{"id":"sn56.17","title":"Ignorance","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.17","title":"Ignorance","units":[{"id":"sn56.17:0","sourceIds":["sn56.17:0.1","sn56.17:0.2","sn56.17:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.17\n2. Dhammacakkappavattanavagga\nAvijjāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.17\n2. Rolling Forth the Wheel of Dhamma\nIgnorance"}},{"id":"sn56.17:1","sourceIds":["sn56.17:1.1","sn56.17:1.2","sn56.17:1.3","sn56.17:1.4","sn56.17:1.5","sn56.17:1.6","sn56.17:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“‘avijjā, avijjā’ti, bhante, vuccati.\nKatamā nu kho, bhante, avijjā;\nkittāvatā ca avijjāgato hotī”ti?\n“Yaṁ kho, bhikkhu, dukkhe aññāṇaṁ, dukkhasamudaye aññāṇaṁ, dukkhanirodhe aññāṇaṁ, dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya aññāṇaṁ—\nayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhu, avijjā;\nettāvatā ca avijjāgato hotīti.","en":"Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:\n“Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘ignorance’.\nWhat is ignorance?\nAnd how is an ignoramus defined?”\n“Not knowing about suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering.\nThis is called ignorance.\nAnd this is how an ignoramus is defined."}},{"id":"sn56.17:2","sourceIds":["sn56.17:2.1","sn56.17:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhu, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"That’s why you should practice meditation …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.17/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."}