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The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

An English translation of one of the longest discourses in the canon, detailing the last year of the Buddha’s life, and his final teachings (Mahāparinibbānasuttaṁ, DN 16)

An English translation of one of the longest discourses in the canon, detailing the last year of the Buddha’s life, and his final teachings (Mahāparinibbānasuttaṁ, DN 16)

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<strong>The</strong> Second Chapter for Recitation<br />

“Such is virtue, such is concentration, such is wisdom, when virtue is<br />

well-developed it yields great fruit and brings great advantages in<br />

regard to concentration, when concentration is well-developed it yields<br />

great fruit and brings great advantages in regard to wisdom, when<br />

wisdom is well-developed <strong>the</strong> mind is completely liberated from <strong>the</strong><br />

pollutants, that is to say: <strong>the</strong> pollutant of sensuality, <strong>the</strong> pollutant of<br />

(craving for) continued existence, <strong>the</strong> pollutant of ignorance.”<br />

[15: <strong>The</strong> Courtesan Ambapālī]<br />

<strong>The</strong>n <strong>the</strong> Gracious One, after living near Nādika for as long as he<br />

liked, addressed venerable Ānanda, (saying): “Come Ānanda let us<br />

approach Vesālī.”<br />

“Very well, reverend Sir,” venerable Ānanda replied to <strong>the</strong> Gracious<br />

One. <strong>The</strong>n <strong>the</strong> Gracious One toge<strong>the</strong>r with a great Community of<br />

monks arrived at Vesālī. <strong>The</strong>re <strong>the</strong> Gracious One lived near Vesālī in<br />

Ambapālī's Wood. <strong>The</strong>re <strong>the</strong> Gracious One addressed <strong>the</strong> monks,<br />

(saying):<br />

“Mindfully and with full awareness, monks, a monk should live, this is<br />

our advice to you. 61<br />

61 Comm: sato bhikkhave ti Bhagavā Ambapālidassane satipaccupaṭṭhānatthaṁ<br />

visesato idha satipaṭṭhānadesanaṁ ārabhi; mindful, monks, <strong>the</strong> Gracious<br />

One began <strong>the</strong> teaching of mindfulness specially here, so that <strong>the</strong>y would be<br />

attending to mindfulness when <strong>the</strong>y saw Ambapālī.<br />

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