{"id":"sn56.18","title":"Knowledge","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.18","title":"Knowledge","units":[{"id":"sn56.18:0","sourceIds":["sn56.18:0.1","sn56.18:0.2","sn56.18:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.18\n2. Dhammacakkappavattanavagga\nVijjāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.18\n2. Rolling Forth the Wheel of Dhamma\nKnowledge"}},{"id":"sn56.18:1","sourceIds":["sn56.18:1.1","sn56.18:1.2","sn56.18:1.3","sn56.18:1.4","sn56.18:1.5","sn56.18:1.6","sn56.18:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“‘vijjā, vijjā’ti, bhante, vuccati.\nKatamā nu kho, bhante, vijjā;\nkittāvatā ca vijjāgato hotī”ti?\n“Yaṁ kho, bhikkhu, dukkhe ñāṇaṁ, dukkhasamudaye ñāṇaṁ, dukkhanirodhe ñāṇaṁ, dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ñāṇaṁ—\nayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhu, vijjā;\nettāvatā ca vijjāgato hotīti.","en":"Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:\n“Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘knowledge’.\nWhat is knowledge?\nAnd how is a knowing one defined?”\n“Knowing about suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering.\nThis is called knowledge.\nAnd this is how a knowing one is defined."}},{"id":"sn56.18:2","sourceIds":["sn56.18:2.1","sn56.18:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhu, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"That’s why you should practice meditation …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.18/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."}