Numbered Discourses 10.118

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1. Numbered Discourses 10.118
2. 12. The Ceremony of Descent
3. The Near Shore
4. “Mendicants, I will teach you the near shore and the far shore.
5. Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak.”
6. “Yes, sir,” they replied.
7. The Buddha said this:
8. “And what, mendicants, is the near shore? What is the far shore?
9. Wrong view is the near shore, and right view is the far shore. …
10. Wrong freedom is the near shore, and right freedom is the far shore.
11. This is the near shore, and this is the far shore.
12. Few are those among humans
13. who cross to the far shore.
14. The rest just run
15. around on the near shore.
16. When the teaching is well explained,
17. those who practice accordingly
18. are the ones who will cross over
19. Death’s dominion so hard to pass.
20. Rid of dark qualities,
21. an astute person should develop the bright.
22. Leaving home behind
23. for the seclusion so hard to enjoy,
24. you should try to find delight there,
25. having left behind sensual pleasures.
26. With no possessions, an astute person
27. should cleanse themselves of mental corruptions.
28. And those whose minds are rightly developed
29. in the awakening factors;
30. letting go of attachments,
31. they delight in not grasping.
32. With defilements ended, brilliant,
33. they are quenched in this world.”