Samaṇabrāhmaṇavagga

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Nidānavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 16 · Section 308

[308] Thus have I heard. … They do not understand birth … they do not understand existence (bhava) … they do not understand clinging (upādāna) … they do not understand craving (taṇhā) … they do not understand feeling (vedanā) … they do not understand contact (phassa) … they do not understand the six sense bases (saḷāyatana) … they do not understand name-and-form (nāmarūpa) … they do not understand consciousness … they do not understand volitional formations, they do not understand the origin of volitional formations, they do not understand the cessation of volitional formations, they do not understand the way of practice leading to the cessation of volitional formations … … having realized it for themselves with direct knowledge, they enter upon and dwell in it. The eleventh. The Chapter on Ascetics and Brahmins, the eighth. Its summary (uddāna): Eleven [suttas] were spoken on the conditions, with the analysis of the four truths; the Chapter on Ascetics and Brahmins, with the Nidāna, is the eighth. Summary of the chapters: The Buddha, Nutriment, the Ten Powers, Kaḷāra, the Householder as fifth; the Chapter on Suffering, the Great Chapter, and eighth, that on Ascetics and Brahmins. __________________ The Intermediate Repetition Series (antarapeyyāla), the ninth.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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