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SN45-56

47. Satipaṭṭhānasaṁyutta: On Mindfulness Meditation

III. Ethics and Duration — SN47.30: With Mānadinna

1The same setting.

Now at that time the householder Mānadinna was sick, suffering, gravely ill. Then he addressed a man:

“Please, mister, go to Venerable Ānanda …” …


“Sir, I’m not keeping well, I’m not alright. The pain is terrible and growing, not fading; its growing is evident, not its fading. When I experience such painful feelings I meditate observing an aspect of the body — keen, aware, and mindful, rid of desire and aversion for the world. I meditate observing an aspect of feelings … mind … principles — keen, aware, and mindful, rid of desire and aversion for the world. And of the five lower fetters taught by the Buddha, I don’t see any that I haven’t given up.”


“You’re fortunate, householder, so very fortunate! You have declared the fruit of non-return.”

1Taṁyeva nidānaṁ.

Tena kho pana samayena mānadinno gahapati ābādhiko hoti dukkhito bāḷhagilāno. Atha kho mānadinno gahapati aññataraṁ purisaṁ āmantesi:

"Ehi tvaṁ, ambho purisa … pe …


… Na me, bhante, khamanīyaṁ na yāpanīyaṁ. Bāḷhā me dukkhā vedanā abhikkamanti, no paṭikkamanti; abhikkamosānaṁ paññāyati, no paṭikkamoti. Evarūpāya cāhaṁ, bhante, dukkhāya vedanāya phuṭṭho samāno kāye kāyānupassī viharāmi ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ; vedanāsu … pe … citte … pe … dhammesu dhammānupassī viharāmi ātāpī sampajāno satimā, vineyya loke abhijjhādomanassaṁ. Yāni cimāni, bhante, bhagavatā pañcorambhāgiyāni saṁyojanāni desitāni, nāhaṁ, bhante, tesaṁ kiñci attani appahīnaṁ samanupassāmī"ti.


"Lābhā te, gahapati, suladdhaṁ te, gahapati. Anāgāmiphalaṁ tayā, gahapati, byākatan"ti.

Dasamaṁ.
Sīlaṭṭhitivaggo tatiyo.

2Sīlaṁ ṭhiti parihānaṁ,
suddhaṁ brāhmaṇapadesaṁ;
Samattaṁ loko sirivaḍḍho,
mānadinnena te dasāti.