“A nun with faculties developed, mindful, seeing clearly, I penetrated that peaceful state, which reprobates do not cultivate.”
“Why don’t you approve of rebirth? When you’re born, you get to enjoy sensual pleasures. Enjoy erotic delights; don’t regret it later.”
“Death comes to those who are born; and when born they fall into suffering: the chopping off of hands and feet, killing, caging, misery.
But there is one born in the Sakyan clan, awakened and undefeated. He taught me the Dhamma for transcending rebirth:
suffering, suffering’s origin, suffering’s transcendence, and the noble eightfold path that leads to the stilling of suffering.
After hearing his words, I happily did his bidding. I’ve attained the three knowledges and fulfilled the Buddha’s instructions.
Relishing is banished in every respect, and the mass of darkness is shattered. So know this, Wicked One: you’re beaten, terminator!”
Upacālā
Thig 7.3 · Upacālātherīgāthā
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- TherīgāthāThe collection containing this text
- The Pāli canonCanonical collection in which this edition is preserved
- Theravāda traditionsTransmission and study context
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Books
- Handful of Leaves: an Anthology from the Sutta PiṭakaEarly Buddhist discourses; Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (translator and compiler) · Included in anthology
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Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato and Jessica Walton · SuttaCentral · CC0
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