AN 5.104 · Samaṇasukhumālasutta

Kenali dunia dalam sutta ini

Sutta ini menggambarkan cita-cita seorang pertapa yang hidup dengan penuh kehalusan dan kemudahan, baik secara lahiriah maupun batiniah. Mari kita simak bagaimana Sang Buddha merinci kualitas-kualitas tersebut dan mengapa ia menyebut dirinya sebagai contoh utamanya.

TOKOH & TEMPAT

Sinopsis singkat

Dalam sutta ini, Sang Buddha menjelaskan lima kualitas yang menjadikan seorang bhikkhu sebagai 'pertapa yang halus di antara para pertapa': menggunakan kebutuhan hidup hanya ketika diundang, diperlakukan dengan menyenangkan oleh rekan-rekan sepraktik, jarang sakit, mudah mencapai empat jhāna, dan merealisasikan kebebasan dari kekotoran batin. Sang Buddha kemudian menegaskan bahwa dirinya sendiri adalah contoh sempurna dari kualitas-kualitas ini.

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BAGIAN 2

an5.104:2.1 What five?

an5.104:2.2 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.

an5.104:2.3 When living with other spiritual practitioners, they usually find themselves treated agreeably by them by way of body, speech, and mind, and rarely disagreeably.

an5.104:2.4 And they are usually presented with agreeable things by them, rarely with disagreeable ones.

an5.104:2.5 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 themselves, by exertion, or as the result of past deeds—usually don’t come up.

an5.104:2.6 They get the four absorptions—blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind—when they want, without trouble or difficulty.

an5.104:2.7 And they realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.

an5.104:2.8 A mendicant with these five qualities is a delicate ascetic of ascetics.