{"id":"an3.118","title":"Sure-bet Dice","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.118","title":"Sure-bet Dice","units":[{"id":"an3.118:0","sourceIds":["an3.118:0.1","an3.118:0.2","an3.118:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.118\n12. Āpāyikavagga\nApaṇṇakasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.118\n12. Bound for Loss\nSure-bet Dice"}},{"id":"an3.118:1","sourceIds":["an3.118:1.1","an3.118:1.2","an3.118:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tisso imā, bhikkhave, vipattiyo.\nKatamā tisso?\nSīlavipatti, cittavipatti, diṭṭhivipatti.","en":"“Mendicants, there are three failures.\nWhat three?\nFailure in ethics, mind, and view."}},{"id":"an3.118:2","sourceIds":["an3.118:2.1","an3.118:2.2","an3.118:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, sīlavipatti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco pāṇātipātī hoti …pe… samphappalāpī hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, sīlavipatti.","en":"And what is failure in ethics?\nIt’s when someone kills living creatures, steals, commits sexual misconduct, and uses speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical.\nThis is called ‘failure in ethics’."}},{"id":"an3.118:3","sourceIds":["an3.118:3.1","an3.118:3.2","an3.118:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, cittavipatti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco abhijjhālu hoti byāpannacitto.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, cittavipatti.","en":"And what is failure in mind?\nIt’s when someone is covetous and malicious.\nThis is called ‘failure in mind’."}},{"id":"an3.118:4","sourceIds":["an3.118:4.1","an3.118:4.2","an3.118:4.3","an3.118:4.4","an3.118:4.5","an3.118:4.6","an3.118:4.7","an3.118:4.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, diṭṭhivipatti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco micchādiṭṭhiko hoti viparītadassano:\n‘natthi dinnaṁ, natthi yiṭṭhaṁ …pe… ye imañca lokaṁ parañca lokaṁ sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā pavedentī’ti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, diṭṭhivipatti.\nSīlavipattihetu vā, bhikkhave …pe… diṭṭhivipattihetu vā, bhikkhave, sattā kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ nirayaṁ upapajjanti.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, apaṇṇako maṇi uddhaṁ khitto yena yeneva patiṭṭhāti suppatiṭṭhitaṁyeva patiṭṭhāti;\nevamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, sīlavipattihetu vā sattā …pe… upapajjanti.\nImā kho, bhikkhave, tisso vipattiyoti.","en":"And what is failure in view?\nIt’s when someone has wrong view, a distorted perspective, such as:\n‘There’s no meaning in giving, sacrifice, or offerings. There’s no fruit or result of good and bad deeds. There’s no afterlife. There’s no such thing as mother and father, or beings that are reborn spontaneously. And there’s no ascetic or brahmin who is rightly comported and rightly practiced, and who describes the afterlife after realizing it with their own insight.’\nThis is called ‘failure in view’.\nSome sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell because of failure in ethics, mind, or view.\nIt’s like throwing sure-bet dice: they always fall the right side up.\nIn the same way, some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell because of failure in ethics, mind, or view.\nThese are the three failures."}},{"id":"an3.118:5","sourceIds":["an3.118:5.1","an3.118:5.2","an3.118:5.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tisso imā, bhikkhave, sampadā.\nKatamā tisso?\nSīlasampadā, cittasampadā, diṭṭhisampadā.","en":"There are three accomplishments.\nWhat three?\nAccomplishment in ethics, mind, and view."}},{"id":"an3.118:6","sourceIds":["an3.118:6.1","an3.118:6.2","an3.118:6.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, sīlasampadā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco pāṇātipātā paṭivirato hoti …pe…\nayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, sīlasampadā.","en":"And what is accomplishment in ethics?\nIt’s when someone doesn’t kill living creatures, steal, commit sexual misconduct, or use speech that’s false, backbiting, harsh, or nonsensical.\nThis is called accomplishment in ethics."}},{"id":"an3.118:7","sourceIds":["an3.118:7.1","an3.118:7.2","an3.118:7.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, cittasampadā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco anabhijjhālu hoti abyāpannacitto.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, cittasampadā.","en":"And what is accomplishment in mind?\nIt’s when someone is content and kind-hearted.\nThis is called accomplishment in mind."}},{"id":"an3.118:8","sourceIds":["an3.118:8.1","an3.118:8.2","an3.118:8.3","an3.118:8.4","an3.118:8.5","an3.118:8.6","an3.118:8.7","an3.118:8.8","an3.118:8.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamā ca, bhikkhave, diṭṭhisampadā?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco sammādiṭṭhiko hoti aviparītadassano:\n‘atthi dinnaṁ, atthi yiṭṭhaṁ …pe… ye imañca lokaṁ parañca lokaṁ sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā pavedentī’ti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, diṭṭhisampadā.\nSīlasampadāhetu vā, bhikkhave, sattā kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā sugatiṁ saggaṁ lokaṁ upapajjanti. Cittasampadāhetu vā …pe… diṭṭhisampadāhetu vā, bhikkhave, sattā kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā sugatiṁ saggaṁ lokaṁ upapajjanti.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, apaṇṇako maṇi uddhaṁ khitto yena yeneva patiṭṭhāti suppatiṭṭhitaṁyeva patiṭṭhāti;\nevamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, sīlasampadāhetu vā sattā kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā sugatiṁ saggaṁ lokaṁ upapajjanti, cittasampadāhetu vā sattā …pe… diṭṭhisampadāhetu vā sattā kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā sugatiṁ saggaṁ lokaṁ upapajjanti.\nImā kho, bhikkhave, tisso sampadā”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"And what is accomplishment in view?\nIt’s when someone has right view, an undistorted perspective, such as:\n‘There is meaning in giving, sacrifice, and offerings. There are fruits and results of good and bad deeds. There is an afterlife. There are such things as mother and father, and beings that are reborn spontaneously. And there are ascetics and brahmins who are rightly comported and rightly practiced, and who describe the afterlife after realizing it with their own insight.’\nThis is called accomplishment in view.\nSome sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm because of accomplishment in ethics, mind, or view.\nIt’s like throwing sure-bet dice: they always fall the right side up.\nIn the same way, some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm because of accomplishment in ethics, mind, or view.\nThese are the three accomplishments.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.118/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."}