{"id":"sn45.91","title":"Slanting East","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn45.91","title":"Slanting East","units":[{"id":"sn45.91:0","sourceIds":["sn45.91:0.1","sn45.91:0.2","sn45.91:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 45.91\n9. Gaṅgāpeyyālavagga\nPaṭhamapācīnaninnasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 45.91\n9. Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges\nSlanting East"}},{"id":"sn45.91:1","sourceIds":["sn45.91:1.1","sn45.91:1.2","sn45.91:1.3","sn45.91:1.4","sn45.91:1.5","sn45.91:1.6","sn45.91:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\n“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gaṅgā nadī 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 virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ …pe… sammāsamādhiṁ bhāveti vivekanissitaṁ virāganissitaṁ nirodhanissitaṁ vossaggapariṇāmiṁ.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bhāvento ariyaṁ aṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, the Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to 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/sn45.91/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."}