Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

10: The Book of the Tens

111. One Beyond Training (1)

1Then a certain bhikkhu approached the Blessed One, paid homage to him, sat down to one side, and said:

2"It is said, Bhante, ‘one beyond training, one beyond training.’ In what way, Bhante, is a bhikkhu one beyond training?" [n.2147] Asekha. A term for an arahant, who has completed the training in the noble eightfold path and thus possesses, beyond the eight path factors, right knowledge (sammāñāṇa) and right liberation (sammāvimutti).

"Here, bhikkhu, a bhikkhu possesses (1) the right view of one beyond training. He possesses (2) the right intention … (3) the right speech … (4) the right action … (5) the right livelihood … (6) the right effort … (7) the right mindfulness … (8) the right concentration … (9) the right knowledge … (10) the right liberation of one beyond training. It in this way that a bhikkhu is one beyond training."

1Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:

2"‘Asekho asekho’ti, bhante, vuccati. Kittāvatā bhante, bhikkhu asekho hotī"ti?

"Idha, bhikkhu, bhikkhu asekhāya sammādiṭṭhiyā samannāgato hoti, asekhena sammāsaṅkappena samannāgato hoti, asekhāya sammāvācāya samannāgato hoti, asekhena sammākammantena samannāgato hoti, asekhena sammāājīvena samannāgato hoti, asekhena sammāvāyāmena samannāgato hoti, asekhāya sammāsatiyā samannāgato hoti, asekhena sammāsamādhinā samannāgato hoti, asekhena sammāñāṇena samannāgato hoti, asekhāya sammāvimuttiyā samannāgato hoti. Evaṁ kho, bhikkhu, bhikkhu asekho hotī"ti.


Ekādasamaṁ.

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