8.
The Discourse on the Marvels of the Truth-finder (Second)
128.
"Monks, with the manifestation of a Truth-finder, a Worthy One, a Perfectly Enlightened One, four wonderful and marvellous phenomena become manifest.
Which four?
Monks, the generation delights in attachment, rejoices in attachment, is pleased with attachment;
when the Teaching on non-attachment is being taught by the Truth-finder, it listens, lends an ear, applies the mind to final liberating knowledge.
Monks, with the manifestation of a Truth-finder, a Worthy One, a Perfectly Enlightened One, this is the first wonderful and marvellous phenomenon that becomes manifest.
Monks, the generation delights in conceit, rejoices in conceit, is pleased with conceit. When the Teaching on the removal of conceit is being taught by the Truth-finder, it listens, lends an ear, applies the mind to final liberating knowledge. Monks, with the manifestation of a Truth-finder, a Worthy One, a Perfectly Enlightened One, this is the second wonderful and marvellous phenomenon that becomes manifest.
Monks, the generation delights in non-peace, rejoices in non-peace, is pleased with non-peace. When the Teaching leading to peace is being taught by the Truth-finder, it listens, lends an ear, applies the mind to final liberating knowledge. Monks, with the manifestation of a Truth-finder, a Worthy One, a Perfectly Enlightened One, this is the third wonderful and marvellous phenomenon that becomes manifest.
Monks, the generation has gone to ignorance, become like an egg, enveloped. When the Teaching on the removal of ignorance is being taught by the Truth-finder, it listens, lends an ear, applies the mind to final liberating knowledge. Monks, with the manifestation of a Truth-finder, a Worthy One, a Perfectly Enlightened One, this is the fourth wonderful and marvellous phenomenon that becomes manifest. Monks, with the manifestation of a Truth-finder, a Worthy One, a Perfectly Enlightened One, these four wonderful and marvellous phenomena become manifest." The eighth.