10.
The Person Discourse
133.
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Rājagaha on the Vulture's Peak mountain.
There the Blessed One addressed the monks thus:
"Monks."
"Venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"This wandering in the round of rebirths, monks, is without discernible beginning, etc. For one person, monks, transmigrating and wandering on for a cosmic cycle, there would be such a great skeleton, a heap of bones, a pile of bones as this Vepulla mountain, if there were a collector and what was collected would not perish. What is the reason for this? This wandering in the round of rebirths, monks, is without discernible beginning, etc. enough to become liberated."
This is what the Blessed One said. Having said this, the Fortunate One, the Teacher, further said this -
Would be a heap equal to a mountain, thus was said by the great sage.
To the north of the Vulture's Peak, in the Giribbaja of the Magadhans.
Suffering, the origin of suffering, and the overcoming of suffering;
The noble eightfold path, leading to the peace of suffering.
Becomes one who makes an end of suffering, through the elimination of all fetters." The tenth.