Sammāparibbājanīya Sutta | Sn II-13
13. Sammāparibbājanīya Sutta
Discourse on the Proper Wandering
361. O Buddha, endowed with profuse Knowledge, having traversed the 4 great floods of Saṁsāra, and won the yonder safety; who has stilled all defilements and so stands dauntless against life's vicissitudes,
may I ask of You this question:
How should one, having renounced his home, and the sensuous lay life and become a Bhikkhu, so conduct himself as to be detached from the World? (1)
362. (The Buddha made His reply as follows:)
The Bhikkhu rejects all mundane beliefs and texts, such as auspicious sights, sounds, etc., omens pertaining to natural phenomena and dreams, etc., palmistry and various other forms of divination,
- he is called a person free from the defects concerning auspiciousness.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world and who lives well. (2)
363. The Bhikkhu remains above any care for sensual pleasures, whether human or celestial; he is conscious of the Noble Truth gained by Insight Knowledge, thus disdaining all existence (in all the 3 categories of existence).
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world, and who lives well. (3)
364. The Bhikkhu turns his back on (backbiting) slander; never knowing anger and avarice, (hence) he is unconcerned with pain or pleasure.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world and who lives well. (4)
365. The Bhikkhu rejects any desire for attractive or unattractive things; does not cling to nor depend on any sense-object.
He has freed himself from the (10) fetters, and the sense-objects that lead to them.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world, and who lives well. (5)
366. The Bhikkhu having destroyed all passionate desire for the seizing nature of the 5 aggregates of existence, and having seen the emptiness of the substrata of existence, such as the 5 aggregates, is not dependent on them (through either craving or ignorance).
So he can never be led astray into believing otherwise. His right views having arrived at by own insight, no one needs to tutor him.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world and who lives well. (6)
367. The Bhikkhu, having given up all evil action, either by word or thought or deed, never would oppose (grudge) any meritorious action.
Having perceived the Four Noble Truths, he looks forward to the dissolution of this body, when he would pass away to unlimited (by the 5 aggregates of existence) bliss that is Nibbāna.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from their world and who lives well. (7)
368. The Bhikkhu feels neither vanity for the veneration he receives nor the slightest enmity for any abuse he may suffer.
On the getting of alms-food offered by others he does not feel inflated with pride.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world and who lives well. (8)
369. The Bhikkhu has resisted all greed; so he has no craving for any form of existence.
He refrains from killing or capturing any being. He has passed scepticism about the 3 Gems, and removed the poisonous thorns (darts) of passion from the mind.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world and who lives well. (9)
370. The Bhikkhu keeps well his monastic discipline, perceives correctly the Four Noble Truths, and does not cause the distress to anyone.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world and who lives well. (10)
371. The Bhikkhu has no inclination to any sort of marital corruption, he has also destroyed all the 3 roots of evil, being without craving, he does not wish for existence.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world and who lives well.
372. The Bhikkhu has exhausted all moral taints (āsavas); pride and vanity, there is no trace left in him; for he has understood the way human passions arise, and can steer clear of them, he has the mellowness of an Arahant.
No defilements simmer in his heart so that he is cool and composed, unmoved by any worldly conditions.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world, and who lives well. (12)
373. The Bhikkhu has faith or confidence in the 3 Gems; deep in learning, he has perceived the immutable Noble Truths.
So he does not fool himself in the (62) false doctrines, Divisive and debating amongst themselves forever.
As a truly wise man he has expelled all greed, ill will and unkindness from his heart.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world and who lives well. (13)
374. The Bhikkhu has conquered all defilements of the mind, by the purifying power of the Noble Path; he has thus opened up the shroud of moral darkness (kleśas) having established in the Four Noble Truths, he has traversed the ocean of Saṁsāra to the safe shores of Nibbāna.
Disquieting desires he has depleted. Skilled is he in the knowledge of the Path, that has realized Nibbāna, where all volitional actions (volitions) are stilled.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world and who lives well. (14)
375. The Bhikkhu has relinquished all concepts of a self as regards the 5 aggregates of existence, whether in the past or in the future,
thus having conquered the evils of craving and misconception, he has the purest Knowledge of the Arahant; he has mastered all the senses (Āyatanas), and is no more under their influence.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world, and who lives well. (15)
376. The Bhikkhu has understood the Four Noble Truths each in its true characteristics and acquired, the 4-fold Knowledge in complete comprehension,
thereby realizing Nibbāna in the most satisfactory manner and uprooted all substrata of existence.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world, and who lives well. (16)
377. O Buddha, what you have said are true indeed!
That Bhikkhu who lives such a life as explained by the Buddha is a truly trained person who has passed the (10) fetters and the (4) attachments.
Such a Bhikkhu is one who is detached from the world, and who lives well.
(Thus said the Buddha.) (17)
End of the Thirteenth Sammāparibbājanīya Sutta