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Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha
Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in Verse Text 4
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Canonical reference snp4.4
English
Bhikkhu Sujato
Anthology of Discourses 4.4
Eight on the Pure
“I see someone pure, perfectly healthy;
it is vision that grants a person purity.”
Recalling this notion of the ultimate,
they believe in the notion <j>that there is one who observes purity.
If a person were granted purity through what is seen,
or if by a notion they could give up suffering,
then one with attachments is purified by another:
their view betrays them as one who asserts thus.
The brahmin speaks not of purity from another
in terms of what has been seen, heard, or thought; <j>or by precepts or vows.
They are unsullied in the midst of good and evil,
letting go what was picked up, <j>without creating anything new here.
Having let go the last they lay hold of the next;
following impulse, they don’t pass the chain.
They grab on and let loose like a monkey
grabbing and releasing a branch.
Having undertaken their own vows, a personage
visits various teachers, <j>being attached to perception.
One who knows, having comprehended the truth <j>through the knowledges,
does not visit various teachers, being of vast wisdom.
They are remote from all things
seen, heard, or thought.
Seeing them living openly,
how could anyone in this world judge them?
They don’t make things up or promote them,
or speak of the uttermost purity.
After untying the tight knot of grasping
they long for nothing in the world.
The brahmin has stepped over the perimeter;
knowing and seeing, they adopt nothing.
Neither in love with passion <j>nor besotted by dispassion,
there is nothing here they adopt as the ultimate.
Pali
Sutta Nipāta 4.4
Suddhaṭṭhakasutta
Passāmi suddhaṁ paramaṁ arogaṁ,
Diṭṭhena saṁsuddhi narassa hoti;
Evābhijānaṁ paramanti ñatvā,
Suddhānupassīti pacceti ñāṇaṁ.
Diṭṭhena ce suddhi narassa hoti,
Ñāṇena vā so pajahāti dukkhaṁ;
Aññena so sujjhati sopadhīko,
Diṭṭhī hi naṁ pāva tathā vadānaṁ.
Na brāhmaṇo aññato suddhimāha,
Diṭṭhe sute sīlavate mute vā;
Puññe ca pāpe ca anūpalitto,
Attañjaho nayidha pakubbamāno.
Purimaṁ pahāya aparaṁ sitāse,
Ejānugā te na taranti saṅgaṁ;
Te uggahāyanti nirassajanti,
Kapīva sākhaṁ pamuñcaṁ gahāyaṁ.
Sayaṁ samādāya vatāni jantu,
Uccāvacaṁ gacchati saññasatto;
Vidvā ca vedehi samecca dhammaṁ,
Na uccāvacaṁ gacchati bhūripañño.
Sa sabbadhammesu visenibhūto,
Yaṁ kiñci diṭṭhaṁ va sutaṁ mutaṁ vā;
Tameva dassiṁ vivaṭaṁ carantaṁ,
Kenīdha lokasmi vikappayeyya.
Na kappayanti na purekkharonti,
Accantasuddhīti na te vadanti;
Ādānaganthaṁ gathitaṁ visajja,
Āsaṁ na kubbanti kuhiñci loke.
Sīmātigo brāhmaṇo tassa natthi,
Ñatvā va disvā va samuggahītaṁ;
Na rāgarāgī na virāgaratto,
Tassīdha natthi paramuggahītanti.
Suddhaṭṭhakasuttaṁ catutthaṁ.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Anthologie des discours 4.4
Les huit vers sur le pur
« Je vois quelqu’un de pur, en parfaite santé ;
c’est la vision qui confère la pureté à une personne. »
Se rappelant cette conception de l’ultime,
ils croient à la conception <j>selon laquelle quelqu’un observe la pureté.
Si une personne recevait la pureté par ce qui est vu,
ou si elle pouvait, au moyen d’une conception, abandonner la souffrance,
alors celui qui a des attachements serait purifié par un autre :
son opinion le trahit comme quelqu’un qui soutient cela.
Le brahmane ne parle pas d’une pureté obtenue d’un autre
par ce qui a été vu, entendu ou pensé, <j>ni par les préceptes ou les vœux.
Il demeure sans souillure au milieu du bien et du mal,
lâchant ce qui avait été saisi, <j>sans rien créer de nouveau ici.
Ayant lâché le précédent, ils saisissent le suivant ;
suivant leur impulsion, ils ne dépassent pas la chaîne.
Ils saisissent et lâchent comme un singe
qui saisit puis relâche une branche.
Ayant adopté ses propres vœux, un individu
rend visite à divers maîtres, <j>attaché à la perception.
Celui qui sait, ayant compris la vérité <j>au moyen des connaissances,
ne rend pas visite à divers maîtres, car sa sagesse est vaste.
Il se tient à l’écart de toutes les choses
vues, entendues ou pensées.
Le voyant vivre ouvertement,
comment quelqu’un, en ce monde, pourrait-il le juger ?
Il n’invente ni ne promeut rien,
et ne parle pas de la pureté absolue.
Après avoir dénoué le nœud serré de la saisie,
il n’aspire à rien au monde.
Le brahmane a franchi la limite ;
sachant et voyant, il n’adopte rien.
Ni épris de passion <j>ni entiché de détachement,
il n’adopte rien ici comme ultime.
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