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Phu Tử Cộng Hội 1
The Atthapadāsutta (“The Path Full of Meaning”) was translated in the first half of the 3rd century by lay friend Chi Khiem and Zen Master Tang Hoi in Eastern Wu (Jianye, now Nanjing). This is one of the 198 sutras of the Taishō Tripiṭaka, consisting of 14 original verses and a prose introduction, compiled through comparison between the Chinese and Pali versions, reflecting the early period of Original Buddhism when the World-Honored One was still wandering with his disciples.
The verses of the sutra describe the portrait of the Muni—the silent sage with perfect virtue—through the following qualities:
- Letting go of all past anger (not a “holder of boundaries” clinging to resentment).
- Not craving for the future (all notions of the future and distant expectations have been extinguished).
- Not clinging in the present to fame, respect, or any personal views.
- Steadfast in right faith, not engaging in argument or defending any fixed viewpoint, living peacefully and freely in this very moment.
Through the first four of the fourteen verses, the Atthapadāsutta clearly depicts a path of practice that is simple yet profound: not giving rise to anger, not caught in delusive thoughts, not engaging in disputes, and letting go of all wrong views in order to realize absolute freedom right in each breath.