{"id":"sn35.92","title":"A Duality (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.92","title":"A Duality (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn35.92:0","sourceIds":["sn35.92:0.1","sn35.92:0.2","sn35.92:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.92\n9. Channavagga\nPaṭhamadvayasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.92\n9. With Channa\nA Duality (1st)"}},{"id":"sn35.92:1","sourceIds":["sn35.92:1.1","sn35.92:1.2","sn35.92:1.3","sn35.92:1.4","sn35.92:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dvayaṁ vo, bhikkhave, desessāmi.\nTaṁ suṇātha.\nKiñca, bhikkhave, dvayaṁ?\nCakkhuñceva rūpā ca, sotañceva saddā ca, ghānañceva gandhā ca, jivhā ceva rasā ca, kāyo ceva phoṭṭhabbā ca, mano ceva dhammā ca—\nidaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, dvayaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, I will teach you a duality.\nListen …\nAnd what is a duality?\nIt’s just the eye and sights, the ear and sounds, the nose and smells, the tongue and tastes, the body and touches, and the mind and ideas.\nThis is called a duality."}},{"id":"sn35.92:2","sourceIds":["sn35.92:2.1","sn35.92:2.2","sn35.92:2.3","sn35.92:2.4","sn35.92:2.5","sn35.92:2.6","sn35.92:2.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo, bhikkhave, evaṁ vadeyya:\n‘ahametaṁ dvayaṁ paccakkhāya aññaṁ dvayaṁ paññapessāmī’ti, tassa vācāvatthukamevassa.\nPuṭṭho ca na sampāyeyya.\nUttariñca vighātaṁ āpajjeyya.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nYathā taṁ, bhikkhave, avisayasmin”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"Mendicants, suppose someone was to say:\n‘I’ll deny this duality and describe another duality.’ They’d have no grounds for that claim,\nthey’d be stumped by questions, and, in addition, they’d get frustrated.\nWhy is that?\nBecause they’re out of their element.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.92/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."}