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I have heard that on one occasion The Blessed One was staying at Varanasi in the game refuge of Isipatana. There he addressed a group of five monks.

“There are two extremes that are not to be indulged in by one who has gone forth. That which is devoted to sensual pleasure: base, vulgar, common, ignoble and

unprofitable; and that which is devoted to self-affliction; painful. ignoble and unprofitable. Avoiding both extremes, the middle way realized by the Tathagatha -

producing vision, producing knowledge – leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding.

And what is the middle way realized by the Tathagatha – producing vision, producing knowledge – leads to calm, leads to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding. Precisely this noble Eight-fold path; right view, right resolve, right speech,

right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. This is the middle way realized by the Tathagatha – that producing vision, producing

knowledge – leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to liberation. Now this monks, is the noble way of suffering:

Birth is suffering, Aging is suffering, Death is suffering. Sorrow, pain, lamentation, distress & despair are suffering.

Association with what is unbeloved is suffering, dissociation with what is beloved is suffering, not getting what one wants is suffering.

In short, the five aggregates of clinging is suffering.

And this, monks, is the noble truth of the origination of suffering.

The craving that makes for further becoming – i.e. craving for sensuality, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming.

And this, monks, is the noble truth of the cessation of suffering.

The remainderless fading and cessation, renunciation, relinquishment, release and letting go of that very craving.

And this, monks, is the noble way of practice, leading the way to the cessation of suffering: Precisely this eightfold noble path – right view, right resolve, right speech,

right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. Vision arose, insight rose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: this noble truth of suffering is to

be comprehended!

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: this noble truth of suffering is to

be comprehended!

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: this noble truth of suffering is to

be comprehended

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: this noble truth of suffering is to

be comprehended

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: this noble truth of the origination

of suffering has been abandoned.

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: This is the noble truth of the

cessation of suffering.

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: This is the noble truth of the

cessation of suffering to be realized.

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: This is the noble truth of the

cessation of suffering has been realized.

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: This is the noble truth of the way

of practice, leading to the cessation of suffering.

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: This is the noble truth of

Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: This is the noble truth of practice; leading to the cessation of suffering has been developed.

And, monks, as long as this – my three round, twelve per mutation knowledge and vision concerning these four noble truths as they have come to be – was not pure, I did not claim to have directly awakened to the right self-awakening unexcelled in the cosmos with its Deities, Māras and Brahmas, with its contemplatives and Brahmans,

its royalty and its common people. But as soon this – my three round, twelve per mutation, knowledge and vision, concerning these four noble truths as they have come to be – was truly pure, then I did claim to have directly awakened to the right

self-awakening, unexcelled in the cosmos with its Deities, Māras and Brahmas, with its contemplatives and Brahmans, its royalty and its common people.

The knowledge and vision arose in me; unprovoked is my release. This is the last birth. There is no further becoming.”

That is what the Blessed One said – Gratified, the group of five monks delighted at his words. And while this explanation was given, the arose to

Venerable Kondañña the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye: “Whatever is subject to origination, is all subject to cessation.”

Now when the Blessed One had set the wheel of Dhamma in motion, the earth deities cried out: “at Varanasi, in the game refuge of Isipatana, the Blessed One had set in

motion the unexcelled wheel of Dhamma that cannot be stopped by brahma or contemplative, deity, Māra, Brahmā, or anyone else in the cosmos.”

On hearing the earth deities’ cry, the deities of the heaven of the four kings’ took up the cry.

of the On hearing the cry heaven of the four kings’ take up the cry, the heavens of the thirty-three took up the cry.

On hearing the cry of the thirty-three take up the cry, the Yama deities took up the cry.

On hearing the cry of the Yama deities, the Dusita deities took up the cry. On hearing the Dusita deities take up the cry,

the Nimmanarati deities took up the cry. On hearing the Nimmanarati deities take up the cry,

the Paranimmita-vasavati deities took up the cry. On hearing the Paranimmita-vasavati deities take up the cry,

the deities of the Brahma retinue took up the cry. On hearing the Brahma retinue take up the cry

etc…….

At Varanasi, in the game refuge at Isipatana, the Blessed One has set in motion the unexcelled Wheel of Dhamma that cannot be stopped by Brahman or

contemplative, deity, Māra, Brahmā, or anyone at all in the cosmos. So, in that moment, that instant the cry shot right up into the Brahmā world. And this ten-thousand-fold cosmos shivered and quivered and quaked, while a great,

measureless radiance appeared in the cosmos, surpassing the effulgence of the deities. Then the Blessed One exclaimed:

“So you really know Kondañña? So you really know? ”And that is how Venerable Kondañña acquired the name Aññā-KondaññaKondañña who knows…..