{"id":"sn9.10","title":"Recitation","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn9.10","title":"Recitation","units":[{"id":"sn9.10:0","sourceIds":["sn9.10:0.1","sn9.10:0.2","sn9.10:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 9.10\n1. Vanavagga\nSajjhāyasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 9.10\n1. In the Woods\nRecitation"}},{"id":"sn9.10:1","sourceIds":["sn9.10:1.1","sn9.10:1.2","sn9.10:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ aññataro bhikkhu kosalesu viharati aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe.\nTena kho pana samayena so bhikkhu yaṁ sudaṁ pubbe ativelaṁ sajjhāyabahulo viharati so aparena samayena appossukko tuṇhībhūto saṅkasāyati.\nAtha kho yā tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe adhivatthā devatā tassa bhikkhuno dhammaṁ asuṇantī yena so bhikkhu tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā taṁ bhikkhuṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"At 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 had previously been spending too much time rehearsing. But some time later they adhered to passivity and silence.\nNot hearing the teaching, the deity haunting that forest approached that mendicant, and addressed them in verse:"}},{"id":"sn9.10:2","sourceIds":["sn9.10:2.1","sn9.10:2.2","sn9.10:2.3","sn9.10:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kasmā tuvaṁ dhammapadāni bhikkhu,\nNādhīyasi bhikkhuhi saṁvasanto;\nSutvāna dhammaṁ labhatippasādaṁ,\nDiṭṭheva dhamme labhatippasaṁsan”ti.","en":"“Mendicant, why don’t you recite passages of the teaching,\nliving together with other mendicants?\nHearing the teaching, one garners confidence;\nand in this very life, one garners praise.”"}},{"id":"sn9.10:3","sourceIds":["sn9.10:3.1","sn9.10:3.2","sn9.10:3.3","sn9.10:3.4","sn9.10:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ahu pure dhammapadesu chando,\nYāva virāgena samāgamimha;\nYato virāgena samāgamimha,\nYaṁ kiñci diṭṭhaṁva sutaṁ mutaṁ vā;\nAññāya nikkhepanamāhu santo”ti.","en":"“I used to be zealous for passages of the teaching,\nuntil I encountered dispassion.\nWhen I encountered dispassion,\nwhatever was seen, heard, and thought,\nthis, good people say, is the laying down by complete understanding.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn9.10/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."}