Linked Discourses 45.115

1. Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges

Slanting East

“Mendicants, the Ganges river slants, slopes, and inclines to the east.

In the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.

And how does a mendicant who develops the noble eightfold path slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment?

It’s when a mendicant develops right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion, whose objective, destination, and culmination is freedom from death.

That’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”