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Snp, part 41Eight on Malice · Duṭṭhaṭṭhakasutta
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Buddhism · Sutta Pitaka · Minor Collection (Khuddaka)
Snp, part 41
Eight on Malice · Duṭṭhaṭṭhakasutta
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Some speak with malicious intent, while others speak set on truth. When disputes come up a sage does not get involved, which is why they’ve no barrenness at all.
Vadanti ve duṭṭhamanāpi eke, Athopi ve saccamanā vadanti; Vādañca jātaṁ muni no upeti, Tasmā munī natthi khilo kuhiñci.
How can you transcend your own view when you’re led by preference, dogmatic in belief? Inventing your own undertakings, you’d speak according to your notion.
Some personages, unasked, tell others of their own precepts and vows. They have an ignoble nature, say those who are skilled, since they speak on themselves of their own accord.
Yo attano sīlavatāni jantu, Anānupuṭṭhova paresa pāva; Anariyadhammaṁ kusalā tamāhu, Yo ātumānaṁ sayameva pāva.
A mendicant, peaceful, quenched, never boasts “thus am I” of their precepts. They have a noble nature, say those who are skilled, who have no pretensions about anything in the world.
For one who formulates and creates teachings, and promotes them despite their defects, if they see an advantage for themselves, they become dependent on that, relying on unstable peace.
It’s not easy to get over dogmatic views adopted after judging among the teachings. That’s why, among all these dogmas, a person ditches one teaching and takes up another.
Diṭṭhīnivesā na hi svātivattā, Dhammesu niccheyya samuggahītaṁ; Tasmā naro tesu nivesanesu, Nirassatī ādiyatī ca dhammaṁ.
The cleansed one has no formulated view at all in the world about the different realms. Having given up illusion and conceit, by what path would they go? They are not involved.
Dhonassa hi natthi kuhiñci loke, Pakappitā diṭṭhi bhavābhavesu; Māyañca mānañca pahāya dhono, Sa kena gaccheyya anūpayo so.
For one who gets involved is embroiled in disputes about teachings— but how to dispute with the uninvolved? About what? For picking up and putting down is not what they do; they have shaken off all views in this very life.
Upayo hi dhammesu upeti vādaṁ, Anūpayaṁ kena kathaṁ vadeyya; Attā nirattā na hi tassa atthi, Adhosi so diṭṭhimidheva sabbanti. Duṭṭhaṭṭhakasuttaṁ tatiyaṁ.
