{"id":"sn35.75","title":"Sick (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.75","title":"Sick (2nd)","units":[{"id":"sn35.75:0","sourceIds":["sn35.75:0.1","sn35.75:0.2","sn35.75:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.75\n8. Gilānavagga\nDutiyagilānasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.75\n8. Sick\nSick (2nd)"}},{"id":"sn35.75:1","sourceIds":["sn35.75:1.1","sn35.75:1.2","sn35.75:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu …pe… bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“amukasmiṁ, bhante, vihāre aññataro bhikkhu navo appaññāto ābādhiko dukkhito bāḷhagilāno.\nSādhu, bhante, bhagavā yena so bhikkhu tenupasaṅkamatu anukampaṁ upādāyā”ti.","en":"Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha … and asked him,\n“Sir, in such-and-such monastery there’s a mendicant who is junior and not well-known. He’s sick, suffering, gravely ill.\nPlease go to him out of sympathy.”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:2","sourceIds":["sn35.75:2.1","sn35.75:2.2","sn35.75:2.3","sn35.75:2.4","sn35.75:2.5","sn35.75:2.6","sn35.75:2.7","sn35.75:2.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho bhagavā navavādañca sutvā gilānavādañca, “appaññāto bhikkhū”ti iti viditvā yena so bhikkhu tenupasaṅkami.\nAddasā kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ dūratova āgacchantaṁ.\nDisvāna mañcake samadhosi.\nAtha kho bhagavā taṁ bhikkhuṁ etadavoca:\n“alaṁ, bhikkhu, mā tvaṁ mañcake samadhosi.\nSantimāni āsanāni paññattāni, tatthāhaṁ nisīdissāmī”ti.\nNisīdi bhagavā paññatte āsane. Nisajja kho bhagavā taṁ bhikkhuṁ etadavoca:\n“kacci te, bhikkhu, khamanīyaṁ, kacci yāpanīyaṁ, kacci dukkhā vedanā paṭikkamanti no abhikkamanti, paṭikkamosānaṁ paññāyati no abhikkamo”ti?","en":"When the Buddha heard that the mendicant was junior and ill, understanding that he was not well-known, he went to him.\nThat mendicant saw the Buddha coming off in the distance\nand stirred in his cot.\nThen the Buddha said to that monk,\n“It’s all right, mendicant, don’t get up.\nThere are some seats spread out, I will sit there.”\nHe sat down on the seat spread out and said to the mendicant,\n“I hope you’re keeping well, mendicant, I hope you’re all right. I hope your pain is fading, not growing; that its fading is evident, not its growing.”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:3","sourceIds":["sn35.75:3.1","sn35.75:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Na me, bhante, khamanīyaṁ, na yāpanīyaṁ …pe…\nna kho maṁ, bhante, attā sīlato upavadatī”ti.","en":"“Sir, I’m not keeping well, I’m not getting by. …\nI have no reason to blame myself when it comes to ethical conduct.”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:4","sourceIds":["sn35.75:4.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“No ce kira te, bhikkhu, attā sīlato upavadati, atha kiñca te kukkuccaṁ ko ca vippaṭisāro”ti?","en":"“In that case, mendicant, why do you have remorse and regret?”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:5","sourceIds":["sn35.75:5.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Na khvāhaṁ, bhante, sīlavisuddhatthaṁ bhagavatā dhammaṁ desitaṁ ājānāmī”ti.","en":"“Because I understand that the Buddha has not taught the Dhamma merely for the sake of ethical purity.”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:6","sourceIds":["sn35.75:6.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“No ce kira tvaṁ, bhikkhu, sīlavisuddhatthaṁ mayā dhammaṁ desitaṁ ājānāsi, atha kimatthaṁ carahi tvaṁ, bhikkhu, mayā dhammaṁ desitaṁ ājānāsī”ti?","en":"“If that is so, what then do you understand to be the goal of teaching the Dhamma?”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:7","sourceIds":["sn35.75:7.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Anupādāparinibbānatthaṁ khvāhaṁ, bhante, bhagavatā dhammaṁ desitaṁ ājānāmī”ti.","en":"“I understand that the Buddha has taught the Dhamma for the goal of complete extinguishment without grasping fuel.”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:8","sourceIds":["sn35.75:8.1","sn35.75:8.2","sn35.75:8.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sādhu sādhu, bhikkhu.\nSādhu kho tvaṁ, bhikkhu, anupādāparinibbānatthaṁ mayā dhammaṁ desitaṁ ājānāsi.\nAnupādāparinibbānattho hi, bhikkhu, mayā dhammo desito.","en":"“Good, good, mendicant!\nIt’s good that you understand that I’ve taught the Dhamma for the goal of complete extinguishment with no fuel for grasping.\nFor that is indeed the goal."}},{"id":"sn35.75:9","sourceIds":["sn35.75:9.1","sn35.75:9.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Taṁ kiṁ maññasi, bhikkhu,\ncakkhu niccaṁ vā aniccaṁ vā”ti?","en":"What do you think, mendicant?\nIs the eye permanent or impermanent?”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:10","sourceIds":["sn35.75:10.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aniccaṁ, bhante”.","en":"“Impermanent, sir.” …"}},{"id":"sn35.75:11","sourceIds":["sn35.75:11.1","sn35.75:11.2","sn35.75:11.3","sn35.75:11.4","sn35.75:11.5","sn35.75:11.6","sn35.75:11.7","sn35.75:11.8","sn35.75:11.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“ …pe…\nSotaṁ …\nghānaṁ …\njivhā …\nkāyo …\nmano …\nmanoviññāṇaṁ …\nmanosamphasso …\nyampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi niccaṁ vā aniccaṁ vā”ti?","en":"“Is the ear …\nnose …\ntongue …\nbody …\nmind …\nmind consciousness …\nmind contact …\nThe pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact: is that permanent or impermanent?”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:12","sourceIds":["sn35.75:12.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aniccaṁ, bhante”.","en":"“Impermanent, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:13","sourceIds":["sn35.75:13.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vā taṁ sukhaṁ vā”ti?","en":"“But if it’s impermanent, is it suffering or happiness?”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:14","sourceIds":["sn35.75:14.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dukkhaṁ, bhante”.","en":"“Suffering, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:15","sourceIds":["sn35.75:15.1","sn35.75:15.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yaṁ panāniccaṁ dukkhaṁ vipariṇāmadhammaṁ, kallaṁ nu taṁ samanupassituṁ:\n‘etaṁ mama, esohamasmi, eso me attā’”ti?","en":"“But if it’s impermanent, suffering, and perishable, is it fit to be regarded thus:\n‘This is mine, I am this, this is my self’?”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:16","sourceIds":["sn35.75:16.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“No hetaṁ, bhante”.","en":"“No, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:17","sourceIds":["sn35.75:17.1","sn35.75:17.2","sn35.75:17.3","sn35.75:17.4","sn35.75:17.5","sn35.75:17.6","sn35.75:17.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Evaṁ passaṁ, bhikkhu, sutavā ariyasāvako cakkhusmimpi nibbindati …pe…\nmanasmimpi …\nmanoviññāṇepi …\nmanosamphassepi nibbindati.\nYampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tasmimpi nibbindati.\nNibbindaṁ virajjati; virāgā vimuccati; vimuttasmiṁ vimuttamiti ñāṇaṁ hoti.\n‘Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ, kataṁ karaṇīyaṁ, nāparaṁ itthattāyā’ti pajānātī”ti.","en":"“Seeing this, a learned noble disciple grows disillusioned with the eye … ear … nose … tongue … body …\nmind …\nmind consciousness …\nmind contact …\nThey grow disillusioned with the painful, pleasant, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact.\nBeing disillusioned, desire fades away. When desire fades away they’re freed. When they’re freed, they know they’re freed.\nThey understand: ‘Rebirth is ended, the spiritual journey has been completed, what had to be done has been done, there is nothing further for this place.’”"}},{"id":"sn35.75:18","sourceIds":["sn35.75:18.1","sn35.75:18.2","sn35.75:18.3","sn35.75:18.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca bhagavā.\nAttamano so bhikkhu bhagavato bhāsitaṁ abhinandi.\nImasmiñca pana veyyākaraṇasmiṁ bhaññamāne tassa bhikkhussa anupādāya āsavehi cittaṁ vimuccīti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"That is what the Buddha said.\nSatisfied, that mendicant approved what the Buddha said.\nAnd while this discourse was being spoken, the mind of that mendicant was freed from defilements by not grasping."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.75/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."}