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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an3.58:6.1 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 knowledge of the death and rebirth of sentient beings.

an3.58:6.2 With clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, they see sentient beings passing away and being reborn—inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, in a good place or a bad place. They understand how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds: ‘These dear beings did bad things by way of body, speech, and mind. They denounced the noble ones; they had wrong view; and they chose to act out of that wrong view. When their body broke up, after death, they were reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell. These dear beings, however, did good things by way of body, speech, and mind. They never denounced the noble ones; they had right view; and they chose to act out of that right view. When their body broke up, after death, they were reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.’ And so, with clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, they see sentient beings passing away and being reborn—inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, in a good place or a bad place. They understand how sentient beings pass on according to their deeds.

an3.58:6.3 This is the second knowledge that they attain.

an3.58:6.4 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.