{"id":"sn45.18","title":"At the Chicken Monastery (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn45.18","title":"At the Chicken Monastery (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn45.18:0","sourceIds":["sn45.18:0.1","sn45.18:0.2","sn45.18:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 45.18\n2. Vihāravagga\nPaṭhamakukkuṭārāmasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 45.18\n2. Meditation\nAt the Chicken Monastery (1st)"}},{"id":"sn45.18:1","sourceIds":["sn45.18:1.1","sn45.18:1.2","sn45.18:1.3","sn45.18:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ āyasmā ca ānando āyasmā ca bhaddo pāṭaliputte viharanti kukkuṭārāme.\nAtha kho āyasmā bhaddo sāyanhasamayaṁ paṭisallānā vuṭṭhito yenāyasmā ānando tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā āyasmatā ānandena saddhiṁ sammodi.\nSammodanīyaṁ kathaṁ sāraṇīyaṁ vītisāretvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho āyasmā bhaddo āyasmantaṁ ānandaṁ etadavoca:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the venerables Ānanda and Bhadda were staying near Pāṭaliputta, in the Chicken Monastery.\nThen in the late afternoon, Venerable Bhadda came out of retreat, went to Venerable Ānanda, and exchanged greetings with him.\nWhen the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to Ānanda:"}},{"id":"sn45.18:2","sourceIds":["sn45.18:2.1","sn45.18:2.2","sn45.18:2.3","sn45.18:2.4","sn45.18:2.5","sn45.18:2.6","sn45.18:2.7","sn45.18:2.8","sn45.18:2.9","sn45.18:2.10","sn45.18:2.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Abrahmacariyaṁ, abrahmacariyan’ti, āvuso ānanda, vuccati.\nKatamaṁ nu kho, āvuso, abrahmacariyan”ti?\n“Sādhu sādhu, āvuso bhadda.\nBhaddako kho te, āvuso bhadda, ummaṅgo, bhaddakaṁ paṭibhānaṁ, kalyāṇī paripucchā.\nEvañhi tvaṁ, āvuso bhadda, pucchasi:\n‘abrahmacariyaṁ, abrahmacariyanti, āvuso ānanda, vuccati.\nKatamaṁ nu kho, āvuso, abrahmacariyan’”ti?\n“Evamāvuso”ti.\n“Ayameva kho, āvuso, aṭṭhaṅgiko micchāmaggo abrahmacariyaṁ, seyyathidaṁ—\nmicchādiṭṭhi …pe… micchāsamādhī”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"“Reverend, they speak of this thing called ‘not the spiritual path’.\nWhat is not the spiritual path?”\n“Good, good, Reverend Bhadda!\nYour approach and eloquence are excellent, and it’s a good question.\nFor you asked:\n‘They speak of this thing called “not the spiritual path”.\nWhat is not the spiritual path?’”\n“Yes, reverend.”\n“What is not the spiritual path is simply the wrong eightfold path, that is:\nwrong view, wrong purpose, wrong speech, wrong action, wrong livelihood, wrong effort, wrong mindfulness, and wrong immersion.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn45.18/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."}