There is many
folly ways, but only One really good Way!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Some priests postulate this as the way going upwards: "Get up early and walk
facing east.
Do not avoid a pit, or a cliff abyss, or a stump, or a thorny place, or a
village or a cesspool!
You should expect death wherever you fall. Thus, good man, with the breakup
of the body,
after death, you will be reborn in a good destination, in a heavenly world."
This the praxis
of the priests, Bhikkhus, is a foolish & stupid way, since it does neither
lead to revulsion,
to disillusion, to ceasing, to peace, to direct knowledge, to
Enlightenment, nor to Nibbāna!
However, Bhikkhus, I will explain the very way
Going
Upwards in the Noble One's Discipline,
that way, which leads to utter revulsion, to disillusion, to ceasing, to
peace, to safe knowledge,
to Enlightenment, to Nibbāna: Any Noble Disciple possesses
a sure confirmed
confidence
in the
Buddha thus:
Worthy, & perfectly self-Enlightened is the
Buddha!
in the Dhamma thus: Perfectly formulated is the
Buddha-Dhamma,
visible right here & now,
in the Sangha thus:
Perfectly training is this Noble Sangha of the Buddha's
disciples, and
He possesses the morality liked by the Noble Ones, unbroken ... which leads
to concentration!
This, Bhikkhus & friends, is that way going upwards, which leads to utter
revulsion, to
disillusion,
to ceasing, to Peace, to direct knowledge and experience, to Enlightenment,
and to Nibbāna!
