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🔗🔊 KN Iti Roboman reads B. Thanissaro trans. 🤖🎙🏴🇺🇸️And complete English and Pali side by side Sutta text
4👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦
KN Iti-vuttaka
thus (it was) said
112 suttas total.🔗🔊 KN Iti John Ireland trans. 🎙🏴🇺🇸️
🔗🔊 KN Iti Roboman reads B. Thanissaro trans. 🤖🎙🏴🇺🇸️
Eka-nipāta: group 1 : suttas 1-27 (🤖 28m)
Duka-nipāta: group 2 : suttas 28-49 (🤖 25m)
Tika-nipāta: group 3 : suttas 50-99 (🤖 86m)
catukka-nipāto: group 4 : suttas 100-112 (🤖 28m)
Ekanipāta Paṭhama Vagga
KN Iti 1 LobhaKN Iti 2 Dosa
KN Iti 3 Moha
KN Iti 4 Kodha
KN Iti 5 Makkha
KN Iti 6 Māna
KN Iti 7 Sabbapariññā
KN Iti 8 Mānapariññā
KN Iti 9 Lobhapariññā
KN Iti 10 Dosapariññā
Ekanipāta Dutiya Vagga
KN Iti 11 MohapariññāKN Iti 12 Kodhapariññā
KN Iti 13 Makkhapariññā
KN Iti 14 Avijjānīvaraṇa
KN Iti 15 Taṇhāsaṃyojana
KN Iti 16 Sekha 1
KN Iti 17 Sekha 2
KN Iti 18 Saṅghabheda
KN Iti 19 Saṅghasāmaggī
KN Iti 20 Paduṭṭhacitta
Ekanipāta Tatiya Vagga
KN Iti 21 PasannacittaKN Iti 22 Metta
KN Iti 23 Ubhayattha
KN Iti 24 Aṭṭhipuñja
KN Iti 25 Musāvāda
KN Iti 26 Dāna
KN Iti 27 Mettābhāvanā
Dukanipāta Paṭhama Vagga
KN Iti 28 DukkhavihāraKN Iti 29 Sukhavihāra
KN Iti 30 Tapanīya
KN Iti 31 Atapanīya
KN Iti 32 Sīla 1
KN Iti 33 Sīla 2
KN Iti 34 Ātāpī
KN Iti 35 Nakuhana 1
KN Iti 36 Nakuhana 2
KN Iti 37 Somanassa
Dukanipāta Dutiya Vagga
KN Iti 38 VitakkaKN Iti 39 Desanā
KN Iti 40 Vijjā
KN Iti 41 Paññāparihīna
KN Iti 42 Sukkadhamma
KN Iti 43 Ajāta
KN Iti 44 Nibbānadhātu
KN Iti 45 Paṭisallāna
KN Iti 46 Sikkhānisaṃsa
KN Iti 47 Jāgariya
KN Iti 48 Āpāyika
KN Iti 49 Diṭṭhigata
Tikanipāta Paṭhama Vagga
KN Iti 50 MūlaKN Iti 51 Dhātu
KN Iti 52 Vedanā 1
KN Iti 53 Vedanā 2
KN Iti 54 Esanā 1
KN Iti 55 Esanā 2
KN Iti 56 Āsava 1
KN Iti 57 Āsava 2
KN Iti 58 Taṇhā
KN Iti 59 Māradheyya
Tikanipāta Dutiya Vagga
KN Iti 60 PuññakiriyavatthuKN Iti 61 Cakkhu
KN Iti 62 Indriya
KN Iti 63 Addhā
KN Iti 64 Duccarita
KN Iti 65 Sucarita
KN Iti 66 Soceyya
KN Iti 67 Moneyya
KN Iti 68 Rāga 1
KN Iti 69 Rāga 2
Tikanipāta Tatiya Vagga
KN Iti 70 MicchādiṭṭhikaKN Iti 71 Sammādiṭṭhika
KN Iti 72 Nissaraṇiya
KN Iti 73 Santatara
KN Iti 74 Putta
KN Iti 75 Avuṭṭhika
KN Iti 76 Sukhapatthanā
KN Iti 77 Bhidura [Bhindanā]
KN Iti 78 Dhātusosaṃsandana
KN Iti 79 Parihāna
Tikanipāta Catuttha Vagga
KN Iti 80 VitakkaKN Iti 81 Sakkāra
KN Iti 82 Devasadda
KN Iti 83 Pañcapubbanimitta
KN Iti 84 Bahujanahita
KN Iti 85 Asubhānupassī
KN Iti 86 Dhammānudhammapaṭipanna
KN Iti 87 Andhakaraṇa
KN Iti 88 Antarāmala
KN Iti 89 Devadatta
Tikanipāta Pañcama Vagga
KN Iti 90 Aggappasāda KN Iti 87 AN 4.34*, AN 5.32*KN Iti 91 Jīvika
KN Iti 92 Saṅghāṭikaṇṇa
KN Iti 93 Aggi
KN Iti 94 Upaparikkha
KN Iti 95 Kāmūpapatti
KN Iti 96 Kāmayoga
KN Iti 97 Kalyāṇasīla
KN Iti 98 Dāna
KN Iti 99 Tevijja
Catukkanipāta Paṭhama Vagga
KN Iti 100 Brāhmaṇadhamma-yāga: Buddha shares his Dharma to heirs with open handsKN Iti 101 Su-labha: easy to gain: monk is contented with 4 requisites
KN Iti 102 Āsava-k-khaya: asinine-inclinations-killed
KN Iti 103 Samaṇa-brāhmaṇa: contemplatives & brahmans: they're not real unless they penetrate 4nt noble truths. See also: (identical) SN 56:22; Sn 3:12
KN Iti 104 Sīla-sampanna: (in) virtue-(they are)-successful. 🔗Shares passage with SN 46.3 , without the explicit pa-mojja
KN Iti 105 Taṇh-uppāda: Craving's-arising: craving for such things as clothes, lodgings, foods, leads to rebirth in samsara. See also: AN 4:9; AN 4:28; Sn 3:12
KN Iti 106 Sa-brahmaka: with-Brahma: children should honor and respect parents, teacher, this is like living with the Deity Brahma. See also: AN 2:31—32; AN 4:63
KN Iti 107 Bahu-kāra: very-helpful. Mutual dependence between monks and laity. They offer requisites, monks teach Dhamma.
KN Iti 108 Kuha: deceitful: any monks who are deceitful, stubborn, talkers, frauds, arrogant, & uncentered are not followers of mine. They have turned away from this Dhamma-&-Vinaya.
KN Iti 109 Nadī-sota: rivers & streams: simile of river, whirlpool for 5niv hindrances. Even if it’s with pain, you should abandon sensual desires. See also AN 7:48 and AN 10:13.
KN Iti 110 Cara: walking: (same as AN 4.11) in all 4 postures, one works on attaining first jhana by overcoming the 3 vitakkas corresponding to the 3 wrong sankappa (right resolves).
KN Iti 111 Sampanna-sīla: successful in virtue: (same as AN 4.12) doing jhanas in all 4 postures. It's definitely 4 jhanas, when it has samadhi, ekaggata, passadhi, sati, viriya.
KN Iti 112 Loka: world: (same as AN 4:23) Buddha describes extent of his awakening thoroughly. See also: MN 72; MN 140; MN 146; AN 4:24; AN 10:81; §63; Sn 5:6
Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu KN Iti Introduction
(🤖 9m) THE ITIVUTTAKA, a collection of 112 short discourses, takes its name from the statement at the beginning of each of its discourses: this (iti) was said (vuttaṁ) by the Blessed One. The collection as a whole is attributed to a laywoman named Khujjuttarā, who worked in the palace of King Udena of Kosambī as a servant to one of his queens, Sāmāvati. Because the Queen could not leave the palace to hear the Buddha’s discourses, Khujjuttarā went in her place, memorized what the Buddha said, and then returned to the palace to teach the Queen and her 500 ladies-in-waiting. For her efforts, the Buddha cited Khujjuttarā as the foremost of his laywomen disciples in terms of her learning. She was also an effective teacher: when the inner apartments of the palace later burned down, killing the Queen and her entourage, the Buddha commented (in Udāna 7:10) that all of the women had reached at least the first stage of awakening.The name of the Itivuttaka is included in the standard early list of the nine divisions of the Buddha’s teachings–a list that predates the organization of the Pali Canon as we now know it. It’s impossible to determine, though, the extent to which the extant Pali Itivuttaka corresponds to the Itivuttaka mentioned in that list. The Chinese canon contains a translation of an Itivuttaka, attributed to Hsüan-tsang, that strongly resembles the text of the Pali Itivuttaka, the major difference being that parts of the Group of Threes and all of the Group of Fours in the Pali are missing in Hsüan-tsang’s translation. Either these parts were later additions to the text that found their way into the Pali but not into the Sanskrit version translated by Hsüan-tsang, or the Sanskrit text was incomplete, or Hsüan-tsang’s translation–which dates from the last months of his life–was left unfinished.
The extant Pali Itivuttaka is composed of 112 itivuttakas (to distinguish between individual itivuttakas and the collection as a whole, the standard practice is to capitalize the latter and not the former.) The collection is organized into four groups, according to the number of items treated in each itivuttaka. Thus the Group of Ones contains itivuttakas treating one item; the Group of Twos, those treating two items, and so on up to four. In this way, the Itivuttaka resembles the Aṅguttara Nikāya in its method of organization.
And the resemblance goes beyond that. Many of the suttas in the Aṅguttara are composed of a prose passage followed by a verse summary of what’s given in the prose. This was apparently one of the Buddha’s techniques for helping his listeners remember his message. In the Itivuttaka, all of the passages follow this pattern: a prose passage, spoken by the Buddha to the monks, followed by a verse, also attributed to the Buddha, summarizing the prose passage. However, more often than not, the verses in the itivuttakas add extra information not covered in the prose. In most cases, the extra information is fairly minor, but in a few (such as §63), it’s quite extensive. Because the prose passages are, in many instances, extremely short, this raises the question of whether they report entire discourses or simply gives the gist of those discourses. If just the gist, then perhaps the added information in the verse was actually treated in the full prose of the original discourse.
More than any other collection in the Canon, the Itivuttaka gives a sense of the Buddha’s ability to recycle his material when composing verses. In some cases, entire verses are repeated (e.g., §15 and §105); in others, a verse composed on one topic is fitted to another topic simply with the change of a word or two (e.g., §§1-6). In still others, repeated cadences and lines help to round out verses on a variety of topics (§§52, 54, 56). Although this tendency may seem to indicate a lack of originality, it is not a flaw. It eases the task of listeners trying to memorize blocks of material, and points out parallels between subjects that otherwise might not be clear.
In terms of style, the Itivuttaka differs from its neighbors in the Khuddaka Nikāya–such as the Dhammapada and Udāna–in being less obviously shaped by literary considerations. Most of the prose and verse passages are straightforwardly didactic, and so the collection as a whole does not convey a strong literary “savor” (rasa), the aesthetic experience of an emotion that people in ancient India sought in literary works. However, the collection does contain occasional traces of a literary sensibility.
As an overall organizing principle, the final itivuttaka in each of the four groups conveys the astounding savor: the aesthetic experience conveyed by the portrayal of something astonishing. The Group of Ones ends with a passage (§27) on how good will for all beings is a victory excelling the victories of all the kings of the past; the Group of Twos ends with a passage (§49) on the Arahant’s paradoxical avoidance of both becoming and non-becoming in mastering the path to awakening. The Group of Threes ends with a celebration (§99) of the Arahant as the true brahman; and the Group of Fours ends with an even more elaborate celebration (§112) of the many amazing qualities of the Buddha himself. In this way, even though the majority of passages in each group are not literary, the experience of reading (or listening to) each group ends on an aesthetically satisfying note.
Along the way, there enough poetic figures to maintain interest with touches of aesthetic savor. Although some of these figures, such as alliteration, are hard to convey in translation, others survive the rendering from Pali into English. The most prominent figures are similes (§§27, 38, 60, 69, 74, 75, 76, 78, 82, 87, 89, 91, 92) and metaphors (§§38, 46, 57, 58, 59, 62, 68, 93, 96, 112), including one complete metaphor (§109). Another figure used is the lamp: a poetic figure in which one word, such as an adjective or a verb, functions in two or more different clauses or sentences. The name of this figure comes from the image of the different clauses or sentences “radiating” from the one word. Examples of lamps in the Itivuttaka are in §§27, 87, and 92. Other figures include narratives (§§22, 83, 89) distinctions (§§27, 112), etymologies (§112), an illustration (§92), a rhetorical question (§98), and praise (§§106, 107, 112). These figures provide a variety of aesthetic savors, although the military similes and metaphors (§§27, 46, 62, 67, 68, 69, 82), along with distinctions and praise, make the heroic savor dominant. Because, in the aesthetic, tradition of the time, the heroic savor is supposed to shade into the astounding savor at the end of a work, this harmonizes with the overall organization of each group, noted above. Thus, even though the Itivuttaka is not a blatantly literary work, there is at least some aesthetic unity to the collection as a whole.
In terms of content, the itivuttakas cover the full range of Buddhist practice, with an emphasis on the very basic and very advanced stages. On the basic levels, the texts focus on the distinction between skillful and unskillful behavior. On the advanced, they treat such subtle topics as the role of becoming on the path (§49), the different aspects of Unbinding (§44), and the fact that an Arahant, having abandoned the All (§66; §68) cannot be classified in any way (§63; §69). In fact, many of the discussions about these more advanced points of the practice are found nowhere else in the Canon. If they had not been memorized, our knowledge of the Buddha’s teachings would have been severely impoverished. Like Queen Sāmāvati and her entourage, we are in Khujjuttarā’s debt.
Misc.
jhāna mentioned in 7 suttas
(but 4 jhānas are never taught, just jhana)
https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2019/09/kn-iti-all-references-to-jhana-7.html
ātāpīsuttaṃ (KN 4.34), with ardency and jhana, capable of nirvana. implies, without that, not capable.
paṭisallānasuttaṃ (KN 4.45) buddha describes himself as always trying to be in jhana, samadhi, linked to retreat/patisallana
sikkhānisaṃsasuttaṃ (KN 4.46) monks always should be in samadhi and jhana
jāgariyasuttaṃ (KN 4.47), obtaining jhana necessary for nirvana
dhātusosaṃsandanasuttaṃ (KN 4.78), in verse, passing mention of noble ones in jhana
sakkārasuttaṃ (KN 4.81) monks always in samadhi in jhana, even on almsround
bahukārasuttaṃ (KN 4.107), in verse, passing mention of arahant in jhana
every vitakka reference in KN Iti (6 suttas)
https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2019/09/every-vitakka-in-suttas-kn-iti.html
6 suttas in KN Iti
KN Iti 38 vitakka
KN Iti 80 vitakka: thought: abandon thoughts connected to household
KN Iti 85 a-subh-ānupassī: non-beautiful-conemplation
KN Iti 86 dhamm-ānu-dhamma-paṭipanna: proper practice
KN Iti 87 andhakaraṇa
KN Iti 110 (same as AN 4.11) cara: walking (vitakka in various postures)
