Attadanda Sutta
The Training
“Violence breeds misery; look at people quarreling.
I will relate the emotion agitating me.”
“Having seen people struggling and contending with
each other like fish in a small amount of water,
fear entered me.”
“The world is everywhere insecure, every direction
is in turmoil;
desiring an abode for myself I did not find one uninhabited.”
“When I saw contention as the sole outcome,
aversion increased in me.”
“Then I saw an arrow here, difficult to see, set in
the heart. Pierced by it, one runs in every direction,
but having pulled it
out, one does not run nor does one sink.”
Here follows the rule of training:
“Whatever are worldly fetters, may you not be bound
by them! Completely break down sensual desires and practice so as to realize
Nibbána for oneself!”
“A sage should be truthful, not arrogant, not
deceitful, not given to slandering others,
and should be without anger.”
“One should remove the evil of attachment and
wrongly directed longing;
one should conquer drowsiness, lassitude and sloth,
and not dwell in indolence.”
“One whose mind is set on Nibbána should not be
arrogant.”
“One should not lapse into untruth nor generate
love for sense objects. “
“One should thoroughly understand the nature of
conceit and abstain from violence. “
“One should not delight in what is past, nor be
fond of what is new, nor sorrow for what is disappearing, nor crave for the
attractive.”
“Greed, I say, is a great flood; it is a whirlpool
sucking one down, a constant yearning, seeking a hold, continually in movement;
difficult to cross is the morass of sensual desire. “
“A sage does not deviate from truth, a brahmana
stands on firm ground; renouncing all,
one is truly called calmed.”
“Having actually experienced and understood the
Dhamma one has realized the highest knowledge
and is independent.”
“One should comport oneself correctly in the world
and do not envy anyone here.”
“One who has left behind sensual pleasures, an
attachment difficult to leave behind,
does not grieve nor have any longing; has
cut across the stream and is unfettered.”
“Dry out that which is past, let there be nothing
for you in the future.”
“If one does not grasp at anything in the present one
will go about at peace.”
“One who, in regard to this entire mind-body
complex, has no cherishing of it as ‘mine’,
and who does not grieve for what is
non-existent truly suffers no loss in the world.”
“For when there is no thought of anything as 'this
is mine' or 'this is another's;
not finding any state of ownership, and
realizing 'nothing is mine', one does not grieve.”
“To be not callous, not greedy, at rest and
unruffled by circumstances,
that is the profitable result I proclaim when asked
about one who does not waver.”
“For one who does not crave, who has understanding,
there is no production of new kamma.”
“Refraining from initiating new kamma one sees
security everywhere.”
“A sage does not speak in terms of being equal,
lower or higher.”
“Calmed and without selfishness one neither grasps
nor rejects.”
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