Connected Discourses 47.30

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1. Linked Discourses 47.30
2. 3. Ethics and Duration
3. With Mānadinna
4. The same setting.
5. Now at that time the householder Mānadinna was sick, suffering, gravely ill.
6. Then he addressed a man:
7. “Please, worthy man, go to Venerable Ānanda …” …
8. “Sir, I’m not keeping well, I’m not getting by. The pain is terrible and growing, not fading; its growing is evident, not its fading.
9. When I experience such painful feelings I meditate observing an aspect of the body—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.
10. I meditate observing an aspect of feelings …
11. mind …
12. principles—keen, aware, and mindful, rid of covetousness and displeasure for the world.
13. And of the five lower fetters taught by the Buddha, I don’t see any that I haven’t given up.”
14. “You’re fortunate, householder, so very fortunate!
15. You have declared the fruit of non-return.”