The cessation of suffering · What can change · Elias Thorn Site: Elias Thorn / Shelter Source: https://elias-thorn.com/en/rooms/records/garden-suffering-cessation/ Language: en Reuse: Retain the source URL and existing author credits. The site is the distribution source, not necessarily the original author or rights holder. Scope: Public HTML text at build time. Interactive content, media and private records are not included. The cessation of suffering · What can change SN 56.11 · the middle way and four noble truths · 2.1–4.10 2.1 “Mendicants, these two extremes should not be cultivated by one gone forth. 2.2 What two? 2.3 Indulgence in sensual pleasures, which is low, crude, ordinary, ignoble, and pointless. And indulgence in self-mortification, which is painful, ignoble, and pointless. 2.4 Avoiding these two extremes, the Realized One understood the middle way of practice, which gives vision and knowledge, and leads to peace, direct knowledge, awakening, and extinguishment. 3.1 And what is that middle way of practice? 3.2 It is simply this noble eightfold path, that is: 3.3 right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion. 3.4 This is that middle way of practice, which gives vision and knowledge, and leads to peace, direct knowledge, awakening, and extinguishment. 4.1 Now this is the noble truth of suffering. 4.2 Rebirth is suffering; old age is suffering; illness is suffering; death is suffering; being coupled with the disliked is suffering; separation from the liked is suffering; not getting what you wish for is suffering. In brief, the five grasping aggregates are suffering. 4.3 Now this is the noble truth of the origin of suffering. 4.4 It’s the craving that leads to future lives, mixed up with relishing and greed, taking pleasure there wherever it alights. That is, 4.5 craving for sensual pleasures, craving for continued existence, and craving for nonexistence. 4.6 Now this is the noble truth of the cessation of suffering. 4.7 It’s the fading away and cessation of that very same craving no residue left behind; giving it away, letting it go, releasing it, and not clinging to it. 4.8 Now this is the noble truth of the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering. 4.9 It is simply this noble eightfold path, that is: 4.10 right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion. Pali original · SN 56.11, 2.1–4.10 2.1 “Dveme, bhikkhave, antā pabbajitena na sevitabbā. 2.2 Katame dve? 2.3 Yo cāyaṁ kāmesu kāmasukhallikānuyogo hīno gammo pothujjaniko anariyo anatthasaṁhito, yo cāyaṁ attakilamathānuyogo dukkho anariyo anatthasaṁhito. 2.4 Ete kho, bhikkhave, ubho ante anupagamma majjhimā paṭipadā tathāgatena abhisambuddhā cakkhukaraṇī ñāṇakaraṇī upasamāya abhiññāya sambodhāya nibbānāya saṁvattati. 3.1 Katamā ca sā, bhikkhave, majjhimā paṭipadā tathāgatena abhisambuddhā cakkhukaraṇī ñāṇakaraṇī upasamāya abhiññāya sambodhāya nibbānāya saṁvattati? 3.2 Ayameva ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo, seyyathidaṁ— 3.3 sammādiṭṭhi sammāsaṅkappo sammāvācā sammākammanto sammāājīvo sammāvāyāmo sammāsati sammāsamādhi. 3.4 Ayaṁ kho sā, bhikkhave, majjhimā paṭipadā tathāgatena abhisambuddhā cakkhukaraṇī ñāṇakaraṇī upasamāya abhiññāya sambodhāya nibbānāya saṁvattati. 4.1 Idaṁ kho pana, bhikkhave, dukkhaṁ ariyasaccaṁ— 4.2 jātipi dukkhā, jarāpi dukkhā, byādhipi dukkho, maraṇampi dukkhaṁ, appiyehi sampayogo dukkho, piyehi vippayogo dukkho, yampicchaṁ na labhati tampi dukkhaṁ—saṅkhittena pañcupādānakkhandhā dukkhā. 4.3 Idaṁ kho pana, bhikkhave, dukkhasamudayaṁ ariyasaccaṁ— 4.4 yāyaṁ taṇhā ponobbhavikā nandirāgasahagatā tatratatrābhinandinī, seyyathidaṁ— 4.5 kāmataṇhā, bhavataṇhā, vibhavataṇhā. 4.6 Idaṁ kho pana, bhikkhave, dukkhanirodhaṁ ariyasaccaṁ— 4.7 yo tassāyeva taṇhāya asesavirāganirodho cāgo paṭinissaggo mutti anālayo. 4.8 Idaṁ kho pana, bhikkhave, dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā ariyasaccaṁ— 4.9 ayameva ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo, seyyathidaṁ— 4.10 sammādiṭṭhi …pe… sammāsamādhi. Reading notes The excerpt begins with two extremes: indulgence in sensual pleasures and self-mortification. Both are called pointless. It then lists the eight path factors; the four truths connect suffering with its origin, cessation, and the practice leading to cessation. Dukkha here includes birth and death, separation, dissatisfaction, and clinging to the five aggregates of experience. Cessation is tied to the fading of craving. “Extinguishment” in the account of the path renders nibbāna; it cannot be reduced to relieving a particular illness or living comfortably. The rejection of self-mortification invites a question about the value assigned to pain: why regard it as necessary in itself? That is a question we bring to the text. The discourse concerns Buddhist liberation; this passage does not discuss the organization of modern medicine or the distribution of public resources. A continuous excerpt from SN 56.11, segments 2.1–4.10 in SuttaCentral: the two extremes, middle way, and four noble truths. All 18 segments within these bounds are reproduced from Bhikkhu Sujato’s English translation (CC0); Russian translates this English text. This is part of the sutta, not the complete discourse or an independent Russian translation directly from Pali. Pali 4.10 uses the abbreviation …pe…; Sujato expands the eight path factors as in 3.3, and Russian follows that expansion. In 3.1 Sujato shortens a repeated formula; the accompanying Pali text retains it in full. Numbers identify digital edition segments. The Russian translation has not received independent philological review. 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