MN 107 · Khotbah kepada Moggallāna Sang Akuntan

Tokoh, tempat, dan gagasan utamanya

Brahmana Gaṇaka Moggallāna bertanya kepada Buddha apakah latihan dalam Dhamma memiliki urutan seperti ilmu berhitung. Buddha menjelaskan latihan bertahap dari disiplin dasar hingga pengembangan batin. Inilah Gaṇakamoggallāna Sutta.

TOKOH

Buddha

Guru yang menjelaskan latihan sebagai proses bertahap, bukan lompatan mendadak.

TOKOH

Gaṇaka Moggallāna

Brahmana ahli hitung yang bertanya tentang urutan latihan dalam ajaran Buddha.

TEMPAT

Pubbārāma

Wihara Timur di Sāvatthī, tempat dialog tentang latihan bertahap ini berlangsung.

GAGASAN

Latihan bertahap

Jalan Dhamma dibangun melalui sila, pengendalian indria, perhatian, kepuasan, meditasi, dan kebijaksanaan secara bertahap.

Visual pengantar Tiga Keranjang · bukan bagian dari teks kanonik.

Sinopsis singkat

Brahmana Gaṇaka Moggallāna bertanya kepada Buddha apakah latihan dalam Dhamma berlangsung secara bertahap seperti pendidikan seorang ahli hitung. Buddha menjawab dengan menggambarkan urutan latihan: sila, penjagaan indra, batas dalam makan, kewaspadaan, perhatian penuh, mencari tempat sunyi, meninggalkan lima rintangan dan memasuki jhāna. Gaṇaka kemudian bertanya: bila jalan telah dijelaskan begitu jelas, apakah semua murid mencapai Nibbāna? Buddha menjawab dengan perumpamaan jalan menuju Rājagaha. Seseorang dapat memberikan petunjuk yang tepat, tetapi sebagian pelancong mengikuti jalan dan sebagian memilih arah yang salah. Tathāgata menunjukkan jalan; berjalan atau tidak tetap menjadi pekerjaan murid.

BAGIAN 14

mn107:14.1 “Well then, brahmin, I’ll ask you about this in return, and you can answer as you like.

mn107:14.2 What do you think, brahmin?

mn107:14.3 Are you skilled in the road to Rājagaha?”

mn107:14.4 “Yes, I am.”

mn107:14.5 “What do you think, brahmin?

mn107:14.6 Suppose a person was to come along who wanted to go to Rājagaha.

mn107:14.7 He’d approach you and say:

mn107:14.8 ‘Sir, I wish to go to Rājagaha.

mn107:14.9 Please point out the road to Rājagaha.’

mn107:14.10 You’d say to them:

mn107:14.11 ‘Here, my man, this road goes to Rājagaha.

mn107:14.12 Go along it for an hour, and you’ll see a certain village. Go along an hour further, and you’ll see a certain town.

mn107:14.13 Go along an hour further and you’ll see Rājagaha with its delightful parks, woods, meadows, and lotus ponds.’

mn107:14.14 Instructed like this by you, they might still take the wrong road, heading west.

mn107:14.15 But a second person might come with the same question and receive the same instructions.

mn107:14.24 Instructed by you, they might safely arrive at Rājagaha.

mn107:14.25 What is the cause, brahmin, what is the reason why, though Rājagaha is present, the path leading to Rājagaha is present, and you are there to encourage them,

mn107:14.26 one person takes the wrong path and heads west, while another arrives safely at Rājagaha?”

mn107:14.27 “What can I do about that, worthy Gotama?

mn107:14.28 I am the one who shows the way.”

mn107:14.29 “In the same way, though extinguishment is present, the path leading to extinguishment is present, and I am present to encourage them,

mn107:14.30 still some of my disciples, instructed and advised like this, achieve the ultimate goal, extinguishment, while some of them fail.

mn107:14.31 What can I do about that, brahmin?

mn107:14.32 The Realized One is the one who shows the way.”