{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.90/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.90","id":"suttacentral_an3.90","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.90/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, these are the three trainings. What three? The training in the higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom. And what is the training in the higher ethics? 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 training in the higher ethics. And what is the training in the higher mind? 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 training in the higher mind. And what is the training in the higher wisdom? It\u2019s when a mendicant realizes 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. This is called the training in the higher wisdom. These are the three trainings. The higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom should be practiced by those energetic, steadfast, and resolute, practicing absorption, mindful, with guarded senses. As before, so behind; as behind, so before. As below, so above; as above, so below. As by day, so by night; as by night, so by day. Having mastered every direction with limitless immersion, they call them a \u2018trainee on the path\u2019, and \u2018one living a pure life\u2019. But a wise one who has gone to the end of the path they call a \u2018Buddha\u2019 in the world. With the cessation of consciousness, freed by the ending of craving, the liberation of their heart is like a lamp going out.\u201d","title":"Three Trainings (2nd)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":292}