The Request ṅyṅcana Sutta (SN 6:1) · 莲华归心开放中文佛学资料库

- suttas - - evening talks - short morning talks - lectures - guided meditations - talk collections - other themes - chants - - - - à¹à¸à¸¢ - Franā§ais - Espaā±ol - - Portuguāªs - Ð ÑÑÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ - - - Ð£ÐºÑÐ°ÑÐ½ÑÑÐºÐ° Submit Search - Home - Suttas - SN - SN 6:1 The Request ## Browse Suttas Go to Saṃyutta Nikṅya index SN index ## The Request ṅyṅcana Sutta Â (SNÂ 6:1) I have heard that on one occasion, when the Blessed One was newly self-awakened, he was staying near Uruvelṅ on the bank of the Neraā±jarṅ River, at the foot of the Goatherdâs Banyan Tree. Then, while he was alone & in seclusion, this line of thinking arose in his awareness: "This Dhamma that I have attained is deep, hard to see, hard to realize, peaceful, refined, beyond the scope of conjecture, subtle, to-be-experienced by the observant. But this generation delights in attachment, is excited by attachment, enjoys attachment. For a generation delighting in attachment, excited by attachment, enjoying attachment, this/that conditionality & dependent co-arising are hard to see. This state, too, is hard to see: the pacification of all fabrications, the relinquishing of all acquisitions, the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; unbinding. And if I were to teach the Dhamma and if others would not understand me, that would be tiresome for me, troublesome for me." Just then these verses, unspoken in the past, unheard before, occurred to the Blessed One: "Enough now with teaching what only with difficulty I reached. This Dhamma is not easily realized by those overcome with aversion & passion. What is abstruse, subtle, deep, hard to see, going against the flow— those delighting in passion, cloaked in the mass of darkness, wonât see." As the Blessed One reflected thus, his mind inclined to dwelling at ease, not to teaching the Dhamma. Then Brahmṅ Sahampati, having known with his own awareness the line of thinking in the Blessed Oneâs awareness, thought: "The world is lost! The world is destroyed! The mind of the Tathṅgata, the Arahant, the Rightly Self-awakened One inclines to dwelling at ease, not to teaching the Dhamma!" Then, just as a strong man might extend his flexed arm or flex his extended arm, Brahmṅ Sahampati disappeared from the Brahmṅ world and reappeared in front the Blessed One. Arranging his upper robe over one shoulder, he knelt down with his right knee on the ground, saluted the Blessed One with his hands before his heart, and said to him: "Lord, let the Blessed One teach the Dhamma! Let the One-Well-Gone teach the Dhamma! There are beings with little dust in their eyes who are falling away because they do not hear the Dhamma. There will be those who will understand the Dhamma." That is what Brahmṅ Sahampati said. Having said that, he further said this: "In the past there appeared among the Magadhans an impure Dhamma devised by the stained. Throw open the door to the Deathless! Let them hear the Dhamma realized by the Stainless One! Just as one standing on a rocky crag might see people all around below, so, intelligent one, with all-around vision, ascend the palace fashioned of Dhamma. Free from sorrow, behold the people submerged in sorrow, oppressed by birth & aging. Rise up, hero, victor in battle! O Teacher, wander without debt in the world. Teach the Dhamma, O Blessed One: There will be those who will understand." Then the Blessed One, having understood Brahmṅâs invitation, out of compassion for beings, surveyed the world with the eye of an Awakened One. As he did so, he saw beings with little dust in their eyes and those with much, those with keen faculties and those with dull, those with good attributes and those with bad, those easy to teach and those hard, some of them seeing disgrace & danger in the other world. Just as in a pond of blue or red or white lotuses, some lotuses—born & growing in the water—might flourish while immersed in the water, without rising up from the water; some might stand at an even level with the water; while some might rise up from the water and stand without being smeared by the water—so too, surveying the world with the eye of an Awakened One, the Blessed One saw beings with little dust in their eyes and those with much, those with keen faculties and those with dull, those with good attributes and those with bad, those easy to teach and those hard, some of them seeing disgrace & danger in the other world. Having seen this, he answered Brahmṅ Sahampati in verse: "Open are the doors to the deathless. Let those with ears show their conviction. Let them show their conviction. Perceiving trouble, O Brahmṅ, I did not tell people the refined, sublime Dhamma." "Then Brahmṅ Sahampati, thinking, ), # Right single quote ('â', Iâm the one who created the opportunity for the teaching of the Dhamma by the Blessed One!â bowed down to me and, circling me on the right, disappeared right there. See also: DNÂ 12; MNÂ 26; MNÂ 63; ANÂ 3:22; ANÂ 4:111; ANÂ 10:95; DhpÂ 28 - --> - - - -