sn6.1:1.1 So I have heard.
BAGIAN 1
sn6.1:1.2 At one time, when he was first awakened, the Buddha was staying in Uruvelā at the root of the goatherd’s banyan tree on the bank of the Nerañjarā River.
sn6.1:1.3 Then as he was in private retreat this thought came to his mind,
sn6.1:1.4 “This principle I have discovered is deep, hard to see, hard to understand, peaceful, sublime, beyond the scope of logic, subtle, comprehensible to the astute.
sn6.1:1.5 But people like clinging, they love it and enjoy it.
sn6.1:1.6 It’s hard for them to see this topic; that is, specific conditionality, dependent origination.
sn6.1:1.7 It’s also hard for them to see this topic; that is, the stilling of all activities, the letting go of all attachments, the ending of craving, fading away, cessation, extinguishment.
sn6.1:1.8 And if I were to teach this principle, others might not understand me, which would be wearying and troublesome for me.”
sn6.1:1.9 And then these verses, which were neither supernaturally inspired, nor learned before in the past, occurred to the Buddha: