So It Was Said 16

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1. So It Was Said 16
2. The Book of the Ones
3. Chapter Two
4. A Trainee (1st)
5. This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
6. “Taking into account interior factors, mendicants, I do not see a single one that is so very helpful as rational application of mind for a trainee mendicant who hasn’t achieved their heart’s desire, but lives aspiring to the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.
7. A mendicant rationally applying the mind gives up the unskillful and develops the skillful.”
8. The Buddha spoke this matter.
9. On this it is said:
10. “There is nothing so helpful
11. for a trainee mendicant
12. aspiring for the ultimate goal
13. as rational application of mind.
14. Striving rationally, a mendicant
15. attains the end of suffering.”
16. This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.