6.
The Discourse on the Near Shore
118.
"I will teach you, monks, the near shore and the far shore.
Listen to that, pay close attention;
I will speak."
"Yes, venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"And what, monks, is the near shore, and what is the far shore? Wrong view is the near shore, right view is the far shore, etc. Wrong liberation is the near shore, right liberation is the far shore. This, monks, is the near shore, this is the far shore.
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 sixth.