AN 3.58 · Khotbah tentang Tikaṇṇa

Kenali dunia dalam sutta ini

Dalam sutta ini, kita akan menyaksikan dialog antara Buddha dan seorang brahmana yang bangga dengan tradisi Veda. Mari kita simak bagaimana Buddha meluruskan makna 'tiga pengetahuan' dengan cara yang mengejutkan dan mendalam.

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Sinopsis singkat

Brahmana Tikaṇṇa mendatangi Buddha dan memuji para brahmana yang menguasai tiga Veda. Buddha kemudian menjelaskan perbedaan antara penguasaan tiga pengetahuan versi brahmana—yang hanya berdasarkan kelahiran, silsilah, dan hafalan mantra—dengan tiga pengetahuan sejati dalam disiplin Yang Mulia, yaitu pengetahuan mengingat kehidupan lampau, pengetahuan tentang kematian dan kelahiran kembali makhluk, serta pengetahuan hancurnya kekotoran batin. Di akhir sutta, Tikaṇṇa mengakui keunggulan ajaran Buddha dan berlindung sebagai umat awam.

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an3.58:5.1 When their mind has become immersed in samādhi like this—purified, bright, flawless, rid of corruptions, pliable, workable, steady, and imperturbable—they extend it toward recollection of past lives.

an3.58:5.2 They recollect many kinds of past lives. That is: one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand rebirths; many eons of the world contracting, many eons of the world expanding, many eons of the world contracting and expanding. They remember: ‘There, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn somewhere else. There, too, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn here.’ And so they recollect their many kinds of past lives, with features and details.

an3.58:5.3 This is the first knowledge that they attain.

an3.58:5.4 Ignorance is banished and knowledge has arisen; darkness is banished and light has arisen, as happens for a meditator who is diligent, keen, and resolute.