3.
The Discourse on Escape
72.
This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"There are these three elements leading to escape, monks. Which three? The escape from sensual pleasures is this, namely renunciation; the escape from material form is this, namely the immaterial; but whatever has come to be, is conditioned, dependently arisen, cessation is its escape - these, monks, are the three elements leading to escape." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
"Having known the escape from sensual pleasures, and the overcoming of material form;
Touching the stilling of all activities, ardent always.
"He indeed is a monk seeing rightly, since therein he becomes liberated;
Peaceful, accomplished through direct knowledge, he indeed is a sage who has gone beyond the bonds."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The third.