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SN 22.39PTS SN 3.401 min read

In Line With the Teaching

Anudhammasutta

To practice in line with the teachings a mendicant should meditate on disillusionment with the aggregates.

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

  • 0.1Saṁyutta Nikāya 22.39Linked Discourses 22.39
  • 0.24. Natumhākavagga4. It’s Not Yours

0.3AnudhammasuttaIn Line With the Teaching

1.1PTS 3.41Sāvatthinidānaṁ.At Sāvatthī.

1.2“Dhammānudhammappaṭipannassa, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno ayamanudhammo hoti“Mendicants, when a mendicant is practicing in line with the teaching, this is what’s in line with the teaching.1

1.3yaṁ rūpe nibbidābahulo vihareyya, vedanāya nibbidābahulo vihareyya, saññāya nibbidābahulo vihareyya, saṅkhāresu nibbidābahulo vihareyya, viññāṇe nibbidābahulo vihareyya.They should live full of disillusionment for form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness.21.4Yo rūpe nibbidābahulo viharanto, vedanāya … saññāya … saṅkhāresu nibbidābahulo viharanto, viññāṇe nibbidābahulo viharanto rūpaṁ parijānāti, vedanaṁ … saññaṁ … saṅkhāre … viññāṇaṁ parijānāti,Living in this way, they completely understand form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness.1.5so rūpaṁ parijānaṁ, vedanaṁ … saññaṁ … saṅkhāre … viññāṇaṁ parijānaṁ parimuccati rūpamhā, parimuccati vedanāya, parimuccati saññāya, parimuccati saṅkhārehi, parimuccati viññāṇamhā,Completely understanding form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness, they’re freed from these things.1.6parimuccati jātiyā jarāmaraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi, ‘parimuccati dukkhasmā’ti vadāmī”ti.They’re freed from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. They’re freed from suffering, I say.”

1.7Sattamaṁ.

Translator’s notes

  1. See AN 4.97:2.2 and note there.

    ↩ sn22.39:1.2
  2. “Disillusionment” (nibbidā) is the turning away in disappointment upon realizing that one cannot get what one wants (MN 50:31.15, SN 35.240:1.8).

    ↩ sn22.39:1.3