Linked Discourses 55.12
- The Royal Monastery
The Brahmins
At Sāvatthī.
“Mendicants, the brahmins advocate a practice called ‘get up and go’.
They encourage their disciples:
‘Please, good people, rising early you should face east and walk.
Do not avoid a pit, a cliff, a stump, thorny ground, a swamp, or a sewer.
You should await death in the place that you fall.
And when your body breaks up, after death, you’ll be reborn in a good place, a heaven realm.’
But this practice of the brahmins is a foolish procedure, a stupid procedure. It doesn’t lead to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, or extinguishment.
But in the training of the Noble One I advocate a ‘get up and go’ practice
which does lead solely to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.
And what is that ‘get up and go’ practice?
It’s when a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha …
the teaching …
the Saṅgha …
And they have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones … leading to immersion.
This is that ‘get up and go’ practice
which does lead solely to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.”