Itivuttaka — Assim Foi Dito — 46 — The Benefits of Training

1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

2“Mendicants, live with training as benefit, with wisdom as overseer, with freedom as core, and with mindfulness as ruler. A mendicant who lives in this way can expect one of two results: enlightenment in this very life, or if there’s residue left behind, non-return.”

3The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:

4“The training fulfilled, not liable to decline,
overseen by wisdom, seer of rebirth’s end;
that sage bears their final body;
they have disposed of Māra, I declare, <j>and gone beyond old age.

5Therefore be always enjoying absorption, <j>immersed in samādhi,
energetic, seers of rebirth’s end.
Having overcome Māra and his armies, mendicants,
go beyond birth and death.”

6This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.