Saṃyutta Nikāya
5. Mahā-Vagga
46. Bojjhanga Saṃyutta
3. Udāyi Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
5. The Great Chapter
46. Kindred Sayings on the Limbs of Wisdom
3. Udāyi
Sutta 28
Nibbedha Suttaṃ
Penetration
Translated by F. L. Woodward
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Then the Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One said:
"I will teach you, monks,
the way concerned with penetration.[1]
Do ye listen to it.
And what, monks, is that
way concerned with penetration?
It is the seven limbs of wisdom.
What seven?
The limb of wisdom that is mindfulness,
the limb of wisdom that is Norm investigation,
the limb of wisdom that is energy,
the limb of wisdom that is zest,
the limb of wisdom that is tranquillity,
the limb of wisdom that is concentration,
the limb of wisdom that is equinimity."
§
At these words the venerable Udāyī said to the Exalted One:
"Pray, lord, how cultivated,
how made much of,
do these seven limbs of wisdom
conduce to penetration?"
"Herein, Udayi, a monk cultivates the limb of wisdom
that [74] is mindfulness,
which is based on seclusion,
on dispassion,
on cessation,
which ends in self-surrender;
which is far-spreading,
lofty,
boundless,
free of malevolence.
He, with mind that has cultivated the limb of wisdom that is mindfulness,
pierces through,
breaks down
the great mass of lust
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.[2]
In like manner he pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of hatred
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
He pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of illusion
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
■
He cultivates the limb of wisdom
that is investigation of the Norm,
which is based on seclusion,
on dispassion,
on cessation,
which ends in self-surrender;
which is far-spreading,
lofty,
boundless,
free of malevolence.
He, with mind that has cultivated
the limb of wisdom that is investigation of the Norm,
pierces through,
breaks down
the great mass of lust
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
In like manner he pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of hatred
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
He pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of illusion
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
■
He cultivates the limb of wisdom
that is energy,
which is based on seclusion,
on dispassion,
on cessation,
which ends in self-surrender;
which is far-spreading,
lofty,
boundless,
free of malevolence.
He, with mind that has cultivated
the limb of wisdom that is energy,
pierces through,
breaks down
the great mass of lust
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
In like manner he pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of hatred
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
He pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of illusion
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
■
He cultivates the limb of wisdom
that is zest,
which is based on seclusion,
on dispassion,
on cessation,
which ends in self-surrender;
which is far-spreading,
lofty,
boundless,
free of malevolence.
He, with mind that has cultivated
the limb of wisdom that is zest,
pierces through,
breaks down
the great mass of lust
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
In like manner he pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of hatred
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
He pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of illusion
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
■
He cultivates the limb of wisdom
that is tranquillity,
which is based on seclusion,
on dispassion,
on cessation,
which ends in self-surrender;
which is far-spreading,
lofty,
boundless,
free of malevolence.
He, with mind that has cultivated
the limb of wisdom that is tranquillity,
pierces through,
breaks down
the great mass of lust
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
In like manner he pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of hatred
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
He pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of illusion
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
■
He cultivates the limb of wisdom
that is concentration,
which is based on seclusion,
on dispassion,
on cessation,
which ends in self-surrender;
which is far-spreading,
lofty,
boundless,
free of malevolence.
He, with mind that has cultivated
the limb of wisdom that is concentration,
pierces through,
breaks down
the great mass of lust
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
In like manner he pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of hatred
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
He pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of illusion
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
■
He cultivates the limb of wisdom
that is equanimity,
which is based on seclusion,
on dispassion,
on cessation,
which ends in self-surrender;
which is far-spreading,
lofty,
boundless,
free of malevolence.
He, with mind that has cultivated
the limb of wisdom that is equanimity,
pierces through,
breaks down
the great mass of lust
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
In like manner he pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of hatred
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down.
He pierces through,
breaks down,
the great mass of illusion
that hitherto had not been pierced through
or broken down."
[1] Nibbedha-bhāgiyaṇ = nibbijjana-koṭṭhāsikaṇ; cf. VM. 15.
[2] Cf. Pts. ii, 201.
