The "Linked Discourses on Acquisitions and Respect" contain teachings on the danger of acqusitions, respect, and popularity for spiritual practitioners. The Buddha emphasizes how these worldly rewards are harsh, bitter, severe, and obstructive, leading to complacency, attachment, and spiritual downfall. Through vivid similes — such as comparing acquisitions and respect to a fisherman's baited hook — the discourses highlight how even accomplished practitioners can become ensnared if they relish praise and recognition.
Lābhasakkārasaṁyutta - Linked Discourses on Acquisitions and Respect
The Buddha explains how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from the bondage.
The Buddha explains how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from the bondage using a simile of a fisherman casting a baited hook.
The Buddha uses the simile of a turtle struck by a harpoon to illustrate how attachments to acquisitions, respect, and popularity can lead to misfortune and hinder spiritual progress.
The Buddha shares a simile of a wooly goat entering a thicket of thorns to explain how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage.
The Buddha shares a simile of a dung beetle to explain how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage.
The Buddha uses a simile of a thunderbolt to explain how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage.
The Buddha uses a simile of a dart dipped in poison to explain how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage.
The Buddha explains how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage, using a simile of an old jackal with mange.
The Buddha explains how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage, using a simile of turbulent winds high in the sky.
The Buddha shares the consequences of being overwhelmed by respect, disrespect, or both, and how they obstruct the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage.
The Buddha uses a simile of a golden bowl filled with powdered silver to explain how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage.
The Buddha uses a simile of a silver bowl filled with powdered gold to explain how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage.
The Buddha uses different similes to explain how acquisitions, respect, and popularity are harsh, bitter, and severe, obstructing the attainment of the unsurpassed safety from bondage.
It may be that a woman, even when alone with a man, may not remain occupying his mind, but acquisitions, respect, and popularity might.
It may be that a beauty queen, even when alone with a man, may not remain occupying his mind, but acquisitions, respect, and popularity might.
A laywoman should wish for her son to become like the foremost lay disciples Citta and Hatthaka, and if he goes forth, wish that acquisitions, respect, and popularity not come upon him while he is still a trainee.
A laywoman should wish for her daughter to become like the foremost female lay disciples Khujjuttarā and Nandamātā, and if she goes forth, may acquisitions, respect, and popularity not come upon her while she is still a trainee.
The Buddha explains how understanding the gratification, drawback, and escape in regard to acquisitions, respect, and popularity leads to personal experience and attainment of the goal of asceticism or brahminhood in this very life.