{"id":"sn38.4","title":"What’s the Goal?","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn38.4","title":"What’s the Goal?","units":[{"id":"sn38.4:0","sourceIds":["sn38.4:0.1","sn38.4:0.2","sn38.4:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 38.4\n1. Jambukhādakavagga\nKimatthiyasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 38.4\n1. With Jambukhādaka\nWhat’s the Goal?"}},{"id":"sn38.4:1","sourceIds":["sn38.4:1.1","sn38.4:1.2","sn38.4:1.3","sn38.4:1.4","sn38.4:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kimatthiyaṁ, āvuso sāriputta, samaṇe gotame brahmacariyaṁ vussatī”ti?\n“Dukkhassa kho, āvuso, pariññatthaṁ bhagavati brahmacariyaṁ vussatī”ti.\n“Atthi panāvuso, maggo atthi paṭipadā etassa dukkhassa pariññāyā”ti?\n“Atthi kho, āvuso, maggo atthi paṭipadā, etassa dukkhassa pariññāyā”ti?\n“Katamo panāvuso, maggo katamā paṭipadā, etassa dukkhassa pariññāyā”ti?","en":"“Reverend Sāriputta, what’s the goal of leading the spiritual life under the ascetic Gotama?”\n“The goal of leading the spiritual life under the Buddha is to completely understand suffering.”\n“But, reverend, is there a path and a practice for completely understanding this suffering?”\n“There is.” …"}},{"id":"sn38.4:2","sourceIds":["sn38.4:2.1","sn38.4:2.2","sn38.4:2.3","sn38.4:2.4","sn38.4:2.5","sn38.4:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ayameva kho, āvuso, ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo, etassa dukkhassa pariññāya, seyyathidaṁ—\nsammādiṭṭhi …pe… sammāsamādhi.\nAyaṁ kho, āvuso, maggo ayaṁ paṭipadā etassa dukkhassa pariññāyā”ti.\n“Bhaddako, āvuso, maggo bhaddikā paṭipadā, etassa dukkhassa pariññāya.\nAlañca panāvuso sāriputta, appamādāyā”ti.\nCatutthaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn38.4/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."}