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Udana VIII.3
Nibbana Sutta
Parinibbana (3)
Translated from the Pali by John D. Ireland
For free distribution only,
by arrangement with the Buddhist Publication Society

Thus have I heard. At one time the Lord was staying near Savatthi in the Jeta Wood at Anathapindika's monastery. On that occasion the Lord was instructing ... the bhikkhus with a Dhamma talk connected with Nibbana, and those bhikkhus ... were intent on listening to Dhamma.

Then, on realizing its significance, the Lord uttered on that occasion this inspired utterance:

There is, bhikkhus, a not-born, a not-brought-to-being, a not-made, a not-conditioned. If, bhikkhus, there were no not-born, not-brought-to-being, not-made, not-conditioned, no escape would be discerned from what is born, brought-to-being, made, conditioned. But since there is a not-born, a not-brought-to-being, a not-made, a not-conditioned, therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, brought-to-being, made, conditioned.

See also: Ud VIII.1; Ud VIII.2; Ud VIII.4.


 


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