The Noble Search
(Ariyapariyesana Sutta, MN 26)
By Thanajayo Bhikkhu
Part 2
Introduction
The Ariyapariyesana Sutta (MN 26) or Pasarasi Sutta is one of the most significant suttas in the Sutta Pitaka.
It describing the Buddha’s own experience during his search for the truth and his discovery.
The Noble Search
The Enlightenment
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Majjhima Nikaya
What is subject to birth?
(aging, sickness, death, sorrow, defilements)
“When these are seen as acquisitions one becomes attached and infatuated with these acquisitions. Seeking happiness with what is subject to birth is an ignoble search.”
(aging, sickness, death, sorrow, defilements)
The Noble Search
“And what is the noble search? Here someone being himself subject to birth, having understood the danger in what is subject to birth, seeks the unborn supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna;
being himself subject to ageing, having understood the danger in what is subject to ageing, he seeks the unageing supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna;
being himself subject to sickness, having understood the danger in what is subject to sickness, he seeks the unfailing supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna;
The Noble Search
being himself subject to death, having understood the danger in what is subject to death, he seeks the deathless supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna;
being himself subject to sorrow, having understood the danger in what is subject to sorrow, he seeks the sorrowless supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna;
being himself subject to defilement, having understood the danger in what is subject to defilement, he seeks the undefiled supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna.
This is the noble search.
“Bhikkhus, whatever is not yours, abandon it; when you have abandoned it, that will lead to your welfare and happiness for a long time.”
MN 22
“I considered: ‘This Dhamma that I have attained is profound, hard to see and hard to understand, peaceful and sublime, unattainable by mere reasoning, subtle, to be experienced by the wise. This people, on the other hand, is given to attachment, intent upon attachment, delighting in attachment. To this people, therefore, who are given, to attachment, intent upon attachment, delighting in attachment, the law of causality and the law of dependent origination (paṭiccasamuppāda) will be a matter difficult to understand.
Enlightenment
And it is hard to see this truth, namely, the stilling of all formations, the relinquishing of all acquisitions, the destruction of craving, dispassion (virāga), cessation(nirodha), Nibbāna.
Enlightenment
Paṭiccasamuppāda
Dependent Origination
�“This existing, that exist; �this arising, that arises;�this not existing, that does not exist; �this ceaseing, that ceases.”
The Formula
“There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks there were not that unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned, you could not know an escape here from the born, become, made, and conditioned. But because there is an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned, therefore you do know an escape from the born, become, made, and conditioned.”
An Escape (Nibbāna)
Tatiyanibbanapatisamyuttasutta, Ud 8. 3
Unborn
Unaging
Deathless
Sorrowless
Supreme Peace
Unmade
Unbecome
Unconditioned
An Escape (Nibbāna)
Unbinding
The Awakened State
“Those dyed in lust, warpped in darkness will never discern this abstruse Dhamma which goes against the worldly stream, subtle, deep, and difficult to see.”
“Enough with teaching the Dhamma that even I found hard to reach; for it will never be perceived by those who live in lust and hate.”
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“If I were to teach the Dhamma, others would not understand me, and that would be wearying and troublesome for me.”
“I saw beings
with little-much dust in their eyes,
with keen-dull faculties,
with good-bad qualities
easy-hard to teach.
And some who dwelt seeing fear and blame in the other world.”
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Morality
Concentration
Wisdom
Rejoice in your merit