Buddhism · Sutta Pitaka · Numbered Discourses (Aṅguttara)
AN 6.15
Regret · Anutappiyasutta
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There Sāriputta addressed the mendicants: “As a mendicant makes their bed, so they must lie in it, and die tormented by regrets. And how do they die tormented by regrets?
Take a mendicant who relishes work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They love these things and like to relish them. A mendicant who makes their bed like this must lie in it, and die tormented by regrets. This is called a mendicant who enjoys substantial reality, who hasn’t given up substantial reality to rightly make an end of suffering.
Take a mendicant who doesn’t relish work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They don’t love these things or like to relish them. A mendicant who makes their bed like this must lie in it, and die free of regrets. This is called a mendicant who delights in extinguishment, who has given up substantial reality to rightly make an end of suffering.
Idhāvuso, bhikkhu na kammārāmo hoti na kammarato na kammārāmataṁ anuyutto, na bhassārāmo hoti … na niddārāmo hoti … na saṅgaṇikārāmo hoti … na saṁsaggārāmo hoti … na papañcārāmo hoti na papañcarato na papañcārāmataṁ anuyutto. Evaṁ kho, āvuso, bhikkhu tathā tathā vihāraṁ kappeti yathā yathāssa vihāraṁ kappayato kālakiriyā ananutappā hoti. Ayaṁ vuccatāvuso: ‘bhikkhu nibbānābhirato pajahāsi sakkāyaṁ sammā dukkhassa antakiriyāyā’ti.
A beast who likes to proliferate, enjoying proliferation, fails to win extinguishment, the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.
Yo papañcamanuyutto, papañcābhirato mago; Virādhayī so nibbānaṁ, yogakkhemaṁ anuttaraṁ.
But one who gives up proliferation, enjoying the state of non-proliferation, wins extinguishment, the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.”
Yo ca papañcaṁ hitvāna, nippapañcapade rato; Ārādhayī so nibbānaṁ, yogakkhemaṁ anuttaran”ti. Pañcamaṁ.
