2.
The Discourse on the Brahmin
1008.
At Sāvatthī.
"Brahmins, monks, declare a practice called 'leading to rise'.
They exhort their disciple thus -
'Come, my good man, having risen early in the morning, go facing east.
Do not avoid a pit, do not avoid a precipice, do not avoid a stump, do not avoid a thorny place, do not avoid a cesspool, do not avoid a sewer.
Wherever you might fall, right there you should await death.
Thus you, my good man, upon the body's collapse at death, will be reborn in a fortunate realm, in a heavenly world.'
"But this, monks, is the brahmins' foolish going, this is their deluded going; it does not lead to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to peace, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to Nibbāna. But I, monks, declare a practice leading to rise in the Noble One's discipline; which leads exclusively to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to peace, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to Nibbāna.
"And what, monks, is that practice leading to rise; which leads exclusively to disenchantment... etc. to Nibbāna? Here, monks, a noble disciple is endowed with unwavering confidence in the Buddha: 'Thus indeed is the Blessed One: the Worthy One, the Perfectly Enlightened One... etc. Teacher of gods and humans, the Enlightened One, the Blessed One'; Towards the Teaching... etc. towards the Community, etc. He is endowed with morality pleasing to the noble ones, unbroken... etc. conducive to concentration. This, monks, is that practice leading to rise, leading exclusively to disenchantment... etc. to Nibbāna." The second.