Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion
  (Dhammacakkapavattana Sutta, Samyutta Nikaya LVI,11)
  
  
  I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying at 
  Varanasi in the Game Refuge at Isipatana.  There he addressed the 
  group of five monks:
  
  'There are these two extremes which are not to be indulged in by one 
  who has gone forth.  What two?  That which is devoted to sensual 
  pleasure with reference to sensual objects:  base, vulgar, common, 
  ignoble, unprofitable; and that which is devoted to self-affliction: 
  painful, ignoble, unprofitable.  Avoiding both of these extremes, the 
  middle way realized by the Tathagata--producing vision, producing 
  knowledge--leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to 
  Unbinding.
  
  'And what is the middle way realized by the Tathagata which--producing 
  vision, producing knowledge--leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to 
  self-awakening, to Unbinding?  Precisely this Noble Eightfold Path:  
  right view, right consideration, right speech, right undertaking, 
  right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right 
  concentration.  This is the middle way realized by the 
  Tathagata--producing vision, producing knowledge--leads to calm, to 
  direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding. 
  
  'Now this, monks, is the absolute truth of stress:  Birth is 
  stressful, ageing is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow, 
  lamentation, pain, grief & despair are stressful; association with the 
  unbeloved is stressful, separation from the loved is stressful, not 
  getting what is wanted is stressful.  In short, the five substances 
  for sustenance are stressful.
  
  'And this, monks, is the absolute truth of the origination of stress:  
  the craving which makes for further becoming--accompanied by passion & 
  delight, relishing now here & now there--i.e. craving for sensual 
  pleasure, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming.
  
  'And this, monks, is the absolute truth of the stopping of stress:  
  the remainderless fading & stopping, renunciation, relinquishment, 
  release & letting go of that very craving.
  
  'And this, monks, is the absolute truth of the way leading to the 
  stopping of stress:  precisely this Noble Eightfold Path--right view, 
  right consideration, right speech, right undertaking, right 
  livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.
  
  'Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, 
  illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: 
  'This is the absolute truth of stress'... 'This absolute truth of 
  stress is to be comprehended'... 'This absolute truth of stress has 
  been comprehended'... 'This is the absolute truth of the origination 
  of stress'... 'This absolute truth of the origination of stress is to 
  be abandoned'... 'This absolute truth of the origination of stress has 
  been abandoned'... This is the absolute truth of the stopping of 
  stress'... 'This absolute truth of the stopping of stress is to be 
  directly experienced'... 'This absolute truth of the stopping of 
  stress has been directly experienced'... 'This is the absolute truth 
  of the way leading to the stopping of stress'... 'This absolute truth 
  of the way leading to the stopping of stress is to be developed'... 
  'This absolute truth of the way leading to the stopping of stress has 
  been developed.'
  
  'And, monks, as long as this knowledge & vision of mine--with its 
  three rounds & twelve permutations concerning these four absolute 
  truths as they actually are--was not pure, I did not claim to have 
  directly awakened to the right self-awakening unexcelled in the cosmos 
  with its deities, Maras & Gods, with its contemplatives & priests, its 
  royalty & commonfolk.  But as soon as this knowledge & vision of 
  mine--with its three rounds & twelve permutations concerning these 
  four absolute truths as they actually are--was truly pure, then I did 
  claim to have directly awakened to the right self-awakening unexcelled 
  in the cosmos with its deities, Maras & Gods, with its contemplatives 
  & priests, its royalty & commonfolk.  The knowledge & vision arose in 
  me:  "Unprovoked is my release.  This is the last birth.  There is now 
  no further becoming.''
  
  That is what the Blessed One said.  Glad at heart, the group of five 
  monks delighted at his words.  And while this explanation was being 
  given, there arose to Ven. Kondanna the dustless, stainless Dhamma 
  eye:  Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.
  
  And when the Blessed One had set the Wheel of Dhamma in motion, the 
  earth deities cried out:  'At Varanasi, in the Game Refuge at 
  Isipatana, the Blessed One has set in motion the unexcelled Wheel of 
  Dhamma which cannot be stopped by priest or contemplative, deity, Mara 
  or God or anyone in the cosmos.'  On hearing the earth deities' cry, 
  the deities of the Four Kings' Heaven took up the cry... the deities 
  of the Thirty-three... the Yama deities... the Tusita deities...  the 
  Nimmanarati deities... the Paranimmita-vasavatti deities... the 
  deities of Brahma's retinue took up the cry:  'At Varanasi, in the 
  Game Refuge at Isipatana, the Blessed One has set in motionthe 
  unexcelled Wheel of Dhamma which cannot be stopped by priest or 
  contemplative, deity, Mara or God or anyone at all in the cosmos.'
  
  So in that moment, that instant, the cry shot right up to the Brahma 
  world.  And this ten-thousand fold cosmos shivered & quivered & 
  quaked, while a great, measureless radiance appeared in the cosmos, 
  surpassing the effulgence of the deities.
  
  Then the Blessed One exclaimed:  'So you really know, Kondanna?  So 
  you really know?'  And that is how Ven. Kondanna acquired the name 
  Anna-Kondanna--Kondanna who knows.