8.
The Chapter on Ascetics and Brahmins
1.
The Discourse on Ageing and Death
71. Thus have I heard - On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's park. There the Blessed One, etc. "Whatever ascetics or brahmins, monks, who do not understand ageing and death, do not understand the origin of ageing and death, do not understand the cessation of ageing and death, do not understand the practice leading to the cessation of ageing and death, they are not for me, monks, ascetics or brahmins who are considered ascetics among ascetics or considered brahmins among brahmins; and those venerable ones do not dwell having attained the goal of asceticism or the goal of the holy life in this very life, having realised by direct knowledge themselves.
"But whatever ascetics or brahmins, monks, who understand ageing and death, etc. understand the practice, they are for me, monks, ascetics or brahmins who are considered ascetics among ascetics and considered brahmins among brahmins; and those venerable ones dwell having attained the goal of asceticism and the goal of the holy life in this very life, having realised by direct knowledge themselves." The first.
2-11.
The Decad Beginning with the Discourse on Birth
72. He was dwelling at Sāvatthī, etc. They do not understand birth, etc.
They do not understand existence, etc.
They do not understand clinging, etc.
They do not understand craving, etc.
They do not understand feeling, etc.
They do not understand contact, etc.
They do not understand the six sense bases, etc.
They do not understand mentality-materiality, etc.
They do not understand consciousness, etc.
"They do not understand activities, they do not understand the origin of activities, they do not understand the cessation of activities, they do not understand the practice leading to the cessation of activities, etc. They understand activities, etc. Having realised by direct knowledge themselves, having attained, they dwell." The eleventh.
The Chapter on Ascetics and Brahmins is eighth.
Its summary:
The Chapter on Ascetics and Brahmins is the eighth in the Nidāna.
The summary of the chapters:
The Chapter on Suffering, the Great Chapter, the eighth is on Ascetics and Brahmins.