{"id":"sn50.1-12","title":"Sloping East, Etc.","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn50.1-12","title":"Sloping East, Etc.","units":[{"id":"sn50.1-12:0","sourceIds":["sn50.1-12:0.1","sn50.1-12:0.2","sn50.1-12:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 50.1–12\n1. Gaṅgāpeyyālavagga\nBalādisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 50.1–12\n1. Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges\nSloping East, Etc."}},{"id":"sn50.1-12:1","sourceIds":["sn50.1-12:1.1","sn50.1-12:1.2","sn50.1-12:1.3","sn50.1-12:1.4","sn50.1-12:1.5","sn50.1-12:1.6","sn50.1-12:1.7","sn50.1-12:1.8","sn50.1-12:1.9","sn50.1-12:1.10","sn50.1-12:1.11","sn50.1-12:1.12","sn50.1-12:1.13","sn50.1-12:1.14","sn50.1-12:1.15"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pañcimāni, bhikkhave, balāni.\nKatamāni pañca?\nSaddhābalaṁ, vīriyabalaṁ, satibalaṁ, samādhibalaṁ, paññābalaṁ—\nimāni kho, bhikkhave, pañca balānīti.\nSeyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gaṅgā nadī pācīnaninnā pācīnapoṇā pācīnapabbhārā;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañca balāni bhāvento pañca balāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro.\nKathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañca balāni bhāvento pañca balāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu saddhābalaṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ,\nvīriyabalaṁ …pe…\nsatibalaṁ …\nsamādhibalaṁ …\npaññābalaṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañca balāni bhāvento pañca balāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro”ti.\nDvādasamaṁ.\nGaṅgāpeyyālavaggo paṭhamo.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these five powers.\nWhat five?\nThe powers of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom.\nThese are the five powers.\nThe Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east.\nIn the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the five powers slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.\nAnd how does a mendicant who develops the five powers slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment?\nIt’s when a mendicant develops the powers of faith,\nenergy,\nmindfulness,\nimmersion,\nand wisdom, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go.\nThat’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the five powers slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”"}},{"id":"sn50.1-12:2","sourceIds":["sn50.1-12:2.0","sn50.1-12:2.1","sn50.1-12:2.2","sn50.1-12:2.3","sn50.1-12:2.4"],"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/sn50.1-12/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."}