“Mendicants, the Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east. In the same way, a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment. How so? It’s when a mendicant develops the faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go. That’s how a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”

Six on slanting to the east, and six on slanting to the ocean; these two sixes make twelve, and that’s how this chapter is recited.

Linked Discourses 48.83–92 9. The Chapter on Diligence The Chapter on Diligence

(Tell in full as in the chapter on diligence at SN 45.139–148.)

The Realized One, footprint, roof peak, roots, heartwood, jasmine, monarch, sun and moon, and cloth is the tenth.

Linked Discourses 48.93–104 10. The Chapter on Hard Work The Chapter on Hard Work

(Tell in full as in the chapter on hard work at SN 45.149–160.)

Hard work, seeds, and dragons, a tree, a pot, and a spike, the atmosphere, and two on clouds, a ship, a guest house, and a river.

Linked Discourses 48.105–114 11. The Chapter on Searches The Chapter on Searches

(Tell in full as in the chapter on searches at SN 45.161–170.)

Searches, discriminations, defilements, states of existence, three kinds of suffering, barrenness, stains, and troubles, feelings, craving, and thirst.

Linked Discourses 48.115–124 12. The Chapter on Floods Floods, etc.