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§ 16.

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "With regard to internal factors, I don't envision any other single factor like appropriate attention* as doing so much for a monk in training,** who has not attained the heart's goal but remains intent on the unsurpassed safety from bondage.*** A monk who attends appropriately abandons what is unskillful and develops what is skillful.

Appropriate attention
    as a quality
of a monk in training:
nothing else
does so much
for attaining the superlative goal.
A monk, striving appropriately,
    attains the ending of stress.

 




* Appropriate attention (yoniso manasikara) is the ability to focus attention on questions that lead to the end of suffering. M.2 lists the following questions as not fit for attention: "Was I in the past? Was I not in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past?... Shall I be in the future? Shall I not be in the future? What shall I be in the future? How shall I be in the future?... Am I? Am I not? What am I? How am I? Where has this being come from? Where is it bound?" The discourse also lists the following issues as fit for attention: "This is stress. This is the origination of stress. This is the cessation of stress. This is the way leading to the cessation of stress."



** A person "in training" is one who has attained at least the first level of Awakening, but not yet the final level.



*** Bondage = the four yokes: sensual passion, becoming, views, & ignorance.




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