Can’t find / remember what sutta –
Ven. Thuzana used that sutta in a dhamma talk on weekend retreat yesterday. When I asked where it’s from, he said something like “Sila-Janta Sutta”, but I didn’t get that right as can’t find anything like that (with google).
raivo
April 10, 2017, 9:08am
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This simile seems to come from Vissudhimagga XVI 98:
For the three states beginning with right effort, which are born together, are like the three friends who enter the park together. The object is like the champak tree in full blossom. Concentration, which cannot of its own nature bring about absorption by unification on the object, is like the man who could not pick the flower by raising his arm. Effort is like the companion who bent down, giving his back to mount upon. Mindfulness is like the friend who stood by, giving his shoulder for support. Just as standing on the back of the one and supporting himself on the other’s shoulder he could pick as many flowers as he wanted, so too, when energy accomplishes its function of exerting and when mindfulness accomplishes its function of preventing wobbling, with the help so obtained concentration can bring about absorption by unification on the object. So here in the concentration aggregate it is only concentration that is included as of the same kind. But effort and mindfulness are included because of their action [in assisting].
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