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# SN 5.11 · Jatukannin's Question (Jatukanni-manava-puccha)
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/sn-5-11/
- Published: 2026-06-20T00:34:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:57:12.000Z
- Description: Saṁyutta Nikāya · SN 5.11. Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
- Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA)
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\[Jatukannin:\]

Hearing that there was a hero — desiring no sensuality, having crossed over the flood — I've come with a question: Tell me the state of peace, O One with quick eyes. O Blessed One, tell me as it actually is. For the Blessed One lives having surpassed sensuality, as the radiant sun, in its radiance, the earth. Limited my discernment, O One whose discernment's profound. Teach me to know the Dhamma, the abandoning here of birth & aging. 

\[The Buddha:\]

Subdue greed for sensual pleasures, & see renunciation as rest. Let there be nothing grasped or rejected by you. Burn up what's *before,*and have nothing for *after.*If you don't grasp at what's *in between,* \[1\] you will go about, calm. One completely devoid of greed for name & form, brahman, has no effluents by which he would go under Mara's sway. 

# Note

1.

According to Nd.II, "before" stands for defilements related to the past, "after" for defilements related to the future, and "in between" for the five aggregates — form, feeling, perception, thought-fabrications, sensory consciousness — in the present.

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*Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.* From [Access to Insight](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.5.11.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.