{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp5-2.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp5-2.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp5-2.htm","text":"Main index\nBuddhism index\nindex\nSutta Nipata V.2\nTissa-metteyya-manava-puccha\nTissa-metteyya's Questions\nFor free distribution only, as a gift of Dhamma\nContext of this sutta\nTissa-metteyya:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Who\nhere in the world\nis contented?\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Who\nhas no agitations?\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What thinker\nknowing both sides,\ndoesn't adhere in between?\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Whom\ndo you call a great person?\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Who here\nhas gone past\nthe seamstress:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 craving.\nThe Buddha:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He who\nin the midst of sensualities,\nfollows the holy life,\nalways mindful, craving-free;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the monk who is\n-- through fathoming things -- \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unbound:\nhe has no agitations. He,\nthe thinker\nknowing both sides,\ndoesn't adhere in between. He\nI call a great person. He\nhere has gone past\nthe seamstress:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 craving.\nNote\nA.VI.61 reports a discussion among several elder monks as to what is meant in this poem by \"both sides\" and \"in between.\" Six of the elders express the following separate opinions:\n- Contact is the first side, the origination of contact the second side, and the cessation of contact is in between.\n- The past is the first side, the future the second, and the present is in between.\n- Pleasant feeling is the first side, painful feeling the second, and neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling is in between.\n- Name (mental phenomena) is the first side, form (physical phenomena) the second, and consciousness is in between.\n- The six external sense media (sights, sounds, aromas, flavors, tactile sensations, ideas) are the first side, the six internal sense media (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, intellect) the second side, and consciousness is in between.\n- Self-identity is the first side, the origination of self-identity the second, and the cessation of self-identity is in between.\nThe issue is then taken to the Buddha, who states that all six interpretations are well-spoken, but the interpretation he had in mind when speaking the poem was the first.\nRevised: Sat 17 October 1998","title":"Sn V.2: Tissa-metteyya-manava-puccha","type":"page"}