{"id":"sn45.96","title":"Sixth Discourse on Slanting East","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn45.96","title":"Sixth Discourse on Slanting East","units":[{"id":"sn45.96:0","sourceIds":["sn45.96:0.1","sn45.96:0.2","sn45.96:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 45.96\n9. Gaṅgāpeyyālavagga\nChaṭṭhapācīnaninnasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 45.96\n9. Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges\nSixth Discourse on Slanting East"}},{"id":"sn45.96:1","sourceIds":["sn45.96:1.1","sn45.96:1.2","sn45.96:1.3","sn45.96:1.4","sn45.96:1.5","sn45.96:1.6","sn45.96:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yā kācimā mahānadiyo, seyyathidaṁ—\ngaṅgā, yamunā, aciravatī, sarabhū, mahī, sabbā tā pācīnaninnā pācīnapoṇā pācīnapabbhārā;\nevameva kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bhāvento ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro.\nKathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bhāvento ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sammādiṭṭhiṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ …pe… sammāsamādhiṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bhāvento ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, all the great rivers—that is,\nthe Ganges, Yamunā, Aciravatī, Sarabhū, and Mahī—slant, slope, and incline toward the east.\nIn the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.\nAnd how does a mendicant who develops the noble eightfold path slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment?\nIt’s when a mendicant develops right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go.\nThat’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn45.96/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}