{"id":"sn56.36","title":"Living Creatures","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.36","title":"Living Creatures","units":[{"id":"sn56.36:0","sourceIds":["sn56.36:0.1","sn56.36:0.2","sn56.36:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.36\n4. Sīsapāvanavagga\nPāṇasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.36\n4. In a Rosewood Forest\nLiving Creatures"}},{"id":"sn56.36:1","sourceIds":["sn56.36:1.1","sn56.36:1.2","sn56.36:1.3","sn56.36:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, puriso yaṁ imasmiṁ jambudīpe tiṇakaṭṭhasākhāpalāsaṁ tacchetvā ekajjhaṁ saṁhareyya;\nekajjhaṁ saṁharitvā sūlaṁ kareyya.\nSūlaṁ karitvā ye mahāsamudde mahantakā pāṇā te mahantakesu sūlesu āvuneyya, ye mahāsamudde majjhimakā pāṇā te majjhimakesu sūlesu āvuneyya, ye mahāsamudde sukhumakā pāṇā te sukhumakesu sūlesu āvuneyya.\nApariyādinnā ca, bhikkhave, mahāsamudde oḷārikā pāṇā assu.","en":"“Suppose a person was to strip all the grass, sticks, branches, and leaves in the Black Plum Tree Land, gather them together into one pile,\nand make them into stakes.\nThen they’d impale the large creatures in the ocean on large stakes; the medium-sized creatures on medium-sized stakes; and the small creatures on small stakes.\nThey wouldn’t run out of sizable creatures in the ocean before"}},{"id":"sn56.36:2","sourceIds":["sn56.36:2.1","sn56.36:2.2","sn56.36:2.3","sn56.36:2.4","sn56.36:2.5","sn56.36:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha imasmiṁ jambudīpe tiṇakaṭṭhasākhāpalāsaṁ parikkhayaṁ pariyādānaṁ gaccheyya.\nIto bahutarā kho, bhikkhave, mahāsamudde sukhumakā pāṇā, ye na sukarā sūlesu āvunituṁ.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nSukhumattā, bhikkhave, attabhāvassa.\nEvaṁ mahā kho, bhikkhave, apāyo.\nEvaṁ mahantasmā kho, bhikkhave, apāyasmā parimutto diṭṭhisampanno puggalo ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yathābhūtaṁ pajānāti.","en":"using up all the grass, sticks, branches, and leaves in the Black Plum Tree Land.\nThere are far more small creatures in the ocean than this, so it wouldn’t be feasible to impale them on stakes.\nWhy is that?\nBecause of the small size of those life-forms.\nThat’s how big the plane of loss is.\nAn individual accomplished in view, exempt from that vast plane of loss, truly understands: ‘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":"sn56.36:3","sourceIds":["sn56.36:3.1","sn56.36:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"That’s why you should practice meditation …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.36/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."}