4.
The Discourse on Going to the Far Shore
34.
At Sāvatthī.
"These eight mental states, monks, when developed and cultivated, lead to going from the near shore to the far shore.
What are the eight?
That is:
right view, etc.
right concentration.
These, monks, are the eight mental states which, when developed and cultivated, lead to going from the near shore to the far shore."
This is what the Blessed One said. Having said this, the Fortunate One, the Teacher, further said this -
And this other generation just runs along the shore.
Those people will go beyond, the realm of Death so hard to cross.
Having come from home to homelessness, in seclusion where delight is hard.
The wise one should purify oneself of the mental defilements of the mind.
Who delight in the relinquishment of grasping, by non-clinging;
Those who have eliminated the mental corruptions, brilliant, they are quenched in the world." The fourth.