8.
The Discourse on the Monk
28.
He was dwelling at Sāvatthī, etc.
There, etc.
Here, monks, a monk understands ageing and death, understands the origin of ageing and death, understands the cessation of ageing and death, understands the practice leading to the cessation of ageing and death, understands birth, etc.
understands existence...
understands clinging...
understands craving...
understands feeling...
understands contact...
understands the six sense bases...
understands mentality-materiality...
understands consciousness...
understands activities, understands the origin of activities, understands the cessation of activities, understands the practice leading to the cessation of activities.
"And what, monks, is ageing and death? Whatever ageing, decaying, broken teeth, grey hair, wrinkled skin, deterioration of life span, maturing of the faculties of those various beings in those various orders of beings - this is called ageing. Whatever passing away, decease, breaking up, disappearance, death, dying, making of time, breaking up of the aggregates, discarding of the body of those various beings from those various orders of beings; this is called death. Thus this ageing and this death. This is called, monks, ageing and death. From the origin of birth is the origin of ageing and death; from the cessation of birth is the cessation of ageing and death. It is just this noble eightfold path that is the practice leading to the cessation of ageing and death. That is: right view, etc. right concentration.
"And what, monks, is birth? Etc. And what, monks, is existence? And what, monks, is clinging? feeling... contact... the six sense bases... mentality-materiality... consciousness...
"And what, monks, are activities? There are these three activities, monks - bodily activity, verbal activity, mental activity. These are called, monks, activities. From the origin of ignorance is the origin of activities; from the cessation of ignorance is the cessation of activities. It is just this noble eightfold path that is the practice leading to the cessation of activities. That is: right view, etc. right concentration.
"Since, monks, a monk thus understands ageing and death, thus understands the origin of ageing and death, thus understands the cessation of ageing and death, thus understands the practice leading to the cessation of ageing and death, thus understands birth, etc. existence... clinging... craving... feeling... contact... the six sense bases... mentality-materiality... consciousness... activities... the origin of activities... the cessation of activities... thus understands the practice leading to the cessation of activities. This is called, monks, a monk who is accomplished in right view, and also accomplished in vision, and also has arrived at this Good Teaching, and also sees this Good Teaching, and also is endowed with a learner's knowledge, and also is endowed with a learner's true knowledge, and also has attained the stream of the Teaching, and also is a noble one of penetrative wisdom, and also stands having reached the door to the Deathless." The eighth.