{"id":"an3.28","title":"Speech like Dung","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.28","title":"Speech like Dung","units":[{"id":"an3.28:0","sourceIds":["an3.28:0.1","an3.28:0.2","an3.28:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.28\n3. Puggalavagga\nGūthabhāṇīsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.28\n3. Individuals\nSpeech like Dung"}},{"id":"an3.28:1","sourceIds":["an3.28:1.1","an3.28:1.2","an3.28:1.3","an3.28:1.4","an3.28:1.5","an3.28:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tayome, bhikkhave, puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasmiṁ.\nKatame tayo?\nGūthabhāṇī, pupphabhāṇī, madhubhāṇī.\nKatamo ca, bhikkhave, puggalo gūthabhāṇī?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco puggalo sabhaggato vā parisaggato vā ñātimajjhagato vā pūgamajjhagato vā rājakulamajjhagato vā abhinīto sakkhipuṭṭho: ‘ehambho purisa, yaṁ jānāsi taṁ vadehī’ti. So ajānaṁ vā āha: ‘jānāmī’ti, jānaṁ vā āha: ‘na jānāmī’ti, apassaṁ vā āha: ‘passāmī’ti, passaṁ vā āha: ‘na passāmī’ti; iti attahetu vā parahetu vā āmisakiñcikkhahetu vā sampajānamusā bhāsitā hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, puggalo gūthabhāṇī.","en":"“These three individuals are found in the world.\nWhat three?\nOne with speech like dung, one with speech like flowers, and one with speech like honey.\nAnd who has speech like dung?\nIt’s an individual who is summoned to a council, an assembly, a family meeting, a guild, or to the royal court, and asked to bear witness: ‘Please, my man, say what you know.’ Not knowing, they say ‘I know.’ Knowing, they say ‘I don’t know.’ Not seeing, they say ‘I see.’ And seeing, they say ‘I don’t see.’ So they deliberately lie for the sake of themselves or another, or for some trivial worldly reason.\nThis is called an individual with speech like dung."}},{"id":"an3.28:2","sourceIds":["an3.28:2.1","an3.28:2.2","an3.28:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, puggalo pupphabhāṇī?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco puggalo sabhaggato vā parisaggato vā ñātimajjhagato vā pūgamajjhagato vā rājakulamajjhagato vā abhinīto sakkhipuṭṭho: ‘ehambho purisa, yaṁ pajānāsi taṁ vadehī’ti, so ajānaṁ vā āha: ‘na jānāmī’ti, jānaṁ vā āha: ‘jānāmī’ti, apassaṁ vā āha: ‘na passāmī’ti, passaṁ vā āha: ‘passāmī’ti; iti attahetu vā parahetu vā āmisakiñcikkhahetu vā na sampajānamusā bhāsitā hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, puggalo pupphabhāṇī.","en":"And who has speech like flowers?\nIt’s an individual who is summoned to a council, an assembly, a family meeting, a guild, or to the royal court, and asked to bear witness: ‘Please, my man, say what you know.’ Not knowing, they say ‘I don’t know.’ Knowing, they say ‘I know.’ Not seeing, they say ‘I don’t see.’ And seeing, they say ‘I see.’ So they don’t deliberately lie for the sake of themselves or another, or for some trivial worldly reason.\nThis is called an individual with speech like flowers."}},{"id":"an3.28:3","sourceIds":["an3.28:3.1","an3.28:3.2","an3.28:3.3","an3.28:3.4","an3.28:3.5","an3.28:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamo ca, bhikkhave, puggalo madhubhāṇī?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco puggalo pharusaṁ vācaṁ pahāya pharusāya vācāya paṭivirato hoti;\nyā sā vācā nelā kaṇṇasukhā pemanīyā hadayaṅgamā porī bahujanakantā bahujanamanāpā tathārūpiṁ vācaṁ bhāsitā hoti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, puggalo madhubhāṇī.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, tayo puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasmin”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"And who has speech like honey?\nIt’s an individual who gives up harsh speech.\nThey speak in a way that’s mellow, pleasing to the ear, endearing, going to the heart, polite, and likable and agreeable to the people.\nThis is called an individual with speech like honey.\nThese are the three individuals found in the world.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.28/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."}