Reading guide
One variable changed, not the whole claim restated
“Apart from the Holy One's training” replaces SN 45.14's own “except when a Realized One... has appeared” as the sole condition changed — confirmed by reading both discourses side by side, everything else (the eight factors named, “arise to be developed and cultivated”) stays identical.
A teacher's appearance versus a teaching's own structure
SN 45.14 locates the condition in a historical event (a Buddha appearing); this discourse locates it instead in an institution or system (the training itself) — a meaningful shift in where the eightfold path's own dependency is said to lie, from a person to a structured practice.
Key terms
The text
§1At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, these eight things don’t arise to be developed and cultivated apart from the Holy One’s training. What eight? They are: right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion. These are the eight things that don’t arise to be developed and cultivated apart from the Holy One’s training.”
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