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The Discourse on Volition to be Done
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"For one who is moral, monks, accomplished in morality, there is nothing to be done by volition:
'May freedom from remorse arise in me.'
This is the nature, monks, that for one who is moral, accomplished in morality, freedom from remorse arises.
For one free from remorse, monks, there is nothing to be done by volition: 'May gladness arise in me.' This is the nature, monks, that for one free from remorse, gladness arises.
For one who is gladdened, monks, there is nothing to be done by volition: 'May rapture arise in me.' This is the nature, monks, that for one who is gladdened, rapture arises.
For one whose mind is filled with rapture, monks, there is nothing to be done by volition: 'May my body become calm.' This is the nature, monks, that for one whose mind is filled with rapture, the body becomes calm.
For one whose body is calm, monks, there is nothing to be done by volition: 'May I feel happiness.' This is the nature, monks, that one whose body is calm feels happiness.
For one who is happy, monks, there is nothing to be done by volition: 'May my mind become concentrated.' This is the nature, monks, that the mind of one who is happy becomes concentrated.
For one who is concentrated, monks, there is nothing to be done by volition: 'May I know and see as it really is.' This is the nature, monks, that one who is concentrated knows and sees as it really is.
For one who knows and sees as it really is, monks, there is nothing to be done by volition: 'May I become disenchanted.' This is the nature, monks, that one who knows and sees as it really is becomes disenchanted.
For one who is disenchanted, monks, there is nothing to be done by volition: 'May I become dispassionate.' This is the nature, monks, that one who is disenchanted becomes dispassionate.
For one who is dispassionate, monks, there is nothing to be done by volition: 'May I realise knowledge and vision of liberation.' This is the nature, monks, that one who is dispassionate realises knowledge and vision of liberation.
"Thus indeed, monks, dispassion has knowledge and vision of liberation as its purpose, knowledge and vision of liberation as its benefit; disenchantment has dispassion as its purpose, dispassion as its benefit; knowledge and vision of things as they really are has disenchantment as its purpose, disenchantment as its benefit; concentration has knowledge and vision of things as they really are as its purpose, knowledge and vision of things as they really are as its benefit; happiness has concentration as its purpose, concentration as its benefit; tranquillity has happiness as its purpose, happiness as its benefit; rapture has tranquillity as its purpose, tranquillity as its benefit; gladness has rapture as its purpose, rapture as its benefit; freedom from remorse has gladness as its purpose, gladness as its benefit; wholesome moral practices have freedom from remorse as their purpose, freedom from remorse as their benefit. Thus indeed, monks, mental states flow into mental states, mental states fulfil mental states, for going from the near shore to the far shore." The second.