{"id":"sn45.140","title":"Footprints","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn45.140","title":"Footprints","units":[{"id":"sn45.140:0","sourceIds":["sn45.140:0.1","sn45.140:0.2","sn45.140:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 45.140\n11. Appamādapeyyālavagga\nPadasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 45.140\n11. Abbreviated Texts on Diligence\nFootprints"}},{"id":"sn45.140:1","sourceIds":["sn45.140:1.1","sn45.140:1.2","sn45.140:1.3","sn45.140:1.4","sn45.140:1.5","sn45.140:1.6","sn45.140:1.7","sn45.140:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yāni kānici jaṅgalānaṁ pāṇānaṁ padajātāni, sabbāni tāni hatthipade samodhānaṁ gacchanti;\nhatthipadaṁ tesaṁ aggamakkhāyati, yadidaṁ—mahantattena;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, ye keci kusalā dhammā, sabbe te appamādamūlakā appamādasamosaraṇā; appamādo tesaṁ dhammānaṁ aggamakkhāyati.\nAppamattassetaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno pāṭikaṅkhaṁ—ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bhāvessati ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bahulīkarissati.\nKathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu appamatto ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bhāveti ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bahulīkaroti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sammādiṭṭhiṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ …pe… sammāsamādhiṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ …\nevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu appamatto ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bhāveti ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bahulīkarotī”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"“The footprints of all creatures that walk can fit inside an elephant’s footprint.\nSo an elephant’s footprint is said to be the biggest of them all.\nIn the same way, all skillful qualities are rooted in diligence and meet at diligence, and diligence is said to be the best of them.\nA mendicant who is diligent can expect to develop and cultivate the noble eightfold path.\nAnd how does a mendicant who is diligent develop and cultivate the noble eightfold path?\nIt’s when a mendicant develops right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go. …\nThat’s how a mendicant who is diligent develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn45.140/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."}