Exploring the Path - Pāli Course

This was laid down in Sāvatthi.

“I will teach you, Bhikkhus, what is recluseship and what are the fruits of recluseship. Therefore listen!

What, Bhikkhus, is recluseship?

It is this very Noble Eightfold Path, which is right view, … right concentration.

This is, Bhikkhus, what is called recluseship.

What, Bhikkhus, are the fruits of recluseship?

These are the fruit of entering the stream, the fruit of once-returning, the fruit of non-returning and the fruit of becoming an arahant.

These, Bhikkhus, are the fruits of recluseship.”

^*Paṭhamasāmaññasuttaṃ: Paṭhama + sāmañña + suttaṃ — First + sāmañña + sutta.