{"id":"sn9.1","title":"Seclusion","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn9.1","title":"Seclusion","units":[{"id":"sn9.1:0","sourceIds":["sn9.1:0.1","sn9.1:0.2","sn9.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 9.1\n1. Vanavagga\nVivekasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 9.1\n1. In the Woods\nSeclusion"}},{"id":"sn9.1:1","sourceIds":["sn9.1:1.1","sn9.1:1.2","sn9.1:1.3","sn9.1:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ aññataro bhikkhu kosalesu viharati aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe.\nTena kho pana samayena so bhikkhu divāvihāragato pāpake akusale vitakke vitakketi gehanissite.\nAtha kho yā tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe adhivatthā devatā tassa bhikkhuno anukampikā atthakāmā taṁ bhikkhuṁ saṁvejetukāmā yena so bhikkhu tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā taṁ bhikkhuṁ gāthāhi ajjhabhāsi:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time one of the mendicants was staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove.\nNow at that time that mendicant, during their day’s meditation, was thinking bad, unskillful thoughts to do with the domestic life.\nThe deity haunting that forest had sympathy for that mendicant, and wanted what’s best for them. So they approached that mendicant wanting to stir them up, and addressed them in verse:"}},{"id":"sn9.1:2","sourceIds":["sn9.1:2.1","sn9.1:2.2","sn9.1:2.3","sn9.1:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Vivekakāmosi vanaṁ paviṭṭho,\nAtha te mano niccharatī bahiddhā;\nJano janasmiṁ vinayassu chandaṁ,\nTato sukhī hohisi vītarāgo.","en":"“You entered the woods desiring seclusion,\nyet your mind strays to outward things.\nAs a person, dispel the desire for people;\nthen you’ll be happy, free of greed."}},{"id":"sn9.1:3","sourceIds":["sn9.1:3.1","sn9.1:3.2","sn9.1:3.3","sn9.1:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aratiṁ pajahāsi sato,\nBhavāsi sataṁ taṁ sārayāmase;\nPātālarajo hi duttaro,\nMā taṁ kāmarajo avāhari.","en":"Give up discontent; be mindful;\nlet us remind you to be mindful.\nThe dusty abyss is so hard to cross;\ndon’t let sensual dust drag you down."}},{"id":"sn9.1:4","sourceIds":["sn9.1:4.1","sn9.1:4.2","sn9.1:4.3","sn9.1:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sakuṇo yathā paṁsukunthito,\nVidhunaṁ pātayati sitaṁ rajaṁ;\nEvaṁ bhikkhu padhānavā satimā,\nVidhunaṁ pātayati sitaṁ rajan”ti.","en":"Just as a bird strewn with dirt\nsheds that clingy dust with a shake;\nso too, an energetic, mindful mendicant\nsheds that clingy dust with a shake.”"}},{"id":"sn9.1:5","sourceIds":["sn9.1:5.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho so bhikkhu tāya devatāya saṁvejito saṁvegamāpādīti.","en":"Impelled by that deity, that mendicant was struck with a sense of urgency."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn9.1/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."}