{"id":"sn45.41","title":"The Fading Away of Greed","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn45.41","title":"The Fading Away of Greed","units":[{"id":"sn45.41:0","sourceIds":["sn45.41:0.1","sn45.41:0.2","sn45.41:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 45.41\n5. Aññatitthiyapeyyālavagga\nRāgavirāgasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 45.41\n5. Abbreviated Texts on Followers of Other Religions\nThe Fading Away of Greed"}},{"id":"sn45.41:1","sourceIds":["sn45.41:1.1","sn45.41:1.2","sn45.41:1.3","sn45.41:1.4","sn45.41:1.5","sn45.41:1.6","sn45.41:1.7","sn45.41:1.8","sn45.41:1.9","sn45.41:1.10","sn45.41:1.11","sn45.41:1.12","sn45.41:1.13"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\n“Sace vo, bhikkhave, aññatitthiyā paribbājakā evaṁ puccheyyuṁ:\n‘kimatthiyaṁ, āvuso, samaṇe gotame brahmacariyaṁ vussatī’ti, evaṁ puṭṭhā tumhe, bhikkhave, tesaṁ aññatitthiyānaṁ paribbājakānaṁ evaṁ byākareyyātha:\n‘rāgavirāgatthaṁ kho, āvuso, bhagavati brahmacariyaṁ vussatī’ti.\nSace pana vo, bhikkhave, aññatitthiyā paribbājakā evaṁ puccheyyuṁ:\n‘atthi panāvuso, maggo, atthi paṭipadā rāgavirāgāyā’ti, evaṁ puṭṭhā tumhe, bhikkhave, tesaṁ aññatitthiyānaṁ paribbājakānaṁ evaṁ byākareyyātha:\n‘atthi kho, āvuso, maggo, atthi paṭipadā rāgavirāgāyā’ti.\nKatamo ca, bhikkhave, maggo, katamā ca paṭipadā rāgavirāgāya?\nAyameva ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo, seyyathidaṁ—\nsammādiṭṭhi …pe… sammāsamādhi.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, maggo, ayaṁ paṭipadā rāgavirāgāyāti.\nEvaṁ puṭṭhā tumhe, bhikkhave, tesaṁ aññatitthiyānaṁ paribbājakānaṁ evaṁ byākareyyāthā”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, if wanderers who follow another religion were to ask you:\n‘Reverends, what’s the goal of leading the spiritual life under the ascetic Gotama?’ You should answer them like this:\n‘The goal of leading the spiritual life under the Buddha is the fading away of greed.’\nIf wanderers of other religions were to ask you:\n‘Is there a path and a practice for the fading away of greed?’ You should answer them like this:\n‘There is a path and a practice for the fading away of greed.’\nAnd what is that path, what is that practice for the fading away of greed?\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 path, this is the practice for the fading away of greed.\nWhen questioned by wanderers of other religions, that’s how you should answer them.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn45.41/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."}