{"id":"sn56.131","title":"Dying as Ghosts and Reborn as Ghosts","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.131","title":"Dying as Ghosts and Reborn as Ghosts","units":[{"id":"sn56.131:0","sourceIds":["sn56.131:0.1","sn56.131:0.2","sn56.131:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.131\n11. Pañcagatipeyyālavagga\nPettidevapettivisayasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.131\n11. Abbreviated Texts on Five Destinations\nDying as Ghosts and Reborn as Ghosts"}},{"id":"sn56.131:1","sourceIds":["sn56.131:1.1","sn56.131:1.2","sn56.131:1.3","sn56.131:1.4","sn56.131:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"… “Evameva kho, bhikkhave, appakā te sattā ye pettivisayā cutā devesu paccājāyanti; atha kho eteva bahutarā sattā ye pettivisayā cutā pettivisaye paccājāyanti.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nAdiṭṭhattā, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ ariyasaccānaṁ.\nKatamesaṁ catunnaṁ?\nDukkhassa ariyasaccassa, dukkhasamudayassa ariyasaccassa, dukkhanirodhassa ariyasaccassa, dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ariyasaccassa.","en":"“… the sentient beings who die as ghosts and are reborn as gods are few, while those who die as ghosts and are reborn in the ghost realm are many.\nWhy is that?\nIt’s because they haven’t seen the four noble truths.\nWhat four?\nThe noble truths of suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering."}},{"id":"sn56.131:2","sourceIds":["sn56.131:2.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo, ‘ayaṁ dukkhasamudayo’ti yogo karaṇīyo, ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodho’ti yogo karaṇīyo, ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.","en":"That’s why you should practice meditation to understand: ‘This is suffering’ … ‘This is the origin of suffering’ … ‘This is the cessation of suffering’ … ‘This is the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering’.”"}},{"id":"sn56.131:3","sourceIds":["sn56.131:3.1","sn56.131:3.2","sn56.131:3.3","sn56.131:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca bhagavā.\nAttamanā te bhikkhū bhagavato bhāsitaṁ abhinandunti.\nTiṁsatimaṁ.\nPañcagatipeyyālavaggo ekādasamo.","en":"That is what the Buddha said.\nSatisfied, the mendicants approved what the Buddha said."}},{"id":"sn56.131:4","sourceIds":["sn56.131:4.0","sn56.131:4.1","sn56.131:4.2","sn56.131:4.3","sn56.131:4.4","sn56.131:4.5","sn56.131:4.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nManussato cutā chāpi,\ndevā cutā nirayato;\nTiracchānapettivisayā,\ntiṁsamatto gativaggoti.\nSaccasaṁyuttaṁ dvādasamaṁ.\nMahāvaggo pañcamo.","en":"The Linked Discourses on the Truths, the twelfth section."}},{"id":"sn56.131:5","sourceIds":["sn56.131:5.0","sn56.131:5.1","sn56.131:5.2","sn56.131:5.3","sn56.131:5.4","sn56.131:5.5","sn56.131:5.6","sn56.131:5.7","sn56.131:5.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nMaggabojjhaṅgaṁ satiyā,\nindriyaṁ sammappadhānaṁ;\nBaliddhipādānuruddhā,\njhānānāpānasaṁyutaṁ;\nSotāpatti saccañcāti,\nmahāvaggoti vuccatīti.\nMahāvaggasaṁyuttapāḷi niṭṭhitā.\nSaṁyuttanikāyo samatto.","en":"The Great Book is finished.\nThe Linked Discourses are complete."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.131/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."}