The Long Āgama Sūtra 18.26

18.26

「如來說法復有上者，謂自識宿命智證。諸沙門、婆羅門種種方便，入定意三昧，隨三昧心，自憶往昔無數世事，一生、二生，——乃至百千生成劫敗劫，如是無數我於某處生，名字如是，種、姓如是，壽命如是，飲食如是，苦樂如是；從此生彼，從彼生此，若干種相，自憶宿命無數劫事，晝夜常念本所經歷。此是色，此是無色；此是想，此是無想，此是非無想，盡憶盡知。此法無上，智慧無餘，神通無餘，諸世間沙門、婆羅門無與如來等者，況欲出其上？

“The Dharma that the Tathāgata teaches has another superiority, which is the direct knowledge of one’s own past lives. Ascetics and priests use various methods to enter a fixed samādhi of mind. Following that samādhi, they recollect innumerable events of their own past lives: One birth, two births … a hundred thousand births, an eon of formation, or an eon of destruction. ‘Thus were my innumerable birth places. My names were thus. My castes and clans were thus. My life spans were thus. My meals were thus. My pains and pleasures were thus. I was born there from here, and I was born here from there .’ Whatever various aspects there were, they recollect their own past lives and the events of innumerable eons. Day and night, they’re constantly aware of past times they’ve passed through. ‘Here was form. Here was formlessness. Here was conception. Here was no conception. Here there was neither [conception nor] no conception.’ They fully recollect and fully know it.

“This Dharma is unsurpassed, his wisdom is complete, and his miraculous ability is complete. None of the world’s ascetics and priests can match the Tathāgata. How could they surpass him?