“Bhikkhus, once in the past a hawk suddenly swooped down and seized a quail.
- BB: The parable of the hawk and the quail is also related in the Sakuṇagghi Jātaka (No. 168; Jā II 58-59), with the Bodhisatta as the quail and Devadatta as the hawk. For additional references, see KS 5:125, n. 1. Though sakuṇagghi is a feminine, this need not imply the hawk is female.
- * BB: [Some technical discussion about the translation...] Spk explains it as though it were not a negation: “boasting: speaking fully, thoroughly praising her own strength.”
- BB: Comare SN 35.243 http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- "And how is one soggy ["corrupted" in Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation]? There is the case where a monk, when seeing a form via the eye, is, in the case of pleasing forms, committed to forms and, in the case of displeasing forms, afflicted by forms. He remains with body-mindfulness not present, and with limited awareness. And he does not discern, as it actually is present, the awareness-release & discernment-release where those evil, unskillful qualities that have arisen cease without trace.
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"This is called a monk who is soggy with [corrupted amidst] forms cognizable via the eye,
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"When a monk dwells in this way, then if Mara comes to him via the eye, Mara gains entry, Mara gains a foothold [gains access to him, gets a hold on him].
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- "And how is one soggy ["corrupted" in Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation]? There is the case where a monk, when seeing a form via the eye, is, in the case of pleasing forms, committed to forms and, in the case of displeasing forms, afflicted by forms. He remains with body-mindfulness not present, and with limited awareness. And he does not discern, as it actually is present, the awareness-release & discernment-release where those evil, unskillful qualities that have arisen cease without trace.
