{"id":"sn56.33","title":"A Stick","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.33","title":"A Stick","units":[{"id":"sn56.33:0","sourceIds":["sn56.33:0.1","sn56.33:0.2","sn56.33:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.33\n4. Sīsapāvanavagga\nDaṇḍasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.33\n4. In a Rosewood Forest\nA Stick"}},{"id":"sn56.33:1","sourceIds":["sn56.33:1.1","sn56.33:1.2","sn56.33:1.3","sn56.33:1.4","sn56.33:1.5","sn56.33:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, daṇḍo uparivehāsaṁ khitto sakimpi mūlena nipatati, sakimpi aggena nipatati;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, avijjānīvaraṇā sattā taṇhāsaṁyojanā sandhāvantā saṁsarantā sakimpi asmā lokā paraṁ lokaṁ gacchanti, sakimpi parasmā lokā imaṁ lokaṁ āgacchanti.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nAdiṭṭhattā, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ ariyasaccānaṁ.\nKatamesaṁ catunnaṁ?\nDukkhassa ariyasaccassa …pe… dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ariyasaccassa.","en":"“Mendicants, suppose a stick was tossed up in the air. Sometimes it’d fall on its bottom and sometimes the top.\nIt’s the same for sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving. Sometimes they go from this world to the other world, and sometimes they come from the other world to this world.\nWhy is that?\nIt’s because they haven’t seen the four noble truths.\nWhat four?\nThe noble truths of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path."}},{"id":"sn56.33:2","sourceIds":["sn56.33:2.1","sn56.33:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"That’s why you should practice meditation …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.33/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."}