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 +====== Aggi Sutta: Fire ======
 +<span hide>Aggi Sutta</span>
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 +Summary: <span wrap_summarypic>[[.:index#sn46.053.wlsh|{{en:img:question_16.gif}}]]</span>  The right and wrong ways to respond to sluggishness or restlessness.
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 +<div #h_tipitakaid>SN 46.53 <span h_ptsid>PTS: [[:en:tipitaka:sltp:SN_V_utf8#pts.112|S v 112]]</span> <span h_altid>CDB ii 1605</span>
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 +<div #h_doctitle>Aggi Sutta: Fire
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 +<div isexcerpt>(excerpt)</div>
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 +</div>
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 +<div #h_docsubtitle2>Right and Wrong Times</div>
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 +<div #h_docby>translated from the Pali by</div>
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 +<div #h_docauthor>Maurice O'Connell Walshe</div>
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 +<div #h_copyright>[[#f_termsofuse|{{en:img:d2.png?16x18}}]][[#f_termsofuse| 2009-2018]]</div>
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 +<div #h_docalttrans>Alternate translation: [[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn46:sn46.053.than|Thanissaro]]</div>
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 +<div #h_sutta-note>The Pali title of this sutta is based on the PTS (Feer) edition.</div>
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 +<div #h_altformat></div>
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 +<div #h_homage>
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 +<div #homagetext>[[en:homage|-  Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa  -]]</div>
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 +<div navigation>[[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn46:sn46.051.than|{{en:img:left.png }}]] [[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn46:sn46.054.than|{{ en:img:right.png}}]]</div>
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 +"At such times, monks, as the mind is sluggish, that is the wrong time to cultivate the enlightenment-factor<span notetag #fnt-1>([[#fn-1|1]])</span> of tranquillity, the enlightenment-factor of concentration, the enlightenment-factor of equanimity. What is the reason? A sluggish mind is hard to arouse by these factors.
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 +"Suppose a man wants to make a small fire blaze. If he heaps wet grass, wet cow-dung and wet sticks on it, if he exposes it to wind and rain and sprinkles it with dust, can he make that small fire blaze?"
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 +"No indeed, Lord."
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 +"Just so, when the mind is sluggish it is the wrong time to cultivate the enlightenment-factors of tranquillity, concentration and equanimity, because a sluggish mind is hard to arouse through these factors.
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 +"But, monks, when the mind is sluggish, that is the right time to cultivate the enlightenment-factor of investigation-of-states, the enlightenment-factor of energy, the enlightenment-factor of rapture.<span notetag #fnt-2>([[#fn-2|2]])</span> What is the reason? A sluggish mind is easy to arouse by these factors.
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 +"Suppose a man wants to make a small fire blaze. If he heaps dry grass, dry cow-dung and dry sticks on it, blows on it with his mouth, and does not sprinkle it with dust, can he make that fire blaze?"
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 +"Yes indeed, Lord."
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 +"... a sluggish mind is easy to arouse through these factors.
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 +"Monks, when the mind is agitated,<span notetag #fnt-3>([[#fn-3|3]])</span> that is the wrong time to cultivate the enlightenment-factors of investigation-of-states, of energy, of rapture. Why? An agitated mind is hard to calm through these factors.
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 +"Suppose a man wants to put a big fire out. If he heaps dry cow-dung and dry sticks on it, blow on it with his mouth, and does not sprinkle it with dust, can he put that fire out?"
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 +"No indeed, Lord."
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 +"... an agitated mind is not easy to calm through these factors.
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 +"When the mind is agitated, that is the right time to cultivate the enlightenment-factors of tranquillity, concentration, equanimity. Why? Because an agitated mind is easy to calm<span notetag #fnt-4>([[#fn-4|4]])</span> through these factors.
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 +"Suppose a man wants to put out a big fire. If he heaps wet grass, wet cow-dung, wet sticks on it and if he exposes it to wind and rain, if he sprinkles it with dust, can he put that big fire out?"
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 +"Yes indeed, Lord."
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 +"Just so, monks, when the mind is agitated, that is the right time to cultivate the enlightenment-factors of tranquillity, concentration, equanimity. An agitated mind is easy to calm through these factors.
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 +"But as for mindfulness, monks, I declare that it is always useful."
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 +==== Notes ====
 +<div notes>
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 +  ? <span fn #fn-1>[[#fnt-1|1.]]</span>
 +  :: //Bojjhanga// (=//bodhi-anga//, lit. "limb of enlightenment") or //sambojjhanga//. The seven //bojjhangas// are so called (SN 46.5) "because they lead to enlightenment" (//bodhi//). They are: 1. Mindfulness (//sati-sambojjangha//), 2. Investigation of (Mental and Physical) States (//dhamma-vicaya-s.//), 3. Energy (//viriya-s.//), 4. Rapture (//piiti-s.//), 5. Tranquillity (//passaddhi-s.//), 6. Concentration (//samaadhi-s.//), 7. Equanimity (//upekkhaa-s.//). The text makes it clear that of these the first, mindfulness, is the most important, since it is valuable in all circumstances, whereas the others are not always appropriate.
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 +  ? <span fn #fn-2>[[#fnt-2|2.]]</span>
 +  :: //Piiti//: see [[en:tipitaka:sut:sn:sn12:sn12.023x.wlsh#fn-4|SN 12.23, n. 4]].
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 +  ? <span fn #fn-3>[[#fnt-3|3.]]</span>
 +  :: //Uddhata.m//: not "elated" as translated by Woodward.
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 +  ? <span fn #fn-4>[[#fnt-4|4.]]</span>
 +  :: Woodward has here, by an oversight, "is easily raised up." Below, he has correctly "is easily calmed."
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 +<div #f_sourceTitle>From //[[:en:lib:authors/walshe/wheel318|Samyutta Nikaya: An Anthology (WH 318-321)]]//, by M. O'C. Walshe (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1985). Transcribed from the print edition in 2007 by a volunteer, under the auspices of the Access to Insight Dhamma Transcription Project and by arrangement with the Buddhist Publication Society. Minor revisions were made in accordance with the ATI style sheet. Pali diacritics are represented using the Velthuis convention.</div>
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