AN 8.57 · Sutta tentang Layak Menerima Persembahan (Ke-1)

Kenali dunia dalam sutta ini

Sutta ini memberikan gambaran tentang cita-cita seorang bhikkhu yang sempurna dalam praktik dan pengetahuan. Saat membacanya, perhatikan bagaimana setiap kualitas saling melengkapi, dari moralitas dasar hingga pencapaian tertinggi, dan renungkan bagaimana ajaran ini dapat menginspirasi praktik Anda sendiri.

TOKOH & TEMPAT

Sinopsis singkat

Dalam sutta ini, Sang Buddha menjelaskan delapan kualitas yang membuat seorang bhikkhu layak menerima persembahan, keramahan, dan penghormatan, serta menjadi ladang jasa yang tiada taranya bagi dunia. Kualitas-kualitas tersebut mencakup moralitas, pembelajaran, pertemanan baik, pandangan benar, penguasaan jhāna, ingatan akan kehidupan lampau, mata dewa, dan penghancuran noda-noda. Sutta ini menegaskan pentingnya pengembangan spiritual yang menyeluruh dalam kehidupan monastik.

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BAGIAN 1

an8.57:1.1 “Mendicants, a mendicant with eight qualities is worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods, worthy of hospitality, worthy of a religious donation, worthy of veneration with cupped palms, and is the supreme field of merit for the world.

an8.57:1.2 What eight?

an8.57:1.3 It’s when a mendicant is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.

an8.57:1.4 They’re learned, remembering and keeping what they’ve learned. These teachings are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased, describing a spiritual practice that’s totally full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, reciting them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically.

an8.57:1.5 They have good friends, companions, and associates.

an8.57:1.6 They have right view, possessing right perspective.

an8.57:1.7 They get the four absorptions—blissful meditations in this life that belong to the higher mind—when they want, without trouble or difficulty.

an8.57:1.8 They recollect many kinds of past lives, with features and details.

an8.57:1.9 With clairvoyance that is purified and surpasses the human, they see how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds.

an8.57:1.10 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.

an8.57:1.11 A mendicant with these eight qualities is worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods, worthy of hospitality, worthy of a religious donation, worthy of veneration with cupped palms, and is the supreme field of merit for the world.”