AN 3.90

Dutiyasikkhattayasutta

“Tisso imā, bhikkhave, sikkhā. Katamā tisso? Adhisīlasikkhā, adhicittasikkhā, adhipaññāsikkhā.

Three Trainings (2nd)

“Mendicants, these are the three trainings. What three? The training in the higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom.

Katamā ca, bhikkhave, adhisīlasikkhā? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu sīlavā hoti …pe… samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu. Ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, adhisīlasikkhā.

And what is the training in the higher ethics? It’s when a mendicant is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken. This is called the training in the higher ethics.

Katamā ca, bhikkhave, adhicittasikkhā? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu vivicceva kāmehi …pe… catutthaṁ jhānaṁ upasampajja viharati. Ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, adhicittasikkhā.

And what is the training in the higher mind? It’s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption … second absorption … third absorption … fourth absorption. This is called the training in the higher mind.

Katamā ca, bhikkhave, adhipaññāsikkhā? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu āsavānaṁ khayā anāsavaṁ cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati. Ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, adhipaññāsikkhā. Imā kho, bhikkhave, tisso sikkhāti.

And what is the training in the higher wisdom? It’s when a mendicant realizes the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. This is called the training in the higher wisdom. These are the three trainings.

Adhisīlaṁ adhicittaṁ, adhipaññañca vīriyavā; Thāmavā dhitimā jhāyī, sato guttindriyo care.

The higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom should be practiced by those energetic, steadfast, and resolute, practicing absorption, mindful, with guarded senses.

Yathā pure tathā pacchā, yathā pacchā tathā pure; Yathā adho tathā uddhaṁ, yathā uddhaṁ tathā adho.

As before, so behind; as behind, so before. As below, so above; as above, so below.

Yathā divā tathā rattiṁ, yathā rattiṁ tathā divā; Abhibhuyya disā sabbā, appamāṇasamādhinā.

As by day, so by night; as by night, so by day. Having mastered every direction with limitless immersion,

Tamāhu sekhaṁ paṭipadaṁ, atho saṁsuddhacāriyaṁ; Tamāhu loke sambuddhaṁ, dhīraṁ paṭipadantaguṁ.

they call them a ‘trainee on the path’, and ‘one living a pure life’. But a wise one who has gone to the end of the path they call a ‘Buddha’ in the world.

Viññāṇassa nirodhena, taṇhākkhayavimuttino; Pajjotasseva nibbānaṁ, vimokkho hoti cetaso”ti.

With the cessation of consciousness, freed by the ending of craving, the liberation of their heart is like a lamp going out.”