Saṁyutta Nikāya 56.33
Translators: sujato
Linked Discourses 56.33
4. Sīsapāvanavagga
4. In a Rosewood Forest
Daṇḍasutta
A Stick
“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, daṇḍo uparivehāsaṁ khitto sakimpi mūlena nipatati, sakimpi aggena nipatati;
“Mendicants, suppose a stick was tossed up in the air. Sometimes it’d fall on its bottom and sometimes the top.
evameva kho, bhikkhave, avijjānīvaraṇā sattā taṇhāsaṁyojanā sandhāvantā saṁsarantā sakimpi asmā lokā paraṁ lokaṁ gacchanti, sakimpi parasmā lokā imaṁ lokaṁ āgacchanti.
It’s the same for sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving. Sometimes they go from this world to the other world, and sometimes they come from the other world to this world.
Taṁ kissa hetu?
Why is that?
Adiṭṭhattā, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ ariyasaccānaṁ.
It’s because they haven’t seen the four noble truths.
Katamesaṁ catunnaṁ?
What four?
Dukkhassa ariyasaccassa …pe… dukkhanirodhagāminiyā paṭipadāya ariyasaccassa.
The noble truths of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.
Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, ‘idaṁ dukkhan’ti yogo karaṇīyo …pe… ‘ayaṁ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yogo karaṇīyo”ti.
That’s why you should practice meditation …”
Tatiyaṁ.