Saṃyutta Nikāya
II. Nidāna Vagga
12. Nidāna Saṃyutta
VIII. Samaṇa-Brāhmaṇa Vagga
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
Part II.
The Book of Causation Nidāna-Vagga
12. Connected Discourses on Causation
8. Ascetics and Brahmins
Suttas 71-81
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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71. Jarā-Māraṇa Suttaṃ
Aging-and-Death
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
There the Blessed One said:
"Bhikkhus, those ascetics or brahmins who do not understand aging-and-death, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation: these I do not consider to be ascetics among ascetics or brahmins among brahmins, and these venerable ones do not, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism or the goal of brahminhood.
"But, bhikkhus, those ascetics and brahmins who understand aging-and-death, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation: these I consider to be ascetics among ascetics and brahmins among brahmins, and these venerable ones, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism and the goal of brahminhood."
72-81. Jāti, Bhava, Upādāna, Taṇhā, Vedanā, Phassa, Saḷāyatana, Nāma-Rūpa, Viññāṇa, Saṇkhāra
[#72.] Birth, Etc.
"Bhikkhus, those ascetics or brahmins who do not understand birth ...
[#73.] existence ...
[#74.] clinging ...
[#75.] craving ...
[#76.] feeling ...
[#77.] contact ...
[#78.] the six sense bases ...
[#79.] name-and-form ...
[#80.] consciousness [130] ...
[#81.] volitional formations, their origin, their cessation, and the way leading to their cessation: these I do not consider to be ascetics among ascetics or brahmins among brahmins, and these venerable ones do not, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism or the goal of brahminhood.
"But, bhikkhus, those ascetics and brahmins who understand these things: these I consider to be ascetics among ascetics and brahmins among brahmins, and these venerable ones, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism and the goal of brahminhood."
