[191] Therein, which is the way leading to the cessation of suffering (dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā)?
Here a bhikkhu, at the time when he develops supramundane jhāna (lokuttara jhāna) — emancipating (niyyānika), leading to the dismantling [of the round] (apacayagāmī) — for the abandonment of wrong views (diṭṭhigata), for the attainment of the first stage (bhūmi): quite secluded from sensual pleasures … he enters and dwells in the first jhāna, which is of painful practice and sluggish direct knowledge (dukkhāpaṭipada-dandhābhiñña) — at that time there is the eightfold path (aṭṭhaṅgika magga): right view (sammādiṭṭhi) … right concentration (sammāsamādhi). This is called the way leading to the cessation of suffering. The remaining phenomena (dhammā) are associated (sampayutta) with the way leading to the cessation of suffering.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.