{"id":"sn45.152","title":"Trees","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn45.152","title":"Trees","units":[{"id":"sn45.152:0","sourceIds":["sn45.152:0.1","sn45.152:0.2","sn45.152:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 45.152\n12. Balakaraṇīyavagga\nRukkhasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 45.152\n12. Hard Work\nTrees"}},{"id":"sn45.152:1","sourceIds":["sn45.152:1.1","sn45.152:1.2","sn45.152:1.3","sn45.152:1.4","sn45.152:1.5","sn45.152:1.6","sn45.152:1.7","sn45.152:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, rukkho pācīnaninno pācīnapoṇo pācīnapabbhāro.\nSo mūlacchinno katamena papateyyā”ti?\n“Yena, bhante, ninno yena poṇo yena pabbhāro”ti.\n“Evameva kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bhāvento ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro.\nKathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bhāvento ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sammādiṭṭhiṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ …pe… sammāsamādhiṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ …\nevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bhāvento ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, suppose a tree slants, slopes, and inclines to the east.\nIf it was cut off at the root, where would it fall?”\n“Sir, it would fall in the direction that it slants, slopes, and inclines.”\n“In the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.\nAnd how does a mendicant who develops the noble eightfold path slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment?\nIt’s when a mendicant develops right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go.\nThat’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn45.152/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."}