{"id":"sn35.242","title":"The Simile of the Tree Trunk (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.242","title":"The Simile of the Tree Trunk (2nd)","units":[{"id":"sn35.242:0","sourceIds":["sn35.242:0.1","sn35.242:0.2","sn35.242:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.242\n19. Āsīvisavagga\nDutiyadārukkhandhopamasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.242\n19. The Simile of the Vipers\nThe Simile of the Tree Trunk (2nd)"}},{"id":"sn35.242:1","sourceIds":["sn35.242:1.1","sn35.242:1.2","sn35.242:1.3","sn35.242:1.4","sn35.242:1.5","sn35.242:1.6","sn35.242:1.7","sn35.242:1.8","sn35.242:1.9","sn35.242:1.10","sn35.242:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā kimilāyaṁ viharati gaṅgāya nadiyā tīre.\nAddasā kho bhagavā mahantaṁ dārukkhandhaṁ gaṅgāya nadiyā sotena vuyhamānaṁ.\nDisvāna bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“passatha no tumhe, bhikkhave, amuṁ mahantaṁ dārukkhandhaṁ gaṅgāya nadiyā sotena vuyhamānan”ti?\n“Evaṁ, bhante” …pe…\nevaṁ vutte, āyasmā kimilo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“kiṁ nu kho, bhante, orimaṁ tīraṁ …pe…\n“katamo ca, kimila, antopūtibhāvo.\nIdha, kimila, bhikkhu aññataraṁ saṅkiliṭṭhaṁ āpattiṁ āpanno hoti yathārūpāya āpattiyā na vuṭṭhānaṁ paññāyati.\nAyaṁ vuccati, kimila, antopūtibhāvo”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Kimibilā on the bank of the Ganges River.\nSeeing a large tree trunk being carried along by the current,\nhe addressed the mendicants:\n“Mendicants, do you see that large tree trunk being carried along by the current of the Ganges River?”\n“Yes, sir,” they replied. …\nWhen this was said, Venerable Kimbila said to the Buddha:\n“But sir, what’s the near shore and what’s the far shore? What’s sinking in the middle? What’s getting stranded on high ground? What’s getting taken by humans or non-humans? What’s getting caught up in a whirlpool? And what’s rotting away?” …\n“And what, Kimbila, is rotting away?\nIt’s when a mendicant has committed the kind of corrupt offense for which no rehabilitation is possible.\nThis is called ‘rotting away’.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.242/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."}