Iti 111Accomplishment in Ethics
Pāli / Sanskrit:Sampannasīlasutta
When one is consummate in virtue, what more is to be done?
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– So It Was Said 111
The Book of the Fours The Chapter on the Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching Accomplishment in Ethics
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, live by the ethical precepts and the monastic code. Live restrained in the monastic code, conducting yourselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, keep the rules you’ve undertaken.
When you’ve done this, what more is there to do?
Suppose a mendicant has got rid of desire and ill will while walking, and has given up dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt. Their energy is roused up and unflagging, their mindfulness is established and lucid, their body is tranquil and undisturbed, and their mind is immersed in samādhi and unified. Such a mendicant is said to be ‘keen and prudent, always energetic and resolute’ when walking.
Suppose a mendicant has got rid of desire and ill will while standing …
sitting …
or when lying down while awake. Such a mendicant is said to be ‘keen and prudent, always energetic and resolute’ when lying down while awake.”
The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.
The “…” is an abbreviation carried over from the Pāli original itself, called peyyāla. The early canon was memorized and recited, so passages repeated verbatim from a preceding discourse were commonly contracted to an elision mark rather than written out in full. Venerable Thích Minh Châu's translation preserves this convention. Some texts therefore look short — but that is the canonical form, not missing content or a truncated translation. The elided passages can be read in full in the preceding discourses of the same chapter.
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