{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.73/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.73","id":"suttacentral_an3.73","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.73/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Sakyans, near Kapilavatthu in the Banyan Tree Monastery. Now at that time the Buddha had recently recovered from an illness. Then Mah\u0101n\u0101ma the Sakyan went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cFor a long time, sir, I have understood your teaching like this: \u2018Knowledge is for those with immersion, not those without immersion.\u2019 But, sir, does immersion come first, then knowledge? Or does knowledge come first, then immersion?\u201d Then Venerable \u0100nanda thought, \u201cThe Buddha has recently recovered from an illness, and this Mah\u0101n\u0101ma asks him a question that\u2019s too deep. Why don\u2019t I take him off to one side and teach him the Dhamma?\u201d Then \u0100nanda took Mah\u0101n\u0101ma by the arm, led him off to one side, and said to him, \u201cMah\u0101n\u0101ma, the Buddha has spoken of the ethics, immersion, and wisdom of a trainee; and the ethics, immersion, and wisdom of an adept. What is the ethics of a trainee? It\u2019s when a mendicant is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they\u2019ve undertaken. This is called the ethics of a trainee. And what is the immersion of a trainee? It\u2019s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption \u2026 second absorption \u2026 third absorption \u2026 fourth absorption. This is called the immersion of a trainee. And what is the wisdom of a trainee? They truly understand: \u2018This is suffering\u2019 \u2026 \u2018This is the origin of suffering\u2019 \u2026 \u2018This is the cessation of suffering\u2019 \u2026 \u2018This is the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering\u2019. This is called the wisdom of a trainee. Then a noble disciple\u2014accomplished in ethics, immersion, and wisdom\u2014realizes the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. In this way the Buddha has spoken of the ethics, immersion, and wisdom of both a trainee and an adept.\u201d","title":"With Mah\u0101n\u0101ma the Sakyan","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":367}