{"id":"sn54.1","title":"One Thing","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn54.1","title":"One Thing","units":[{"id":"sn54.1:0","sourceIds":["sn54.1:0.1","sn54.1:0.2","sn54.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 54.1\n1. Ekadhammavagga\nEkadhammasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 54.1\n1. One Thing\nOne Thing"}},{"id":"sn54.1:1","sourceIds":["sn54.1:1.1","sn54.1:1.2","sn54.1:1.3","sn54.1:1.4","sn54.1:1.5","sn54.1:1.6","sn54.1:1.7","sn54.1:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nTatra kho …pe… etadavoca:\n“ekadhammo, bhikkhave, bhāvito bahulīkato mahapphalo hoti mahānisaṁso.\nKatamo ekadhammo?\nĀnāpānassati.\nKathaṁ bhāvitā ca, bhikkhave, ānāpānassati kathaṁ bahulīkatā mahapphalā hoti mahānisaṁsā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā nisīdati pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā.\nSo satova assasati, satova passasati.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, when one thing is developed and cultivated it’s very fruitful and beneficial.\nWhat one thing?\nMindfulness of breathing.\nAnd how is mindfulness of breathing developed and cultivated to be very fruitful and beneficial?\nIt’s when a mendicant—gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut—sits down cross-legged, sets their body straight, and brings mindfulness to the present.\nJust mindful, they breathe in. Mindful, they breathe out."}},{"id":"sn54.1:2","sourceIds":["sn54.1:2.1","sn54.1:2.2","sn54.1:2.3","sn54.1:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dīghaṁ vā assasanto ‘dīghaṁ assasāmī’ti pajānāti, dīghaṁ vā passasanto ‘dīghaṁ passasāmī’ti pajānāti;\nrassaṁ vā assasanto ‘rassaṁ assasāmī’ti pajānāti, rassaṁ vā passasanto ‘rassaṁ passasāmī’ti pajānāti;\n‘sabbakāyappaṭisaṁvedī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘sabbakāyappaṭisaṁvedī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘passambhayaṁ kāyasaṅkhāraṁ assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘passambhayaṁ kāyasaṅkhāraṁ passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.","en":"Breathing in heavily they know: ‘I’m breathing in heavily.’ Breathing out heavily they know: ‘I’m breathing out heavily.’\nBreathing in lightly they know: ‘I’m breathing in lightly.’ Breathing out lightly they know: ‘I’m breathing out lightly.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing the whole body.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out experiencing the whole body.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in stilling the physical process.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out stilling the physical process.’"}},{"id":"sn54.1:3","sourceIds":["sn54.1:3.1","sn54.1:3.2","sn54.1:3.3","sn54.1:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Pītippaṭisaṁvedī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘pītippaṭisaṁvedī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘sukhappaṭisaṁvedī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘sukhappaṭisaṁvedī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘cittasaṅkhārappaṭisaṁvedī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘cittasaṅkhārappaṭisaṁvedī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘passambhayaṁ cittasaṅkhāraṁ assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘passambhayaṁ cittasaṅkhāraṁ passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.","en":"They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing rapture.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out experiencing rapture.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing bliss.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out experiencing bliss.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing the mental process.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out experiencing the mental process.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in stilling the mental process.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out stilling the mental process.’"}},{"id":"sn54.1:4","sourceIds":["sn54.1:4.1","sn54.1:4.2","sn54.1:4.3","sn54.1:4.4","sn54.1:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Cittappaṭisaṁvedī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘cittappaṭisaṁvedī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘abhippamodayaṁ cittaṁ assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘abhippamodayaṁ cittaṁ passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘samādahaṁ cittaṁ assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘samādahaṁ cittaṁ passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘vimocayaṁ cittaṁ assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘vimocayaṁ cittaṁ passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘aniccānupassī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati.","en":"They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in experiencing the mind.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out experiencing the mind.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in gladdening the mind.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out gladdening the mind.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in immersing the mind in samādhi.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out immersing the mind in samādhi.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in freeing the mind.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out freeing the mind.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in observing impermanence.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out observing impermanence.’"}},{"id":"sn54.1:5","sourceIds":["sn54.1:5.1","sn54.1:5.2","sn54.1:5.3","sn54.1:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Aniccānupassī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘virāgānupassī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘virāgānupassī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘nirodhānupassī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘nirodhānupassī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati;\n‘paṭinissaggānupassī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘paṭinissaggānupassī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.","en":"They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in observing fading away.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out observing fading away.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in observing cessation.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out observing cessation.’\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in observing letting go.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out observing letting go.’"}},{"id":"sn54.1:6","sourceIds":["sn54.1:6.1","sn54.1:6.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ bhāvitā kho, bhikkhave, ānāpānassati evaṁ bahulīkatā mahapphalā hoti mahānisaṁsā”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"Mindfulness of breathing, when developed and cultivated in this way, is very fruitful and beneficial.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn54.1/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."}