A Perfected One

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3. The Six Faculties

A Perfected One

“Mendicants, there are these six faculties.

What six?

The faculties of the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.

A mendicant comes to be freed by not grasping after truly understanding these six faculties’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape.

Such a mendicant is called a perfected one, with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart’s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and is rightly freed through enlightenment.”