Saɱyutta Nikāya
II. Nidāna Vagga
12. Nidāna Saɱyutta
3. Dasa-Balā Vagga
Sutta 28
Bhikkhu Suttaɱ
Bhikkhu
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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"Herein, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu understands aging-and-death, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation.
He understands birth ...
existence ...
clinging [44] ...
craving ...
feeling ...
contact ...
the six sense bases ...
name-and-form ...
consciousness ...
volitional formations, their origin, their cessation, and the way leading to their cessation.
"And what, bhikkhus, is aging-and-death?
... (as in preceding sutta) ...
Just this Noble Eightfold Path is the way leading to the cessation of volitional formations; that is, right view ... right concentration.
"When, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu thus understands aging-and-death, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation; when he thus understands birth ... existence ... clinging ... craving ... feeling ... contact ... the six sense bases ... name-and-form ... [45] consciousness ... volitional formations, their origin, their cessation, and the way leading to their cessation, he is then called a bhikkhu who is accomplished in view, accomplished in vision, who has arrived at this true Dhamma, who sees this true Dhamma, who possesses a trainee's knowledge, a trainee's true knowledge, who has entered the stream of the Dhamma, a noble one with penetrative wisdom, one who stands squarely before the door to the Deathless."
