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40b: The Last Days 2, In Vajji
The Four Noble Truths
Then the Buddha said to Ven. Ānanda: “Come Ānanda, let us go to Koṭi village.”
– “Very well, venerable sir,” Ven. Ānanda said, and then called the monastics.
The Buddha, accompanied by a company of monastics, went to Koṭi village and
dwelt there.
The village was called Koṭi because it was the place where the pinnacle
from which King Mahāpanāda fell.
During that time, the Buddha discoursed to the monastics on the four noble
truths thus: “Monastics, it is through not having proper understanding and
penetrative knowledge of the four noble truths that I, as well as yourselves, have
had to fare along the lengthy course of the round of existences in Saṁsāra,
never stopping, but ever repeating, from one existence to the next. What are the
four truths that are not understood?”
1. Monastics, it is through not having proper understanding and
penetrative knowledge of the noble truth of suffering (
dukkha-ariya-
sacca
) that I, as well as yourselves, have had to fare along the lengthy
course of the round of existences, never
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stopping, but ever
changing, from one existence to the next repeatedly.
2. Monastics, it is through not having proper understanding and
penetrative knowledge of the noble truth of the origin of suffering
(
samudaya-ariya-sacca
) that I, as well as yourselves, have had to fare
along the lengthy course of the round of existences, never stopping, but
ever changing, from one existence to the next repeatedly.
3. Monastics, it is through not having proper understanding and
penetrative knowledge of the noble truth of the cessation of suffering
(
nirodha-ariya-sacca
) that I, as well as yourselves, have had to fare
along the lengthy course of the round of existences, never stopping, but
ever changing, from one existence to the next repeatedly.
4. Monastics, it is through not having proper understanding and
penetrative knowledge of the noble truth of the path to the cessation of
suffering (
magga-ariya-sacca
) that I, as well as yourselves, have had to