{"id":"sn20.11","title":"A Jackal","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn20.11","title":"A Jackal","units":[{"id":"sn20.11:0","sourceIds":["sn20.11:0.1","sn20.11:0.2","sn20.11:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 20.11\n1. Opammavagga\nSiṅgālasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 20.11\n1. Similes\nA Jackal"}},{"id":"sn20.11:1","sourceIds":["sn20.11:1.1","sn20.11:1.2","sn20.11:1.3","sn20.11:1.4","sn20.11:1.5","sn20.11:1.6","sn20.11:1.7","sn20.11:1.8","sn20.11:1.9","sn20.11:1.10","sn20.11:1.11","sn20.11:1.12","sn20.11:1.13","sn20.11:1.14"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Assuttha no tumhe, bhikkhave, rattiyā paccūsasamayaṁ jarasiṅgālassa vassamānassā”ti?\n“Evaṁ, bhante”.\n“Eso kho, bhikkhave, jarasiṅgālo ukkaṇḍakena nāma rogajātena phuṭṭho.\nSo yena yena icchati tena tena gacchati;\nyattha yattha icchati tattha tattha tiṭṭhati;\nyattha yattha icchati tattha tattha nisīdati;\nyattha yattha icchati tattha tattha nipajjati;\nsītakopi naṁ vāto upavāyati.\nSādhu khvassa, bhikkhave, yaṁ idhekacco sakyaputtiyapaṭiñño evarūpampi attabhāvapaṭilābhaṁ paṭisaṁvediyetha.\nTasmātiha, bhikkhave, evaṁ sikkhitabbaṁ:\n‘appamattā viharissāmā’ti.\nEvañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nEkādasamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, did you hear an old jackal howling at the crack of dawn?”\n“Yes, sir.”\n“That old jackal has the disease called mange.\nYet it still goes where it wants,\nstands where it wants,\nsits where it wants,\nand lies down where it wants.\nAnd the cool breeze still blows on it.\nA certain person here who claims to follow the Sakyan would be lucky to experience even such an incarnation.\nSo you should train like this:\n‘We will stay diligent.’\nThat’s how you should train.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn20.11/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."}