{"id":"sn47.43","title":"The Path","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn47.43","title":"The Path","units":[{"id":"sn47.43:0","sourceIds":["sn47.43:0.1","sn47.43:0.2","sn47.43:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 47.43\n5. Amatavagga\nMaggasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 47.43\n5. Freedom From Death\nThe Path"}},{"id":"sn47.43:1","sourceIds":["sn47.43:1.1","sn47.43:1.2","sn47.43:1.3","sn47.43:1.4","sn47.43:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nTatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“ekamidāhaṁ, bhikkhave, samayaṁ uruvelāyaṁ viharāmi najjā nerañjarāya tīre ajapālanigrodhe paṭhamābhisambuddho.\nTassa mayhaṁ, bhikkhave, rahogatassa paṭisallīnassa evaṁ cetaso parivitakko udapādi:\n‘ekāyanvāyaṁ maggo sattānaṁ visuddhiyā sokaparidevānaṁ samatikkamāya dukkhadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamāya ñāyassa adhigamāya nibbānassa sacchikiriyāya, yadidaṁ—cattāro satipaṭṭhānā.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThere the Buddha addressed the mendicants:\n“Mendicants, this one time, when I was first awakened, I was staying in Uruvelā at the goatherd’s banyan tree on the bank of the Nerañjarā River.\nAs I was in private retreat this thought came to mind:\n‘The four kinds of mindfulness meditation are the path to convergence. They are in order to purify sentient beings, to get past sorrow and crying, to make an end of pain and sadness, to discover the system, and to realize extinguishment."}},{"id":"sn47.43:2","sourceIds":["sn47.43:2.1","sn47.43:2.2","sn47.43:2.3","sn47.43:2.4","sn47.43:2.5","sn47.43:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katame cattāro?\nKāye vā bhikkhu kāyānupassī vihareyya ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ;\nvedanāsu vā bhikkhu vedanānupassī vihareyya …pe…\ncitte vā bhikkhu cittānupassī vihareyya …pe…\ndhammesu vā bhikkhu dhammānupassī vihareyya ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ.\nEkāyanvāyaṁ maggo sattānaṁ visuddhiyā sokaparidevānaṁ samatikkamāya dukkhadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamāya ñāyassa adhigamāya nibbānassa sacchikiriyāya, yadidaṁ—cattāro satipaṭṭhānā’ti.","en":"What four?\nA mendicant would meditate observing an aspect of the body—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.\nOr they’d meditate observing an aspect of feelings …\nor mind …\nor principles—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.\nThe four kinds of mindfulness meditation are the path to convergence. They are in order to purify sentient beings, to get past sorrow and crying, to make an end of pain and sadness, to discover the system, and to realize extinguishment.’"}},{"id":"sn47.43:3","sourceIds":["sn47.43:3.1","sn47.43:3.2","sn47.43:3.3","sn47.43:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho, bhikkhave, brahmā sahampati mama cetasā cetoparivitakkamaññāya—seyyathāpi nāma balavā puriso samiñjitaṁ vā bāhaṁ pasāreyya, pasāritaṁ vā bāhaṁ samiñjeyya; evameva—brahmaloke antarahito mama purato pāturahosi.\nAtha kho, bhikkhave, brahmā sahampati ekaṁsaṁ uttarāsaṅgaṁ karitvā yenāhaṁ tenañjaliṁ paṇāmetvā maṁ etadavoca:\n‘evametaṁ, bhagavā, evametaṁ, sugata.\nEkāyanvāyaṁ, bhante, maggo sattānaṁ visuddhiyā sokaparidevānaṁ samatikkamāya dukkhadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamāya ñāyassa adhigamāya nibbānassa sacchikiriyāya, yadidaṁ—cattāro satipaṭṭhānā.","en":"And then the divinity Sahampati, knowing my train of thought, as easily as a strong person would extend or contract their arm, vanished from the realm of divinity and reappeared in front of me.\nHe arranged his robe over one shoulder, raised his joined palms toward me, and said:\n‘That’s so true, Blessed One! That’s so true, Holy One!\nSir, the four kinds of mindfulness meditation are the path to convergence. They are in order to purify sentient beings, to get past sorrow and crying, to make an end of pain and sadness, to discover the system, and to realize extinguishment."}},{"id":"sn47.43:4","sourceIds":["sn47.43:4.1","sn47.43:4.2","sn47.43:4.3","sn47.43:4.4","sn47.43:4.5","sn47.43:4.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katame cattāro?\nKāye vā, bhante, bhikkhu kāyānupassī vihareyya ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ;\nvedanāsu vā …pe…\ncitte vā …pe…\ndhammesu vā, bhante, bhikkhu dhammānupassī vihareyya ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ.\nEkāyanvāyaṁ, bhante, maggo sattānaṁ visuddhiyā sokaparidevānaṁ samatikkamāya dukkhadomanassānaṁ atthaṅgamāya ñāyassa adhigamāya nibbānassa sacchikiriyāya, yadidaṁ—cattāro satipaṭṭhānā’ti.","en":"What four?\nA mendicant would meditate observing an aspect of the body—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.\nOr they’d meditate observing an aspect of feelings …\nor mind …\nor principles—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.\nThe four kinds of mindfulness meditation are the path to convergence. They are in order to purify sentient beings, to get past sorrow and crying, to make an end of pain and sadness, to discover the system, and to realize extinguishment.’"}},{"id":"sn47.43:5","sourceIds":["sn47.43:5.1","sn47.43:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca, bhikkhave, brahmā sahampati.\nIdaṁ vatvā athāparaṁ etadavoca:","en":"That is what the divinity Sahampati said.\nThen he went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn47.43:6","sourceIds":["sn47.43:6.1","sn47.43:6.2","sn47.43:6.3","sn47.43:6.4","sn47.43:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Ekāyanaṁ jātikhayantadassī,\nMaggaṁ pajānāti hitānukampī;\nEtena maggena tariṁsu pubbe,\nTarissanti ye ca taranti oghan’”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"‘The compassionate one, who sees the ending of rebirth,\nunderstands the path to convergence.\nBy this path people crossed over before,\nwill cross over, and are crossing over.’”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn47.43/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."}