Lzh Sarv Bu Pm Sk 18Well-Covered (2nd)
Pāli / Sanskrit:Dutiyasuppaṭicchanna
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DUTIYASUPPAṬICCHANNA SUTTA (WELL-COVERED THE SECOND TIME)
Context
The Dutiyasuppaṭicchanna Sutta is recorded in the Vinaya Piṭaka, specifically in the Pātimokkha and the training rules of the Buddhist Sangha. This sutta belongs to the teachings related to guarding body, speech, and mind in the monastic life, a key aspect of Early Buddhist conduct.
In the Theravāda context of practice, the concept of "suppaṭicchanna" (well covered, well concealed) is understood as guarding the doors of the indriyas (faculties), preventing the mind from falling into the defilements (āsava). This second sutta (dutiya) emphasizes a second form or a more specific application of this principle of covering and restraint in daily practice.
Main Content
The Dutiyasuppaṭicchanna Sutta addresses the necessity of concealing and controlling the activities of body, speech, and mind so that they do not reveal anything impure or unworthy of a monastic. This includes conduct, speech, and thought that should be in harmony with noble Dharma conduct.
Specifically, this sutta focuses on managing the indriya faculties comprehensively. When the sense faculties contact their objects, the eye seeing forms, the ear hearing sounds, the nose smelling odors, the tongue tasting flavors, the body feeling tactile objects, and the mind contacting mental phenomena, if there is no moral dread and shame (hiri ottappa), one will fall into bad thoughts such as greed, hatred, and delusion. The second well-covering here is the continuous maintenance of alertness (sati, mindfulness) and deep mindfulness, not allowing even a single moment for sad craving or conditions of anger to develop.
The sutta may also point to the covering of one’s faults: when making a mistake, a monastic should not conceal or hide it from fellow practitioners or teachers, but should humbly accept correction. Yet "well covered" here means covering inner weaknesses and desires not yet eradicated by further cultivating virtues that oppose them.
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