AN 4.87 · Sutta tentang Putra

Kenali dunia dalam sutta ini

Sutta ini mengajak kita merenungkan tingkatan-tingkatan kemajuan spiritual, dari yang masih berlatih hingga yang telah mencapai kesempurnaan. Perhatikan bagaimana Sang Buddha menggunakan perumpamaan dan kualitas hidup sehari-hari untuk menggambarkan pencapaian batin yang mendalam.

TOKOH & TEMPAT

Sinopsis singkat

Dalam sutta ini, Sang Buddha membabarkan empat tingkatan pertapa berdasarkan kemajuan spiritual dan kualitas hidup mereka. Dimulai dari pertapa yang teguh—seorang pelajar yang berlatih—hingga pertapa yang lembut di antara para pertapa, yang telah mencapai kebebasan sempurna dan hidup dengan kemudahan dalam segala hal. Sang Buddha menegaskan bahwa diri-Nya sendiri adalah contoh tertinggi dari kategori terakhir.

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BAGIAN 5

an4.87:5.1 And how is an individual a delicate ascetic of ascetics?

an4.87:5.2 It’s when a mendicant usually uses only what they’ve been invited to accept—robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick—rarely using them without invitation.

an4.87:5.3 When living with other spiritual practitioners, they usually find themselves treated agreeably by them by way of body, speech, and mind, and rarely disagreeably.

an4.87:5.4 And they are usually presented with agreeable things by them, rarely with disagreeable ones.

an4.87:5.5 They’re healthy, so the various unpleasant feelings—stemming from disorders of bile, phlegm, wind, or their conjunction; or caused by change in weather, by not taking care of yourself, by exertion, or as the result of past deeds—usually don’t come up.

an4.87:5.6 They get the four absorptions—blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind—when they want, without trouble or difficulty.

an4.87:5.7 And they realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom … in this very life …

an4.87:5.8 That’s how an individual is a delicate ascetic of ascetics.