TOKOH
Buddha
Percakapan bermula dari Samiddhi dan berkembang menjadi penjelasan Buddha kepada Ānanda.
BAGIAN 2
mn136:2.1 Now at that time Venerable Samiddhi was staying in a wilderness hut.
mn136:2.2 Then as the wanderer Potaliputta was going for a walk he came up to Venerable Samiddhi and exchanged greetings with him.
mn136:2.3 When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to him:
mn136:2.4 “Reverend Samiddhi, I have heard and learned this in the presence of the ascetic Gotama:
mn136:2.5 ‘Deeds by way of body and speech are done in vain. Only mental deeds are real.’
mn136:2.6 And: ‘There is such an attainment where the one who enters it does not feel anything at all.’”
mn136:2.7 “Don’t say that, Reverend Potaliputta, don’t say that! Don’t misrepresent the Buddha, for misrepresentation of the Buddha is not good. And the Buddha would not say this:
mn136:2.8 ‘Deeds by way of body and speech are done in vain. Only mental deeds are real.’
mn136:2.9 But, reverend, there is such an attainment where the one who enters it does not feel anything at all.”
mn136:2.10 “Reverend Samiddhi, how long has it been since you went forth?”
mn136:2.11 “Not long, reverend: three years.”
mn136:2.12 “Well now, what are we to say to the senior mendicants, when even such a junior mendicant imagines their Teacher needs defending?
mn136:2.13 After doing an intentional deed by way of body, speech, or mind, reverend, what does one feel?”
mn136:2.14 “After doing an intentional deed by way of body, speech, or mind, reverend, one feels suffering.”
mn136:2.15 Then, neither approving nor rejecting Samiddhi’s statement, Potaliputta
mn136:2.16 rose from his seat and left.