[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [The Pāli Canon](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada) › [Basket of Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp) › [Saṃyuttanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta) › [The Book of Causation](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2) › [Nidānasaṃyutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12) › [Tarunarukkhasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57) › 4.1-7 # Tarunarukkhasutta 4.1-7 Taruṇarukkhasutta 4.1-7 - **Language:** Pāli ### [4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57.4.1) Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, taruṇo rukkho. > Suppose there was a sapling. > — A Sapling ### [4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57.4.2) Atha puriso āgaccheyya kuddālapiṭakaṃ ādāya …pe… > Then a person comes along with a spade and basket. … > — A Sapling ### [4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57.4.3) nadiyā vā sīghasotāya pavāheyya. > They’d cut the sapling apart, cut up the parts, and chop it into splinters. They’d dry the splinters in the wind and sun, burn them with fire, and reduce them to ashes. Then they’d winnow the ashes in a strong wind, or glide them down a swift stream. > — A Sapling ### [4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57.4.4) Evañhi so, bhikkhave, taruṇo rukkho ucchinnamūlo assa tālāvatthukato anabhāvaṅkato āyatiṃ anuppādadhammo. > In this way the sapling is cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, and unable to arise in the future. > — A Sapling ### [4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57.4.5) Evameva kho, bhikkhave, saṃyojaniyesu dhammesu ādīnavānupassino viharato taṇhā nirujjhati. > In the same way, there are things that tighten the fetters. When you concentrate on the drawbacks of these things, your craving ceases. > — A Sapling ### [4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57.4.6) Taṇhānirodhā upādānanirodho …pe… > When craving ceases, grasping ceases. … > — A Sapling ### [4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57.4.7) evametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hotī”ti. > That is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.” > — A Sapling ## Translations (3) - [A Sapling](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57~en-sujato.4.1) — English - [Ein Baumsetzling](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57~de-sabbamitta.4.1) — German - [Mlado drvo](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57~sr-brankokovacevic.4.1) — sr ## Linked texts (1) - [雜阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.samyuktagama*zh-gunabhadra.283.7) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57.4.1-7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.2.12.57.4.1-7) · Pramāṇa