{"id":"sn56.7","title":"Thoughts","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.7","title":"Thoughts","units":[{"id":"sn56.7:0","sourceIds":["sn56.7:0.1","sn56.7:0.2","sn56.7:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.7\n1. Samādhivagga\nVitakkasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.7\n1. Immersion\nThoughts"}},{"id":"sn56.7:1","sourceIds":["sn56.7:1.1","sn56.7:1.2","sn56.7:1.3","sn56.7:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Mā, bhikkhave, pāpake akusale vitakke vitakkeyyātha, seyyathidaṁ—\nkāmavitakkaṁ, byāpādavitakkaṁ, vihiṁsāvitakkaṁ.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nNete, bhikkhave, vitakkā atthasaṁhitā nādibrahmacariyakā na nibbidāya na virāgāya na nirodhāya na upasamāya na abhiññāya na sambodhāya na nibbānāya saṁvattanti.","en":"“Mendicants, don’t think bad, unskillful thoughts, such as\nsensual, malicious, and cruel thoughts.\nWhy is that?\nBecause those thoughts aren’t beneficial or relevant to the fundamentals of the spiritual life. They don’t lead to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment."}},{"id":"sn56.7:2","sourceIds":["sn56.7:2.1","sn56.7:2.2","sn56.7:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vitakkentā ca kho tumhe, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti vitakkeyyātha, ‘ayaṁ dukkhasamudayo’ti vitakkeyyātha, ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodho’ti vitakkeyyātha, ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti vitakkeyyātha.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nEte, bhikkhave, vitakkā atthasaṁhitā ete ādibrahmacariyakā ete nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya upasamāya abhiññāya sambodhāya nibbānāya saṁvattanti.","en":"When you think, you should think: ‘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’.\nWhy is that?\nBecause those thoughts are beneficial and relevant to the fundamentals of the spiritual life. They lead to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment."}},{"id":"sn56.7:3","sourceIds":["sn56.7:3.1","sn56.7:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘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/sn56.7/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."}