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Exalted Utterances - Udāna (KN 3)

An English translation of this important collection of eighty discourses covering many themes and biographical details in the Buddha’s teaching.

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1: Bodhivaggo - 3<br />

Then the Gracious One, having understood the significance of it, on<br />

that occasion uttered this exalted utterance: 10<br />

“When (the nature of) things becomes really manifest<br />

To the ardent meditating brāhmaṇa,<br />

Then all his doubts disappear,<br />

Since he knows (the nature of a) thing and its cause.”<br />

1.2 The Second Discourse about the Awakening (Tree)<br />

Thus I heard: at one time the Gracious One was dwelling near Uruvelā,<br />

on the bank of the river Nerañjarā, at the root of the Awakening tree,<br />

in the first (period) after attaining Awakening. Then at that time the<br />

Gracious One was sitting in one cross-legged posture for seven days<br />

experiencing the happiness of freedom.<br />

Then with the passing of those seven days, the Gracious One, after<br />

arising from that concentration, for the middle watch of the night,<br />

applied his mind thoroughly to conditional origination in reverse<br />

order:<br />

“This not being so, that is not; from the ceasing of this, that ceases,<br />

that is to say: from the cessation of ignorance, there is the cessation<br />

being so, that is, being parallel to: because of ignorance there are<br />

(volitional) processes; with honti being understood.<br />

10 <strong>Udāna</strong>, from ud, up, out + ān, to breathe out. The verb is used with the<br />

cognate accusative, a common construction in Pāḷi, which cannot be<br />

reproduced in English which normally avoids such internal repetition.

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