{"id":"sn17.5","title":"A Dung Beetle","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn17.5","title":"A Dung Beetle","units":[{"id":"sn17.5:0","sourceIds":["sn17.5:0.1","sn17.5:0.2","sn17.5:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 17.5\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nMīḷhakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 17.5\nChapter One\nA Dung Beetle"}},{"id":"sn17.5:1","sourceIds":["sn17.5:1.1","sn17.5:1.2","sn17.5:1.3","sn17.5:1.4","sn17.5:1.5","sn17.5:1.6","sn17.5:1.7","sn17.5:1.8","sn17.5:1.9","sn17.5:1.10","sn17.5:1.11","sn17.5:1.12","sn17.5:1.13","sn17.5:1.14"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Dāruṇo, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko …pe… adhigamāya.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, mīḷhakā gūthādī gūthapūrā puṇṇā gūthassa. Purato cassa mahāgūthapuñjo.\nSā tena aññā mīḷhakā atimaññeyya:\n‘ahamhi gūthādī gūthapūrā puṇṇā gūthassa, purato ca myāyaṁ mahāgūthapuñjo’ti.\nEvameva kho, bhikkhave, idhekacco bhikkhu lābhasakkārasilokena abhibhūto pariyādiṇṇacitto pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā pattacīvaramādāya gāmaṁ vā nigamaṁ vā piṇḍāya pavisati.\nSo tattha bhuttāvī ca hoti yāvadattho, nimantito ca svātanāya, piṇḍapāto cassa pūro.\nSo ārāmaṁ gantvā bhikkhugaṇassa majjhe vikatthati:\n‘bhuttāvī camhi yāvadattho, nimantito camhi svātanāya, piṇḍapāto ca myāyaṁ pūro, lābhī camhi cīvarapiṇḍapātasenāsanagilānappaccayabhesajjaparikkhārānaṁ, ime panaññe bhikkhū appapuññā appesakkhā na lābhino cīvarapiṇḍapātasenāsanagilānappaccayabhesajjaparikkhārānan’ti.\nSo tena lābhasakkārasilokena abhibhūto pariyādiṇṇacitto aññe pesale bhikkhū atimaññati.\nTañhi tassa, bhikkhave, moghapurisassa hoti dīgharattaṁ ahitāya dukkhāya.\nEvaṁ dāruṇo kho, bhikkhave, lābhasakkārasiloko …pe…\nevañhi vo bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Possessions, honor, and popularity are grim …\nSuppose there was a dung-eating beetle full of dung, stuffed with dung, and before her was a big pile of dung.\nShe’d look down on other beetles, thinking:\n‘For I am a dung-eating beetle full of dung, stuffed with dung, and before me is a big pile of dung.’\nIn the same way, take a certain mendicant whose mind is overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity. They robe up in the morning and, taking their bowl and robe, enter the village or town for alms.\nThere they eat as much as they like, get invited back tomorrow, and have plenty of almsfood.\nWhen they get back to the monastery, they boast in the middle of a group of mendicants:\n‘I ate as much as I liked, got invited back tomorrow, and had plenty of almsfood. I get robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick. But these other mendicants have little merit or significance, so they don’t get these things.’\nWith a mind overcome and overwhelmed by possessions, honor, and popularity, they look down on other good-hearted mendicants.\nThis will be for their lasting harm and suffering.\nSo grim are possessions, honor, and popularity. …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn17.5/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."}