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SN 45.121 - Slanting to the Ocean Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato Source: https://suttacentral.net/sn45.121/en/sujato License: CC0-1.0 Linked Discourses 45.121 10. Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges Slanting to the Ocean “Mendicants, the Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the ocean. In the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment. And how does a mendicant who develops the noble eightfold path slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment? It’s when a mendicant develops right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion, whose objective, destination, and culmination is freedom from death. That’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the noble eightfold path slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”