{"id":"sn15.9","title":"A Stick","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn15.9","title":"A Stick","units":[{"id":"sn15.9:0","sourceIds":["sn15.9:0.1","sn15.9:0.2","sn15.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 15.9\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nDaṇḍasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 15.9\nChapter One\nA Stick"}},{"id":"sn15.9:1","sourceIds":["sn15.9:1.1","sn15.9:1.2","sn15.9:1.3","sn15.9:1.4","sn15.9:1.5","sn15.9:1.6","sn15.9:1.7","sn15.9:1.8","sn15.9:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Anamataggoyaṁ, bhikkhave, saṁsāro.\nPubbā koṭi na paññāyati avijjānīvaraṇānaṁ sattānaṁ taṇhāsaṁyojanānaṁ sandhāvataṁ saṁsarataṁ.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, daṇḍo uparivehāsaṁ khitto sakimpi mūlena nipatati, sakimpi majjhena nipatati, sakimpi antena nipatati;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, avijjānīvaraṇā sattā taṇhāsaṁyojanā sandhāvantā saṁsarantā sakimpi asmā lokā paraṁ lokaṁ gacchanti, sakimpi parasmā lokā imaṁ lokaṁ āgacchanti.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nAnamataggoyaṁ, bhikkhave, saṁsāro …pe…\nalaṁ vimuccitun”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, this transmigration has no known beginning.\nNo first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving.\nSuppose a stick was tossed up in the air. Sometimes it’d fall on its bottom, sometimes the middle, and sometimes the end.\nIt’s the same for sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving. Sometimes they go from this world to the other world, and sometimes they come from the other world to this world.\nWhy is that?\nThis transmigration has no known beginning. …\nThis is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn15.9/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."}