Reading guide
Three vaggas, one confirmed underlying design
Sūriyapeyyālavagga (the dawn simile), Ekadhammapeyyālavagga (“one thing helps give rise to…”), and this vagga (“I do not see a single thing…like”) each present the identical seven qualities and two closing formulas under three genuinely distinct opening phrasings, confirmed by direct comparison of all three vaggas' own opening lines rather than assumed identical from their shared “peyyāla” titles alone.
This vagga's own quiet close
Following this discourse's own genuinely translated content, the root Pāli carries this vagga's own closing colophon (“Dutiyaekadhammapeyyālaṁ,” without an ordinal) and an untranslated meta-uddāna, confirmed by direct comparison to be word for word identical to both preceding peyyāla vaggas' own — described here rather than quoted, since this content is left untranslated in Sujato's own English.
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 culminate in the removal of greed, hate, and delusion. That’s how a mendicant accomplished in rational application of mind develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path.”
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