Dangers

Bhayasutta

Dangers

Bhayasutta

EN
“‘Danger’, mendicants, is a term for sensual pleasures. ‘Suffering’, ‘disease’, ‘boil’,
PL
“‘Bhayan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ; ‘dukkhan’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ; ‘rogo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ; ‘gaṇḍo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ;
EN
‘chain’, and ‘bog’ are terms for sensual pleasures. And why is ‘danger’ a term for sensual pleasures? Someone who is besotted by sensual greed and shackled by lustful desire is not freed from dangers in this life or in lives to come. That is why ‘danger’ is a term for sensual pleasures.
PL
‘saṅgo’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ; ‘paṅko’ti, bhikkhave, kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ. Kasmā ca, bhikkhave, ‘bhayan’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ? Kāmarāgarattāyaṁ, bhikkhave, chandarāgavinibaddho diṭṭhadhammikāpi bhayā na parimuccati, samparāyikāpi bhayā na parimuccati, tasmā ‘bhayan’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ.
EN
And why are ‘suffering’, ‘disease’, ‘boil’, ‘chain’,
PL
Kasmā ca, bhikkhave, dukkhanti …pe… rogoti … gaṇḍoti … saṅgoti …
EN
and ‘bog’ terms for sensual pleasures? Someone who is besotted by sensual greed and shackled by lustful desire is not freed from suffering, disease, boils, chains, or bogs in this life or in lives to come. That is why these are terms for sensual pleasures. Danger, suffering, disease, boils, and chains and bogs both.
PL
paṅkoti kāmānametaṁ adhivacanaṁ? Kāmarāgarattāyaṁ, bhikkhave, chandarāgavinibaddho diṭṭhadhammikāpi paṅkā na parimuccati, samparāyikāpi paṅkā na parimuccati, tasmā ‘paṅko’ti kāmānametaṁ adhivacananti. Bhayaṁ dukkhaṁ rogo gaṇḍo, saṅgo paṅko ca ubhayaṁ;
EN
These describe the sensual pleasures to which ordinary people are attached. Seeing the danger in grasping, the origin of birth and death,
PL
Ete kāmā pavuccanti, yattha satto puthujjano. Upādāne bhayaṁ disvā, jātimaraṇasambhave;
EN
the unattached are freed with the ending of birth and death. Happy, they’ve come to a safe place, quenched in this very life.
PL
Anupādā vimuccanti, jātimaraṇasaṅkhaye. Te khemappattā sukhino, diṭṭhadhammābhinibbutā;
EN
They’ve gone beyond all enmities and fears, and risen above all suffering.”
PL
Sabbaverabhayātītā, sabbadukkhaṁ upaccagun”ti. Tatiyaṁ.

Pāli root text and English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato from SuttaCentral (https://suttacentral.net), CC0.

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