Atandita

Renderings

• atandita: tirelessly applied [to the practice]

• atandita: tirelessly applied [to benefiting]

• atandita: unwearied man

Introduction

Synonyms

Atandita is close in meaning to appamatto, and we parenthesise it equally:

• Sīha, dwell diligently applied [to the practice]. Dwell tirelessly applied [to the practice] night and day. Develop spiritually wholesome factors. Quickly give up [attachment to] the body.
☸ Sīhappamatto vihara rattindivamatandito
Bhāvehi kusalaṃ dhammaṃ jaha sīghaṃ samussayan ti (Th.v.83).

Illustrations

Illustration: atanditā, being tirelessly applied [to the practice]

Viewing it in this way, being tirelessly applied [to the practice] night and day, then, having profoundly understood it through my own penetrative discernment, I saw it [according to reality].
☸ Evametaṃ avekkhantī rattindivamatanditā
Tato sakāya paññāya abhinibbijjha dakkhisaṃ (Thī.v.84).

Illustration: atandite, tirelessly applied [to the practice]

Having renounced [the household life] in faith, a novice bhikkhu newly gone forth [into the ascetic life] should associate with virtuous friends whose means of livelihood is pure, who are tirelessly applied [to the practice].
Saddhāya abhinikkhamma navapabbajito navo
Mitte bhajeyya kalyāṇe suddhājīve atandite (Th.v.249)

Illustration: atandito, tirelessly applied [to the practice]

‘Being resolutely applied to inward striving, and tirelessly applied [to the practice] night and day, urged on by my mother, I realised supreme inward peace.
☸ Sohaṃ padhānapahitatto rattindivamatandito
Mātarā codito santo aphusiṃ santimuttamaṃ (Thī.v.212).

Illustration: atandito, tirelessly applied [to the practice]

‘Recollecting the Perfectly Enlightened One, the best [of Buddhas], who is inwardly tamed and inwardly collected, being tirelessly applied [to the practice] night and day, I will abide in the woods.’
☸ Anussaranto sambuddhaṃ aggaṃ dantaṃ samāhitaṃ
Atandito rattindivaṃ viharissāmi kānane ti (Th.v.354).

Illustration: atandito, tirelessly applied [to the practice]

Dwelling alone in the woods, tirelessly applied [to the practice], I followed the Teacher’s advice. I did just as the Conqueror instructed me [to do].
☸ Sohaṃ eko araññasmiṃ viharanto atandito
Akāsiṃ satthu vacanaṃ yathā maṃ ovadi jino (Th.v.626).

Illustration: atandito, tirelessly applied [to the practice]

Sitting alone, sleeping alone, living alone, tirelessly applied [to the practice], taming oneself in solitude, one would be [thereby] delighted in the woods.
☸ Ekāsanaṃ ekaseyyaṃ eko caramatandito
Eko damayamattānaṃ vanante ramito siyā (Dh.v.305).

Illustration: atanditaṃ, tirelessly applied [to the practice]

If, though he receives but little, a bhikkhu does not despise his gains, even the devas praise him, one of pure livelihood who is tirelessly applied [to the practice].
☸ Appalābho pi ce bhikkhu salābhaṃ nātimaññati
Taṃ ve devā pasaṃsanti suddhājīviṃ atanditaṃ (Dh.v.366).

Illustration: atandite, tirelessly applied [to the practice]

Associate with virtuous friends who are of pure livelihood, and who are tirelessly applied [to the practice].
☸ Mitte bhajassu kalyāṇe suddhājīve atandite (Dh.v.376).

Illustration: atandito, tirelessly applied [to benefiting]

Tirelessly applied [to benefiting] his mother, father, and ancestors, night and day
☸ Mātaraṃ pitaraṃ pubbe rattindivamatandito (A.4.245).

Illustration: atandito, unwearied man

Therefore, I will make you as supple as an unwearied man makes a catskin bag.
☸ Tathā tu kassāmi yathā pi issaro yaṃ labbhati tena pi hotu me alaṃ
Taṃ t’ahaṃ kassāmi yathā atandito biḷārabhastaṃ va tathā sumadditaṃ (Th.v.1138).