{"id":"sn56.61","title":"Not Human","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn56.61","title":"Not Human","units":[{"id":"sn56.61:0","sourceIds":["sn56.61:0.1","sn56.61:0.2","sn56.61:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.61\n7. Paṭhamaāmakadhaññapeyyālavagga\nAññatrasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 56.61\n7. Abbreviated Texts on Raw Grain\nNot Human"}},{"id":"sn56.61:1","sourceIds":["sn56.61:1.1","sn56.61:1.2","sn56.61:1.3","sn56.61:1.4","sn56.61:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho bhagavā parittaṁ nakhasikhāyaṁ paṁsuṁ āropetvā bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“Taṁ kiṁ maññatha, bhikkhave,\nkatamaṁ nu kho bahutaraṁ—yo vāyaṁ mayā paritto nakhasikhāyaṁ paṁsu āropito, ayaṁ vā mahāpathavī”ti?\n“Etadeva, bhante, bahutaraṁ, yadidaṁ—mahāpathavī; appamattakāyaṁ bhagavatā paritto nakhasikhāyaṁ paṁsu āropito.\nSaṅkhampi na upeti, upanidhampi na upeti, kalabhāgampi na upeti mahāpathaviṁ upanidhāya bhagavatā paritto nakhasikhāyaṁ paṁsu āropito”ti.","en":"Then the Buddha, picking up a little bit of dirt on his fingernail, addressed the mendicants:\n“What do you think, mendicants?\nWhich is more: the little bit of dirt on my fingernail, or this great earth?”\n“Sir, the great earth is certainly more. The little bit of dirt on your fingernail is tiny.\nCompared to the great earth, it doesn’t count, there’s no comparison, it’s not worth a fraction.”"}},{"id":"sn56.61:2","sourceIds":["sn56.61:2.1","sn56.61:2.2","sn56.61:2.3","sn56.61:2.4","sn56.61:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Evameva kho, bhikkhave, appamattakā te sattā ye manussesu paccājāyanti; atha kho eteva bahutarā sattā ye aññatra manussehi paccājāyanti.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nAdiṭṭhattā, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ ariyasaccānaṁ.\nKatamesaṁ catunnaṁ?\nDukkhassa ariyasaccassa …pe… dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ariyasaccassa.","en":"“In the same way, the sentient beings reborn as humans are few, while those not reborn as humans are many.\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":"sn56.61:3","sourceIds":["sn56.61:3.1","sn56.61:3.2"],"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/sn56.61/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."}