Connected Discourses 55.2

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1. Linked Discourses 55.2
2. 1. At Bamboo Gate
3. The Culmination of the Spiritual Life
4. “Mendicants, a noble disciple who has four things is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, bound for awakening.
5. What four?
6. It’s when a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha …
7. the teaching …
8. the Saṅgha …
9. And they have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones … leading to immersion.
10. A noble disciple who has these four things is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, bound for awakening.”
11. That is what the Buddha said.
12. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:
13. “Those who have faith and ethics,
14. confidence, and vision of the truth,
15. in time arrive at happiness,
16. the culmination of the spiritual life.”