{"id":"sn35.228","title":"The Ocean (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.228","title":"The Ocean (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn35.228:0","sourceIds":["sn35.228:0.1","sn35.228:0.2","sn35.228:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.228\n18. Samuddavagga\nPaṭhamasamuddasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.228\n18. The Ocean\nThe Ocean (1st)"}},{"id":"sn35.228:1","sourceIds":["sn35.228:1.1","sn35.228:1.2","sn35.228:1.3","sn35.228:1.4","sn35.228:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“‘Samuddo, samuddo’ti, bhikkhave, assutavā puthujjano bhāsati.\nNeso, bhikkhave, ariyassa vinaye samuddo.\nMahā eso, bhikkhave, udakarāsi mahāudakaṇṇavo.\nCakkhu, bhikkhave, purisassa samuddo;\ntassa rūpamayo vego.","en":"“Mendicants, an unlearned ordinary person speaks of the ocean.\nBut that’s not the ocean in the training of the Noble One.\nThat’s just a large body of water, a large sea of water.\nFor a person, the eye is an ocean,\nand its currents are made of sights."}},{"id":"sn35.228:2","sourceIds":["sn35.228:2.1","sn35.228:2.2","sn35.228:2.3","sn35.228:2.4","sn35.228:2.5","sn35.228:2.6","sn35.228:2.7","sn35.228:2.8","sn35.228:2.9","sn35.228:2.10","sn35.228:2.11","sn35.228:2.12"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo taṁ rūpamayaṁ vegaṁ sahati, ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, atari cakkhusamuddaṁ saūmiṁ sāvaṭṭaṁ sagāhaṁ sarakkhasaṁ;\ntiṇṇo pāraṅgato thale tiṭṭhati brāhmaṇo …pe…\njivhā, bhikkhave, purisassa samuddo;\ntassa rasamayo vego.\nYo taṁ rasamayaṁ vegaṁ sahati, ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, atari jivhāsamuddaṁ saūmiṁ sāvaṭṭaṁ sagāhaṁ sarakkhasaṁ;\ntiṇṇo pāraṅgato thale tiṭṭhati brāhmaṇo …pe…\nmano, bhikkhave, purisassa samuddo;\ntassa dhammamayo vego.\nYo taṁ dhammamayaṁ vegaṁ sahati, ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, atari manosamuddaṁ saūmiṁ sāvaṭṭaṁ sagāhaṁ sarakkhasaṁ;\ntiṇṇo pāraṅgato thale tiṭṭhati brāhmaṇo”ti.\nIdamavoca …pe…\nsatthā:","en":"Someone who can prevail over those currents is said to have crossed over the ocean of the eye, with its waves and whirlpools, its saltwater crocodiles and monsters.\nCrossed over, gone to the far shore, the brahmin stands on solid ground.\nFor a person, the ear … nose … tongue … body …\nmind is an ocean,\nand its currents are made of ideas.\nSomeone who can prevail over those currents is said to have crossed over the ocean of the mind, with its waves and whirlpools, its saltwater crocodiles and monsters.\nCrossed over, gone to the far shore, the brahmin stands on solid ground.”\nThat is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn35.228:3","sourceIds":["sn35.228:3.1","sn35.228:3.2","sn35.228:3.3","sn35.228:3.4","sn35.228:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yo imaṁ samuddaṁ sagāhaṁ sarakkhasaṁ,\nSaūmiṁ sāvaṭṭaṁ sabhayaṁ duttaraṁ accatari;\nSa vedagū vusitabrahmacariyo,\nLokantagū pāragatoti vuccatī”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"“A knowledge master who’s crossed the ocean so hard to cross,\nwith its saltwater crocodiles and monsters, its waves, whirlpools, and dangers;\nthey’ve completed the spiritual journey and gone to the end of the world,\nthey’re called ‘one who has gone beyond’.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.228/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."}