sn45.121:1.1 “Mendicants, the Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the ocean.
sn45.121:1.2 In the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.
sn45.121:1.3 And how does a mendicant who develops the noble eightfold path slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment?
sn45.121:1.4 It’s when a mendicant develops right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion, whose objective, destination, and culmination is freedom from death.
sn45.121:1.5 That’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”