{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.194/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.194","id":"suttacentral_an4.194","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.194/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time Venerable \u0100nanda was staying in the land of the Koliyans, where they have a town named S\u0101p\u016bga. Then several Koliyans from S\u0101p\u016bga went up to \u0100nanda, bowed, and sat down to one side. Then Venerable \u0100nanda said to them: \u201cByagghapajjas, these four factors of trying to be pure have been rightly explained by the Blessed One, who knows and sees, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. They are in order to purify sentient beings, to get past sorrow and crying, to make an end of pain and sadness, to discover the system, and to realize extinguishment. What four? The factors of trying to be pure in ethics, mind, view, and freedom. And what is the factor of trying to be pure in 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 purity of ethics. They think: \u2018I will fulfill such purity of ethics, or, if it\u2019s already fulfilled, I\u2019ll support it in every situation by wisdom.\u2019 Their enthusiasm for that\u2014their effort, zeal, vigor, perseverance, mindfulness, and situational awareness\u2014is called the factor of trying to be pure in ethics. And what is the factor of trying to be pure in 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 purity of mind. They think: \u2018I will fulfill such purity of mind, or, if it\u2019s already fulfilled, I\u2019ll support it in every situation by wisdom.\u2019 Their enthusiasm for that\u2014their effort, zeal, vigor, perseverance, mindfulness, and situational awareness\u2014is called the factor of trying to be pure in mind. And what is the factor of trying to be pure in view? Take a mendicant who truly understands: \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 purity of view. They think: \u2018I will fulfill such purity of view, or, if it\u2019s already fulfilled, I\u2019ll support it in every situation by wisdom.\u2019 Their enthusiasm for that\u2014their effort, zeal, vigor, perseverance, mindfulness, and situational awareness\u2014is called the factor of trying to be pure in view. And what is the factor of trying to be pure in freedom? That noble disciple\u2014who has these factors of trying to be pure in ethics, mind, and view\u2014detaches their mind from things that arouse greed, and frees their mind from things that it should be freed from. Doing so, they experience perfect freedom. This is called purity of freedom. They think: \u2018I will fulfill such purity of freedom, or, if it\u2019s already fulfilled, I\u2019ll support it in every situation by wisdom.\u2019 Their enthusiasm for that\u2014their effort, zeal, vigor, perseverance, mindfulness, and situational awareness\u2014is called the factor of trying to be pure in freedom. These four factors of trying to be pure have been rightly explained by the Blessed One, who knows and sees, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. They are in order to purify sentient beings, to get past sorrow and crying, to make an end of pain and sadness, to discover the system, and to realize extinguishment.\u201d","title":"At S\u0101p\u016bga","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":558}