4:3 The Octad on the Hostile

780Some speak with hostile minds,
while some speak with minds bent on truth.
The muni does not become involved in an arisen dispute;
therefore the muni has no barrenness anywhere. (1)

781How could one transcend one’s own view
if, drawn by desire, one is entrenched in a preference?
Taking one’s own [view] to be perfect,
one would speak as one understands. (2)

782When a person, without being asked, proclaims
to others his own good behavior and observances,
the skilled say he is one of ignoble nature,
since on his own accord he proclaims himself. (3)

783But when a peaceful bhikkhu, one inwardly quenched,
does not boast of his good behavior by saying, “I am thus,”
the skilled say he is one of noble nature
who has no swellings anywhere in the world. (4) [154]

784One who has formulated impure teachings,
put them together and advanced them,
becomes attached to the benefit he sees for himself,
to that peace dependent on the unstable. (5)

785Attachments to views are not easily overcome;
having decided among teachings, one tightly grasps [a view].
Therefore, among those bases of attachment,
a person rejects and takes up a teaching. (6)

786One who is cleansed formulates no view
anywhere in the world about various states of existence.
Having abandoned hypocrisy and conceit, through what
would the cleansed one go [astray]Sa kena gaccheyya anūpayo so. I add “astray” in brackets to capture the purport of the various explanations offered by Pj II and Niddesa. when he is uninvolved? (7)

787One involved is embroiled in disputes about teachings;
but how, about what, could one dispute with one uninvolved?
Nothing is taken up or rejected by him;
he has shaken off all views right here. (8)

Duṭṭhaṭṭhakasutta

780Vadanti ve duṭṭhamanāpi eke,
Athopi ve saccamanā vadanti;
Vādañca jātaṁ muni no upeti,
Tasmā munī natthi khilo kuhiñci.

781 Sakañhi diṭṭhiṁ kathamaccayeyya,
Chandānunīto ruciyā niviṭṭho;
Sayaṁ samattāni pakubbamāno,
Yathā hi jāneyya tathā vadeyya.

782 Yo attano sīlavatāni jantu,
Anānupuṭṭhova paresa pāva;
Anariyadhammaṁ kusalā tamāhu,
Yo ātumānaṁ sayameva pāva.

783 Santo ca bhikkhu abhinibbutatto,
Itihanti sīlesu akatthamāno;
Tamariyadhammaṁ kusalā vadanti,
Yassussadā natthi kuhiñci loke.

784 Pakappitā saṅkhatā yassa dhammā,
Purakkhatā santi avīvadātā;
Yadattani passati ānisaṁsaṁ,
Taṁ nissito kuppapaṭiccasantiṁ.

785 Diṭṭhīnivesā na hi svātivattā,
Dhammesu niccheyya samuggahītaṁ;
Tasmā naro tesu nivesanesu,
Nirassatī ādiyatī ca dhammaṁ.

786 Dhonassa hi natthi kuhiñci loke,
Pakappitā diṭṭhi bhavābhavesu;
Māyañca mānañca pahāya dhono,
Sa kena gaccheyya anūpayo so.

787 Upayo hi dhammesu upeti vādaṁ,
Anūpayaṁ kena kathaṁ vadeyya;
Attā nirattā na hi tassa atthi,
Adhosi so diṭṭhimidheva sabbanti.

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Duṭṭhaṭṭhakasuttaṁ tatiyaṁ.