6.
The Discourse on the Perfectly Enlightened One
58.
At Sāvatthī.
"The Truth-finder, monks, the Worthy One, the Perfectly Enlightened One, through disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of matter, is liberated by non-clinging, and is called the Perfectly Enlightened One.
A monk too, monks, liberated by wisdom, through disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of matter, is liberated by non-clinging, and is called one liberated by wisdom.
"The Truth-finder, monks, the Worthy One, the Perfectly Enlightened One, through disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of feeling, is liberated by non-clinging, and is called the Perfectly Enlightened One. A monk too, monks, liberated by wisdom, through disenchantment, dispassion of feeling, etc. is called one liberated by wisdom.
"The Truth-finder, monks, the Worthy One, the Perfectly Enlightened One, of perception... of activities... through disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of consciousness, is liberated by non-clinging, and is called the Perfectly Enlightened One. A monk too, monks, liberated by wisdom, through disenchantment, dispassion, and cessation of consciousness, is liberated by non-clinging, and is called one liberated by wisdom.
"Therein, monks, what is the distinction, what is the disparity, what is the difference between the Truth-finder, the Worthy One, the Perfectly Enlightened One, and a monk liberated by wisdom?" "The teachings have the Blessed One as their root, venerable sir, have the Blessed One as their guide, have the Blessed One as their refuge. It would be good indeed, venerable sir, if the meaning of this statement would occur to the Blessed One himself. Having heard from the Blessed One, the monks will remember it." "Well then, monks, listen, pay close attention; I will speak." "Yes, venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One. The Blessed One said this:
"The Truth-finder, monks, the Worthy One, the Perfectly Enlightened One, is the producer of the unarisen path, the generator of the unproduced path, the declarer of the undeclared path, the knower of the path, the expert in the path, skilled in the path; and now, monks, the disciples dwell following the path, having become endowed with it afterwards. This, monks, is the distinction, this is the disparity, this is the difference between the Truth-finder, the Worthy One, the Perfectly Enlightened One, and a monk liberated by wisdom." The sixth.