{"id":"snp5.3","title":"The Questions of Tissametteyya","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp5.3","title":"The Questions of Tissametteyya","units":[{"id":"snp5.3:0","sourceIds":["snp5.3:0.1","snp5.3:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 5.3\nTissametteyyamāṇavapucchā","en":"Anthology of Discourses 5.3\nThe Questions of Tissametteyya"}},{"id":"snp5.3:1","sourceIds":["snp5.3:1.1","snp5.3:1.2","snp5.3:1.3","snp5.3:1.4","snp5.3:1.5","snp5.3:1.6","snp5.3:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kodha santusito loke,\n(iccāyasmā tissametteyyo)\nKassa no santi iñjitā;\nKo ubhantamabhiññāya,\nMajjhe mantā na lippati;\nKaṁ brūsi mahāpurisoti,\nKo idha sibbinimaccagā”.","en":"“Who here in the world is content?”\nsaid Venerable Tissametteyya.\n“Who has no perturbations?\nWhat thoughtful one, knowing both ends,\nis not stuck in the middle?\nWho do they say is a great man?\nWho here has escaped the seamstress?”"}},{"id":"snp5.3:2","sourceIds":["snp5.3:2.1","snp5.3:2.2","snp5.3:2.3","snp5.3:2.4","snp5.3:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kāmesu brahmacariyavā,\n(metteyyāti bhagavā)\nVītataṇho sadā sato;\nSaṅkhāya nibbuto bhikkhu,\nTassa no santi iñjitā.","en":"“Leading the spiritual life among sensual pleasures,”\nreplied the Buddha,\n“rid of craving, ever mindful;\na mendicant who, after appraisal, is quenched:\nthat’s who has no perturbations."}},{"id":"snp5.3:3","sourceIds":["snp5.3:3.1","snp5.3:3.2","snp5.3:3.3","snp5.3:3.4","snp5.3:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"So ubhantamabhiññāya,\nMajjhe mantā na lippati;\nTaṁ brūmi mahāpurisoti,\nSo idha sibbinimaccagā”ti.\nTissametteyyamāṇavapucchā dutiyā.","en":"That thoughtful one, knowing both ends,\nis not stuck in the middle.\nHe is a great man, I declare;\nhe has escaped the seamstress here.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.3/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."}