Foremost Assurance Paramassṅsa Sutta (SN 38:6)

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('â', A person who has attained foremost assurance, a person who has attained foremost assurance,â it is said, my friend Sṅriputta. To what extent is one a person who has attained foremost assurance?" "Friend, when a monk—having known, as it has come to be, the origination, passing away, allure, drawbacks of, and escape from, the six media of (sensory) contact—is released through no clinging: Itâs to this extent that he is a person who has attained foremost assurance." "But is there a path, is there a practice for the realization of this foremost assurance?" "Yes, there is a path, there is a practice for the realization of this foremost assurance." "Then what is the path, what is the practice for the realization of this foremost assurance?" "Precisely this noble eightfold path, my friend: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. This is the path, this is the practice for the realization of this foremost assurance." "Itâs an auspicious path, my friend, an auspicious practice for realization of this foremost assurance—enough for the sake of heedfulness." See also: SN 48:4 - --> - - - -