AN 3.118 · Khotbah Dadu yang Pasti

Kenali dunia dalam sutta ini

Sutta ini menyajikan ajaran yang lugas dan terstruktur tentang hukum karma dan akibatnya. Mari kita simak bagaimana Sang Buddha merinci tiga kegagalan dan tiga pencapaian, serta perumpamaan dadu yang digunakan untuk menegaskan kepastian hukum sebab-akibat ini.

TOKOH & TEMPAT

Sinopsis singkat

Dalam khotbah ini, Sang Buddha mengajarkan kepada para bhikkhu tentang tiga kegagalan dan tiga pencapaian. Kegagalan dalam moralitas, pikiran, dan pandangan akan membawa makhluk menuju alam kehilangan, sedangkan pencapaian dalam ketiga hal tersebut akan membawa mereka menuju alam surga. Perumpamaan dadu yang pasti digunakan untuk menggambarkan kepastian akibat dari perbuatan tersebut.

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BAGIAN 4

an3.118:4.1 And what is failure in view?

an3.118:4.2 It’s when someone has wrong view, a distorted perspective, such as:

an3.118:4.3 ‘There’s no meaning in giving, sacrifice, or offerings. There’s no fruit or result of good and bad deeds. There’s no afterlife. There’s no such thing as mother and father, or beings that are reborn spontaneously. And there’s no ascetic or brahmin who is rightly comported and rightly practiced, and who describes the afterlife after realizing it with their own insight.’

an3.118:4.4 This is called ‘failure in view’.

an3.118:4.5 Some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell because of failure in ethics, mind, or view.

an3.118:4.6 It’s like throwing sure-bet dice: they always fall the right side up.

an3.118:4.7 In the same way, some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell because of failure in ethics, mind, or view.

an3.118:4.8 These are the three failures.