{"id":"an4.158","title":"Decline","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.158","title":"Decline","units":[{"id":"an4.158:0","sourceIds":["an4.158:0.1","an4.158:0.2","an4.158:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.158\n16. Indriyavagga\nParihānisutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.158\n16. Faculties\nDecline"}},{"id":"an4.158:1","sourceIds":["an4.158:1.1","an4.158:1.2","an4.158:1.3","an4.158:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tatra kho āyasmā sāriputto bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“āvuso bhikkhave”ti.\n“Āvuso”ti kho te bhikkhū āyasmato sāriputtassa paccassosuṁ.\nĀyasmā sāriputto etadavoca:","en":"There Sāriputta addressed the mendicants:\n“Reverends, mendicants!”\n“Reverend,” they replied.\nSāriputta said this:"}},{"id":"an4.158:2","sourceIds":["an4.158:2.1","an4.158:2.2","an4.158:2.3","an4.158:2.4","an4.158:2.5","an4.158:2.6","an4.158:2.7","an4.158:2.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yo hi koci, āvuso, bhikkhu vā bhikkhunī vā cattāro dhamme attani samanupassati, niṭṭhamettha gantabbaṁ:\n‘parihāyāmi kusalehi dhammehi’.\nParihānametaṁ vuttaṁ bhagavatā.\nKatame cattāro?\nRāgavepullattaṁ, dosavepullattaṁ, mohavepullattaṁ, gambhīresu kho panassa ṭhānāṭhānesu paññācakkhu na kamati.\nYo hi koci, āvuso, bhikkhu vā bhikkhunī vā ime cattāro dhamme attani samanupassati, niṭṭhamettha gantabbaṁ:\n‘parihāyāmi kusalehi dhammehi’.\nParihānametaṁ vuttaṁ bhagavatā.","en":"“Reverends, any monk or nun who sees four things inside themselves should conclude:\n‘My skillful qualities are declining.\nFor this is what the Buddha calls decline.’\nWhat four?\nThey have much greed, much hate, and much delusion; and their wisdom eye doesn’t go into the many deep matters.\nAny monk or nun who sees these four things inside themselves should conclude:\n‘My skillful qualities are declining.\nFor this is what the Buddha calls decline.’"}},{"id":"an4.158:3","sourceIds":["an4.158:3.1","an4.158:3.2","an4.158:3.3","an4.158:3.4","an4.158:3.5","an4.158:3.6","an4.158:3.7","an4.158:3.8","an4.158:3.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo hi koci, āvuso, bhikkhu vā bhikkhunī vā cattāro dhamme attani samanupassati, niṭṭhamettha gantabbaṁ:\n‘na parihāyāmi kusalehi dhammehi’.\nAparihānametaṁ vuttaṁ bhagavatā.\nKatame cattāro?\nRāgatanuttaṁ, dosatanuttaṁ, mohatanuttaṁ, gambhīresu kho panassa ṭhānāṭhānesu paññācakkhu kamati.\nYo hi koci, āvuso, bhikkhu vā bhikkhunī vā ime cattāro dhamme attani samanupassati, niṭṭhamettha gantabbaṁ:\n‘na parihāyāmi kusalehi dhammehi’.\nAparihānametaṁ vuttaṁ bhagavatā”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"Any monk or nun who sees four things inside themselves should conclude:\n‘My skillful qualities are not declining.\nFor this is what the Buddha calls non-decline.’\nWhat four?\nTheir greed, hate, and delusion grow less; and their wisdom eye goes into the many deep matters.\nAny monk or nun who sees these four things inside themselves should conclude:\n‘My skillful qualities are not declining.\nFor this is what the Buddha calls non-decline.’”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.158/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."}