[530] 91. "Bhikkhus, there are these three trainings (sikkhā). What three? The training in the higher virtue (adhisīlasikkhā), the training in the higher mind (adhicittasikkhā), and the training in the higher wisdom (adhipaññāsikkhā).
"And what, bhikkhus, is the training in the higher virtue? Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu is virtuous … he trains in the training rules, having undertaken them. This, bhikkhus, is called the training in the higher virtue.
"And what, bhikkhus, is the training in the higher mind? Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu, quite secluded from sensual pleasures … enters and dwells in the fourth jhāna. This, bhikkhus, is called the training in the higher mind.
"And what, bhikkhus, is the training in the higher wisdom? Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu, through the destruction of the taints (āsava), realizes for himself with direct knowledge (abhiññā), in this very life, the taintless liberation of mind (cetovimutti) and liberation by wisdom (paññāvimutti), and having entered upon it, he dwells therein. This, bhikkhus, is called the training in the higher wisdom.
"These, bhikkhus, are the three trainings."
The higher virtue, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom too —
energetic, strong, steadfast, meditative,
mindful, with guarded faculties, one should fare:
as before, so after; as after, so before;
as below, so above; as above, so below;
as by day, so by night; as by night, so by day —
having mastered all the directions
with immeasurable concentration (samādhi).
That they call the trainee's (sekha) practice,
and one of thoroughly purified conduct;
him they call in the world one fully awakened,
the wise one who has reached the end of the practice.
With the cessation of consciousness,
for one liberated through the destruction of craving (taṇhā),
the release of the mind (citta)
is like the going out of a lamp.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.