40b: The Last Days 2, In Vajji – 1495
the threshold of perfect concentration (
upacāra-samādhi
) and perfect
concentration (
appanā-samādhi
) itself. Wisdom means mundane insight wisdom
(
vipassanā-paññā
). All these three factors are the necessary conditions for path-
knowledge (
magga-ñāṇa
).
“Concentration developed through morality,” means supermundane
concentration pertaining to path and fruition, path concentration and fruition
concentration. Concentration of path is highly efficacious because it leads to the
fruition of the noble one’s knowledge (
ariya-phala
). Fruition itself means direct
result. It is also highly productive because it has the advantage (
ānisaṁsa
) of
liberation or pacification. Advantage here means the indirect result or
consequence. The same interpretation should be understood for similar
statements that follow. Concentration of fruition produces the direct result of
abandoning the burning defilements through tranquillity (
paṭippassaddhi-
pahāna
), and gives the indirect result or consequence of the peace of cessation
or extinction of defilements.
“Wisdom developed through concentration,” means supermundane knowledge
of the paths (
magga-ñāṇa
) and fruitions (
phala-ñāṇa
). Its direct result and
indirect result or consequence should be construed as in the case of
concentration.
“The mind developed through wisdom,” here, wisdom means mundane insight
(
vipassanā-paññā
) and wisdom associated with absorption (
jhāna
); mind here
means supermundane consciousness of path and fruition. Path consciousness
completely eradicates defilements as abandoning by cutting off (
samuccheda-
pahāna
). Fruition-consciousness thoroughly liberates one from the moral taints
by abandoning through tranquillity (
paṭipassaddhi-pahāna
).
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Then the Buddha, after staying at the Ambalaṭṭhikā garden for as long as he
wished, said to Ven. Ānanda: “Come, Ānanda, let us go to the town of Nāḷanda.”
– “Very well, sir,” Ven. Ānanda assented, and called upon the monastics to
accompany the Buddha.
Ven. Sāriputta’s Brave Utterance
Then the Buddha, accompanied by many monastics, went to the town of
Nāḷanda and stayed at the Mango Grove of Pāvārika, the rich man. At that time,
Ven. Sāriputta approached the Buddha, and after paying respects to him, entered
into a stirring and remarkable dialogue with him.