{"id":"sn46.44","title":"Witless","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn46.44","title":"Witless","units":[{"id":"sn46.44:0","sourceIds":["sn46.44:0.1","sn46.44:0.2","sn46.44:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 46.44\n5. Cakkavattivagga\nDuppaññasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 46.44\n5. A Wheel-Turning Monarch\nWitless"}},{"id":"sn46.44:1","sourceIds":["sn46.44:1.1","sn46.44:1.2","sn46.44:1.3","sn46.44:1.4","sn46.44:1.5","sn46.44:1.6","sn46.44:1.7","sn46.44:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami …pe… ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“‘duppañño eḷamūgo, duppañño eḷamūgo’ti, bhante, vuccati.\nKittāvatā nu kho, bhante, ‘duppañño eḷamūgo’ti vuccatī”ti?\n“Sattannaṁ kho, bhikkhu, bojjhaṅgānaṁ abhāvitattā abahulīkatattā ‘duppañño eḷamūgo’ti vuccati.\nKatamesaṁ sattannaṁ?\nSatisambojjhaṅgassa …pe… upekkhāsambojjhaṅgassa—\nimesaṁ kho, bhikkhu, sattannaṁ bojjhaṅgānaṁ abhāvitattā abahulīkatattā ‘duppañño eḷamūgo’ti vuccatī”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha … and asked him,\n“Sir, they speak of ‘a witless idiot’.\nHow is a witless idiot defined?”\n“Mendicant, they’re called a witless idiot because they haven’t developed and cultivated the seven awakening factors.\nWhat seven?\nThe awakening factors of mindfulness, investigation of principles, energy, rapture, tranquility, immersion, and equanimity.\nThey’re called a witless idiot because they haven’t developed and cultivated these seven awakening factors.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn46.44/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."}