Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN52: Connected Discourses with Anuruddha

SN52:15 The Possible

1… "Further, friends, it is because I have developed and cultivated these four establishments of mindfulness that I understand the possible as possible and the impossible as impossible." [n.287] The ten kinds of knowledge to follow are usually called the ten powers of a Tathāgata (dasa tathāgatabala); see MN12, elaborated at Vibh 335–44. Spk says that a disciple may possess them in part (ekadesena), but in their fullness they are possessed in all modes only by omniscient Buddhas.

1"Imesañca panāhaṁ, āvuso, catunnaṁ satipaṭṭhānānaṁ bhāvitattā bahulīkatattā ṭhānañca ṭhānato aṭṭhānañca aṭṭhānato yathābhūtaṁ pajānāmī"ti.


Pañcamaṁ.

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