{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn45.115/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn45.115","id":"suttacentral_sn45.115","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn45.115/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, the Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east. In the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment. And how does a mendicant who develops the noble eightfold path slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment? It\u2019s when a mendicant develops right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion, whose objective, destination, and culmination is freedom from death. That\u2019s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.\u201d","title":"Slanting East","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":97}