{"id":"sn7.16","title":"The Contraphile","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn7.16","title":"The Contraphile","units":[{"id":"sn7.16:0","sourceIds":["sn7.16:0.1","sn7.16:0.2","sn7.16:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 7.16\n2. Upāsakavagga\nPaccanīkasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 7.16\n2. Lay Followers\nThe Contraphile"}},{"id":"sn7.16:1","sourceIds":["sn7.16:1.1","sn7.16:1.2","sn7.16:1.3","sn7.16:1.4","sn7.16:1.5","sn7.16:1.6","sn7.16:1.7","sn7.16:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nTena kho pana samayena paccanīkasāto nāma brāhmaṇo sāvatthiyaṁ paṭivasati.\nAtha kho paccanīkasātassa brāhmaṇassa etadahosi:\n“yannūnāhaṁ yena samaṇo gotamo tenupasaṅkameyyaṁ.\nYaṁ yadeva samaṇo gotamo bhāsissati taṁ tadevassāhaṁ paccanīkāssan”ti.\nTena kho pana samayena bhagavā abbhokāse caṅkamati.\nAtha kho paccanīkasāto brāhmaṇo yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ caṅkamantaṁ etadavoca:\n“bhaṇa samaṇadhamman”ti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nNow at that time a brahmin named Contraphile, who loved contradiction, was residing in Sāvatthī.\nThen Contraphile thought,\n“Why don’t I go to the ascetic Gotama and\ncontradict everything he says?”\nAt that time the Buddha was walking mindfully in the open air.\nThen the brahmin Contraphile went up to the Buddha, and said to him as he was walking,\n“Ascetic, preach the Dhamma.”"}},{"id":"sn7.16:2","sourceIds":["sn7.16:2.1","sn7.16:2.2","sn7.16:2.3","sn7.16:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Na paccanīkasātena,\nsuvijānaṁ subhāsitaṁ;\nUpakkiliṭṭhacittena,\nsārambhabahulena ca.","en":"“Fine words aren’t easy to understand\nby a lover of contradiction,\nwhose mind is tainted\nand full of aggression."}},{"id":"sn7.16:3","sourceIds":["sn7.16:3.1","sn7.16:3.2","sn7.16:3.3","sn7.16:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo ca vineyya sārambhaṁ,\nappasādañca cetaso;\nĀghātaṁ paṭinissajja,\nsa ve jaññā subhāsitan”ti.","en":"But when you’ve dispelled aggression,\nand your suspicious mind,\nand you’ve got rid of resentment,\nthen you’ll understand fine words.”"}},{"id":"sn7.16:4","sourceIds":["sn7.16:4.1","sn7.16:4.2","sn7.16:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, paccanīkasāto brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama, abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama …pe…\nupāsakaṁ maṁ bhavaṁ gotamo dhāretu ajjatagge pāṇupetaṁ saraṇaṁ gatan”ti.","en":"When he had spoken, the brahmin Contraphile said to the Buddha,\n“Excellent, worthy Gotama! Excellent! …\nFrom this day forth, may the worthy Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn7.16/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."}