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# SN 4.7 · Tissa Metteyya (Tissa Metteyya Sutta)
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-4-7/
- Published: 2026-06-20T00:26:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:57:14.000Z
- Description: Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 4.7. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
- Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA)
- Tags: Buddhism, Sutta Piṭaka, Text, Indian, The Buddha, Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, Saṁyutta Nikāya, Discourse, English, Early Buddhist, Library, #Import 2026-07-06 06:23

"Tell the danger, dear sir, for one given over to sexual intercourse. Having heard your teaching, we'll train in seclusion." 

The Buddha:

"In one given over to sexual intercourse, the teaching's confused and he practices wrongly: this is ignoble in him. Whoever once went alone, but then resorts to sexual intercourse — like a carriage out of control — is called vile in the world, a person run-of-the-mill. His earlier honor & dignity: lost. Seeing this, he should train himself to abandon sexual intercourse. Overcome by resolves, he broods like a miserable wretch. Hearing the scorn of others, he's chagrined. He makes weapons, attacked by the words of others. This, for him, is a great entanglement. He sinks into lies. They thought him wise when he committed himself to the life alone, but now that he's given to sexual intercourse they declare him a fool. Seeing these drawbacks, the sage here — before & after — stays firm in the life alone; doesn't resort to sexual intercourse; would train himself in seclusion — this, for the noble ones, is supreme. He wouldn't, because of that, think himself better than others: *He's* on the verge of Unbinding. People enmeshed in sensual pleasures, envy him: free, a sage leading his life unconcerned for sensual pleasures — one who's crossed over the flood." 

See also: [AN 4.159](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/an-4-159/); [AN 5.75](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/an-5-75/); [AN 5.76](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/an-5-76/).

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*Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.* From [Access to Insight](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.4.07.than.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co) (BCBS Edition). Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) — for free distribution only. Never sold.