{"id":"sn51.19","title":"A Teaching on Psychic Power, Etc.","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn51.19","title":"A Teaching on Psychic Power, Etc.","units":[{"id":"sn51.19:0","sourceIds":["sn51.19:0.1","sn51.19:0.2","sn51.19:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 51.19\n2. Pāsādakampanavagga\nIddhādidesanāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 51.19\n2. Shaking the Stilt Longhouse\nA Teaching on Psychic Power, Etc."}},{"id":"sn51.19:1","sourceIds":["sn51.19:1.1","sn51.19:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Iddhiṁ vo, bhikkhave, desessāmi iddhipādañca iddhipādabhāvanañca iddhipādabhāvanāgāminiñca paṭipadaṁ.\nTaṁ suṇātha.","en":"“Mendicants, I will teach you psychic power, the bases of psychic power, the development of the bases of psychic power, and the practice that leads to the development of the bases of psychic power.\nListen …"}},{"id":"sn51.19:2","sourceIds":["sn51.19:2.1","sn51.19:2.2","sn51.19:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, iddhi?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu anekavihitaṁ iddhividhaṁ paccanubhoti—ekopi hutvā bahudhā hoti, bahudhāpi hutvā eko hoti …pe… yāva brahmalokāpi kāyena vasaṁ vatteti—\nayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, iddhi.","en":"And what is psychic power?\nIt’s when a mendicant wields the many kinds of psychic power: multiplying themselves and becoming one again … controlling the body as far as the realm of divinity.\nThis is called psychic power."}},{"id":"sn51.19:3","sourceIds":["sn51.19:3.1","sn51.19:3.2","sn51.19:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, iddhipādo?\nYo so, bhikkhave, maggo yā paṭipadā iddhilābhāya iddhipaṭilābhāya saṁvattati—\nayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, iddhipādo.","en":"And what is the basis of psychic power?\nThe path and practice that leads to gaining psychic power.\nThis is called the basis of psychic power."}},{"id":"sn51.19:4","sourceIds":["sn51.19:4.1","sn51.19:4.2","sn51.19:4.3","sn51.19:4.4","sn51.19:4.5","sn51.19:4.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, iddhipādabhāvanā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu chandasamādhippadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgataṁ iddhipādaṁ bhāveti,\nvīriyasamādhi …pe…\ncittasamādhi …\nvīmaṁsāsamādhippadhānasaṅkhārasamannāgataṁ iddhipādaṁ bhāveti—\nayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, iddhipādabhāvanā.","en":"And what is the development of the bases of psychic power?\nIt’s when a mendicant develops the basis of psychic power that has immersion due to enthusiasm …\nenergy …\nmental development …\ninquiry, and active effort.\nThis is called the development of the bases of psychic power."}},{"id":"sn51.19:5","sourceIds":["sn51.19:5.1","sn51.19:5.2","sn51.19:5.3","sn51.19:5.4","sn51.19:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, iddhipādabhāvanāgāminī paṭipadā?\nAyameva ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo, seyyathidaṁ—\nsammādiṭṭhi, sammāsaṅkappo, sammāvācā, sammākammanto, sammāājīvo, sammāvāyāmo, sammāsati, sammāsamādhi—\nayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, iddhipādabhāvanāgāminī paṭipadā”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"And what is the practice that leads to the development of the bases of psychic power?\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 called the practice that leads to the development of the bases of psychic power.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn51.19/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."}