Though one live a hundred years without seeing the supreme Dhamma, better is a single day of life for one who sees the supreme Dhamma.

Dhammamuttamaṃ — the supreme Dhamma: uttama is the highest, supreme. The supreme Dhamma is nibbana itself or the direct understanding of the ultimate nature of reality.

The sequence 110-115 concludes here. It has traversed an ascending arc: from virtue and concentration (110-112), to discernment of impermanence (113), to the immortal path (114), and finally to the supreme Dhamma (115). Each rung surpasses the previous.

Passato dhammamuttamaṃ — for one who sees the supreme Dhamma: the “vision” of the supreme Dhamma is dassana — not physical sight nor intellectual understanding but direct knowledge that irreversibly transforms one’s relationship to existence.

The chapter of the thousand closes with a complete pedagogy: quantity does not matter — neither a thousand words, nor a thousand victories, nor a hundred years of life — compared with the quality of a single moment of genuine comprehension of the Dhamma.