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Adanta Suttas: Untamed

Adanta Suttas

Summary: There's nothing so conducive to happiness as a mind that has been tamed.

AN 1.31-40 PTS: A i 5 I,iii,1-4 and iv,9-10

(excerpt)

translated from the Pali by

F.L. Woodward

1998–2014

Alternate translation: Thanissaro

- Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa -

jtb 020511: For years I've had this sutta listed incorrectly as “Abhavita Sutta” (abhaavita = “not developed, not practiced”). I also had it incorrectly placed in vagga 3, and got the sections numbered wrong (“I.21-26”). By interpolating with BGS (p. 5), it appears that this translation includes sections 1-4 and 9-10 of book I, vagga 4: Adantavagga, (adanta = “untamed”). Shouldn' t 39 and 40 end with “great loss” (mahato anatthaaya) and “great profit” (mahato atthaaya), respectively?

31. “Monks, I know not of any other single thing so intractable as the untamed mind. The untamed mind is indeed a thing untractable.

32. “Monks, I know not of any other thing so tractable as the tamed mind. The tamed mind is indeed a thing tractable.

33. “Monks, I know not of any other single thing so conducive to great loss as the untamed mind. The untamed mind indeed conduces to great loss.

34. “Monks, I know not of any other single thing so conducive to great profit as the tamed mind. The tamed mind indeed conduces to great profit.

39. “Monks, I know not of any other single thing that brings such woe as the mind that is untamed, uncontrolled, unguarded and unrestrained. Such a mind indeed brings great woe.

40. “Monks, I know not of any other single thing that brings such bliss as the mind that is tamed, controlled, guarded and restrained. Such a mind indeed brings great bliss.”

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