5.
The Discourse to Saṅgārava
117.
Then the brahmin Saṅgārava approached the Blessed One;
having approached, he exchanged friendly greetings with the Blessed One.
Having concluded the pleasant and memorable talk, he sat down to one side.
Seated to one side, the brahmin Saṅgārava said this to the Blessed One -
"What indeed, Master Gotama, is the near shore, what is the far shore?"
"Wrong view, brahmin, is the near shore, right view is the far shore;
wrong thought is the near shore, right thought is the far shore;
wrong speech is the near shore, right speech is the far shore;
wrong action is the near shore, right action is the far shore;
wrong livelihood is the near shore, right livelihood is the far shore;
wrong effort is the near shore, right effort is the far shore;
wrong mindfulness is the near shore, right mindfulness is the far shore;
wrong concentration is the near shore, right concentration is the far shore;
wrong knowledge is the near shore, right knowledge is the far shore;
wrong liberation is the near shore, right liberation is the far shore.
This, brahmin, 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 fifth.