Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.213

c8.213

“‘This is the sacred truth of suffering; thus my eye, O monks, was opened to these conceptions, which no one had comprehended before, and my judgment, cognition, intuition, and vision were opened. “It is necessary to understand this sacred truth of suffering.”—“I have comprehended this sacred truth of suffering.” Thus, O monks, my eye was opened to these conceptions, which no one had comprehended before, and my judgment, cognition, intuition, and vision were opened.’”