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Linked Discourses · SN 38.4

  • Linked Discourses 38.4Saṁyutta Nikāya 38.4
  • 1. With Jambukhādaka1. Jambukhādakavagga

What’s the Goal?Kimatthiyasutta

“Reverend Sāriputta, what’s the goal of leading the spiritual life under the ascetic Gotama?”“Kimatthiyaṁ, āvuso sāriputta, samaṇe gotame brahmacariyaṁ vussatī”ti?

“The goal of leading the spiritual life under the Buddha is to completely understand suffering.”“Dukkhassa kho, āvuso, pariññatthaṁ bhagavati brahmacariyaṁ vussatī”ti.

“But, reverend, is there a path and a practice for completely understanding this suffering?”“Atthi panāvuso, maggo atthi paṭipadā etassa dukkhassa pariññāyā”ti?

“There is.” …“Atthi kho, āvuso, maggo atthi paṭipadā, etassa dukkhassa pariññāyā”ti?

Similar passages elsewhere

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  1. SN 35.152 What’s the Goal of the Spiritual Life? 0.74near 0.1Linked Discourses 35.152 15. The Old and the New What’s the Goal of the Spiritual Life? “Mendicants, if wanderers who follow another religion were to ask you: ‘Reverends, what’s the goal of leading the spiritual life und…
  2. SN 45.5 What’s the Goal? 0.68near 0.1Linked Discourses 45.5 1. Ignorance What’s the Goal? At Sāvatthī. Then several mendicants went up to the Buddha … and said to him: “Sir, sometimes wanderers of other religions ask us: ‘Reverends, what’s the goal of leadi…
  3. SN 35.81 Several Mendicants 0.65near 0.1The goal of leading the spiritual life under the Buddha is to completely understand this. Ear … Nose … Tongue … Body … Mind … The pleasant, painful, or neutral feeling that arises dependent on mind contact is also suffer…