{"id":"sn54.6","title":"With Ariṭṭha","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn54.6","title":"With Ariṭṭha","units":[{"id":"sn54.6:0","sourceIds":["sn54.6:0.1","sn54.6:0.2","sn54.6:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 54.6\n1. Ekadhammavagga\nAriṭṭhasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 54.6\n1. One Thing\nWith Ariṭṭha"}},{"id":"sn54.6:1","sourceIds":["sn54.6:1.1","sn54.6:1.2","sn54.6:1.3","sn54.6:1.4","sn54.6:1.5","sn54.6:1.6","sn54.6:1.7","sn54.6:1.8","sn54.6:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nTatra kho bhagavā …pe… etadavoca:\n“bhāvetha no tumhe bhikkhave, ānāpānassatin”ti?\nEvaṁ vutte, āyasmā ariṭṭho bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ahaṁ kho, bhante, bhāvemi ānāpānassatin”ti.\n“Yathā kathaṁ pana tvaṁ, ariṭṭha, bhāvesi ānāpānassatin”ti?\n“Atītesu me, bhante, kāmesu kāmacchando pahīno, anāgatesu me kāmesu kāmacchando vigato, ajjhattabahiddhā ca me dhammesu paṭighasaññā suppaṭivinītā.\nSo satova assasissāmi, satova passasissāmi.\nEvaṁ khvāhaṁ, bhante, bhāvemi ānāpānassatin”ti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThere the Buddha … said:\n“Mendicants, do you develop mindfulness of breathing?”\nWhen he said this, Venerable Ariṭṭha said to him:\n“Sir, I develop mindfulness of breathing.”\n“But mendicant, how do you develop it?”\n“Sir, I’ve given up desire for sensual pleasures of the past. I’m rid of desire for sensual pleasures of the future. And I have eliminated perception of aversion regarding phenomena internally and externally.\nJust mindful, I will breathe in. Mindful, I will breathe out.\nThat’s how I develop mindfulness of breathing.”"}},{"id":"sn54.6:2","sourceIds":["sn54.6:2.1","sn54.6:2.2","sn54.6:2.3","sn54.6:2.4","sn54.6:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Atthesā, ariṭṭha, ānāpānassati, nesā natthī’ti vadāmi.\nApi ca, ariṭṭha, yathā ānāpānassati vitthārena paripuṇṇā hoti\ntaṁ suṇāhi, sādhukaṁ manasi karohi; bhāsissāmī”ti.\n“Evaṁ, bhante”ti kho āyasmā ariṭṭho bhagavato paccassosi.\nBhagavā etadavoca:","en":"“That is mindfulness of breathing, Ariṭṭha; I don’t deny it.\nBut as to how mindfulness of breathing is fulfilled in detail,\nlisten and apply your mind well, I will speak.”\n“Yes, sir,” Ariṭṭha replied.\nThe Buddha said this:"}},{"id":"sn54.6:3","sourceIds":["sn54.6:3.1","sn54.6:3.2","sn54.6:3.3","sn54.6:3.4","sn54.6:3.5","sn54.6:3.6","sn54.6:3.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kathañca, ariṭṭha, ānāpānassati vitthārena paripuṇṇā hoti?\nIdha, ariṭṭha, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā nisīdati pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā.\nSo satova assasati, satova passasati.\nDīghaṁ vā assasanto ‘dīghaṁ assasāmī’ti pajānāti …pe…\n‘paṭinissaggānupassī assasissāmī’ti sikkhati, ‘paṭinissaggānupassī passasissāmī’ti sikkhati.\nEvaṁ kho, ariṭṭha, ānāpānassati vitthārena paripuṇṇā hotī”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"“And how is mindfulness of breathing fulfilled in detail?\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.\nBreathing in heavily they know: ‘I’m breathing in heavily.’ Breathing out heavily they know: ‘I’m breathing out heavily.’ …\nThey practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe in observing letting go.’ They practice like this: ‘I’ll breathe out observing letting go.’\nThis is how mindfulness of breathing is fulfilled in detail.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn54.6/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."}