The Noble Purpose ... !!!

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Friends:

What is the Purpose, Advantage & Final Goal of the Noble Holy Life?

The Blessed Buddha once said:

Bhikkhus, if those of other sects and of other beliefs should ask you this question:

Friends, for what purpose is the Noble Life lived under the ascetic Buddha Gotama?

When being asked that, you should answer them in this very way:

 

It is, friends:

For the fading away of greed, lust, and desire...

For the breaking out of the mental prison of addiction...

For the uprooting of the ingrown evil latent tendencies...

For the direct experience of the supremely good method...

For the destruction of all the mental fermentations...

For the enjoying the fruit of certainty & total freedom...

For the sake of definite knowledge & penetrating vision...

For the sake of final Nibbana without trace of clinging...

that this Noble Life is lived under the Blessed Buddha!!!

 

Then, Bhikkhus, if those of other sects ask you: But what is the Method for attaining final Nibbana without clinging? Being asked that, you should answer them thus: Friends, there is indeed a Method; there is certainly a Way for reaching final Nibbana without any clinging: It is this Noble 8-fold Way:

 

Right View (sammā-ditthi)Right Motivation (sammā-sankappa)Right Speech (sammā-vācā)Right Action (sammā-kammanta)Right Livelihood (sammā-ājīva)Right Effort (sammā-vāyāma)Right Awareness (sammā-sati)Right Concentration (sammā-samādhi)

 

This is the method; this is the way for entering the dimension of final Nibbana without clinging. When asked these questions, Bhikkhus, you should answer those of other beliefs in this way…

Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:27-9] section 45: The Way. 41-42: Purpose ... http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

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