AN 7.55 · Tempat Kelahiran Manusia

Kenali dunia dalam sutta ini

Sutta ini menggunakan perumpamaan yang indah tentang percikan api untuk menggambarkan berbagai tingkat kemajuan spiritual. Saat membacanya, perhatikan bagaimana setiap perumpamaan melukiskan nuansa yang berbeda tentang seberapa cepat atau lambat seseorang mencapai pembebasan setelah meninggalkan kehidupan duniawi.

TOKOH & TEMPAT

Sinopsis singkat

Dalam sutta ini, Sang Buddha mengajarkan tujuh tempat kelahiran kembali bagi mereka yang telah melampaui kelahiran kembali di alam indria namun belum mencapai pencerahan penuh, serta satu kondisi tertinggi yaitu padamnya sempurna tanpa sisa kemelekatan (anupādāparinibbāna). Ketujuh tempat tersebut diilustrasikan dengan perumpamaan percikan api dari periuk besi yang dipanaskan, yang padam pada berbagai tahap tergantung pada seberapa jauh ia melayang. Sutta ini memetakan tingkatan-tingkatan pencapaian spiritual dan tujuan akhir praktik Buddhis.

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BAGIAN 8

an7.55:8.1 Take a mendicant who practices like this:

an7.55:8.2 ‘It might not be, and it might not be mine. It will not be, and it will not be mine. I am giving up what exists, what has come to be.’ They gain equanimity.

an7.55:8.3 They’re not attached to life, or to creating a new life. And they see with right wisdom that there is a peaceful state beyond.

an7.55:8.4 But they haven’t totally realized that state. They haven’t completely given up the underlying tendencies of conceit, desire for continued existence, and ignorance.

an7.55:8.5 With the ending of the five lower fetters they head upstream, going to the Akaniṭṭha realm.

an7.55:8.6 Suppose you struck an iron pot that had been heated all day. Any spark that flew off and floated away would fall on a big heap of grass or twigs.

an7.55:8.7 There it would ignite a fire and produce smoke. And after consuming the grass and twigs, the fire would burn up plants and trees until it reached a green field, a roadside, a cliff’s edge, a body of water, or cleared parkland, where it would be extinguished due to not being fed.

an7.55:8.8 In the same way, a mendicant who practices like this …

an7.55:8.9 ‘It might not be, and it might not be mine. …’

an7.55:8.10 With the ending of the five lower fetters they head upstream, going to the Akaniṭṭha realm.

an7.55:8.11 These are the seven places people are reborn.