The third watch the Buddha achieved led to the ending of the asravas. The asrava's are what binds a person and keeps them ignorant. The root of suffering is ignorance, therefore, the third watch had the largest impact on the Buddha. By meditating on the dependant co-arising witch feeds the asrava, the Buddha was able to unravel this pattern and achieve awakening. In the Pali Sutta he reports: "When the mind was thus concentrated...and attained to imperturbability, I directed it to the knowledge of the ending of the asravas. I discerened, as it actually was, that 'this is duhkha....this is the origination of duhkha...This is the cessation of duhkha...th
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