The Sobhana Cittas in Our Life - The message

'Now the venerable Upāli came to the Exalted One,

saluted and sat down at one side.

So seated, he said: 'Well were it for me, lord,

if the Exalted One were to expound Dhamma briefly to me,

so that, having heard it,

I might abide resolute, alone, secluded, earnest and zealous.'

'The doctrines, Upāli, of which you may know;

'These doctrines lead one not to complete weariness (of the world),

nor to dispassion,

nor to ending,

nor to calm,

nor to knowledge,

nor to the awakening,

nor to the cool' -- regard them definitely as not Dhamma,

not the discipline, not the word of the Teacher.

But the doctrines of which you may know :

'These doctrines lead one to complete weariness,

dispassion, ending, calm, knowledge, the awakening,

the cool'-- regard them unreservedly as Dhamma,

the discipline, the word of the Teacher.'