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“Araññe rukkhamūle vā suññāgāre va bhikkhavo
Anussaretha 66 sambuddhaü bhayaü tumhāka no siyā.
No ce buddhaü sareyyātha lokajeññhaü narāsabhaü;
Atha dhammaü sareyyātha niyyānikaü sudesitaü.
No ce dhammaü sareyyātha niyyānikaü sudesitaü;
Atha saïghaü sareyyātha puñña-kkhettaü anuttaraü.
[42] Evaü buddhaü sarantānaü
dhammaü saïghañ ca bhikkhavo
Bhayaü vā chambhitattaü vā lomahaüso na hessatī” ti.
Evam me sutaü. Ekaü samayaü Bhagavā Bārāõasiyaü
viharati Isipatane migadāye. Tatra kho Bhagavā pañcavaggiye
bhikkhū āmantesi:
"Dve ’me bhikkhave antā pabbajitena na sevitabbā: Yo
cāyaü kāmesu kāma-sukhallikānuyogo hīno gammo
pothujjaniko anariyo anattha-sañhito, yo cāyaü attakilamathānuyogo,
dukkho anariyo anattha-sañhito.
Ete te bhikkhave ubho ante anupagamma, majjhimā
pañipadā tathāgatena abhisambuddhā, cakkhu-karaõī ñāõakaraõī
upasamāya abhiññāya sambodhāya nibbānāya
saüvattati.
Discourses [42]
Whenever in forest, in leafy glade, or lonely places you abide, Bhikkhus,
call to your mind, the Enlightened One; no fear will you know.
If you won’t recollect the Buddha, the most senior of the world, the bull of
men, then recollect the Dhamma, the well-taught guidance.
If you won’t recollect the Dhamma, the well-taught guidance,
then recollect the Saïgha, the unsurpassed field of merit.
If you take refuge thus in the Buddha,
Dhamma, and Saïgha, Bhikkhus,
then fear and panic and goose-flesh will never appear."
[42] Dhamma-cakka-ppavattana-sutta 67
The Discourse on Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion 68
Thus have I heard: On one occasion the Blessed One was staying at Varanasi
in the Game Refuge at Isipatana. There he addressed the group of five monks:
"There are these two extremes that are not to be indulged in by one who has
gone forth: That which is devoted to sensual pleasure in sensual objects (and
is) base, vulgar, common, ignoble, unprofitable; and that which is devoted to
self-affliction (and is) painful, ignoble, unprofitable.
Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way realized by the Tathāgata −
producing vision, producing knowledge − leads to calm, to direct knowledge,
to self-awakening, to Unbinding.
Katamā ca sā bhikkhave majjhimā pañipadā tathāgatena And what is the middle way realized by the Tathāgata that − producing vision,
66 VRI fn: anussareyyātha (ka.) padasiddhi pana cintetabbā;
67 SN v 420 ff.
68 CGI
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