AN 6.170–649 Untitled Discourses on Hate, Etc. ~
“Of hate … delusion … anger … acrimony … disdain … contempt
… jealousy … stinginess … deceitfulness … deviousness …
obstinacy … aggression … conceit … arrogance … vanity … for
insight into negligence … complete understanding … complete ending
… giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation …
giving away … letting go of negligence these six things should be
developed.”
That is what the Buddha said. Satisfied, the mendicants approved what
the Buddha said.
::: Center
THE BOOK OF THE SIXES IS FINISHED.
:::
Colophon
The Translator
Bhikkhu Sujato was born as Anthony Aidan Best on 4/11/1966 in Perth,
Western Australia. He grew up in the pleasant suburbs of Mt Lawley and
Attadale alongside his sister Nicola, who was the good child. His
mother, Margaret Lorraine Huntsman née Pinder, said “he’ll either be a
priest or a poet”, while his father, Anthony Thomas Best, advised him to
“never do anything for money”. He attended Aquinas College, a Catholic
school, where he decided to become an atheist. At the University of WA
he studied philosophy, aiming to learn what he wanted to do with his
life. Finding that what he wanted to do was play guitar, he dropped out.
His main band was named Martha’s Vineyard, which achieved modest success
in the indie circuit.
A seemingly random encounter with a roadside joey took him to Thailand,
where he entered his first meditation retreat at Wat Ram Poeng, Chieng
Mai in 1992. Feeling the call to the Buddha’s path, he took full
ordination in Wat Pa Nanachat in 1994, where his teachers were Ajahn
Pasanno and Ajahn Jayasaro. In 1997 he returned to Perth to study with
Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery.
He spent several years practicing in seclusion in Malaysia and Thailand
before establishing Santi Forest Monastery in Bundanoon, NSW, in 2003.
There he was instrumental in supporting the establishment of the
Theravada bhikkhuni order in Australia and advocating for women’s
rights. He continues to teach in Australia and globally, with a special
concern for the moral implications of climate change and other forms of
environmental destruction. He has published a series of books of
original and groundbreaking research on early Buddhism.
In 2005 he founded SuttaCentral together with Rod Bucknell and John
Kelly. In 2015, seeing the need for a complete, accurate, plain English
translation of the Pali texts, he undertook the task, spending nearly
three years in isolation on the isle of Qi Mei off the coast of the
nation of Taiwan. He completed the four main Nikāyas in
2018, and the early books of the Khuddaka Nikāya were
complete by 2021. All this work is dedicated to the public domain and is
entirely free of copyright encumbrance.
In 2019 he returned to Sydney where he established Lokanta Vihara (The
Monastery at the End of the World).