mn83:21.1 Ānanda, you might think,
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mn83:21.2 ‘Surely King Maghadeva, by whom that good practice was founded, must have been someone else at that time?’
mn83:21.3 But you should not see it like this.
mn83:21.4 I myself was King Maghadeva at that time.
mn83:21.5 I was the one who founded that good practice,
mn83:21.6 which was kept up by those who came after.
mn83:21.7 But that good practice doesn’t lead to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment. It only leads as far as rebirth in the realm of divinity.
mn83:21.8 But now I have founded a good practice that does lead to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.
mn83:21.9 And what is that good practice?
mn83:21.10 It is simply this noble eightfold path, that is:
mn83:21.11 right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion.
mn83:21.12 This is the good practice I have now founded that leads to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.
mn83:21.13 Ānanda, I say to you:
mn83:21.14 ‘You all should keep up this good practice that I have founded. Do not be my final men.’
mn83:21.15 When a pair of men are living, the one who breaks such good practice is their final man.
mn83:21.16 Ānanda, I say to you:
mn83:21.17 ‘You all should keep up this good practice that I have founded. Do not be my final men.’”
mn83:21.18 That is what the Buddha said.
mn83:21.19 Satisfied, Venerable Ānanda approved what the Buddha said.