AN 6.51 · Khotbah dengan Ānanda

Kenali dunia dalam sutta ini

Sutta ini memperlihatkan bagaimana dua murid utama saling menghormati dan berbagi pemahaman. Perhatikan bagaimana Ānanda, yang dikenal karena ingatannya yang luar biasa, justru menekankan pentingnya interaksi dengan para guru senior dan proses aktif dalam mempelajari serta mengajarkan Dhamma.

TOKOH & TEMPAT

Sinopsis singkat

Yang Mulia Ānanda bertanya kepada Yang Mulia Sāriputta tentang bagaimana seorang bhikkhu dapat mendengar Dhamma yang belum pernah didengar, mengingat apa yang telah didengar, dan memahami apa yang belum dipahami. Atas undangan Sāriputta, Ānanda sendiri menjelaskan enam kualitas yang mencakup mempelajari, mengajarkan, melafalkan, merenungkan Dhamma, serta berdiam di tempat yang memiliki para bhikkhu senior yang terpelajar dan aktif bertanya kepada mereka. Sāriputta memuji jawaban Ānanda dan menegaskan bahwa Ānanda sendiri memiliki keenam kualitas tersebut.

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BAGIAN 3

an6.51:3.1 “Reverend Sāriputta, take a mendicant who memorizes the teaching—

an6.51:3.2 statements, mixed prose & verse, discussions, verses, inspired exclamations, legends, stories of past lives, amazing stories, and elaborations.

an6.51:3.3 Then, just as they learned and memorized it, they teach others in detail, make them recite in detail, they rehearse it themselves in detail, and they think about and consider the teaching in their heart, examining it with the mind.

an6.51:3.4 They enter the rains retreat in a monastery with senior mendicants who are very learned, inheritors of the heritage, who have memorized the teachings, the monastic law, and the outlines.

an6.51:3.5 From time to time they go up to those mendicants and ask them questions:

an6.51:3.6 ‘Why, sir, does it say this? What does that mean?’

an6.51:3.7 Those venerables reveal what is hidden, clarify what is unclear, and dispel doubt regarding the many doubtful matters.

an6.51:3.8 This is how a mendicant gets to hear a teaching they haven’t heard before. It’s how they remember those teachings they have heard. It’s how they keep exercising the teachings with which they are already familiar. And it’s how they come to understand what they haven’t understood before.”