..续本文上一页m of concepts in various ways, the most common being in terms of the `Three Knowledges”.

　　10. "With the mind thus composed, purified, cleansed, unblemished, without defilement, malleable and workable, steady and immovable, I directed my mind to the knowledge and recollection of former existences. I recollected a variety of former abidings [15] thus: one birth, two births, three births, four births, five births, ten births, twenty births, thirty births, forty births, fifty births, a hundred births, a thousand births, a hundred thousand births, many an age of disintegration, many an age of integration, many an age of disintegration-integration; such was my name, such my lineage, such my appearance, such my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such my span of life. Thence passing away, I arose in another existence where such was my name, such my lineage, such my appearance, such my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such my span of life. Thence passing away, I arose here. Thus with characteristics and details I recollected various former abidings.

　　"This was the first knowledge attained by me in the first watch of the night. Ignorance was destroyed and knowledge arose; darkness was destroyed and light arose, accordingly as I dwelt vigilant, ardent and resolute. But such pleasant feeling as arose persisted without gaining power over my mind.

　　"With the mind thus composed, purified, cleansed, unblemished, without defilement, malleable and workable, steady and immovable, I directed my mind to the knowledge of the passing away and reappearance of beings. With clairvoyant vision, purified and surpassing that of humans, I saw beings passing away and reappearing. I understood that beings are inferior or superior, beautiful or ugly, well-faring or ill-faring according to their actions (kamma). Indeed these worthy beings who were possessed of bad conduct of body, bad conduct of speech and bad conduct of mind, revilers of noble ones, of wrong view, acquiring actions from wrong view -- upon the breaking up of the body after death have arisen in states of privation, an unfavourable destination, in a place of suffering, in purgatory. But these worthy beings who were possessed of good conduct of body, good conduct of speech and good conduct of mind, not revilers of noble ones, of right view, acquiring actions due to right view -- upon the breaking up of the body after death have arisen in a favourable destination, a heaven world.

　　"With clairvoyant vision, purified and surpassing that of humans, I saw beings passing away and reappearing. I understood that beings are inferior or superior, beautiful or ugly, well-faring or ill-faring according to their actions (kamma).

　　"This was the second knowledge attained by me in the second watch of the night. Ignorance was destroyed and knowledge arose; darkness was destroyed and light arose, accordingly as I dwelt vigilant, ardent and resolute. But such pleasant feeling as arose persisted without gaining power over my mind.

　　"With the mind thus composed, purified, cleansed, unblemished, without defilement, malleable and workable, steady and immovable, I directed my mind to the knowledge of the exhaustion of the outflows (asava). I had direct knowledge, as it really is, that:

　　`This is suffering; this is the arising of suffering; this is the cessation of suffering; this is the path to the cessation of suffering”. I had direct knowledge, as it really is, that: `These are the outflows; this is the arising of the outflows; this is the cessation of the outflows; this is the path to the cessation of the outflows”. Knowing thus and seeing thus my mind was freed from the outflow of sense pleasure, the outflow of becoming and the outflow of ignorance. In freedom the knowledge came: `There is…

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