{"id":"sn49.1-12","title":"Sloping East, Etc.","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn49.1-12","title":"Sloping East, Etc.","units":[{"id":"sn49.1-12:0","sourceIds":["sn49.1-12:0.1","sn49.1-12:0.2","sn49.1-12:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 49.1–12\n1. Gaṅgāpeyyālavagga\nPācīnādisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 49.1–12\n1. Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges\nSloping East, Etc."}},{"id":"sn49.1-12:1","sourceIds":["sn49.1-12:1.1","sn49.1-12:1.2","sn49.1-12:1.3","sn49.1-12:1.4","sn49.1-12:1.5","sn49.1-12:1.6","sn49.1-12:1.7","sn49.1-12:1.8","sn49.1-12:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nTatra kho bhagavā etadavoca:\n“cattārome, bhikkhave, sammappadhānā.\nKatame cattāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu anuppannānaṁ pāpakānaṁ akusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ anuppādāya chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.\nUppannānaṁ pāpakānaṁ akusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ pahānāya chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.\nAnuppannānaṁ kusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ uppādāya chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.\nUppannānaṁ kusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ ṭhitiyā asammosāya bhiyyobhāvāya vepullāya bhāvanāya pāripūriyā chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro sammappadhānāti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThere the Buddha said:\n“Mendicants, there are these four right efforts.\nWhat four?\nIt’s when a mendicant generates enthusiasm, tries, makes an effort, exerts the mind, and strives so that bad, unskillful qualities don’t arise.\nThey generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that bad, unskillful qualities that have arisen are given up.\nThey generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that skillful qualities arise.\nThey generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are fully developed.\nThese are the four right efforts."}},{"id":"sn49.1-12:2","sourceIds":["sn49.1-12:2.1","sn49.1-12:2.2","sn49.1-12:2.3","sn49.1-12:2.4","sn49.1-12:2.5","sn49.1-12:2.6","sn49.1-12:2.7","sn49.1-12:2.8","sn49.1-12:2.9","sn49.1-12:2.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gaṅgā nadī pācīnaninnā pācīnapoṇā pācīnapabbhārā;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu cattāro sammappadhāne bhāvento cattāro sammappadhāne bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro.\nKathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu cattāro sammappadhāne bhāvento cattāro sammappadhāne bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu anuppannānaṁ pāpakānaṁ akusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ anuppādāya chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.\nUppannānaṁ pāpakānaṁ akusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ pahānāya chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.\nAnuppannānaṁ kusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ uppādāya chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.\nUppannānaṁ kusalānaṁ dhammānaṁ ṭhitiyā asammosāya bhiyyobhāvāya vepullāya bhāvanāya pāripūriyā chandaṁ janeti vāyamati vīriyaṁ ārabhati cittaṁ paggaṇhāti padahati.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu cattāro sammappadhāne bhāvento cattāro sammappadhāne bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro”ti.\nDvādasamaṁ.\nGaṅgāpeyyālavaggo paṭhamo.","en":"The Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east.\nIn the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the four right efforts slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.\nAnd how does a mendicant who develops the four right efforts slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment?\nThey generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that bad, unskillful qualities don’t arise.\nThey generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that bad, unskillful qualities that have arisen are given up.\nThey generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that skillful qualities arise.\nThey generate enthusiasm, try, make an effort, exert the mind, and strive so that skillful qualities that have arisen remain, are not lost, but increase, mature, and are fully developed.\nThat’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the four right efforts slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”"}},{"id":"sn49.1-12:3","sourceIds":["sn49.1-12:3.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"(Sammappadhānasaṁyuttassa gaṅgāpeyyālī sammappadhānavasena vitthāretabbā.)","en":"(Tell in full as in SN 45.92–102.)"}},{"id":"sn49.1-12:4","sourceIds":["sn49.1-12:4.0","sn49.1-12:4.1","sn49.1-12:4.2","sn49.1-12:4.3","sn49.1-12:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nCha pācīnato ninnā,\ncha ninnā ca samuddato;\nDvete cha dvādasa honti,\nvaggo tena pavuccatīti.","en":"Six on slanting to the east,\nand six on slanting to the ocean;\nthese two sixes make twelve,\nand that’s how this chapter is recited."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn49.1-12/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."}