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Numbered Discourses 10.88 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 10.88

9. Senior Bhikkhū – 9. Theravagga

AN 10.88 An Abuser – Akkosakasutta

 

1.1

“Bhikkhū, any bhikkhu who abuses and insults their spiritual companions, speaking ill of the noble ones, will, without a doubt, fall into one or other of these ten disasters.

“Yo so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu akkosakaparibhāsako ariyūpavādī sabrahmacārīnaṁ ṭhānametaṁ avakāso yaṁ so dasannaṁ byasanānaṁ aññataraṁ byasanaṁ nigaccheyya.

1.2

What ten?

Katamesaṁ dasannaṁ?

1.3

They don’t achieve the unachieved. What they have achieved falls away. They don’t refine their good qualities. They overestimate their good qualities, or lead the spiritual life dissatisfied, or commit a corrupt offense, or contract a severe illness, or go mad and lose their mind. They feel lost when they die. And when their body breaks up, after death, they are reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.

Anadhigataṁ nādhigacchati, adhigatā parihāyati, saddhammassa na vodāyanti, saddhammesu vā adhimāniko hoti anabhirato vā brahmacariyaṁ carati, aññataraṁ vā saṅkiliṭṭhaṁ āpattiṁ āpajjati, gāḷhaṁ vā rogātaṅkaṁ phusati, ummādaṁ vā pāpuṇāti cittakkhepaṁ, sammūḷho kālaṁ karoti, kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ nirayaṁ upapajjati.

1.4

Any bhikkhu who abuses and insults their spiritual companions, speaking ill of the noble ones, will, without a doubt, fall into one or other of these ten disasters.”

Yo so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu akkosakaparibhāsako ariyūpavādī sabrahmacārīnaṁ, ṭhānametaṁ avakāso yaṁ so imesaṁ dasannaṁ byasanānaṁ aññataraṁ byasanaṁ nigaccheyyā”ti.

1.5

 

Aṭṭhamaṁ.