AN8.19

The fact that, sir, the ocean gradually slants, slopes, and inclines, with no abrupt precipice;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, sir, the ocean is consistent and doesn’t overflow its boundaries;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, sir, the ocean doesn’t accommodate a carcass, but quickly carries it to the shore and strands it on the beach;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, sir, all the great rivers—that is, the Ganges, Yamunā, Aciravatī, Sarabhū, and Mahī—lose their names and clans and are simply reckoned as ‘the ocean’;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, sir, for all the world’s streams that reach it, and the showers that fall from the sky, the ocean never empties or fills up;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, sir, the ocean has just one taste, the taste of salt;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, sir, the ocean is full of many kinds of treasures, such as pearls, gems, beryl, conch, quartz, coral, silver, native gold, rubies, and emeralds;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, sir, many great beings live in the ocean—such beings as leviathans, leviathan-gulpers, leviathan-gulper-gulpers, titans, dragons, and centaurs; in the ocean are life-forms a hundred leagues long … three hundred … four hundred … and life-forms five hundred leagues long;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, Pahārāda, in this teaching and training the penetration to enlightenment comes from gradual training, progress, and practice, not abruptly;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, Pahārāda, when a training rule is laid down for my disciples they wouldn’t break it even for the sake of their own life;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, Pahārāda, the Saṅgha doesn’t accommodate an individual who is unethical, of bad qualities, filthy, with suspicious behavior, underhand, no true ascetic or spiritual practitioner—though claiming to be one—rotten inside, festering, and depraved. But they quickly gather and expel them. Even if they are sitting in the middle of the Saṅgha, they’re far from the Saṅgha, and the Saṅgha is far from them;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, Pahārāda, all four classes—aristocrats, brahmins, peasants, and menials—go forth from the lay life to homelessness, lose their former names and clans, and are simply reckoned as ‘ascetics who follow the Sakyan’;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, Pahārāda, though several mendicants become fully extinguished in the element of extinguishment with no residue, the element of extinguishment never empties or fills up;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, Pahārāda, this teaching and training has one taste, the taste of freedom;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, Pahārāda, this teaching and training is full of many kinds of treasures, such as the four kinds of mindfulness meditation, the four right efforts, the four bases of psychic power, the five faculties, the five powers, the seven awakening factors, and the noble eightfold path;bản lấp của dự án

The fact that, Pahārāda, great beings live in this teaching and training, and these are those beings. The stream-enterer and the one practicing to realize the fruit of stream-entry. The once-returner and the one practicing to realize the fruit of once-return. The non-returner and the one practicing to realize the fruit of non-return. The perfected one, and the one practicing for perfection;bản lấp của dự án

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