AN 9.38 · Khotbah tentang Para Brahmana Kosmolog

Kenali dunia dalam sutta ini

Sutta ini mengajak kita merenungkan bagaimana pertanyaan-pertanyaan besar tentang alam semesta sering kali meleset dari persoalan yang lebih mendesak: pembebasan batin dari kemelekatan. Mari kita simak bagaimana Buddha mengarahkan para brahmana itu dari perdebatan kosmologis ke praktik meditasi yang nyata.

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Sinopsis singkat

Dua brahmana kosmolog mendatangi Buddha dan menanyakan siapa yang benar di antara Pūraṇa Kassapa dan Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta yang klaimnya saling bertentangan tentang dunia. Buddha menolak menjawab pertanyaan itu dan mengajarkan bahwa 'ujung dunia' tidak dapat dicapai dengan berjalan kaki, melainkan dengan melatih batin melalui jhāna hingga mencapai lenyapnya kekotoran batin.

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BAGIAN 4

an9.38:4.1 “Suppose there were four men standing in the four quarters. Each of them was extremely fast, with an extremely mighty stride.

an9.38:4.2 They’re as fast as a light arrow easily shot across the shadow of a palm tree by a well-trained expert archer with a strong bow.

an9.38:4.3 Their stride was such that it spanned from the eastern ocean to the western ocean.

an9.38:4.4 Then the man standing in the east would say:

an9.38:4.5 ‘I will reach the end of the world by traveling.’

an9.38:4.6 Though he’d travel for his whole lifespan of a hundred years—pausing only to eat and drink, go to the toilet, and sleep to dispel weariness—he’d die along the way, never reaching the end of the world.

an9.38:4.7 Then the man standing in the west …

an9.38:4.8 Then the man standing in the north …

an9.38:4.9 Then the man standing in the south would say:

an9.38:4.10 ‘I will reach the end of the world by traveling.’

an9.38:4.11 Though he’d travel for his whole lifespan of a hundred years—pausing only to eat and drink, go to the toilet, and sleep to dispel weariness—he’d die along the way, never reaching the end of the world.

an9.38:4.12 Why is that?

an9.38:4.13 I say it’s not possible to know or see or reach the end of the world by running like this.

an9.38:4.14 But I also say there’s no making an end of suffering without reaching the end of the world.