“Mendicants, the Ganges river slants, slopes, and inclines to the east.
In the same way, a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.
How so?
It’s when a mendicant develops the faculties of faith,
energy,
mindfulness,
immersion,
and wisdom, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go.
That’s how a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”
Six on slanting to the east,
and six on slanting to the ocean;
these two sixes make twelve,
and that’s how this chapter is recited.