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Linked Discourses · SN 21.6

  • Linked Discourses 21.6Saṁyutta Nikāya 21.6
  • 1. Monks1. Bhikkhuvagga

With Bhaddiya the DwarfLakuṇḍakabhaddiyasutta

At Sāvatthī.Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.

Then Venerable Bhaddiya the Dwarf went to the Buddha.Atha kho āyasmā lakuṇḍakabhaddiyo yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami.

The Buddha saw him coming off in the distance,Addasā kho bhagavā āyasmantaṁ lakuṇḍakabhaddiyaṁ dūratova āgacchantaṁ. and addressed the mendicants:Disvāna bhikkhū āmantesi: “Mendicants, do you see this monk coming—ugly, unsightly, deformed, and despised by the mendicants?”“passatha no tumhe, bhikkhave, etaṁ bhikkhuṁ āgacchantaṁ dubbaṇṇaṁ duddasikaṁ okoṭimakaṁ bhikkhūnaṁ paribhūtarūpan”ti?

“Yes, sir.”“Evaṁ, bhante”.

“That mendicant is very mighty and powerful. It’s not easy to find an attainment that he has not already attained.“Eso kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu mahiddhiko mahānubhāvo, na ca sā samāpatti sulabharūpā yā tena bhikkhunā asamāpannapubbā. And he has realized the supreme culmination of the spiritual path in this very life. He lives having achieved with his own insight the goal for which gentlemen rightly go forth from the lay life to homelessness.”Yassa catthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajanti, tadanuttaraṁ brahmacariyapariyosānaṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharatī”ti.

That is what the Buddha said.Idamavoca bhagavā …pe… Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:satthā:

“Geese, herons, and peacocks,“Haṁsā koñcā mayūrā ca, elephants and spotted deer—hatthayo pasadā migā; though their bodies are not equal,Sabbe sīhassa bhāyanti, they all fear the lion.natthi kāyasmiṁ tulyatā.

So it is for humans—Evameva manussesu, if a little person is wise,daharo cepi paññavā; they’re the truly great one,So hi tattha mahā hoti, not the fool with a good body.”neva bālo sarīravā”ti.

Similar passages elsewhere

Found by meaning, not by citation: the passages in other texts whose wording sits closest to a passage here.

  1. Ud 7.5 Another Discourse with Bhaddiya the Dwarf 0.71near 0.1Heartfelt Sayings 7.5 Another Discourse with Bhaddiya the Dwarf So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Then Venerable Bhaddiya the Dwarf, closely fol…
  2. SN 21.11 With Mahākappina 0.62near 0.1Linked Discourses 21.11 1. Monks With Mahākappina At Sāvatthī. Then Venerable Mahākappina went to the Buddha. The Buddha saw him coming off in the distance, and addressed the mendicants: “Mendicants, do you see that monk…
  3. SN 21.12 Companions 0.54near 0.1Linked Discourses 21.12 1. Monks Companions At Sāvatthī. Then two mendicants who were companions, protégés of Venerable Mahākappina, went to the Buddha. The Buddha saw them coming off in the distance, and addressed the m…
  4. SN 21.4 A Junior Mendicant 0.51near 0.1Linked Discourses 21.4 1. Monks A Junior Mendicant At Sāvatthī. Now at that time a certain junior monk, after his meal, on his return from almsround, entered his dwelling, where he adhered to passivity and silence. And h…