{"id":"sn21.6","title":"With Bhaddiya the Dwarf","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn21.6","title":"With Bhaddiya the Dwarf","units":[{"id":"sn21.6:0","sourceIds":["sn21.6:0.1","sn21.6:0.2","sn21.6:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 21.6\n1. Bhikkhuvagga\nLakuṇḍakabhaddiyasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 21.6\n1. Monks\nWith Bhaddiya the Dwarf"}},{"id":"sn21.6:1","sourceIds":["sn21.6:1.1","sn21.6:1.2","sn21.6:1.3","sn21.6:1.4","sn21.6:1.5","sn21.6:1.6","sn21.6:1.7","sn21.6:1.8","sn21.6:1.9","sn21.6:1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\nAtha kho āyasmā lakuṇḍakabhaddiyo yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami.\nAddasā kho bhagavā āyasmantaṁ lakuṇḍakabhaddiyaṁ dūratova āgacchantaṁ.\nDisvāna bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“passatha no tumhe, bhikkhave, etaṁ bhikkhuṁ āgacchantaṁ dubbaṇṇaṁ duddasikaṁ okoṭimakaṁ bhikkhūnaṁ paribhūtarūpan”ti?\n“Evaṁ, bhante”.\n“Eso kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu mahiddhiko mahānubhāvo, na ca sā samāpatti sulabharūpā yā tena bhikkhunā asamāpannapubbā.\nYassa catthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajanti, tadanuttaraṁ brahmacariyapariyosānaṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharatī”ti.\nIdamavoca bhagavā …pe…\nsatthā:","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen Venerable Bhaddiya the Dwarf went to the Buddha.\nThe Buddha saw him coming off in the distance,\nand addressed the mendicants:\n“Mendicants, do you see this monk coming—ugly, unsightly, deformed, and despised by the mendicants?”\n“Yes, sir.”\n“That mendicant is very mighty and powerful. It’s not easy to find an attainment that he has not already attained.\nAnd he has realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lives having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.”\nThat is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn21.6:2","sourceIds":["sn21.6:2.1","sn21.6:2.2","sn21.6:2.3","sn21.6:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Haṁsā koñcā mayūrā ca,\nhatthayo pasadā migā;\nSabbe sīhassa bhāyanti,\nnatthi kāyasmiṁ tulyatā.","en":"“Geese, herons, and peacocks,\nelephants and spotted deer—\nthough their bodies are not equal,\nthey all fear the lion."}},{"id":"sn21.6:3","sourceIds":["sn21.6:3.1","sn21.6:3.2","sn21.6:3.3","sn21.6:3.4","sn21.6:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evameva manussesu,\ndaharo cepi paññavā;\nSo hi tattha mahā hoti,\nneva bālo sarīravā”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"So it is for humans—\nif a little person is wise,\nthey’re the truly great one,\nnot the fool with a good body.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn21.6/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."}