iti16:0.1So It Was Said 16
iti16:0.2The Book of the Ones
iti16:0.3Chapter Two
iti16:0.4A Trainee (1st)
iti16:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti16:2.1“Taking into account interior factors, mendicants, I do not see a single one that is so very helpful as rational application of mind for a trainee mendicant who hasn’t achieved their heart’s desire, but lives aspiring to the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.
iti16:2.2A mendicant rationally applying the mind gives up the unskillful and develops the skillful.”
iti16:2.3The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti16:2.4On this it is said:
iti16:3.1“There is nothing so helpful
iti16:3.2for a trainee mendicant
iti16:3.3aspiring for the ultimate goal
iti16:3.4as rational application of mind.
iti16:3.5Striving rationally, a mendicant
iti16:3.6attains the end of suffering.”
iti16:4.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.