{"id":"sn35.136","title":"Liking Sights (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.136","title":"Liking Sights (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn35.136:0","sourceIds":["sn35.136:0.1","sn35.136:0.2","sn35.136:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.136\n14. Devadahavagga\nPaṭhamarūpārāmasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.136\n14. At Devadaha\nLiking Sights (1st)"}},{"id":"sn35.136:1","sourceIds":["sn35.136:1.1","sn35.136:1.2","sn35.136:1.3","sn35.136:1.4","sn35.136:1.5","sn35.136:1.6","sn35.136:1.7","sn35.136:1.8","sn35.136:1.9","sn35.136:1.10","sn35.136:1.11","sn35.136:1.12","sn35.136:1.13","sn35.136:1.14","sn35.136:1.15","sn35.136:1.16","sn35.136:1.17","sn35.136:1.18","sn35.136:1.19"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Rūpārāmā, bhikkhave, devamanussā rūparatā rūpasammuditā.\nRūpavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā dukkhā, bhikkhave, devamanussā viharanti.\nSaddārāmā, bhikkhave, devamanussā saddaratā saddasammuditā.\nSaddavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā dukkhā, bhikkhave, devamanussā viharanti.\nGandhārāmā …\nrasārāmā …\nphoṭṭhabbārāmā …\ndhammārāmā, bhikkhave, devamanussā dhammaratā dhammasammuditā.\nDhammavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā dukkhā, bhikkhave, devamanussā viharanti.\nTathāgato ca kho, bhikkhave, arahaṁ sammāsambuddho rūpānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ viditvā na rūpārāmo na rūparato na rūpasammudito.\nRūpavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā sukho, bhikkhave, tathāgato viharati.\nSaddānaṁ …\ngandhānaṁ …\nrasānaṁ …\nphoṭṭhabbānaṁ …\ndhammānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ viditvā na dhammārāmo, na dhammarato, na dhammasammudito.\nDhammavipariṇāmavirāganirodhā sukho, bhikkhave, tathāgato viharati”.\nIdamavoca bhagavā.\nIdaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā:","en":"“Mendicants, gods and humans like sights, they love them and enjoy them.\nBut when sights perish, fade away, and cease, gods and humans live in suffering.\nGods and humans like sounds …\nsmells …\ntastes …\ntouches …\nideas, they love them and enjoy them.\nBut when ideas perish, fade away, and cease, gods and humans live in suffering.\nThe Realized One has truly understood the origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape of sights, so he doesn’t like, love, or enjoy them.\nWhen sights perish, fade away, and cease, the Realized One lives happily.\nThe Realized One has truly understood the origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape of sounds …\nsmells …\ntastes …\ntouches …\nideas, so he doesn’t like, love, or enjoy them.\nWhen ideas perish, fade away, and cease, the Realized One lives happily.”\nThat is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn35.136:2","sourceIds":["sn35.136:2.1","sn35.136:2.2","sn35.136:2.3","sn35.136:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Rūpā saddā rasā gandhā,\nphassā dhammā ca kevalā;\nIṭṭhā kantā manāpā ca,\nyāvatatthīti vuccati.","en":"“Sights, sounds, tastes, smells,\ntouches and ideas, the lot of them—\nthey’re likable, desirable, and pleasurable\nas long as you can say that they exist."}},{"id":"sn35.136:3","sourceIds":["sn35.136:3.1","sn35.136:3.2","sn35.136:3.3","sn35.136:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sadevakassa lokassa,\nete vo sukhasammatā;\nYattha cete nirujjhanti,\ntaṁ tesaṁ dukkhasammataṁ.","en":"For all the world with its gods,\nthis is what they deem happiness.\nAnd where they cease\nis deemed as suffering for them."}},{"id":"sn35.136:4","sourceIds":["sn35.136:4.1","sn35.136:4.2","sn35.136:4.3","sn35.136:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sukhaṁ diṭṭhamariyebhi,\nsakkāyassa nirodhanaṁ;\nPaccanīkamidaṁ hoti,\nsabbalokena passataṁ.","en":"The noble ones have seen that happiness\nis the cessation of substantial reality.\nThis insight by those who see\ncontradicts the whole world."}},{"id":"sn35.136:5","sourceIds":["sn35.136:5.1","sn35.136:5.2","sn35.136:5.3","sn35.136:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yaṁ pare sukhato āhu,\ntadariyā āhu dukkhato;\nYaṁ pare dukkhato āhu,\ntadariyā sukhato vidū.","en":"What others say is happiness\nthe noble ones say is suffering.\nWhat others say is suffering\nthe noble ones know as happiness."}},{"id":"sn35.136:6","sourceIds":["sn35.136:6.1","sn35.136:6.2","sn35.136:6.3","sn35.136:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Passa dhammaṁ durājānaṁ,\nsammūḷhettha aviddasu;\nNivutānaṁ tamo hoti,\nandhakāro apassataṁ.","en":"See, this teaching is hard to understand,\nit confuses the ignorant.\nThere is darkness for the shrouded;\nblackness for those who don’t see."}},{"id":"sn35.136:7","sourceIds":["sn35.136:7.1","sn35.136:7.2","sn35.136:7.3","sn35.136:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Satañca vivaṭaṁ hoti,\nāloko passatāmiva;\nSantike na vijānanti,\nmaggā dhammassa akovidā.","en":"But the good are open;\nlike light for those who see.\nThough close, they do not understand,\nthe seekers inexpert in the teaching."}},{"id":"sn35.136:8","sourceIds":["sn35.136:8.1","sn35.136:8.2","sn35.136:8.3","sn35.136:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bhavarāgaparetebhi,\nbhavarāgānusārībhi;\nMāradheyyānupannehi,\nnāyaṁ dhammo susambudho.","en":"They’re mired in desire for continued existence,\nflowing along the stream of lives,\nmired in Māra’s dominion:\nthis teaching isn’t easy for them to understand."}},{"id":"sn35.136:9","sourceIds":["sn35.136:9.1","sn35.136:9.2","sn35.136:9.3","sn35.136:9.4","sn35.136:9.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ko nu aññatra mariyebhi,\nPadaṁ sambuddhumarahati;\nYaṁ padaṁ sammadaññāya,\nParinibbanti anāsavā”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"Who, apart from the noble ones,\nis qualified to understand this state?\nHaving rightly understood this state,\nthe undefiled are fully extinguished.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.136/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."}