{"id":"sn52.9","title":"In Ambapālī’s Mango Grove","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn52.9","title":"In Ambapālī’s Mango Grove","units":[{"id":"sn52.9:0","sourceIds":["sn52.9:0.1","sn52.9:0.2","sn52.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 52.9\n1. Rahogatavagga\nAmbapālivanasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 52.9\n1. In Private\nIn Ambapālī’s Mango Grove"}},{"id":"sn52.9:1","sourceIds":["sn52.9:1.1","sn52.9:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ āyasmā ca anuruddho āyasmā ca sāriputto vesāliyaṁ viharanti ambapālivane.\nAtha kho āyasmā sāriputto sāyanhasamayaṁ paṭisallānā vuṭṭhito …pe… ekamantaṁ nisinno kho āyasmā sāriputto āyasmantaṁ anuruddhaṁ etadavoca:","en":"At one time the venerables Anuruddha and Sāriputta were staying near Vesālī in Ambapālī’s Mango Grove.\nThen in the late afternoon, Sāriputta came out of retreat, went to Anuruddha, and said to him:"}},{"id":"sn52.9:2","sourceIds":["sn52.9:2.1","sn52.9:2.2","sn52.9:2.3","sn52.9:2.4","sn52.9:2.5","sn52.9:2.6","sn52.9:2.7","sn52.9:2.8","sn52.9:2.9","sn52.9:2.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Vippasannāni kho te, āvuso anuruddha, indriyāni, parisuddho mukhavaṇṇo pariyodāto.\nKatamenāyasmā anuruddho vihārena etarahi bahulaṁ viharatī”ti?\n“Catūsu khvāhaṁ, āvuso, satipaṭṭhānesu suppatiṭṭhitacitto etarahi bahulaṁ viharāmi.\nKatamesu catūsu?\nIdhāhaṁ, āvuso, kāye kāyānupassī viharāmi ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ;\nvedanāsu …pe…\ncitte …pe…\ndhammesu dhammānupassī viharāmi ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ—\nimesu khvāhaṁ, āvuso, catūsu satipaṭṭhānesu suppatiṭṭhitacitto etarahi bahulaṁ viharāmi.\nYo so, āvuso, bhikkhu arahaṁ khīṇāsavo vusitavā katakaraṇīyo ohitabhāro anuppattasadattho parikkhīṇabhavasaṁyojano sammadaññāvimutto, so imesu catūsu satipaṭṭhānesu suppatiṭṭhitacitto bahulaṁ viharatī”ti.","en":"“Reverend Anuruddha, your faculties are so very clear, and your complexion is pure and bright.\nWhat kind of meditation are you usually practicing these days?”\n“These days, reverend, I usually meditate with my mind firmly established in the four kinds of mindfulness meditation.\nWhat four?\nI meditate observing an aspect of the body …\nfeelings …\nmind …\nprinciples—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.\nThese days I usually meditate with my mind firmly established in these four kinds of mindfulness meditation.\nA mendicant who is perfected—with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart’s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and is rightly freed through enlightenment—usually meditates with their mind firmly established in these four kinds of mindfulness meditation.”"}},{"id":"sn52.9:3","sourceIds":["sn52.9:3.1","sn52.9:3.2","sn52.9:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Lābhā vata no, āvuso, suladdhaṁ vata no, āvuso.\nYe mayaṁ āyasmato anuruddhassa sammukhāva assumha āsabhiṁ vācaṁ bhāsamānassā”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"“We’re so fortunate, reverend, so very fortunate,\nto have heard such a dramatic statement in the presence of Venerable Anuruddha.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn52.9/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."}