{"id":"sn39.16","title":"Hard to Do","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn39.16","title":"Hard to Do","units":[{"id":"sn39.16:0","sourceIds":["sn39.16:0.1","sn39.16:0.2","sn39.16:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 39.16\n1. Sāmaṇḍakavagga\nDukkarasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 39.16\n1. With Sāmaṇḍaka\nHard to Do"}},{"id":"sn39.16:1","sourceIds":["sn39.16:1.1","sn39.16:1.2","sn39.16:1.3","sn39.16:1.4","sn39.16:1.5","sn39.16:1.6","sn39.16:1.7","sn39.16:1.8","sn39.16:1.9","sn39.16:1.10","sn39.16:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kiṁ nu kho, āvuso sāriputta, imasmiṁ dhammavinaye dukkaran”ti?\n“Pabbajjā kho, āvuso, imasmiṁ dhammavinaye dukkarā”ti.\n“Pabbajitena panāvuso, kiṁ dukkaran”ti?\n“Pabbajitena kho, āvuso, abhirati dukkarā”ti.\n“Abhiratena panāvuso, kiṁ dukkaran”ti?\n“Abhiratena kho, āvuso, dhammānudhammappaṭipatti dukkarā”ti.\n“Kīvaciraṁ panāvuso, dhammānudhammappaṭipanno bhikkhu arahaṁ assā”ti?\n“Naciraṁ, āvuso”ti.\nSoḷasamaṁ.\n(Purimakasadisaṁ uddānaṁ.)\nSāmaṇḍakasaṁyuttaṁ samattaṁ.","en":"“Reverend Sāriputta, in this teaching and training, what is hard to do?”\n“Going forth, reverend, is hard to do in this teaching and training.”\n“But what’s hard to do for someone who has gone forth?”\n“When you’ve gone forth it’s hard to be satisfied.”\n“But what’s hard to do for someone who is satisfied?”\n“When you’re satisfied, it’s hard to practice in line with the teaching.”\n“But if a mendicant practices  in line with the teaching, will it take them long to become a perfected one?”\n“Not long, reverend.”\nThe Linked Discourses with Sāmaṇḍaka are complete."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn39.16/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."}