Mil 3.6.11
11. Question on Directly Knowing
11. Abhijānantasatipañha
from: Mindfulness Chapter
11. Question on Directly Knowing
The king asked: “Venerable Nāgasena, does all mindfulness arise through knowing directly or does it come with outside help?” “By knowing directly, your majesty, and with outside help.” “If thus, Venerable Nāgasena, all mindfulness is from directly knowing, there is none with outside help.” “If there were no mindfulness with outside help, your majesty, then artisans would have no need for practice, or craftsmanship, or schooling, and teachers would be useless, but since there is mindfulness with outside help, the opposite is true.”
“You are clever, Venerable Nāgasena!”
Question on Directly Knowing eleventh
Mindfulness Chapter sixth
In this chapter eleven questions
11. Abhijānantasatipañha
Rājā āha— “bhante nāgasena, sabbā sati abhijānantī uppajjati, udāhu kaṭumikāva satī”ti? “Abhijānantīpi, mahārāja, kaṭumikāpi satī”ti. “Evañhi kho, bhante nāgasena, sabbā sati abhijānantī, natthi kaṭumikā satī”ti? “Yadi natthi, mahārāja, kaṭumikā sati, natthi kiñci sippikānaṁ kammāyatanehi vā sippāyatanehi vā vijjāṭṭhānehi vā karaṇīyaṁ, niratthakā ācariyā, yasmā ca kho, mahārāja, atthi kaṭumikā sati, tasmā atthi kammāyatanehi vā sippāyatanehi vā vijjāṭṭhānehi vā karaṇīyaṁ, attho ca ācariyehī”ti.
“Kallosi, bhante nāgasenā”ti.
Abhijānantasatipañho ekādasamo.
Sativaggo chaṭṭho.
Imasmiṁ vagge ekādasa pañhā.