{"id":"sn47.5","title":"A Heap of the Unskillful","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn47.5","title":"A Heap of the Unskillful","units":[{"id":"sn47.5:0","sourceIds":["sn47.5:0.1","sn47.5:0.2","sn47.5:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 47.5\n1. Ambapālivagga\nAkusalarāsisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 47.5\n1. In Ambapālī’s Mango Grove\nA Heap of the Unskillful"}},{"id":"sn47.5:1","sourceIds":["sn47.5:1.1","sn47.5:1.2","sn47.5:1.3","sn47.5:1.4","sn47.5:1.5","sn47.5:1.6","sn47.5:1.7","sn47.5:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nTatra kho bhagavā etadavoca:\n“‘akusalarāsī’ti, bhikkhave, vadamāno pañca nīvaraṇe sammā vadamāno vadeyya.\nKevalo hāyaṁ, bhikkhave, akusalarāsi, yadidaṁ—pañca nīvaraṇā.\nKatame pañca?\nKāmacchandanīvaraṇaṁ, byāpādanīvaraṇaṁ, thinamiddhanīvaraṇaṁ, uddhaccakukkuccanīvaraṇaṁ, vicikicchānīvaraṇaṁ.\n‘Akusalarāsī’ti, bhikkhave, vadamāno ime pañca nīvaraṇe sammā vadamāno vadeyya.\nKevalo hāyaṁ, bhikkhave, akusalarāsi, yadidaṁ—pañca nīvaraṇā.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThere the Buddha said:\n“Rightly speaking, mendicants, you’d call the five hindrances a ‘heap of the unskillful’.\nFor these five hindrances are entirely a heap of the unskillful.\nWhat five?\nThe hindrances of sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt.\nRightly speaking, you’d call these five hindrances a ‘heap of the unskillful’.\nFor these five hindrances are entirely a heap of the unskillful."}},{"id":"sn47.5:2","sourceIds":["sn47.5:2.1","sn47.5:2.2","sn47.5:2.3","sn47.5:2.4","sn47.5:2.5","sn47.5:2.6","sn47.5:2.7","sn47.5:2.8","sn47.5:2.9","sn47.5:2.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Kusalarāsī’ti, bhikkhave, vadamāno cattāro satipaṭṭhāne sammā vadamāno vadeyya.\nKevalo hāyaṁ, bhikkhave, kusalarāsi, yadidaṁ—cattāro satipaṭṭhānā.\nKatame cattāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kāye kāyānupassī viharati ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ;\nvedanāsu …pe…\ncitte …pe…\ndhammesu dhammānupassī viharati ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ.\n‘Kusalarāsī’ti, bhikkhave, vadamāno ime cattāro satipaṭṭhāne sammā vadamāno vadeyya.\nKevalo hāyaṁ, bhikkhave, kusalarāsi, yadidaṁ—cattāro satipaṭṭhānā”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"Rightly speaking, you’d call these four kinds of mindfulness meditation a ‘heap of the skillful’.\nFor these four kinds of mindfulness meditation are entirely a heap of the skillful.\nWhat four?\nIt’s when a mendicant meditates by observing an aspect of the body—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.\nThey meditate observing an aspect of feelings …\nThey meditate observing an aspect of the mind …\nThey meditate observing an aspect of principles—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.\nRightly speaking, you’d call these four kinds of mindfulness meditation a ‘heap of the skillful’.\nFor these four kinds of mindfulness meditation are entirely a heap of the skillful.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn47.5/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."}