"— experienced as pleasure, pain, or neither-pleasure-nor-pain — as it actually is present, one is not infatuated with the eye... forms... consciousness at the eye... contact at the eye..." 2/
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"...whatever arises conditioned by contact at the eye and is experienced as pleasure, pain, or neither-pleasure-nor-pain. For him — uninfatuated, unattached, unconfused, remaining focused on their drawbacks — the five clinging-aggregates head toward future diminution." 3/
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"The craving that makes for further becoming — accompanied by passion & delight, relishing now this & now that — is abandoned by him. His bodily disturbances & mental disturbances are abandoned. His bodily torments & mental torments are abandoned." 4/
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"His bodily distresses & mental distresses are abandoned. He is sensitive both to ease of body & ease of awareness. Any view belonging to one who has come to be like this is his right view. Any resolve, his right resolve. Any effort, his right effort." 5/
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"Any mindfulness, his right mindfulness. Any concentration, his right concentration: just as earlier his actions, speech, & livelihood were already well-purified. Thus for him, having thus developed the noble eightfold path..." 6/
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"...the four frames of reference go to the culmination of their development. The four right exertions... the four bases of power... the five faculties... the five strengths... the seven factors for Awakening go to the culmination of their development." 7/
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"[And] for him these two qualities occur in tandem: tranquillity & insight." 8/
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