{"id":"snp4.7","title":"With Tissametteyya","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp4.7","title":"With Tissametteyya","units":[{"id":"snp4.7:0","sourceIds":["snp4.7:0.1","snp4.7:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 4.7\nTissametteyyasutta","en":"Anthology of Discourses 4.7\nWith Tissametteyya"}},{"id":"snp4.7:1","sourceIds":["snp4.7:1.1","snp4.7:1.2","snp4.7:1.3","snp4.7:1.4","snp4.7:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Methunamanuyuttassa,\n(iccāyasmā tisso metteyyo)\nVighātaṁ brūhi mārisa;\nSutvāna tava sāsanaṁ,\nViveke sikkhissāmase”.","en":"“When someone indulges in sex,”\nsaid Venerable Tissametteyya,\n“tell us, good fellow: what trouble befalls them?\nAfter hearing your instruction,\nwe shall train in seclusion.”"}},{"id":"snp4.7:2","sourceIds":["snp4.7:2.1","snp4.7:2.2","snp4.7:2.3","snp4.7:2.4","snp4.7:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Methunamanuyuttassa,\n(metteyyāti bhagavā)\nMussate vāpi sāsanaṁ;\nMicchā ca paṭipajjati,\nEtaṁ tasmiṁ anāriyaṁ.","en":"“When someone indulges in sex,”\nreplied the Buddha,\n“they forget their instructions\nand go the wrong way—\nthat is something ignoble in them."}},{"id":"snp4.7:3","sourceIds":["snp4.7:3.1","snp4.7:3.2","snp4.7:3.3","snp4.7:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Eko pubbe caritvāna,\nmethunaṁ yo nisevati;\nYānaṁ bhantaṁva taṁ loke,\nhīnamāhu puthujjanaṁ.","en":"Someone who formerly lived alone\nand then resorts to sex\nis like a chariot careening off-track;\nin the world they call them a low, ordinary person."}},{"id":"snp4.7:4","sourceIds":["snp4.7:4.1","snp4.7:4.2","snp4.7:4.3","snp4.7:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yaso kitti ca yā pubbe,\nhāyate vāpi tassa sā;\nEtampi disvā sikkhetha,\nmethunaṁ vippahātave.","en":"Their former fame and reputation\nalso fall away.\nSeeing this, they’d train\nto give up sex."}},{"id":"snp4.7:5","sourceIds":["snp4.7:5.1","snp4.7:5.2","snp4.7:5.3","snp4.7:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṅkappehi pareto so,\nkapaṇo viya jhāyati;\nSutvā paresaṁ nigghosaṁ,\nmaṅku hoti tathāvidho.","en":"Oppressed by thoughts,\nthey brood like a wretch.\nWhen they hear what others are saying,\nthat sort is embarrassed."}},{"id":"snp4.7:6","sourceIds":["snp4.7:6.1","snp4.7:6.2","snp4.7:6.3","snp4.7:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha satthāni kurute,\nparavādehi codito;\nEsa khvassa mahāgedho,\nmosavajjaṁ pagāhati.","en":"Then they lash out with verbal daggers\nwhen reproached by others.\nThis is their great blind spot;\nthey sink to lies."}},{"id":"snp4.7:7","sourceIds":["snp4.7:7.1","snp4.7:7.2","snp4.7:7.3","snp4.7:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Paṇḍitoti samaññāto,\nekacariyaṁ adhiṭṭhito;\nAthāpi methune yutto,\nmandova parikissati.","en":"They once were considered astute,\ncommitted to the solitary life.\nBut then they indulged in sex,\ndragged along by desire like a dullard."}},{"id":"snp4.7:8","sourceIds":["snp4.7:8.1","snp4.7:8.2","snp4.7:8.3","snp4.7:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Etamādīnavaṁ ñatvā,\nMuni pubbāpare idha;\nEkacariyaṁ daḷhaṁ kayirā,\nNa nisevetha methunaṁ.","en":"Knowing this danger\nin falling from a former state here,\na sage would firmly resolve to wander alone,\nand would not resort to sex."}},{"id":"snp4.7:9","sourceIds":["snp4.7:9.1","snp4.7:9.2","snp4.7:9.3","snp4.7:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vivekaññeva sikkhetha,\netaṁ ariyānamuttamaṁ;\nNa tena seṭṭho maññetha,\nsa ve nibbānasantike.","en":"They’d train themselves only in seclusion;\nthis, for the noble ones, is highest.\nOne who’d not think themselves ‘best’ due to that\nhas truly drawn near to extinguishment."}},{"id":"snp4.7:10","sourceIds":["snp4.7:10.1","snp4.7:10.2","snp4.7:10.3","snp4.7:10.4","snp4.7:10.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Rittassa munino carato,\nKāmesu anapekkhino;\nOghatiṇṇassa pihayanti,\nKāmesu gadhitā pajā”ti.\nTissametteyyasuttaṁ sattamaṁ.","en":"People tied to sensual pleasures envy them:\nthe isolated, wandering sage\nwho has crossed the flood,\nunconcerned for sensual pleasures.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp4.7/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."}