{"id":"sn46.12","title":"The Simile of the Sun (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn46.12","title":"The Simile of the Sun (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn46.12:0","sourceIds":["sn46.12:0.1","sn46.12:0.2","sn46.12:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 46.12\n2. Gilānavagga\nPaṭhamasūriyūpamasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 46.12\n2. Sick\nThe Simile of the Sun (1st)"}},{"id":"sn46.12:1","sourceIds":["sn46.12:1.1","sn46.12:1.2","sn46.12:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sūriyassa, bhikkhave, udayato etaṁ pubbaṅgamaṁ etaṁ pubbanimittaṁ, yadidaṁ—aruṇuggaṁ;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno sattannaṁ bojjhaṅgānaṁ uppādāya etaṁ pubbaṅgamaṁ etaṁ nimittaṁ, yadidaṁ—kalyāṇamittatā.\nKalyāṇamittassetaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno pāṭikaṅkhaṁ—satta bojjhaṅge bhāvessati, satta bojjhaṅge bahulīkarissati.","en":"“Mendicants, the dawn is the forerunner and harbinger of the sunrise.\nIn the same way, for a mendicant good friendship is the forerunner and harbinger of the arising of the seven awakening factors.\nA mendicant with good friends can expect to develop and cultivate the seven awakening factors."}},{"id":"sn46.12:2","sourceIds":["sn46.12:2.1","sn46.12:2.2","sn46.12:2.3","sn46.12:2.4","sn46.12:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kalyāṇamitto satta bojjhaṅge bhāveti satta bojjhaṅge bahulīkaroti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu satisambojjhaṅgaṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ …pe…\nupekkhāsambojjhaṅgaṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kalyāṇamitto satta bojjhaṅge bhāveti, satta bojjhaṅge bahulīkarotī”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"And how does a mendicant with good friends develop and cultivate the seven awakening factors?\nIt’s when a mendicant develops the awakening factors of mindfulness, investigation of principles, energy, rapture, tranquility, immersion,\nand equanimity, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go.\nThat’s how a mendicant with good friends develops and cultivates the seven awakening factors.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn46.12/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."}