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Sutta NipÄta 5.3 Sutta NipÄta 5.3Anthology of Discourses 5.3
TissametteyyamÄį¹avapucchÄ Tissa-metteyyaās QuestionsThe Questions of Tissametteyya
āKodha santusito loke, āWho here in the world is contented?āWho here in the world is content?ā
(iccÄyasmÄ tissametteyyo) (Tissa-metteyya)said Venerable Tissametteyya.
Kassa no santi iƱjitÄ; Who has no agitations?āWho has no perturbations?
Ko ubhantamabhiƱƱÄya, What thinker knowing both sides,What thoughtful one, knowing both ends, I take mantÄ as an agent noun in nominative, by analogy with similar phrases such as Snp 2.2:12.4, na lippati diį¹į¹hasutesu dhÄ«ro.
Majjhe mantÄ na lippati; doesnāt adhere in between?is not stuck in the middle?
Kaį¹ brÅ«si mahÄpurisoti, Whom do you call a great person?Who do they say is a great man?
Ko idha sibbinimaccagÄā. Who here has gone past the seamstress?ācraving.āWho here has escaped the seamstress?ā
āKÄmesu brahmacariyavÄ, āHe who in the midst of sensualities, follows the holy life,āLeading the spiritual life among sensual pleasures,ā
(metteyyÄti bhagavÄ) (the Buddha)replied the Buddha,
VÄ«tataį¹ho sadÄ sato; always mindful, craving-free;ārid of craving, ever mindful;
Saį¹
khÄya nibbuto bhikkhu, the monk who is āthrough fathoming thingsā unbound:a mendicant who, after appraisal, is quenched:
Tassa no santi iƱjitÄ. He has no agitations.thatās who has no perturbations.
So ubhantamabhiƱƱÄya, He, the thinker knowing both sides,That thoughtful one, knowing both ends,
Majjhe mantÄ na lippati; doesnāt adhere in between.AN 6:61 records several elders debating what āboth sidesā and āin betweenā mean in this verse, offering six different readings: (a) contact / the arising of contact / the ceasing of contact; (b) past / future / present; (c) pleasant feeling / painful feeling / neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling; (d) name (mental phenomena) / form (physical phenomena) / consciousness; (e) the six internal sense media / the six external sense media / consciousness; (f) self-identity / the arising of self-identity / the ceasing of self-identity. When the elders bring the question to the Buddha, he says all six are well put, but that the first ā contact ā was the one he had in mind. On the ceasing of contact, see also SN 35:117.is not stuck in the middle.
Taį¹ brÅ«mi mahÄpurisoti, He I call a great person.He is a great man, I declare;
So idha sibbinimaccagÄāti. He here has gone past the seamstress: craving.āThe same figure of craving as a seamstress recurs at Thag 14:2.he has escaped the seamstress here.ā
TissametteyyamÄį¹avapucchÄ dutiyÄ. Tissa-metteyyaās Questions, the second.