{"id":"sn48.71-82","title":"Slanting East, Etc.","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn48.71-82","title":"Slanting East, Etc.","units":[{"id":"sn48.71-82:0","sourceIds":["sn48.71-82:0.1","sn48.71-82:0.2","sn48.71-82:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 48.71–82\n8. Gaṅgāpeyyālavagga\nPācīnādisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 48.71–82\n8. Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges\nSlanting East, Etc."}},{"id":"sn48.71-82:1","sourceIds":["sn48.71-82:1.1","sn48.71-82:1.2","sn48.71-82:1.3","sn48.71-82:1.4","sn48.71-82:1.5","sn48.71-82:1.6","sn48.71-82:1.7","sn48.71-82:1.8","sn48.71-82:1.9","sn48.71-82:1.10","sn48.71-82:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gaṅgā nadī pācīnaninnā pācīnapoṇā pācīnapabbhārā;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcindriyāni bhāvento pañcindriyāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro.\nKathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcindriyāni bhāvento pañcindriyāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu saddhindriyaṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ,\nvīriyindriyaṁ …pe…\nsatindriyaṁ …\nsamādhindriyaṁ …\npaññindriyaṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcindriyāni bhāvento pañcindriyāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro”ti.\nDvādasamaṁ.\nGaṅgāpeyyālavaggo aṭṭhamo.","en":"“Mendicants, the Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east.\nIn the same way, a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.\nHow so?\nIt’s when a mendicant develops the faculties of faith,\nenergy,\nmindfulness,\nimmersion,\nand wisdom, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go.\nThat’s how a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”"}},{"id":"sn48.71-82:2","sourceIds":["sn48.71-82:2.0","sn48.71-82:2.1","sn48.71-82:2.2","sn48.71-82:2.3","sn48.71-82:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nCha pācīnato ninnā,\ncha ninnā ca samuddato;\nDvete cha dvādasa honti,\nvaggo tena pavuccatīti.","en":"Six on slanting to the east,\nand six on slanting to the ocean;\nthese two sixes make twelve,\nand that’s how this chapter is recited."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.71-82/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."}