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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 />

signless mind-concentration, 77 and at that time, Ānanda, <strong>the</strong> Realised<br />

One's body is most comfortable.<br />

<strong>The</strong>refore, Ānanda, live with yourself as an island, yourself as a<br />

refuge, with no o<strong>the</strong>r refuge, with <strong>the</strong> Teaching as an island, <strong>the</strong><br />

Teaching as a refuge, with no o<strong>the</strong>r refuge. And how, Ānanda, does a<br />

monk live with himself as an island, himself as a refuge, with no o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

refuge, with <strong>the</strong> Teaching as an island, <strong>the</strong> Teaching as a refuge, with<br />

no o<strong>the</strong>r refuge?<br />

Here, Ānanda, a monk dwells contemplating (<strong>the</strong> nature of) <strong>the</strong> body<br />

in <strong>the</strong> body, ardent, fully aware, and mindful, after removing avarice<br />

and sorrow regarding <strong>the</strong> world; 78 he dwells contemplating (<strong>the</strong> nature<br />

of) feelings in feelings, ardent, fully aware, and mindful, after<br />

removing avarice and sorrow regarding <strong>the</strong> world; he dwells<br />

contemplating (<strong>the</strong> nature of) <strong>the</strong> mind in <strong>the</strong> mind, ardent, fully<br />

aware, and mindful, after removing avarice and sorrow regarding <strong>the</strong><br />

world; he dwells contemplating (<strong>the</strong> nature of) things in (various)<br />

things, ardent, fully aware, and mindful, after removing avarice and<br />

sorrow regarding <strong>the</strong> world.<br />

77 In Paṭisambhidāmagga and Visuddhimagga this is known as<br />

animittācetovimutti, which is <strong>the</strong> fruition of Worthiness, it arises for one<br />

who applies his mind to impermanence as <strong>the</strong> predominant sign of<br />

existence.<br />

78 This is <strong>the</strong> summary of <strong>the</strong> ways of attending to mindfulness again (see<br />

above, section 15).<br />

70

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