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THUS I HAVE HEARD:
The Sublime One was liviing in Banares Isipatana at Migadaye. While there, the Sublime One addressed the Renunciates:
"These two extremes should be avoided by the progressor:
1. The devotion that is dependence on the pleasure in sense pleasures which is inferior, secular, common, not extra-ordinary, and futile.
2. The devotion that is self-mortification, which is uneasy, not extra-ordinary, and futile.
Without entering on these two extremes the Realized One is super-awakened to the Middle Path which bestows vision, bestows understanding, which evolves into inner tranquility, to super-understanding, to Awakening, and to Serenity (Nirvana).
What, Renunciates, is this Middle Path which the Realized One has super-awakened to? Which bestows vision, bestows understanding...?
It is this extra-ordinary Eightfold Way, namely:
1. Harmonious perspective
2. Harmonious visualization
3. Harmonious speech
4. Harmonious action
5. Harmonious practice
6. Harmonious awareness
8. Harmonious mental repose
This, Renunciates, is the Middle Path which the Realized One has super-awakened to, which bestows vision...
This Renunciates, is the Extra-Ordinary Truth of Unease
1. Birth is unease
2. Decay is unease
3. Disease is unease
4. Death is unease
5. Associatiuon with the unpleasant is unease
6. disassociation from the pleasant is unease
7. Non-fullfillment of desire is unease
In essence, the five aggregates of identification are unease.
This, Renunciates, is the Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Arising of Unease: That which is the recurring urge accompanied by pleasure and passion, finding pleasure everywhere. Namely:
1. The urge for sense desire
2. The urge for existence
3. The urge for non-existence
This, Renunciates, is the Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Stopping of Unease: Whatever is the non-residual, dispassionate, stopping of that urge; it's sacrifice, it's complete renunciation, and the freedom and disattachment from it.
This, Renunciates, is the Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Path leading to the stopping of Unease.
It is the extra-Ordinary Eightfold Way, namely: Harmonious perspective; Harmonious visualization; Harmonious speech; Harmonious action; Harmonious practice; Harmonious awareness; Harmonious mental repose."
The Revolution of the Wheel of Experience from Unease to Ease
1.1. With the realization, 'This is the Extra-Ordinary Truth of Unease', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
2.2. With the realization, 'This Extra-Ordinary Truth of Unease is to be completely understood', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
3.3. With the realization, 'This Extra-Ordinary Truth of Unease has been completely understood', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
1.4. With the realization, 'This is the Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Arising of Unease', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
2.5. With the realization, 'This Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Arising of Unease is to be given up', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
3.6. With the realization, 'This Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Arising of Unease has been given up', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
1.7. With the realization, 'This is the Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Stopping of Unease', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
2.8. With the realization, 'This Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Stopping of Unease is to be realized (in action)', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
3.9. With the realization, 'This Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Stopping of Unease has been realized (in action)', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
1.10. With the realization, 'This is the Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Path leading to the Stopping of Unease', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
2.11. With the realization, 'This Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Path leading to the Stopping of Unease is to be developed', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
3.12. With the realization, 'This Extra-Ordinary Truth of the Path leading to Arising of Unease has been developed', Renunciates, an eye (vision) arose in me, understanding arose, prime understanding arose, sentience arose, light arose, concerning experience, unheard of before.
So long, Renunciates, as these four Extra-Ordinary Truths did not become clear to me through this twelve-fold tripple revolutionary Understanding and Vision of how things have come to exist, I did not know[1] that in the world consisting of gods, devils, Gods, saints, priests, and the common people, of celestial and human beings, I am one, super-awakened to that Unsurpassble Harmonious Awareness.
When, Renunciates, these four Extra-Ordinary Truths became clear to me through this twelve-fold triple revolutionary Understanding and vision of how things have come to exist, then I knew[1] that in the world consisting of gods, devils, Gods, saints, priests, and the common people, of celestial and human beings, I am one super-awakened to that Unsurpassable Harmonious Awakening.
Understanding and vision has arisen in me; unexcitable is my emotional freedom; this is my last birth; no more are these recurrences of existence.
Thus spoke the Sublime One. Approving, the group of five renunciates were extremely delighted with what the Sublime One spoke.
While being spoken to, in this way of expression, the undefiled, unstained eye of (vision) of experience arose for the Venerable Kondanna: 'What ever is experienced as arisen, all that is experienced (also) as stopped.'
New York City, 1979
[1]Ed note: I have changed what looks to me like a trial thought that was left in this manuscript to read properly here. I have an inquiry in to Ven. Punnaji about this and the reader should be aware that this phrase may change.
References:
PTS, L. Feer, Samyutta-Nikaya V: Maha-vagga XII: Sacca-Samyutta 2: Dhammacakkapavattana-vaggo, pp 420
PTS, F.L. Woodward, trans., The Book of the Kindred Sayings V: The Great Chapter XI: Kindred Sayings about the Truths II: Foundation of the Kingdom of the Norm, pp 356
WP, Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., The Connected Discourses of the Buddha II: The Great Book 12: Connected Discourses on the Truths 2: Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dhamma, pp1843
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