With Channa 9.1-17

Channasutta 9.1-17

Language: Pāli

9.1

“Sammukhā metaṃ, āvuso channa, bhagavato sutaṃ, sammukhā paṭiggahitaṃ kaccānagottaṃ bhikkhuṃ ovadantassa—

“Reverend Channa, I heard and learned in the presence of the Buddha his advice to the mendicant Kaccānagotta:
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9.2

dvayanissito khvāyaṃ, kaccāna, loko yebhuyyena atthitañceva natthitañca.

‘Kaccāna, this world mostly relies on the duality of existence and non-existence.
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9.3

Lokasamudayaṃ kho, kaccāna, yathābhūtaṃ sammappaññāya passato yā loke natthitā, sā na hoti.

But for one who truly sees the origin of the world with right understanding, the concept of non-existence regarding the world does not occur.
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9.4

Lokanirodhaṃ kho, kaccāna, yathābhūtaṃ sammappaññāya passato yā loke atthitā, sā na hoti.

And for one who truly sees the cessation of the world with right understanding, the concept of existence regarding the world does not occur.
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9.5

Upayupādānābhinivesavinibandho khvāyaṃ, kaccāna, loko yebhuyyena

This world is for the most part shackled by getting involved, grasping, and insisting.
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9.6

taṃ cāyaṃ upayupādānaṃ cetaso adhiṭṭhānābhinivesānusayaṃ na upeti na upādiyati nādhiṭṭhāti ‘attā me’ti.

But if—for all that getting involved and grasping, mental fixation, and insistence and underlying tendency—they do not get attracted, grasp, and fixate on the thought, ‘my self’,
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