“Whatever is subject to arising is all
subject to cessation.” When the Wheel of Truth had thus
been set rolling by the Blessed One the earth gods
raised the cry: “At Benares, in the Deer Park at
Isipatana, the matchless Wheel of truth has been set
rolling by the Blessed One, not to be stopped by monk or
divine or god or death-angel or high divinity or anyone
in the world.”
After receiving
enlightenment under the bodhi tree, the Buddha
contemplated for several days and travelled to Saranath
to deliver the following sermon to the five monks with
whom he previously practised severe austerities before
choosing the middle path.
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta - Setting the Wheel of Truth
Rolling Thus I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One
was living at Benares in the Deer Park at Isipatana (the
Resort of Seers). There he addressed the bhikkhus of the
group of five.
“Bhikkhus, these two extremes ought not to be cultivated
by one gone forth from the house-life. What are the two?
There is devotion to indulgence of pleasure in the
objects of sensual desire, which is inferior, low,
vulgar, ignoble, and leads to no good; and there is
devotion to self-torment, which is painful, ignoble and
leads to no good.
“The middle way discovered by a Perfect One avoids both
these extremes; it gives vision, it gives knowledge, and
it leads to peace, to direct acquaintance, to discovery,
to Nibbana.
And what is that middle way? It is simply the Noble
Eightfold Path, that is to say, right view, right
intention; right speech, right action, right livelihood;
right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
That is the middle way discovered by the Perfect One,
which gives vision, which gives knowledge, and which
leads to peace, to direct acquaintance, to discovery, to
Nibbana.
“Suffering, as a noble truth, is this: Birth is
suffering, aging is suffering, sickness is suffering,
death is suffering, sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief
and despair are suffering; association with the loathed
is suffering, dissociation from the loved is suffering,
not to get what one wants is suffering” in short,
suffering is the five categories of clinging objects.
“The origin of suffering, as a Noble Truth, is this: It
is the craving that produces renewal of being
accompanied by enjoyment and lust, and enjoying this and
that; in other words, craving for sensual desires,
craving for being, craving for non-being.
“Cessation of suffering, as a noble truth, is this: It
is remainderless fading and ceasing, giving up,
relinquishing, letting go and rejecting, of that same
craving.
“The way leading to cessation of suffering, as a noble
truth, is this: It is simply the Noble Eightfold Path,
that is to say, right view, right intention; right
speech, right action, right livelihood; right effort,
right mindfulness, right concentration.
‘Suffering, as a noble truth, is this.’ Such was the
vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding,
the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me
before. ‘This suffering, as a noble truth, can be
diagnosed.’ Such was the vision, the knowledge, the
understanding, the finding, the light, that arose in
regard to ideas not heard by me before. ‘This suffering,
as a noble truth, has been diagnosed.’ Such was the
vision, the knowledge, the understanding, the finding,
the light, that arose in regard to ideas not heard by me
before.
‘The origin of suffering, as a noble truth, is this.’
Such was the vision... ‘This origin of suffering, as a
noble truth, can be abandoned.’ Such was the vision...
‘This origin of suffering, as a noble truth, has been
abandoned.’ Such was the vision... in regard to ideas
not heard by me before.
‘Cessation of suffering, as a noble truth, is this.’
Such was the vision... ‘This cessation of suffering, as
a noble truth, can be verified.’ Such was the vision...
‘This cessation of suffering, as a noble truth, has been
verified.’ Such was the vision... in regard to ideas not
heard by me before.
‘The way leading to cessation of suffering, as a noble
truth, is this.’ Such was the vision... ‘This way
leading to cessation of suffering, as a noble truth, can
be developed.’ Such was the vision... ‘This way leading
to the cessation of suffering, as a noble truth, has
been developed.’ Such was the vision...in regard to
ideas not heard by me before. “As long as my knowing and
seeing how things are, was not quite purified in these
twelve aspects, in these three phases of each of the
four noble truths, I did not claim in the world with its
gods, its Maras and high divinities, in this generation
with its monks and brahmans, with its princes and men to
have discovered the full. Awakening that is supreme. But
as soon as my knowing and seeing how things are, was
quite purified in these twelve aspects, in these three
phases of each of the four noble truths, then I claimed
in the world with its gods, its Maras and high
divinities, in this generation with its monks and
brahmans, its princes and men to have discovered the
full Awakening that is supreme. Knowing and seeing arose
in me thus: ‘My heart’s deliverance is unassailable.
This is the last birth. Now there is no renewal of
being.’ That is what the Blessed One said. The bhikkhus
of the group of five were glad, and they approved his
words.
Now during this utterance, there arose in the venerable
Kondanna the spotless, immaculate vision of the True
Idea: “Whatever is subject to arising is all subject to
cessation.” When the Wheel of Truth had thus been set
rolling by the Blessed One the earth gods raised the
cry: “At Benares, in the Deer Park at Isipatana, the
matchless Wheel of truth has been set rolling by the
Blessed One, not to be stopped by monk or divine or god
or death-angel or high divinity or anyone in the world.”
On hearing the earth-gods’ cry, all the gods in turn in
the six paradises of the sensual sphere took up the cry
till it reached beyond the Retinue of High Divinity in
the sphere of pure form. And so indeed in that hour, at
that moment, the cry soared up to the World of High
Divinity, and this ten-thousand fold world-element shook
and rocked and quaked, and a great measureless radiance
surpassing the very nature of the gods was displayed in
the world.
Then the Blessed One uttered the exclamation: “Kondanna
knows! Kondanna knows!,” and that is how that venerable
one acquired the name, Anna-Kondanna” Kondanna who
knows.
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