Reading guide
The same grid, a plainer opening
“One thing helps give rise to the noble eightfold path... what one thing? It's good friendship” replaces SN 45.49's own dawn simile with a direct statement — confirmed by reading both discourses side by side, everything from this point on (the teach-you framing, the eightfold path's own full definition, the closing formula) matches exactly.
A vagga's own name, confirmed by its own opening line
Ekadhammapeyyālavagga takes its own name directly from this discourse's own “ekadhammo” (“one thing”) opening, confirmed by the vagga's own closing uddāna — the identical naming logic this project already met at Micchattavagga's own SN 45.21.
Key terms
The text
§1At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, one thing helps give rise to the noble eightfold path. What one thing? It’s good friendship. A mendicant with good friends can expect to develop and cultivate the noble eightfold path. And how does a mendicant with good friends develop and cultivate the noble eightfold path? It’s when a mendicant develops right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go. That’s how a mendicant with good friends develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path.”
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