sn48.44:2.1 “Sir, in this case I don’t rely on faith in the Buddha’s claim that
sn48.44:2.2 the faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom, when developed and cultivated, have freedom from death as their objective, destination, and culmination.
sn48.44:2.3 There are those who have not known or seen or understood or realized or experienced this with wisdom. They may rely on faith in this matter.
sn48.44:2.5 But there are those who have known, seen, understood, realized, and experienced this with wisdom. They have no doubts or uncertainties in this matter.
sn48.44:2.7 I have known, seen, understood, realized, and experienced this with wisdom.
sn48.44:2.8 I have no doubts or uncertainties that the faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom, when developed and cultivated, have freedom from death as their objective, destination, and culmination.”