Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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I, 6, 22. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 95
duces to calm, to knowledge, to the Sambodhi, to Nirvana? It is the holy eightfold Path, namely, Right Belief, Right Aspiration, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Means of Livelihood, Right Endeavour, Right Memory, Right Meditation. This, o Bhikkhus, is the Middle Path the knowledge of which the Tathagata has gained, which leads to insight, which leads to wisdom, which conduces to calm, to knowledge, to the Sambodhi, to Nirvana.
19. "This, O Bhikkhus, is the Noble Truth of Suffering: Birth is suffering; decay is suffering ; illness is suffering; death is suffering. Presence of objects we hate, is suffering ; Separation from objects we love, is suffering; not to obtain what we desire, is suffering. Briefly, the fivefold clinging to existence is suffering.
20. “This, O Bhikkhus, is the Noble Truth of the Cause of suffering : Thirst, that leads to re-birth, accompanied by pleasure and lust, finding its delight here and there. (This thirst is threefold), namely, thirst for pleasure, thirst for existence, thirst for prosperity.
21. *This, O Bhikkhus, is the Noble Truth of the Cessation of suffering: (it ceases with) the complete cessation of this thirst,--a cessation which consists in the absence of every passion,—with the abandoning of this thirst, with the doing away with it, with the deliverance from it, with the destruction of desire.
22. “This, O Bhikkhus, is the Noble Truth of the Path which leads to the cessation of suffering:
1 Clinging to the five elements of existence, rûpa, vedana, sañña, samkhârâ, viññana. See $ 38 seq.
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