Reading guide
A precise structural echo of SN 45.55
This discourse's own role — closing a first round of seven qualities before the identical seven repeat with a different closing formula — matches SN 45.55's own role in Sūriyapeyyālavagga exactly, confirmed by direct comparison of both discourses' own position within their own vagga.
The first round complete, again
Good friendship, ethics, enthusiasm, self-development, view, diligence, and rational application of mind: all seven qualities of this vagga's own first round, each closing with the identical “seclusion... letting go” formula, confirmed covered by this discourse's own close.
Key terms
The text
§1“… accomplishment in rational application of mind. A mendicant accomplished in rational application of mind can expect to develop and cultivate the noble eightfold path. And how does a mendicant accomplished in rational application of mind 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 accomplished in rational application of mind develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path.”
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