{"id":"sn35.82","title":"A Question On the World","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.82","title":"A Question On the World","units":[{"id":"sn35.82:0","sourceIds":["sn35.82:0.1","sn35.82:0.2","sn35.82:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.82\n8. Gilānavagga\nLokapañhāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.82\n8. Sick\nA Question On the World"}},{"id":"sn35.82:1","sourceIds":["sn35.82:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā …pe… ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:","en":"Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha … and said to him:"}},{"id":"sn35.82:2","sourceIds":["sn35.82:2.1","sn35.82:2.2","sn35.82:2.3","sn35.82:2.4","sn35.82:2.5","sn35.82:2.6","sn35.82:2.7","sn35.82:2.8","sn35.82:2.9","sn35.82:2.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Loko, loko’ti, bhante, vuccati.\nKittāvatā nu kho, bhante, lokoti vuccatī”ti?\n“‘Lujjatī’ti kho, bhikkhu, tasmā lokoti vuccati.\nKiñca lujjati?\nCakkhu kho, bhikkhu, lujjati.\nRūpā lujjanti, cakkhuviññāṇaṁ lujjati, cakkhusamphasso lujjati, yampidaṁ cakkhusamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi lujjati …pe…\njivhā lujjati …pe…\nmano lujjati, dhammā lujjanti, manoviññāṇaṁ lujjati, manosamphasso lujjati, yampidaṁ manosamphassapaccayā uppajjati vedayitaṁ sukhaṁ vā dukkhaṁ vā adukkhamasukhaṁ vā tampi lujjati.\nLujjatīti kho, bhikkhu, tasmā lokoti vuccatī”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"“Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘the world’.\nHow is the world defined?”\n“It wears away, mendicant, that’s why it’s called ‘the world’.\nAnd what is wearing away?\nThe eye is wearing away.\nSights … eye consciousness … eye contact is wearing away. The painful, pleasant, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on eye contact is also wearing away.\nThe ear … nose … tongue … body ….\nThe mind … ideas … mind consciousness … mind contact is wearing away. The painful, pleasant, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact is also wearing away.\nIt wears away, mendicant, that’s why it’s called ‘the world’.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.82/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."}