{"id":"sn45.27","title":"Pots","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn45.27","title":"Pots","units":[{"id":"sn45.27:0","sourceIds":["sn45.27:0.1","sn45.27:0.2","sn45.27:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 45.27\n3. Micchattavagga\nKumbhasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 45.27\n3. The Wrong Way\nPots"}},{"id":"sn45.27:1","sourceIds":["sn45.27:1.1","sn45.27:1.2","sn45.27:1.3","sn45.27:1.4","sn45.27:1.5","sn45.27:1.6","sn45.27:1.7","sn45.27:1.8","sn45.27:1.9","sn45.27:1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\n“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, kumbho anādhāro suppavattiyo hoti, sādhāro duppavattiyo hoti;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, cittaṁ anādhāraṁ suppavattiyaṁ hoti, sādhāraṁ duppavattiyaṁ hoti.\nKo ca, bhikkhave, cittassa ādhāro?\nAyameva ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo, seyyathidaṁ—\nsammādiṭṭhi …pe… sammāsamādhi.\nAyaṁ cittassa ādhāro.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, kumbho anādhāro suppavattiyo hoti, sādhāro duppavattiyo hoti;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, cittaṁ anādhāraṁ suppavattiyaṁ hoti, sādhāraṁ duppavattiyaṁ hotī”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“A pot without a stand is easy to overturn, but if it has a stand it’s hard to overturn.\nIn the same way, a mind without a stand is easy to overturn, but if it has a stand it’s hard to overturn.\nAnd what’s the stand for the mind?\nIt is simply this noble eightfold path, that is:\nright view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion.\nThis is the stand for the mind.\nA pot without a stand is easy to overturn, but if it has a stand it’s hard to overturn.\nIn the same way, a mind without a stand is easy to overturn, but if it has a stand it’s hard to overturn.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn45.27/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."}