{"id":"snp4.3","title":"Eight on Malice","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp4.3","title":"Eight on Malice","units":[{"id":"snp4.3:0","sourceIds":["snp4.3:0.1","snp4.3:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 4.3\nDuṭṭhaṭṭhakasutta","en":"Anthology of Discourses 4.3\nEight on Malice"}},{"id":"snp4.3:1","sourceIds":["snp4.3:1.1","snp4.3:1.2","snp4.3:1.3","snp4.3:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vadanti ve duṭṭhamanāpi eke,\nAthopi ve saccamanā vadanti;\nVādañca jātaṁ muni no upeti,\nTasmā munī natthi khilo kuhiñci.","en":"Some speak with malicious intent,\nwhile others speak set on truth.\nWhen disputes come up a sage does not get involved,\nwhich is why they’ve no barrenness at all."}},{"id":"snp4.3:2","sourceIds":["snp4.3:2.1","snp4.3:2.2","snp4.3:2.3","snp4.3:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sakañhi diṭṭhiṁ kathamaccayeyya,\nChandānunīto ruciyā niviṭṭho;\nSayaṁ samattāni pakubbamāno,\nYathā hi jāneyya tathā vadeyya.","en":"How can you transcend your own view\nwhen you’re led by preference, dogmatic in belief?\nInventing your own undertakings,\nyou’d speak according to your notion."}},{"id":"snp4.3:3","sourceIds":["snp4.3:3.1","snp4.3:3.2","snp4.3:3.3","snp4.3:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo attano sīlavatāni jantu,\nAnānupuṭṭhova paresa pāva;\nAnariyadhammaṁ kusalā tamāhu,\nYo ātumānaṁ sayameva pāva.","en":"Some personages, unasked, tell others\nof their own precepts and vows.\nThey have an ignoble nature, say those who are skilled,\nsince they speak on themselves of their own accord."}},{"id":"snp4.3:4","sourceIds":["snp4.3:4.1","snp4.3:4.2","snp4.3:4.3","snp4.3:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santo ca bhikkhu abhinibbutatto,\nItihanti sīlesu akatthamāno;\nTamariyadhammaṁ kusalā vadanti,\nYassussadā natthi kuhiñci loke.","en":"A mendicant, peaceful, quenched,\nnever boasts “thus am I” of their precepts.\nThey have a noble nature, say those who are skilled,\nwho have no pretensions about anything in the world."}},{"id":"snp4.3:5","sourceIds":["snp4.3:5.1","snp4.3:5.2","snp4.3:5.3","snp4.3:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pakappitā saṅkhatā yassa dhammā,\nPurakkhatā santi avīvadātā;\nYadattani passati ānisaṁsaṁ,\nTaṁ nissito kuppapaṭiccasantiṁ.","en":"For one who formulates and creates teachings,\nand promotes them despite their defects,\nif they see an advantage for themselves,\nthey become dependent on that, relying on unstable peace."}},{"id":"snp4.3:6","sourceIds":["snp4.3:6.1","snp4.3:6.2","snp4.3:6.3","snp4.3:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Diṭṭhīnivesā na hi svātivattā,\nDhammesu niccheyya samuggahītaṁ;\nTasmā naro tesu nivesanesu,\nNirassatī ādiyatī ca dhammaṁ.","en":"It’s not easy to get over dogmatic views\nadopted after judging among the teachings.\nThat’s why, among all these dogmas, a person\nditches one teaching and takes up another."}},{"id":"snp4.3:7","sourceIds":["snp4.3:7.1","snp4.3:7.2","snp4.3:7.3","snp4.3:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dhonassa hi natthi kuhiñci loke,\nPakappitā diṭṭhi bhavābhavesu;\nMāyañca mānañca pahāya dhono,\nSa kena gaccheyya anūpayo so.","en":"The cleansed one has no formulated view\nat all in the world about the different realms.\nHaving given up illusion and conceit,\nby what path would they go? They are not involved."}},{"id":"snp4.3:8","sourceIds":["snp4.3:8.1","snp4.3:8.2","snp4.3:8.3","snp4.3:8.4","snp4.3:8.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Upayo hi dhammesu upeti vādaṁ,\nAnūpayaṁ kena kathaṁ vadeyya;\nAttā nirattā na hi tassa atthi,\nAdhosi so diṭṭhimidheva sabbanti.\nDuṭṭhaṭṭhakasuttaṁ tatiyaṁ.","en":"For one who gets involved is embroiled in disputes about teachings—\nbut how to dispute with the uninvolved? About what?\nFor picking up and putting down is not what they do;\nthey have shaken off all views in this very life."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp4.3/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."}