{"id":"snp5.15","title":"The Question of Posāla","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp5.15","title":"The Question of Posāla","units":[{"id":"snp5.15:0","sourceIds":["snp5.15:0.1","snp5.15:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 5.15\nPosālamāṇavapucchā","en":"Anthology of Discourses 5.15\nThe Question of Posāla"}},{"id":"snp5.15:1","sourceIds":["snp5.15:1.1","snp5.15:1.2","snp5.15:1.3","snp5.15:1.4","snp5.15:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yo atītaṁ ādisati,\n(iccāyasmā posālo)\nAnejo chinnasaṁsayo;\nPāraguṁ sabbadhammānaṁ,\nAtthi pañhena āgamaṁ.","en":"“To the one who reveals the past,”\nsaid Venerable Posāla,\n“who is imperturbable, with doubts cut off,\nand who has gone beyond all things,\nI have come seeking with a question."}},{"id":"snp5.15:2","sourceIds":["snp5.15:2.1","snp5.15:2.2","snp5.15:2.3","snp5.15:2.4","snp5.15:2.5","snp5.15:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vibhūtarūpasaññissa,\nsabbakāyappahāyino;\nAjjhattañca bahiddhā ca,\nnatthi kiñcīti passato;\nÑāṇaṁ sakkānupucchāmi,\nkathaṁ neyyo tathāvidho”.","en":"Consider one who perceives that form has vanished,\nwho has entirely given up the body,\nand who sees nothing at all\ninternally and externally.\nI ask the Sakyan about knowledge for them;\nhow should that sort be guided?”"}},{"id":"snp5.15:3","sourceIds":["snp5.15:3.1","snp5.15:3.2","snp5.15:3.3","snp5.15:3.4","snp5.15:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Viññāṇaṭṭhitiyo sabbā,\n(posālāti bhagavā)\nAbhijānaṁ tathāgato;\nTiṭṭhantamenaṁ jānāti,\nVimuttaṁ tapparāyaṇaṁ.","en":"“The Realized One directly knows,”\nsaid the Buddha,\n“all planes of consciousness.\nAnd he knows this one who remains,\ncommitted to that as their final goal."}},{"id":"snp5.15:4","sourceIds":["snp5.15:4.1","snp5.15:4.2","snp5.15:4.3","snp5.15:4.4","snp5.15:4.5","snp5.15:4.6","snp5.15:4.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ākiñcaññasambhavaṁ ñatvā,\nNandī saṁyojanaṁ iti;\nEvametaṁ abhiññāya,\nTato tattha vipassati;\nEtaṁ ñāṇaṁ tathaṁ tassa,\nBrāhmaṇassa vusīmato”ti.\nPosālamāṇavapucchā cuddasamā.","en":"Understanding that desire for rebirth\nin the dimension of nothingness is a fetter,\nand directly knowing what this really means,\none then discerns that matter clearly.\nThat is their knowledge of truth,\nthe brahmin who has lived the life.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.15/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."}