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The World

Lokasutta

A Dhamma riddle whose answer, enigmatically, is “six”.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.70Linked Discourses 1.70
  • 0.27. Addhavagga7. Overcome

0.3LokasuttaThe World

1.1“Kismiṁ loko samuppanno,“In what has the world arisen?1.2kismiṁ kubbati santhavaṁ;With what does it get intimate?1.3Kissa loko upādāya,By grasping what11.4kismiṁ loko vihaññatī”ti.is the world troubled in what?”

2.1“Chasu loko samuppanno,“The world has arisen in six.22.2chasu kubbati santhavaṁ;It gets intimate with six.2.3Channameva upādāya,Derived from the six,2.4chasu loko vihaññatī”ti.the world’s troubled in six.”

2.5Addhavaggo sattamo.

3.0Tassuddānaṁ

3.1Nāmaṁ cittañca taṇhā ca,3.2saṁyojanañca bandhanā;3.3Abbhāhatuḍḍito pihito,3.4icchā lokena te dasāti.

Translator’s notes

  1. I follow Bodhi’s construal of these lines, see note 126 in Connected Discourses.

    ↩ sn1.70:1.3

  2. The six senses.

    ↩ sn1.70:2.1