At Kosambī Kosambī Sutta (SN 12:68)
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('â', From birth as a requisite condition come aging-&-deathâ?" "Yes, Paviṭṭha my friend. Putting aside conviction⦠preference⦠tradition⦠reasoning through analogies⦠an agreement through pondering views, I do have truly personal knowledge that, ),
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('â', From birth as a requisite condition come aging-&-death.â" [Similarly with ),
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('â', From becoming as a requisite condition comes birthâ .⦠),
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('â', From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becomingâ.⦠),
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('â', From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenanceâ.⦠),
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('â', From feeling as a requisite condition comes cravingâ.⦠),
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('â', From contact as a requisite condition comes feelingâ.⦠),
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('â', From the six sense media as a requisite condition comes contactâ.⦠),
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('â', From name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense mediaâ.⦠),
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('â', From consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-formâ.⦠),
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('â', From fabrications as a requisite condition comes consciousness.â] "Musila, my friend, putting aside conviction, putting aside preference, putting aside tradition, putting aside reasoning through analogies, putting aside an agreement through pondering views: Do you have truly personal knowledge that, ),
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('â', From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabricationsâ?" "Yes, Paviṭṭha my friend. Putting aside conviction⦠preference⦠tradition⦠reasoning through analogies⦠an agreement through pondering views, I do have truly personal knowledge that, ),
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('â', From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications.â" "Musila, my friend, putting aside conviction, putting aside preference, putting aside tradition, putting aside reasoning through analogies, putting aside an agreement through pondering views: Do you have truly personal knowledge that, ),
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('â', From the cessation of birth comes the cessation of aging-&-deathâ?" "Yes, Paviṭṭha my friend. Putting aside conviction⦠preference⦠tradition⦠reasoning through analogies⦠an agreement through pondering views, I do have truly personal knowledge that, ),
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('â', From the cessation of birth comes the cessation of aging-&-death.â" [Similarly with ),
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('â', From the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of birthâ.⦠),
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('â', From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the cessation of becomingâ.⦠),
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('â', From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging/sustenanceâ.⦠),
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('â', From the cessation of feeling comes the cessation of cravingâ.⦠),
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('â', From the cessation of contact comes the cessation of feelingâ.⦠),
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('â', From the cessation of the six sense media comes the cessation of contactâ.⦠),
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('â', From the cessation of name-&-form comes the cessation of the six sense mediaâ.⦠),
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('â', From the cessation of consciousness comes the cessation of name-&-formâ.⦠),
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('â', From the cessation of fabrications comes the cessation of consciousness.â] "Musila, my friend, putting aside conviction, putting aside preference, putting aside tradition, putting aside reasoning through analogies, putting aside an agreement through pondering views: Do you have truly personal knowledge that, ),
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('â', From the cessation of ignorance comes the cessation of fabricationsâ?" "Yes, Paviṭṭha my friend. Putting aside conviction⦠preference⦠tradition⦠reasoning through analogies⦠an agreement through pondering views, I do have truly personal knowledge that, ),
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('â', From the cessation of ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications.â" "Musila, my friend, putting aside conviction, putting aside preference, putting aside tradition, putting aside reasoning through analogies, putting aside an agreement through pondering views: Do you have truly personal knowledge that, ),
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('â', The cessation of becoming is unbindingâ?" "Yes, Paviṭṭha my friend. Putting aside conviction⦠preference⦠tradition⦠reasoning through analogies⦠an agreement through pondering views, I do have truly personal knowledge that, ),
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('â', The cessation of becoming is unbinding.â" "Then, Ven. Musila, you are an arahant whose effluents are ended." When this was said, Ven. Musila was silent.1 Then Ven. Nṅrada said, "Paviṭṭha my friend, it would be good if I were to get that question. Ask me that question and I will answer it for you." "Then Ven. Nṅrada will get that question. I will ask Ven. Nṅrada that question, and may he answer that question for me." [Ven. Paviṭṭha asks the same questions of Ven. Nṅrada, who gives the same answers as Ven. Musila.] "Then, Ven. Nṅrada, you are an arahant whose effluents are ended." "My friend, although I have seen properly with right discernment, as it has come to be, that ),
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('â', The cessation of becoming is unbinding,â still I am not an arahant whose effluents are ended.2 Itâs as if there were a well along a road in a desert, with neither rope nor water bucket. A man would come along overcome by heat, oppressed by the heat, exhausted, dehydrated, & thirsty. He would look into the well and would have knowledge of ),
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('â', water,â but he would not dwell touching it with his body.3 In the same way, although I have seen properly with right discernment, as it has come to be, that ),
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('â', The cessation of becoming is unbinding,â still I am not an arahant whose effluents are ended." When this was said, Ven. ṅnanda said to Ven. Paviṭṭha, "When he speaks in this way, friend Paviṭṭha, what do you have to say about Ven. Nṅrada?" "When Ven. Nṅrada speaks in this way, friend ṅnanda, I have nothing to say about Ven. Nṅrada except that (he is) admirable & skillful." Notes 1. According to the Commentary, Ven. Musilaâs silence here is a sign of affirmation. 2. In other words, he has attained one of the preliminary levels of awakening (stream entry, once-returning, or non-returning), but not full arahantship. As Mv.I.23.5 shows, even the level of stream entry affords a vision of the deathless. 3. The image refers to two common similes for the full experience of unbinding: (a) it is refreshing & nourishing, like drinking water (see Dhp 205); and (b) some arahants experience it as if touching it with the body (see AN 9:45). See also: SN 22:89; SN 48:44; SN 55:1 - --> - - - -