","sn35.237:3.2","sn35.237:3.3","sn35.237:3.4","sn35.237:3.5","sn35.237:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nDve samuddā bāḷisiko,\nkhīrarukkhena koṭṭhiko;\nKāmabhū udāyī ceva,\nādittena ca aṭṭhamaṁ;\nHatthapādūpamā dveti,\nvaggo tena pavuccatīti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.237/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."}