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The Venerable Sariputta is called to Anathapindika”s deathbed and admonishes him to free his mind from any attachment whatsoever, beginning with the six sense organs: "Thus should you train yourself, householder: ”I shall not cling to the eye, and my consciousness will not attach itself to the eye.” Thus, householder, should you train yourself." This is repeated in full for each of the other five sense organs, the six sense objects, the sixfold consciousness, sixfold contact, sixfold feeling born of contact; the six elements, the five aggregates, the four incorporeal jhanas, and concludes with detachment from this world and all other worlds; detachment from all things seen, heard, sensed and thought; from all that is encountered, sought and pursued in mind.
In short, detachment should be practiced as to the entire range of experience, beginning with what for a dying person will be his immediate concern; his sense faculties and their function.
This call for detachment drawing ever wider circles and repeating the same mighty chord of thought, must have had a deeply penetrating impact and a calming, liberating, even cheering influence on the dying devotee”s mind. This was what Sariputta, the skilled teacher, obviously intended. And in fact his words had that impact because our text says that Anathapindika was moved to tears by the loftiness of the discourse, one in profundity unlike any he had ever heard before. Anathapindika passed away soon after, and was reborn as a deity in Tusita Heaven.
Digha Nikaya
No. 28: Faith-Inspiring Discourse (Sampasadaniya Sutta)
An eloquent eulogy of the Buddha by Sariputta, spoken in the Buddha”s presence and proclaiming the peerless qualities (anuttariya) of his Teaching. It is an expression and at the same time a justification of Sariputta”s deep confidence in the Buddha. It may be regarded as complementary to Sariputta”s "Lion”s Roar" which forms the first section of the discourse and is repeated in the Maha-parinibbana Sutta.[52]
No. 33: Doctrinal Recitation (Sangiti Sutta) and
No. 34: Tenfold Series Discourse (Dasuttara Sutta)
See pp. 44f.
ANGUTTARA NIKAYA
Roman figures denote the number of the book (nipata) and Arabic figures the number of the sutta. The pision of the suttas in the Anguttara Nikaya is only numerical.
II, 37 (Samacitta-Sutta):
On the stream-winner, the once-returner and the non-returner, and on what determines the places of the rebirths they have still before them. See p. 43.
III, 21:
On another classification of Noble Persons (ariya puggala): the Body-witness (kayasakkhi), the one attained to Right Understanding (ditthippatto) and the one Liberated through Faith (saddha-vimutto).
IV, 79:
Sariputta asks the Buddha why the enterprises of some people fail, those of others succeed, and those of others even surpass their expectations. The Buddha replies that one of the reasons is generosity, or lack of it, shown to ascetics, priests and monks.
IV, 156:
On four qualities indicative of loss or maintenance of wholesome states of mind.
Here it is said that if one finds in oneself four qualities one can know for certain that one has lost wholesome qualities, and that this is what has been called deterioration by the Blessed One. These four are: excessive greed, excessive hate, excessive delusion, and lack of knowledge and wisdom concerning the perse profound subjects (relating to wisdom).
If on the other hand, one finds in oneself four other qualities, one can know for certain that one has not lost one”s wholesome qualities, and that this is what has been called progress by the Blessed One. These four other qualities are: attenuated greed, attenuated hate, attenuated delusion, and the possession of knowledge and wisdom concerning the perse profound…
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