“Mendicants, this spiritual life is not lived for the sake of deceiving people or flattering them, nor for the benefit of possessions, honor, or popularity, nor for the benefit of winning debates, nor thinking, ‘So let people know about me!’ This spiritual life is lived for the sake of restraint, giving up, fading away, and cessation.

The Buddha taught the spiritual life
not because of tradition,
but for the sake of restraint and giving up,
and because it culminates in extinguishment.
This is the path followed by the great souls,
the great seers.
Those who practice it as it
was taught by the Buddha,
doing the teacher’s bidding,
make an end of suffering.”

The Numbered Discourses

|_【4】 The Book of the Fours

|__A. The First Fifty

|___III. The Chapter at Uruvelā

AN4.25 The Spiritual Life

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Việt Ngữ

पाळिभासा (Pāli)

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