Knowing this danger in sensual indulgence, an astute person would forsake all sensual pleasures, both human and heavenly.
Having cut the stream so hard to pass, that’s tied to pleasant seeming things, they become fully extinguished, completely transcending suffering.
Seers of the noble truths, knowledge masters, the astute, understanding rightly, directly know the ending of rebirth, they come not back to future lives.”
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.
So It Was Said 96 The Book of the Threes Chapter Five Yoked to Sensual Pleasures
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, one yoked to both sensual pleasures and rebirth is a returner, who comes back to this place. One unyoked from sensual pleasures but still yoked to rebirth is a non-returner, who comes not back to this place. One unyoked from both sensual pleasures and rebirth is a perfected one, who has ended defilements.” The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:
“Yoked to both sensual pleasures and the desire to be reborn in a future life; sentient beings continue to transmigrate, with ongoing birth and death.
Those who’ve given up sensual pleasures without attaining the end of defilements, and are still yoked to being reborn, are said to be non-returners.
Those who have cut off doubt, and ended conceit and future lives, they’re the ones in this world <j>who’ve truly crossed over, having reached the ending of defilements.”
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.
So It Was Said 97 The Book of the Threes Chapter Five Good Morals
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, in this teaching and training a mendicant of good morals, good practice, and good wisdom is called consummate, accomplished, a supreme person.