{"id":"an9.46","title":"In the Present Life","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an9.46","title":"In the Present Life","units":[{"id":"an9.46:0","sourceIds":["an9.46:0.1","an9.46:0.2","an9.46:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 9.46\n5. Sāmaññavagga\nSandiṭṭhikadhammasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 9.46\n5. Similarity\nIn the Present Life"}},{"id":"an9.46:1","sourceIds":["an9.46:1.1","an9.46:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Sandiṭṭhiko dhammo, sandiṭṭhiko dhammo’ti, āvuso, vuccati.\nKittāvatā nu kho, āvuso, sandiṭṭhiko dhammo vutto bhagavatā”ti?","en":"“Reverend, they speak of ‘a teaching apparent in the present life’.\nIn what way did the Buddha speak of a teaching apparent in the present life?”"}},{"id":"an9.46:2","sourceIds":["an9.46:2.1","an9.46:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idhāvuso, bhikkhu vivicceva kāmehi …pe… paṭhamaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati.\nEttāvatāpi kho, āvuso, sandiṭṭhiko dhammo vutto bhagavatā pariyāyena …pe….","en":"“First, take a mendicant who, quite secluded from sensual pleasures … enters and remains in the first absorption.\nTo this extent the Buddha spoke of the teaching apparent in the present life in a qualified sense. …"}},{"id":"an9.46:3","sourceIds":["an9.46:3.1","an9.46:3.2","an9.46:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, āvuso, bhikkhu sabbaso nevasaññānāsaññāyatanaṁ samatikkamma saññāvedayitanirodhaṁ upasampajja viharati, paññāya cassa disvā āsavā parikkhīṇā honti.\nEttāvatāpi kho, āvuso, sandiṭṭhiko dhammo vutto bhagavatā nippariyāyenā”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"Furthermore, take a mendicant who, going totally beyond the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, enters and remains in the cessation of perception and feeling. And, having seen with wisdom, their defilements come to an end.\nTo this extent the Buddha spoke of the teaching apparent in the present life in a definitive sense.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.46/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."}