Saṃyutta Nikāya
II. Nidāna Vagga
15. Anamat'agga-Saṃyuttaṃ
II. Dutiya Vagga

Sutta 11

Duggata Suttaṃ

Fallen on Hard Times

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
Proofed against and modified in accordance with the revised edition at dhammatalks.org
Provenance, terms and conditons

 

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[1][pts][bodh][olds] Near Sāvatthi.

[2][pts][bodh][olds] There the Blessed One said:

[3][pts][bodh][olds] "From an inconceivable beginning comes the wandering-on.

A beginning point is not discernible, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating and wandering on.

[4][pts][bodh][olds] When you see someone who has fallen on hard times, overwhelmed with hard times, you should conclude:

'We, too, have experienced just this sort of thing in the course of that long, long time.'

[5][pts][bodh][olds] "Why is that?

From an inconceivable beginning comes the wandering-on.

A beginning point is not discernible, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating and wandering on.

[6][pts][bodh][olds] Long have you thus experienced stress, experienced pain, experienced loss, swelling the cemeteries — enough to become disenchanted with all fabricated things, enough to become dispassionate, enough to be released."