Autumn (AN3.94)

Numbered Discourses 3.94

10. A Lump of Salt

Autumn

“In the autumn, the heavens are sunny and cloudless. And as the sun is rising to the firmament, having dispelled all the darkness of space, it shines and glows and dazzles.

In the same way, when the stainless, immaculate vision of the teaching arises in a noble disciple, three fetters are given up:

substantialist view, doubt, and misapprehension of precepts and observances.

Afterwards they are delivered from two things: covetousness and ill will.

Quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, they enter and remain in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected.

If that noble disciple passed away at that time, they’re bound by no fetter that might return them to this world.”