{"id":"sn8.2","title":"Dissatisfaction","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn8.2","title":"Dissatisfaction","units":[{"id":"sn8.2:0","sourceIds":["sn8.2:0.1","sn8.2:0.2","sn8.2:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 8.2\n1. Vaṅgīsavagga\nAratīsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 8.2\n1. With Vaṅgīsa\nDissatisfaction"}},{"id":"sn8.2:1","sourceIds":["sn8.2:1.1","sn8.2:1.2","sn8.2:1.3","sn8.2:1.4","sn8.2:1.5","sn8.2:1.6","sn8.2:1.7","sn8.2:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ …pe… āyasmā vaṅgīso āḷaviyaṁ viharati aggāḷave cetiye āyasmatā nigrodhakappena upajjhāyena saddhiṁ.\nTena kho pana samayena āyasmā nigrodhakappo pacchābhattaṁ piṇḍapātapaṭikkanto vihāraṁ pavisati, sāyaṁ vā nikkhamati aparajju vā kāle.\nTena kho pana samayena āyasmato vaṅgīsassa anabhirati uppannā hoti, rāgo cittaṁ anuddhaṁseti.\nAtha kho āyasmato vaṅgīsassa etadahosi:\n“alābhā vata me, na vata me lābhā; dulladdhaṁ vata me, na vata me suladdhaṁ;\nyassa me anabhirati uppannā, rāgo cittaṁ anuddhaṁseti; taṁ kutettha labbhā, yaṁ me paro anabhiratiṁ vinodetvā abhiratiṁ uppādeyya.\nYannūnāhaṁ attanāva attano anabhiratiṁ vinodetvā abhiratiṁ uppādeyyan”ti.\nAtha kho āyasmā vaṅgīso attanāva attano anabhiratiṁ vinodetvā abhiratiṁ uppādetvā tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imā gāthāyo abhāsi:","en":"At one time Venerable Vaṅgīsa was staying near Āḷavī, at Āḷavī’s premier shrine, together with his mentor, Venerable Nigrodhakappa.\nNow at that time after Venerable Nigrodhakappa had finished his meal, on his return from almsround, he would enter his dwelling and not emerge for the rest of that day, or the next.\nAnd at that time Venerable Vaṅgīsa became dissatisfied, as lust infected his mind.\nThen he thought,\n“It’s my loss, my misfortune,\nthat I’ve become dissatisfied, with lust infecting my mind. How is it possible for someone else to dispel my discontent and give rise to satisfaction?\nWhy don’t I do it myself?”\nThen, on the occasion of dispelling his own discontent and giving rise to satisfaction, he recited these verses:"}},{"id":"sn8.2:2","sourceIds":["sn8.2:2.1","sn8.2:2.2","sn8.2:2.3","sn8.2:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aratiñca ratiñca pahāya,\nSabbaso gehasitañca vitakkaṁ;\nVanathaṁ na kareyya kuhiñci,\nNibbanatho arato sa hi bhikkhu.","en":"“Giving up desire and discontent,\nalong with all thoughts of domestic life,\nthey wouldn’t get snarled in anything;\nunsnarled, undesiring: that’s a real mendicant."}},{"id":"sn8.2:3","sourceIds":["sn8.2:3.1","sn8.2:3.2","sn8.2:3.3","sn8.2:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yamidha pathaviñca vehāsaṁ,\nRūpagatañca jagatogadhaṁ;\nKiñci parijīyati sabbamaniccaṁ,\nEvaṁ samecca caranti mutattā.","en":"Whatever here is included in form—\non earth, in the sky, or in planet’s deep—\nwears out, it is all impermanent:\nthe self-examined live having comprehended this."}},{"id":"sn8.2:4","sourceIds":["sn8.2:4.1","sn8.2:4.2","sn8.2:4.3","sn8.2:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Upadhīsu janā gadhitāse,\nDiṭṭhasute paṭighe ca mute ca;\nEttha vinodaya chandamanejo,\nYo ettha na limpati taṁ munimāhu.","en":"People are bound to their attachments,\nto impingement of the seen and heard, and to what is thought.\nUnstirred, dispel desire for these things;\nfor one called ‘a sage’ does not cling to them."}},{"id":"sn8.2:5","sourceIds":["sn8.2:5.1","sn8.2:5.2","sn8.2:5.3","sn8.2:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha saṭṭhinissitā savitakkā,\nPuthū janatāya adhammā niviṭṭhā;\nNa ca vaggagatassa kuhiñci,\nNo pana duṭṭhullabhāṇī sa bhikkhu.","en":"Trapped in the sixty wrong views, full of their own opinions,\nordinary people are fixed in wrong principles.\nBut that mendicant wouldn’t join a sect,\nstill less would they utter lewd speech."}},{"id":"sn8.2:6","sourceIds":["sn8.2:6.1","sn8.2:6.2","sn8.2:6.3","sn8.2:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dabbo cirarattasamāhito,\nAkuhako nipako apihālu;\nSantaṁ padaṁ ajjhagamā muni paṭicca,\nParinibbuto kaṅkhati kālan”ti.","en":"Proficient, long serene,\nfree of deceit, alert, without envy,\nthe sage has reached the state of peace;\nquenched, he awaits his time.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn8.2/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."}