{"id":"sn56.31","title":"In a Rosewood Forest","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.31","title":"In a Rosewood Forest","units":[{"id":"sn56.31:0","sourceIds":["sn56.31:0.1","sn56.31:0.2","sn56.31:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.31\n4. Sīsapāvanavagga\nSīsapāvanasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.31\n4. In a Rosewood Forest\nIn a Rosewood Forest"}},{"id":"sn56.31:1","sourceIds":["sn56.31:1.1","sn56.31:1.2","sn56.31:1.3","sn56.31:1.4","sn56.31:1.5","sn56.31:1.6","sn56.31:1.7","sn56.31:1.8","sn56.31:1.9","sn56.31:1.10","sn56.31:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā kosambiyaṁ viharati sīsapāvane.\nAtha kho bhagavā parittāni sīsapāpaṇṇāni pāṇinā gahetvā bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“Taṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave,\nkatamaṁ nu kho bahutaraṁ—\nyāni vā mayā parittāni sīsapāpaṇṇāni pāṇinā gahitāni yadidaṁ upari sīsapāvane”ti?\n“Appamattakāni, bhante, bhagavatā parittāni sīsapāpaṇṇāni pāṇinā gahitāni;\natha kho etāneva bahutarāni yadidaṁ upari sīsapāvane”ti.\n“Evameva kho, bhikkhave, etadeva bahutaraṁ yaṁ vo mayā abhiññāya anakkhātaṁ.\nKasmā cetaṁ, bhikkhave, mayā anakkhātaṁ?\nNa hetaṁ, bhikkhave, atthasaṁhitaṁ nādibrahmacariyakaṁ na nibbidāya na virāgāya na nirodhāya na upasamāya na abhiññāya na sambodhāya na nibbānāya saṁvattati;\ntasmā taṁ mayā anakkhātaṁ.","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Kosambī in a rosewood grove.\nThen the Buddha picked up a few rosewood leaves in his hand and addressed the mendicants:\n“What do you think, mendicants?\nWhich is more:\nthe few leaves in my hand, or those in the grove above?”\n“Sir, the few leaves in your hand are a tiny amount.\nThere are far more leaves in the grove above.”\n“In the same way, there is much more that I have directly known but have not explained to you. What I have explained is a tiny amount.\nAnd why haven’t I explained it?\nBecause it’s not beneficial or relevant to the fundamentals of the spiritual life. It doesn’t lead to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.\nThat’s why I haven’t explained it."}},{"id":"sn56.31:2","sourceIds":["sn56.31:2.1","sn56.31:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kiñca, bhikkhave, mayā akkhātaṁ?\n‘Idaṁ dukkhan’ti, bhikkhave, mayā akkhātaṁ, ‘ayaṁ dukkhasamudayo’ti mayā akkhātaṁ, ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodho’ti mayā akkhātaṁ, ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti mayā akkhātaṁ.","en":"And what have I explained?\nI have explained: ‘This is suffering’ … ‘This is the origin of suffering’ … ‘This is the cessation of suffering’ … ‘This is the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering’."}},{"id":"sn56.31:3","sourceIds":["sn56.31:3.1","sn56.31:3.2","sn56.31:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kasmā cetaṁ, bhikkhave, mayā akkhātaṁ?\nEtañhi, bhikkhave, atthasaṁhitaṁ etaṁ ādibrahmacariyakaṁ etaṁ nibbidāya virāgāya nirodhāya upasamāya abhiññāya sambodhāya nibbānāya saṁvattati;\ntasmā taṁ mayā akkhātaṁ.","en":"And why have I explained this?\nBecause it’s beneficial and relevant to the fundamentals of the spiritual life. It leads to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.\nThat’s why I’ve explained it."}},{"id":"sn56.31:4","sourceIds":["sn56.31:4.1","sn56.31:4.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"That’s why you should practice meditation …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.31/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."}