AN6_61: Parāyana Sutta

Parāyana Sutta - translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

‘Whoever, a thinker,

knowing both sides,

doesn’t adhere in between: He

I call a great person. He

here has gone past

the seamstress.’1

‘Whoever, a thinker,

knowing both sides,

doesn’t adhere in between: He

I call a great person. He

here has gone past

the seamstress’—

Notes

1. The version of this verse in the Thai edition of this discourse reads:

Yo ubh’ante viditvāna         majjhe mantā na limpati

Taṁ brūmi mahāpuriso      so’dha sibbanim-accagāti.

In the Thai edition of Sn 5:2, however, the verse is slightly different:

So ubh’antam-abhiññāya      majjhe mantā na limpati

Taṁ brūmi mahāpurisoti      so’dha sibbanim-accagāti.

This would translate as:

He, a thinker

knowing both sides,

doesn’t adhere in between. He

I call a great person. He

here has gone past

the seamstress.

2. On the cessation of contact as unbinding, see SN 35:117.

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