Connected Discourses 55.12

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1. Linked Discourses 55.12
2. 2. The Royal Monastery
3. The Brahmins
4. At Sāvatthī.
5. “Mendicants, the brahmins advocate a practice called ‘get up and go’.
6. They encourage their disciples:
7. ‘Please, good people, rising early you should face east and walk.
8. Do not avoid a pit, a cliff, a stump, thorny ground, a swamp, or a sewer.
9. You should await death in the place that you fall.
10. And when your body breaks up, after death, you’ll be reborn in a good place, a heaven realm.’
11. But this practice of the brahmins is a foolish procedure, a stupid procedure. It doesn’t lead to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, or extinguishment.
12. But in the training of the Noble One I advocate a ‘get up and go’ practice
13. which does lead solely to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.
14. And what is that ‘get up and go’ practice?
15. It’s when a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha …
16. the teaching …
17. the Saṅgha …
18. And they have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones … leading to immersion.
19. This is that ‘get up and go’ practice
20. which does lead solely to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.”