Numbered Discourses 10.120

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1. Numbered Discourses 10.120
2. 12. The Ceremony of Descent
3. The Ceremony of Descent (2nd)
4. “Mendicants, I will teach you the noble descent.
5. Listen and apply your mind well, I will speak. …
6. And what is the noble descent?
7. It’s when a noble disciple reflects:
8. ‘Wrong view has a bad result
9. in both this life and the next.’
10. Reflecting like this, they give up wrong view,
11. they descend from wrong view.
12. ‘Wrong thought has a bad result …’ …
13. ‘Wrong speech …’ …
14. ‘Wrong action …’ …
15. ‘Wrong livelihood …’ …
16. ‘Wrong effort …’ …
17. ‘Wrong mindfulness …’ …
18. ‘Wrong immersion …’ …
19. ‘Wrong knowledge …’ …
20. ‘Wrong freedom has a bad result
21. in both this life and the next.’
22. Reflecting like this, they give up wrong freedom,
23. they descend from wrong freedom.
24. This is called the noble descent.”