Reading guide
A confirmed second formula, not a guess
This project's own earlier prediction (from the Gaṅgāpeyyāla uddāna's own hint) is now directly confirmed by reading this discourse's own text: “freedom from death” (amata) marks Set 2, distinct from Set 1's own “removal of greed, hate, and delusion.”
Key terms
The text
§1“Mendicants, 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’s 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’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”
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