{"id":"sn56.35","title":"A Hundred Spears","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.35","title":"A Hundred Spears","units":[{"id":"sn56.35:0","sourceIds":["sn56.35:0.1","sn56.35:0.2","sn56.35:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.35\n4. Sīsapāvanavagga\nSattisatasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.35\n4. In a Rosewood Forest\nA Hundred Spears"}},{"id":"sn56.35:1","sourceIds":["sn56.35:1.1","sn56.35:1.2","sn56.35:1.3","sn56.35:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, puriso vassasatāyuko vassasatajīvī.\nTamenaṁ evaṁ vadeyya:\n‘ehambho purisa, pubbaṇhasamayaṁ taṁ sattisatena hanissanti, majjhanhikasamayaṁ sattisatena hanissanti, sāyanhasamayaṁ sattisatena hanissanti.\nSo kho tvaṁ, ambho purisa, divase divase tīhi tīhi sattisatehi haññamāno vassasatāyuko vassasatajīvī vassasatassa accayena anabhisametāni cattāri ariyasaccāni abhisamessasī’ti.","en":"“Mendicants, suppose there was a man with a lifespan of a hundred years.\nAnd someone might say to him:\n‘Come now, my man, they’ll strike you with a hundred spears in the morning, at midday, and in the late afternoon.\nAnd you’ll live for a hundred years being struck with three hundred spears every day. But when a hundred years have passed, you will comprehend the four noble truths for the first time.’"}},{"id":"sn56.35:2","sourceIds":["sn56.35:2.1","sn56.35:2.2","sn56.35:2.3","sn56.35:2.4","sn56.35:2.5","sn56.35:2.6","sn56.35:2.7","sn56.35:2.8","sn56.35:2.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atthavasikena, bhikkhave, kulaputtena alaṁ upagantuṁ.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nAnamataggoyaṁ, bhikkhave, saṁsāro;\npubbā koṭi nappaññāyati sattippahārānaṁ asippahārānaṁ usuppahārānaṁ pharasuppahārānaṁ.\nEvañcetaṁ, bhikkhave, assa.\nNa kho panāhaṁ, bhikkhave, saha dukkhena, saha domanassena catunnaṁ ariyasaccānaṁ abhisamayaṁ vadāmi;\napi cāhaṁ, bhikkhave, sahāva sukhena, sahāva somanassena catunnaṁ ariyasaccānaṁ abhisamayaṁ vadāmi.\nKatamesaṁ catunnaṁ?\nDukkhassa ariyasaccassa …pe… dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ariyasaccassa.","en":"For an earnest gentleman this is sufficient reason to submit.\nWhy is that?\nThis transmigration has no known beginning.\nNo first point is found of blows by spears, swords, arrows, and axes.\nNow this may be so.\nBut the comprehension of the four noble truths doesn’t come with pain or sadness, I say.\nRather, the comprehension of the four noble truths comes only with pleasure and happiness, I say.\nWhat four?\nThe noble truths of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path."}},{"id":"sn56.35:3","sourceIds":["sn56.35:3.1","sn56.35:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"That’s why you should practice meditation …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn56.35/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."}