In the Minor Collection

"My hut is thatched, pleasant, sheltered from the wind, rain, O sky, as you please;

My mind is well concentrated, liberated, I dwell ardent, rain, O sky."

"Calmed, abstaining, speaking with wisdom, unagitated;

He shakes off evil qualities, as the wind shakes leaves from a tree."

"See this wisdom of the Tathāgatas, like a fire blazing in the night;

They become givers of light, givers of vision, who remove the uncertainty of those who have come."

"One should associate only with the virtuous, with the wise who see the meaning;

The meaning that is great, profound, difficult to see, subtle, minute;

The wise attain it, the diligent, the discerning."

"He who was hard to tame, tamed by self-control, wise, contented, one who has crossed over uncertainty;

Victorious, free from fear indeed, wise, he attained final Nibbāna, of established self."

"The monk who approached the Cool Grove, alone, contented, with concentrated mind;

Victorious, free from horripilation, guarding mindfulness of the body, resolute."

"Whoever drove away the army of the King of Death, as a great flood a very weak reed bridge;

Victorious, free from fear indeed, tamed, he attained final Nibbāna, of established self."

"He who was hard to tame, tamed by self-control, a hero, contented, one who has crossed over uncertainty;

Victorious, free from horripilation, a hero, he attained final Nibbāna, of established self."

"Welcome, not ill-come, this was not ill-counselled by me;

Among the well-analysed teachings, I have approached that which is foremost."

"He removed longing here or beyond, who has attained the highest knowledge, calmed, self-controlled;

Untainted by all phenomena, having known the rise and fall of the world."

"The monk full of gladness, in the Teaching proclaimed by the Buddha;

He would attain the peaceful state, the stilling of activities, happiness."

"Strong in wisdom, endowed with morality, concentrated, delighting in meditative absorption, mindful;

Eating food for its purpose, one without lust here should await the time."

"Cloud-coloured blue, beautiful, with cool waters, bearing purity;

Covered with red insects, those rocks delight me."

"My preceptor said to me, 'Let us go from here, Sīvaka;'

My body dwells in the village, my mind has gone to the forest;

Even lying down I go, there is no attachment for one who understands."

"One should cut off five, give up five, and further develop five;

A monk who has gone beyond five attachments is called a crosser of the mental floods."

"Just as a good thoroughbred, a horned plough-turner,

Goes with little difficulty, so nights and days for me

Go with little difficulty, having attained spiritual happiness."

"When one is torpid and gluttonous, a sleeper who lies tossing about;

Like a great hog fed on fodder, the fool enters the womb again and again."

"There was an heir of the Buddha, a monk in the Bhesakaḷā Grove;

With the perception of bones alone, he pervaded this earth;

I imagine he will quickly abandon sensual lust."

"Irrigators lead water, fletchers straighten the arrow;

Carpenters straighten wood, the virtuous tame themselves."

"There is no fear for me in death, there is no attachment to life;

I shall lay down this body, fully aware and mindful."

"I do not fear the fear, our Teacher is skilled in the Deathless;

Where fear does not persist, by that path the monks go."

"Blue, with beautiful necks, crested, the peacocks cry out in the karamba trees;

They, delighted by the cool wind, awaken the one sleeping, meditating."

"I indeed, at the bamboo thicket, having eaten the milk-rice with honey;

Meditating favourably on the rise and fall of the aggregates;

I shall return to the mountain slope, developing seclusion."

"Gone forth for less than a year, see the excellence of the Teaching as Teaching;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"Whose mind is constantly radiant with light, gone to fruition;

Having assaulted such a monk, Dark One, you undergo suffering."

"Having heard the well-spoken speech of the Buddha, the Kinsman of the Sun;

I penetrated indeed the subtle, as the tip of a hair with an arrow."

"Dabba grass, kusa grass, thorny shrubs, usīra root, and muñja reed -

I shall push aside with my chest, developing seclusion."

"Are you not attached to robes, are you not delighting in ornaments;

Are you emitting the odour consisting of morality, not like other people?"

"Straightening oneself, as a fletcher does an arrow;

Having made the mind straight, break ignorance, Hārita."

"When illness arose in me, mindfulness arose in me;

Illness has arisen in me, this is not the time for me to be negligent."

"Touched by gadflies and mosquitoes, in the forest in a great wood;

Like an elephant at the head of battle, mindful, one should endure there."

"The ageless by one who is ageing, peace by one who is burning;

I would exchange for the supreme peace, the unsurpassed freedom from bondage."

"Just as towards an only son, a dear one, one would be caring;

So towards all living beings, everywhere one should be caring."

"These women are excellent when not approached, always, for one who knows;

Having come from the forest to the village, from there he entered the house;

From there having risen he departed, without addressing them, Posiya."

"One who seeks happiness obtains happiness by practising that, and he attains fame, and his glory increases;

Whoever develops the noble eightfold path, straight and upright, for the attainment of the Deathless."

"Good is learning, good is conduct, good is always dwelling without a home;

Questioning about meaning, acting respectfully, this is asceticism for one who owns nothing."

"They go to various countries, wandering about unrestrained;

And they fail in concentration, what will travelling the country do?

Therefore, having removed rivalry, one should meditate without being led."

"He who by supernormal power stopped the Sarabhu, he is Gavampati, unattached, without longing;

To him who has gone beyond all attachments, the great sage, the gods pay homage, the one who has gone beyond existence."

"As if struck by a spear, as if burning on the head;

For the abandoning of sensual lust, a mindful monk should wander forth."

"As if struck by a spear, as if burning on the head;

For the abandoning of lust for existence, a mindful monk should wander forth."

"Lightnings fall upon the cleft, of Vebhāra and of Paṇḍava;

And gone to the mountain cave he meditates, the son of the incomparable such one."

"Cālā, Upacālā, Sīsūpacālā, do you indeed dwell mindful?

One like a hair-splitter has come to you."

"Well freed, well freed indeed, I am well freed from three crooked things;

From sickles by me, from ploughs by me, from small hoes by me.

"They weep for the dead, mother, or for one living who is not seen;

Seeing me living, mother, why do you weep for me, mother?"

"Just as a good thoroughbred, having stumbled, stands firm again;

So too one accomplished in vision, a disciple of the perfectly Self-awakened One."

"Through faith I have gone forth, from home into homelessness;

Mindfulness and wisdom have been developed in me, and my mind is well concentrated;

Make whatever forms you wish, you will never disturb me."

"Homage to you, Buddha, hero, you are free everywhere;

Dwelling in your teaching, I dwell without mental corruptions."

"Since I went forth, from home into homelessness;

I do not know of any thought, ignoble, connected with hate."

"Amidst the resounding of the quails' 'ciha ciha', and by the cries of the squirrels;

My mind does not tremble at that, for I am delighted in solitude."

"The earth is sprinkled and the wind blows, lightning moves across the sky;

Applied thoughts subside, my mind is well concentrated."

"The sky rains like a beautiful song, my hut is thatched, pleasant, sheltered from the wind;

My mind is well concentrated, so if you wish, rain, O sky."

"The sky rains like a beautiful song, my hut is thatched, pleasant, sheltered from the wind;

My mind is well concentrated on the body, so if you wish, rain, O sky."

"The sky rains like a beautiful song, my hut is thatched, pleasant, sheltered from the wind;

Therein I dwell diligent, so if you wish, rain, O sky."

"The sky rains like a beautiful song, my hut is thatched, pleasant, sheltered from the wind;

Therein I dwell without a companion, so if you wish, rain, O sky."

"Having made a sofa into a hut, having plunged into the Añjana forest;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"Who is in the hut? A monk is in the hut, without lust, with well-concentrated mind;

Thus know, friend, your hut was not made in vain."

"This was an old hut, you desire another new hut;

Discard the longing for a hut, monk, a new hut again is painful."

"Delightful is my hut, offerings given in faith, charming;

I have no need for maidens, those who have need, go there, women."

"Through faith I have gone forth, in the forest my hut was made;

Diligent and ardent, fully aware, mindful."

"Those thoughts of mine succeeded, for which purpose I entered the hut;

Seeking true knowledge and liberation, I abandoned the underlying tendency to conceit."

"The seer sees the seeing one, and sees the non-seeing one;

The non-seeing one does not see the non-seeing one, nor does he see the seeing one."

"Alone we dwell in the forest, like a log thrown away in the woods;

Many envy me, as those doomed to hell envy those going to heaven."

"Those who have passed away fall, and the fallen, the greedy, come back again;

The function done, delighted in the delightful, through happiness, happiness is attained."

"Arisen from her named after the tree, born from the white-bannered one;

The pride-abandoner, by the banner itself, overcame the great banner."

"For Ukkhepakatavaccha, accumulated over many rains retreats;

That he speaks to householders, well seated, with great gladness."

"The great hero, who has gone beyond all phenomena, instructed me;

Having heard his Teaching, I dwelt near him, mindful;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"Mental defilements have been burnt by me, all existences have been uprooted;

The cycle of birth and wandering is eliminated, there is now no more rebirth."

"For one of higher mind, not negligent, a sage training in the paths of wisdom;

Sorrows do not exist for such a one, who is at peace, always mindful."

"Having heard the Teaching of great flavour from the Great One, taught by the one endowed with the excellence of omniscient knowledge;

I entered upon the path for the attainment of the Deathless, he is skilled in the path to freedom from bondage."

"Morality here is the highest, but the wise one is the best;

Among human beings and gods, victory comes from morality and wisdom."

"For one who sees the very subtle and refined meaning, skilled in wisdom, of humble conduct;

For one who has cultivated mature virtue, Nibbāna is indeed not difficult to attain."

"Just as a young bamboo shoot with grown top, becomes hard to remove when branches have grown;

So I, before a wife was brought, approve of me, I have gone forth now."

"Having seen one aged and one afflicted with disease, and having seen one dead, gone to the exhaustion of life;

From there I, having gone forth, went forth into homelessness, having abandoned sensual pleasures that are delightful."

"Sensual desire and anger, and sloth and torpor for a monk;

Restlessness and sceptical doubt, all these are not found in him."

"Good is the seeing of those well-established, uncertainty is cut off, full understanding grows;

They make even a fool wise, therefore good is the meeting of the good."

"Among those rising up, one should descend; among those descending, one should rise up;

One should dwell among those not dwelling, among those delighting, one should not delight."

"This mind formerly wandered on a journey, wherever it wished, wherever it desired, as it pleased;

That today I shall restrain wisely, like a goad-holder a furious elephant."

Through the round of many births I wandered, not finding;

For me who was born to suffering, the mass of suffering has failed."

"All lust has been abandoned by me, all hate has been uprooted;

All delusion has departed from me, I have become cool, quenched."

"Whatever action was done by me, whether little or much;

All this is exhausted, there is now no more rebirth."

"Whatever evil was done by me, formerly in other births;

Right here that is to be experienced, no other site is found."

"Wherever there is plenty of food, safety and freedom from fear;

Go there, dear son, do not be overcome by sorrow."

"Dwell diligent, Sīha, unwearied day and night;

Develop the wholesome mental state, quickly give up the body."

"Having slept the whole night, delighting in company by day;

When indeed will the imprudent one make an end of suffering?"

"Skilled in the sign of consciousness, having understood the flavour of solitude;

Meditating, prudent, mindful, one would attain spiritual happiness."

"Outside of here, among the various teachers of other doctrines, there is no path leading to Nibbāna as this one;

Thus the Blessed One instructs the Community, the Teacher himself shows as if in the palm of his hand."

"The aggregates have been seen as they really are, all existences have been destroyed;

The cycle of birth and wandering is eliminated, there is now no more rebirth."

"I was indeed able to lift myself from the water to dry land;

Being carried along as if by a great flood, I penetrated the truths."

"Crossed over the mud and marsh, the abysses avoided;

Freed from mental floods and mental knots, all conceits destroyed."

"The five aggregates are fully understood, they remain with their roots cut off;

The cycle of birth and wandering is eliminated, there is now no more rebirth."

"Not so esteemed is the hundred-flavoured food, the divine food, which I have enjoyed today;

The Teaching taught by Gotama, the Buddha, the one of unlimited vision."

"One whose mental corruptions are completely eliminated, and who is independent regarding food;

Emptiness and signless, deliverance is whose resort;

Like birds in space, his track is hard to trace."

"Sensual pleasures are painful, Eraka, sensual pleasures are not pleasant, Eraka;

Whoever desires sensual pleasures, he desires suffering, Eraka;

Whoever does not desire sensual pleasures, he does not desire suffering, Eraka."

"Homage to that Blessed One, the glorious son of the Sakyans;

By him who has attained the highest, the highest teaching was well expounded."

"I am blind, my eyes are destroyed, having entered upon the wilderness road;

Even lying down I will go, not with an evil companion."

"Having given up one flower, for eighty ten million years;

Having enjoyed myself in the heavens, by the remainder I am quenched."

"Having abandoned the golden plate of a hundred palas, with a hundred streaks,

I took up a clay bowl - this is my second consecration."

"Having seen a form, mindfulness forgotten, for one attending to the dear sign;

With a mind filled with lust one feels, and remains grasping it;

For him mental corruptions increase, leading to the root of existence."

"Having heard a sound, mindfulness forgotten, for one attending to the dear sign;

With a mind filled with lust one feels, and remains grasping it;

For him mental corruptions increase, leading to the round of rebirths."

"Accomplished in right striving, with the establishments of mindfulness as his domain;

Covered with the flowers of liberation, he will attain final nibbāna, free from mental corruptions."

"Having abandoned the household life, with task unaccomplished, with mouth as plough, gluttonous, lazy;

Like a great hog fed on fodder, the fool enters the womb again and again."

"Deceived by conceit, becoming defiled in activities;

Disturbed by gain and loss, they do not attain concentration."

"I have no need of this, happy, satisfied by the flavour of the Dhamma;

Having drunk the highest, the best of flavours, I will not make intimacy with poison."

"My body is indeed light, and touched by extensive rapture and happiness;

Like cotton set in motion by the wind, my body floats, as it were."

"Even if dissatisfied, one should not dwell; even if delighting, one should depart;

But never should the discerning one dwell in a dwelling that is unbeneficial."

"Of a meaning with a hundred signs, bearing a hundred characteristics;

One who sees one factor is imprudent, and one who sees a hundred is wise."

"Having weighed up going forth, from home into homelessness;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"Being one hundred and twenty years old, I went forth into homelessness;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"Surely this one, gone to a private place, does not attend to the teaching of the one who has compassion for the supreme welfare;

Thus this one dwells with uncontrolled faculties, like a hind with young offspring in the forest."

"The trees on the mountain peaks, well grown, sprinkled by the fresh, exultant cloud;

For one desiring seclusion, perceiving the forest, it generates more fitness for Usabha."

"Going forth is difficult indeed, houses are difficult to dwell in, the Teaching is deep, wealth is difficult to achieve;

Difficult is our livelihood with whatsoever, it is proper to constantly contemplate impermanence."

"I am a possessor of the threefold true knowledge, a great meditator, skilled in serenity of mind;

My own welfare has been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"With clear waters and broad stones, frequented by yak-tailed deer;

Covered with water moss, those rocks delight me."

"For one who regards bodily inertia as weighty, while life is dwindling away;

For one greedy for bodily pleasure, whence comes the excellence of an ascetic?"

"You will fall away from this mountain, with its many kuṭaja and sallakī trees;

From the Nesādaka mountain, famous, a covering."

"Having abandoned the six sense bases of contact, with guarded doors, well-restrained;

Having vomited out the root of misery, the elimination of mental corruptions has been attained by me."

"Well-anointed, well-clothed, adorned with all ornaments;

I attained the three true knowledges, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"As if commanded, youth falls away, material form being the same yet appearing as if different;

Though I remain the same, not being separated, I remember myself as if another."

"Having entered the thicket at the foot of a tree, having placed Nibbāna in your heart;

Meditate, Gotama, and do not be negligent, what will this chatter do for you?"

"The five aggregates are fully understood, they remain with their roots cut off;

The elimination of suffering has been attained, the elimination of mental corruptions has been attained by me."

"There is no existence that is permanent, nor are activities eternal;

Those aggregates arise, and pass away again and again.

"Having known this danger, I am not desirous of existence;

Escaped from all sensual pleasures, the elimination of mental corruptions has been attained by me."

"This life is not by calamity, nutriment is not near to the heart;

The body is sustained by nutriment, having seen thus, I practise the search.

"For they declared it to be mire, this salutation and veneration in families;

A subtle dart, difficult to remove, honour is hard to give up by a contemptible person."

"The monkey, having entered this hut with five doors,

Goes around from door to door, shaking again and again.

"Stop, monkey, do not run, for it is not for you as before;

You have been restrained by wisdom, you will not go far."

"My hut was made of three palm leaves, on the bank of the Ganges;

My bowl is like a vessel for pouring on a corpse, and my robe is a rag robe.

"During two rainy seasons, one word was spoken by me;

In the third rainy season, the mass of darkness was split open."

"Even if one is a possessor of the threefold true knowledge, victorious over death, without mental corruptions;

'He is unknown,' the foolish despise him, not knowing.

"But whoever here is an obtainer of food and drink, a person;

Even if he is of bad character, he is honoured by them."

"When I heard the teaching, of the Teacher who was speaking;

I directly know no uncertainty, in the Omniscient One, the Unconquered.

"In the caravan leader, the great hero, the excellent best among charioteers;

In the path or in the practice, uncertainty is not found in me."

Just as rain penetrates a poorly thatched house,

So lust penetrates an undeveloped mind.

Just as rain does not penetrate a well-thatched house,

So lust does not penetrate a well-developed mind.

"Birth has been eliminated for me indeed, the Conqueror's Dispensation has been lived;

What is termed the net has been abandoned, the conduit to existence has been uprooted.

"For the purpose of which I went forth, from home into homelessness;

That purpose has been attained by me, the destruction of all mental fetters."

"Happily sleep the sages, who are not bound to women;

To those who must always be guarded, among whom truth is very difficult to find.

"We have practised your murder, O sensual pleasure, now we are free of debt to you;

Now we go to Nibbāna, where having gone one does not grieve."

"First he injures himself, afterwards he injures others;

He injures himself thoroughly, like a fowler with a decoy bird.

"A brahmin is not one of outer beauty, but one of inner beauty is a brahmin;

In whom there are evil deeds, he is indeed dark, O husband of Sujā."

"The wish to hear increases learning, learning is the increase of wisdom;

Through wisdom one knows the meaning, the meaning known brings happiness.

"One should resort to remote lodgings, one should practise for release from the fetters;

If one should not find delight there, one should dwell in the Community, guarded in oneself, mindful."

"Those indeed who, with binding and mixing, and with diverse actions;

Oppress human beings, people of harsh attack;

They too are scattered right there, for action does not perish.

"Whatever action a man does, whether good or evil;

Of that very action he is the heir, whatever action he performs."

"Days and nights pass by, life ceases;

The life span of mortals is exhausted, like water in small streams.

"Then the fool, doing evil actions, does not understand;

Afterwards for him it is bitter, for the result of it is evil."

"Having climbed onto a small piece of wood, just as one sinks in the great ocean;

Thus, having associated with the lazy, even one living well sinks;

Therefore one should avoid him, the lazy one of inferior energy.

"With the secluded noble ones, with the resolute meditators;

With those constantly putting forth strenuous energy, with the wise ones, one should live together."

"People are bound to people, people depend on people alone;

People are harassed by people, and people harass people.

"For what use is a person to him, or by a person begotten?

Having left people behind, going, having harassed many people."

"Kāḷī, a woman, gigantic, crow-like in appearance, having broken one thigh and the other thigh;

Having broken one arm and the other arm, having broken the head like a bowl of curds;

She sat down having joined them together.

"He who indeed, not knowing, creates clinging, the fool goes to suffering again and again;

Therefore, one understanding should not create clinging, may I not lie again with a broken head."

"He obtains many rivals, shaven-headed, wrapped in the double robe;

An obtainer of food, drink, clothing and bedding.

"Having known this danger, the great fear in honours;

With little gain, not filled with desire, a mindful monk should wander forth."

"In the Eastern Bamboo Grove, sons of the Sakyans, companions;

Having abandoned no small wealth, delighting in what comes into the bowl through gleaning.

"Putting forth strenuous energy, resolute, always of firm effort;

They delight in delight in the Dhamma, having abandoned mundane delight."

"Through unwise attention, I engaged in adornment;

I was agitated and fickle, distressed by sensual lust.

"By the Buddha, kinsman of the sun, skilled in means,

Having proceeded wisely, I lifted up my mind from existence."

"Others may praise him, if oneself is unconcentrated;

In vain do others praise, for oneself is unconcentrated.

"Others may censure him, if oneself is well concentrated;

In vain do others censure, for oneself is well concentrated."

"The aggregates have been fully understood by me, craving has been well uprooted by me;

The factors of enlightenment have been developed by me, the elimination of mental corruptions has been attained by me.

"I, having fully understood the aggregates, having pulled out craving;

Having developed the factors of enlightenment, I shall attain nibbāna, without mental corruptions."

"Panāda was the name of that king, whose sacrificial post was of gold;

Across it measured sixteen in height, upwards they said a thousandfold.

"With a thousand storeys, a hundred pinnacles, adorned with flags, made of green gold;

There the gandhabbas danced, six thousand in seven groups."

"A mindful, wise monk, with strenuous energy and power;

I recollected five hundred cosmic cycles as if one night.

"Developing the four establishments of mindfulness, and the seven and eight;

I recollected five hundred cosmic cycles as if one night."

"Whatever is the function for one of firm energy, whatever is the function for one wishing to awaken;

I shall do it, I shall not fail, see my energy and endeavour.

"And you, declare to me the path, the straight way grounded upon the Deathless;

I shall know through wisdom, as the Ganges stream approaches the ocean."

"A barber approached me to comb my hair;

Then, having taken a mirror, I reviewed my body.

"The body was seen as hollow, the darkness of ignorance was dispelled;

All the rags have been cut off, there is now no more rebirth."

"Having abandoned the five mental hindrances, for the attainment of freedom from bondage;

Having taken up the mirror of the Teaching, the knowledge and vision of oneself.

"I reviewed this body, all within and without;

Internally and externally, the body was seen as hollow."

"Just as a good thoroughbred, having stumbled, stands firm again;

Having gained more urgency, undaunted, he bears the burden.

"Thus one accomplished in vision, a disciple of the Perfectly Self-awakened One;

Remember me as a thoroughbred, a legitimate son of the Buddha."

"Come, Nandaka, let us go to the presence of our preceptor;

We shall roar the lion's roar in the presence of the Buddha, the foremost.

"With which compassion the sage ordained us;

That purpose has been attained by us, the destruction of all mental fetters."

"Thus the wise roar, like lions in a mountain cave;

Heroes victorious in battle, having conquered Māra with his army.

"The Teacher has been attended upon by me, the Teaching and the Community venerated;

And I am delighted, glad, having seen my son without mental corruptions."

"Good persons attended upon, teachings heard repeatedly;

Having heard, I shall proceed upon the straight way grounded upon the Deathless.

"For me who was destroyed by lust for existence, being mindful, lust for existence is no longer found in me;

There has not been, nor will there be for me, nor is there at present found in me."

"Since I went forth in the teaching of the perfectly Self-awakened One;

Being liberated I rose up, I transcended the sensual element.

"While the Brahmā was looking on, thereupon my mind was liberated;

'Unshakable is my liberation' - through the destruction of all fetters."

"Impermanent are the houses, here and there again and again;

Seeking the house-builder, painful is birth again and again.

"House-builder, you have been seen, you will not build a house again;

All your ribs are broken, and the ridge-pole is shattered;

The mind has become boundless, right here it will be destroyed."

"The Worthy One, the Fortunate One in the world, the sage is afflicted by winds;

If there is hot water, give it for the sage, brahmin.

"Venerated by those worthy of veneration, honoured by those worthy of honour;

Esteemed by those worthy of esteem, I wish to bring it for him."

"Seen by me are lay followers who are bearers of the Teaching, speaking thus: 'Sensual pleasures are impermanent';

Thoroughly infatuated with jewelled earrings, they have longing for sons and wives.

"Certainly they do not know the Teaching here, since they also say: 'Sensual pleasures are impermanent';

And there is no power in them to cut off lust, therefore they remain attached to children, wife and wealth."

"The sky rains and the sky roars,

And I dwell alone in a frightful den;

For me dwelling alone in that frightful den,

There is no fear or trepidation or terror.

"This is my nature, that for me dwelling alone in the frightful den;

There is no fear or trepidation or terror."

"Whose mind is like a rock, steady, not trembling;

Dispassionate towards enticing things, not agitated by what provokes agitation;

For whom the mind is thus developed, from where will suffering come to him?

"My mind is like a rock, steady, not trembling;

Dispassionate towards enticing things, not agitated by what provokes agitation;

My mind is thus developed, from where will suffering come to me?"

"There is no sleeping so long, the night garlanded with stars;

This night is for keeping watch, by one who knows.

"If an elephant should trample one fallen from an elephant's back;

Death in battle is better for me, than if I should live defeated."

"Having abandoned the five types of sensual pleasure, dear and delightful;

Having gone forth from home through faith, may one become one who makes an end of suffering.

"I do not delight in death, I do not delight in life;

And I await the time, fully aware, mindful."

"Having placed on my shoulder the robe similar to a mango sprout;

Seated on the elephant's neck, I entered the village for almsfood.

"Having descended from the elephant's back, I gained anxiety then;

I, being bloated then, peaceful, the elimination of mental corruptions has been attained by me."

"This is my rag," said Kappaṭakura, with a bear overloaded;

In the pot of the Deathless, indifferent to the teaching, the path prepared to cultivate the meditative absorptions.

"Do not, Kappaṭa, nod off, lest I strike you near the ear;

For you, Kappaṭa, do not know the measure, nodding off in the midst of the Community."

"Oh, the Buddhas! Oh, the Teaching! Oh, the accomplishment of our Teacher!

Where such a Teaching a disciple may realise."

"In incalculable aeons, identity was attained;

Of those this is the last, this is the final body;

The cycle of birth and death, there is now no more rebirth."

"Whoever indeed, a young monk, engages in the Buddha's teaching;

Awake he is indeed among those who sleep, his life is not in vain.

"Therefore faith and morality, confidence and vision of the Teaching;

The wise one should pursue, remembering the Buddhas' teaching."

"Whose faculties have reached serenity, like horses well-tamed by a charioteer;

Who has abandoned conceit, who is without mental corruptions, even the gods envy such a one?"

"My faculties have reached serenity, like horses well-tamed by a charioteer;

Who has abandoned conceit, who is without mental corruptions, even the gods envy me, such a one."

"With bad skin but good mind, Mogharāja, constantly concentrated;

During the cold winter nights, monk, what will you do?"

"The Magadhas have abundant crops, entire, thus I have heard;

Covered with straw I lie down, like others who live happily."

"One should not exalt oneself nor disparage others, nor cast down one who has gone to the far shore, nor provoke him;

One should not speak one's own praise in assemblies, unagitated, speaking with measure, of good conduct.

"For one who sees the very subtle and refined meaning, skilled in wisdom, of humble conduct;

For one who has cultivated mature virtue, Nibbāna is indeed not difficult to attain."

"The peacocks cry out, with beautiful crests, with beautiful tail-feathers, with beautiful blue necks, lovely-faced, with beautiful calls;

And this great earth is covered with beautiful grass, the sky with well-spread water, with beautiful clouds.

"With a well-pliant form, for one with a serene mind meditating, with good progress, well in the Well-awakened One's Dispensation;

The very pure and bright, the subtle, the very difficult to see, touch that highest, imperishable state."

"The mind that has come rejoicing, being raised upon a stake;

By that very way you go, where the stake and the log are.

"Therefore I call you a misfortune of the mind, I call you a betrayer of the mind;

The Teacher, rare to obtain, has been obtained by you, do not urge me towards what is not beneficial."

"Wandering for a long course, I revolved in the destinations;

Not seeing the noble truths, a mentally blind worldling.

"For me, being diligent, wandering in the round of rebirths has been rendered useless;

All destinations have been cut off, there is now no more rebirth."

"At the sacred fig tree with green radiance, at the tree that had fully grown;

One perception directed to the Buddha, I obtained, being mindful.

"Thirty-one cosmic cycles ago from now, when I obtained that perception then;

Owing to that perception, the elimination of mental corruptions has been attained by me."

"Unwisely seeking purity, I tended the fire in the forest;

Not knowing the path of purity, I practised austere asceticism for immortality.

"That happiness was obtained through happiness, see the excellence of the Teaching as Teaching;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.

"Formerly I was a kinsman of Brahma, now indeed I am a brahmin;

I am a possessor of the threefold true knowledge, one who has bathed, I am a learned one, one who has attained the highest knowledge."

"Five days since I went forth, a trainee who has not attained his goal,

Having entered my dwelling, there arose an aspiration of mind.

"I shall not eat, I shall not drink, I shall not leave the dwelling;

Nor shall I lay down my side, while the dart of craving is not rooted out.

"For me dwelling thus, see the exertion of energy;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"He who wishes to do afterwards what should be done before;

He falls from a state of happiness, and afterwards he repents.

"What one would do, that one should say; what one would not do, that one should not say;

One not doing but speaking - the wise fully understand him.

"Very happy indeed is Nibbāna, taught by the perfectly Self-awakened One;

Sorrowless, stainless, secure, where suffering ceases."

"If one wishes to live happily, expectant in the ascetic life;

One should not despise what belongs to the monastic community, robe, drink and food.

"If one wishes to live happily, expectant in the ascetic life;

Like a snake in a rat's hole, one should resort to lodgings.

"If one wishes to live happily, expectant in the ascetic life;

One should be content with whatever there is, and should develop one thing."

"'It is too cold, it is too hot, it is too late in the evening,' thus it was;

Thus for those who abandon their work, moments pass by the young man.

"But whoever regards cold and heat as no more than grass;

Doing a man's duties, he does not abandon happiness.

"Dabba grass, kusa grass, thorny shrubs, usīra root, and muñja reed -

I shall push aside with my chest, developing seclusion."

"Those who are brilliant speakers, very learned, ascetics dwelling in Pāṭaliputta;

One of them, this venerable one, stands at the door, Khujjasobhita.

"Those who are brilliant speakers, very learned, ascetics dwelling in Pāṭaliputta;

One of them, this venerable one, stands at the door, stirred by the wind.

"By fighting well, by sacrificing well, and by victory in battle;

By practising the holy life, thus this one thrives in happiness."

"Whoever among humans harms other living beings;

From this world and from the next, from both a man falls to ruin.

"But whoever with a mind of friendliness has compassion for all living beings;

Such a person indeed generates much merit.

"One should train in well-spoken speech, and in the attendance upon ascetics;

And in sitting alone in a secret place, and in the appeasement of the mind."

"Even one with faith, wise, among faithless relatives here;

Righteous, accomplished in morality, is for the benefit of kinsmen.

"Having restrained with compassion, my relatives were urged by me;

With love for relatives and kinsmen, having done service to the monks.

"They have passed away and died, they have attained the celestial abode of happiness;

My brothers and mother rejoice, those who desire sensual pleasures."

"Resembling a black bamboo joint, emaciated, with veins spread over him;

Moderate in food and drink, a man of undepressed mind."

"Touched by gadflies and mosquitoes, in the forest in a great wood;

Like an elephant at the head of battle, mindful, one should endure there.

"As Brahmā, so is one alone; as a god, so are two;

As a village, so are three; beyond that is uproar."

"You had faith before, that is not found in you today;

What is yours is yours alone, there is no misconduct of mine.

"For faith is impermanent, unsteady, thus indeed it has been seen by me;

They become attached and become detached, therein what does the sage lose?

"Food is cooked for the sage, little by little, from family to family;

I shall walk for almsfood, I have strength in my legs."

"Having gone forth through faith, newly ordained, a novice;

One should associate with good friends, those of pure livelihood, not lazy.

"Having gone forth through faith, newly ordained, a novice;

A monk dwelling in the Community, being wise, should train in the monastic discipline.

"Having gone forth through faith, newly ordained, a novice;

Skilled in what is allowable and not allowable, one should live without being led."

"Indeed, though I was wise, fully capable of considering what is beneficial;

The five types of sensual pleasure in the world, through confusion, made me fall.

"Having plunged into Māra's domain, pierced by a firm dart;

I was able to free myself from the snare of the King of Death.

"All sensual pleasures have been abandoned by me, all existences have been destroyed;

The cycle of birth and wandering is eliminated, there is now no more rebirth."

"Listen, all you relatives, as many as are assembled here;

I will teach you the Teaching, painful is birth again and again.

"Begin, go forth, engage in the Buddha's teaching;

Shake off the army of Death, as an elephant a hut made of reeds.

"Whoever in this Teaching and discipline will dwell diligently;

Having abandoned the round of rebirths, will make an end of suffering."

"Wandering indeed, I went to hell, I went to the realm of ghosts again and again;

In suffering too in the animal realm, in many ways indeed I dwelt for a long time.

"And human existence was attained, I went to the heavenly assembly again and again;

In the fine-material sphere elements, in the immaterial sphere elements, among those neither percipient nor non-percipient, and among the non-percipient I stood established.

"Existences are well understood as coreless, conditioned, unstable, always in motion;

Having known that self-existence, mindful, I attained only peace."

"He who wishes to do afterwards what should be done before;

He falls from a state of happiness, and afterwards he repents.

"What one would do, that one should say; what one would not do, that one should not say;

One not doing but speaking - the wise fully understand him.

"Very happy indeed is Nibbāna, taught by the perfectly Self-awakened One;

Sorrowless, stainless, secure, where suffering ceases."

"Having avoided evil friends, one should associate with the highest person;

And one should stand firm in his exhortation, aspiring for unshakeable happiness.

"Having climbed onto a small piece of wood, just as one sinks in the great ocean;

Thus, having associated with the lazy, even one living well sinks;

Therefore one should avoid him, the lazy one of inferior energy.

"With the secluded noble ones, with the resolute meditators;

With those constantly putting forth strenuous energy, with the wise ones, one should live together."

"Adorned, well-dressed, garlanded, full of sandalwood;

In the middle of the highway, a woman, a dancing girl dances to music.

"Having entered for almsfood, going I looked at her;

Adorned, well-dressed, like a snare of Death laid out.

"Then wise attention arose in me;

Danger became manifest, disenchantment was established.

"Thereupon my mind was liberated, see the excellence of the Teaching as Teaching;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"I, overcome by torpor, went out from the dwelling;

Ascending the walking path, right there I fell to the ground.

"Having rubbed my limbs, having ascended the walking path again;

I walked up and down on the walking path, internally well concentrated.

"Then wise attention arose in me;

Danger became manifest, disenchantment was established.

"Thereupon my mind was liberated, see the excellence of the Teaching as Teaching;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"Others do not understand that we here are perishing;

Those who understand this, thereby their quarrels are appeased.

"And when those not understanding, behave as if immortal;

But those who understand the Teaching, are free from affliction among the afflicted.

"Whatever lax action, and whatever defiled religious duty;

A suspicious holy life - that is not of great fruit.

"For one in whom respect towards fellow monks in the holy life is not found;

He is far from the Good Teaching, as the sky from the earth."

"Shame on you, full of foul odour, on Māra's side, filled with desire;

Nine streams in your body, which flow always.

"Do not imagine the old, do not insult the Tathāgatas;

Even in heaven they find no pleasure, how much less then in human pleasures.

"But those who are foolish, imprudent, ill-counselled, wrapped in delusion;

Such ones find pleasure there, in the snare cast by Māra.

"Those for whom lust and hate and ignorance have faded away;

Such ones find no pleasure there, with strings cut, unfettered."

"For fifty-five years, I bore dust and dirt;

Eating a monthly meal, I plucked out my hair and beard.

"I stood on one foot, I avoided sitting;

And I ate dry dung, and I did not consent to recitation.

"Having done such, leading to many bad destinations;

Floating along in the great flood, I came for refuge to the Buddha.

"See my going for refuge, see the excellence of the Teaching as Teaching;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"Indeed welcome it was for me, at Gayā during the Gayā-Phaggu festival;

Because I saw the Self-enlightened One, teaching the highest Teaching.

"The one of great radiance, the teacher of groups, the one who has attained the highest, the guide;

The Victor of the world with its gods, of incomparable vision.

"The great elephant, the great hero, of great effulgence, without mental corruptions;

With all mental corruptions eliminated, the Teacher, safe from every quarter.

"Indeed, me who was long defiled, bound by the chain of views;

That Blessed One released, Senaka, from all mental knots."

"He who hurries when he should delay, and delays when he should hurry;

Through unwise arrangement, the fool undergoes suffering.

"His benefits decline, like the moon in the dark fortnight;

And he attains ill repute, and is hostile to friends.

"He who delays when he should delay, and hurries when he should hurry;

Through wise arrangement, the wise one attains happiness.

"His benefits are fulfilled, like the moon in the bright fortnight;

And he attains fame and renown, and is not hostile to friends."

"Accomplished in both, they knew me as Rāhula the Fortunate;

In that I am the son of the Buddha, and in that I have vision regarding phenomena.

"And in that my mental corruptions are eliminated, and in that there is no more rebirth;

I am a Worthy One, worthy of offerings, a possessor of the threefold true knowledge, one who sees the Deathless.

"Blinded by sensual pleasures, covered by a net, veiled by the veil of craving;

Bound by the kinsman of the heedless, like fish in the mouth of a trap.

"Having forsaken that sensual pleasure, having cut off Māra's bondage;

Having uprooted craving with its root, I have become cool, quenched."

"Covered with gold, attended by a group of female slaves;

Having taken my son on her hip, my wife approached me.

"And having seen her coming, the mother of my own son;

Adorned, well-dressed, like a snare of Death laid out.

"Then wise attention arose in me;

Danger became manifest, disenchantment was established.

"Thereupon my mind was liberated, see the excellence of the Teaching as Teaching;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"The Teaching indeed protects one who practises the Teaching, the Teaching well practised brings happiness;

This is the benefit when the Teaching is well practised, one who practises the Teaching does not go to an unfortunate realm.

"For the Teaching and what is not the Teaching, both do not have similar results;

What is not the Teaching leads to hell, the Teaching causes one to reach a good destination.

"Therefore one should make desire for the teachings, thus rejoicing with the Fortunate One, such a one;

Established in the Teaching, the disciples of the excellent Fortunate One, the wise are led forth, going to the foremost excellent refuge.

"The root of the boil has been burst open, the snare of craving has been uprooted;

He whose wandering in the round of rebirths is ended, there is no possession for him,

Like the moon on a moonlit full-moon night."

"When the cranes with pure white wings, frightened by fear of the dark cloud;

Will fly away seeking an abode, then the river Ajakaraṇī delights me.

"When the cranes of very pure white, frightened by fear of the dark cloud;

Seek a shelter, not seeing a shelter, then the river Ajakaraṇī delights me.

"Whom do they not delight there, the rose-apple trees on both sides in that place;

They adorn the river bank, behind my cave.

"Those places well free from the swarm of venomous snakes,

Frogs with soft voices resound there;

'Today is not a time for separation from the mountain rivers,

The Ajakaraṇī is secure, safe, and delightful.'"

"I went forth for the sake of livelihood, having received full ordination;

From that I gained faith, with firm energy I strove.

"Let this body be broken, let the slices of flesh fall apart;

Let both my calves fall from the knee joints.

"I shall not eat, I shall not drink, nor shall I leave the dwelling;

Nor shall I lay down my side, while the dart of craving is not rooted out.

"For me dwelling thus, see the exertion of energy;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

A monk, having gone to the charnel ground, saw a woman's body cast away;

Thrown aside in the cemetery, being eaten, pervaded with worms.

"What some loathe, having seen the dead, evil thing;

Sensual lust appeared, like a blind man I was flowing.

"Within the time of cooking rice, from that place I departed;

Mindful and fully aware, I sat down to one side.

"Then wise attention arose in me;

Danger became manifest, disenchantment was established.

"Thereupon my mind was liberated, see the excellence of the Teaching as Teaching;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"Engaging oneself in what is not exertion, a person desiring what should be done;

If while practising he would not attain, 'that is my mark of misfortune'.

"Having pulled out what has gone to misery, conquered, if one should give up one, one would be like a loser;

If one should give up all, one would be like a blind man, from not seeing what is even and uneven.

"What one would do, that one should say; what one would not do, that one should not say;

One not doing but speaking - the wise fully understand him.

"Just as a beautiful flower, colourful but scentless;

So well-spoken words are fruitless for one who does not practise them.

Just as a beautiful flower, colourful and fragrant;

So well-spoken words are fruitful for one who practises them.

"The sky rains like a beautiful song, my hut is thatched, pleasant, sheltered from the wind;

Therein I dwell at peace, so if you wish, rain, O sky.

"The sky rains like a beautiful song, my hut is thatched, pleasant, sheltered from the wind;

Therein I dwell with peaceful mind, so if you wish, rain, O sky.

"The sky rains etc. therein I dwell without lust etc.

"The sky rains etc. therein I dwell without hate etc.

"The sky rains etc. Therein I dwell without delusion,

so if you wish, rain, O sky."

"Desiring that among the teachings, my preceptor helped me;

Longing for the Deathless, what was to be done has been done by me.

"Attained, realized, the Teaching by myself, not based on hearsay;

With purified knowledge, without uncertainty, I declare in your presence.

"I know past lives, the divine eye has been purified;

My own welfare has been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.

"For me, being diligent, the training was well heard in your teaching;

All my mental corruptions are eliminated, there is now no more rebirth.

"He instructed me with the noble practice, had compassion for me, helped me;

Your exhortation was not futile, I am a pupil who has been trained."

"Good indeed, truly my mother showed me the goad;

Having heard whose word, admonished by my mother;

Putting forth strenuous energy, resolute, I attained the highest enlightenment.

"I am a Worthy One, worthy of offerings, a possessor of the threefold true knowledge, one who sees the Deathless;

Having conquered the army of the Destroyer, I dwell without mental corruptions.

"Internally and externally, whatever mental corruptions existed in me;

All without remainder have been cut off, and they will not arise again.

"Confident indeed, sister, you spoke this meaning;

'Surely without longing even towards me, craving is not found in you.'

"Suffering has been brought to an end, this is the final body;

The cycle of birth and death, there is now no more rebirth."

"Indeed for my benefit the Buddha went to the river Nerañjarā;

Having heard whose Teaching, I abandoned wrong view.

"I sacrificed in various high and low sacrifices, I made offerings to the fire-sacrifice;

Thinking 'This is purification,' a mentally blind worldling.

"Plunged into the thicket of views, deluded by adherence;

I imagined impurity to be purity, mentally blind, a fool.

"Wrong view has been abandoned by me, all existences have been destroyed;

I dedicate to the fire worthy of offerings, I pay homage to the Tathāgata.

"All delusions have been abandoned by me, craving for existence has been destroyed;

The cycle of birth and wandering is eliminated, there is now no more rebirth."

"In the morning, at midday, in the evening, thrice a day I

Descended into the water, at Gayā during the Gayā-Phaggu festival.

"Whatever evil was done by me, formerly in other births;

That I now wash away here" - such was my view before.

"Having heard the well-spoken speech, the passage endowed with teaching and meaning;

I wisely reviewed the meaning that is true and exact;

"I am one who has washed away all evil, free from impurity, purified, pure;

Pure, heir of the Pure One, son of the Buddha, legitimate.

"Having plunged into the eightfold stream, I washed away all evil;

I attained the three true knowledges, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"You are afflicted by wind disease, dwelling in the forest grove;

In a miserable place with scarce alms-resort, monk, what will you do?"

"With extensive rapture and happiness, pervading the body;

Even enduring rough conditions, I will dwell in the forest.

"Developing the establishments of mindfulness, the faculties and powers;

And developing the factors of enlightenment, I will dwell in the forest.

"Seeing those putting forth strenuous energy, resolute, constantly of strong effort;

United, together, I will dwell in the forest.

"Recollecting the Self-enlightened One, the highest, tamed, concentrated;

Not lazy, night and day, I will dwell in the forest."

"I will restrain you, O mind, like an elephant at a gate with a linch-pin;

I will not urge you towards evil, O net of sensuality, born of the body.

"You, restrained, do not go, like an elephant not obtaining an opening of the door;

And you, wretched mind, again and again, having striven, will not behave delighting in evil.

"Just as an untamed elephant, newly caught, by the goad-holder;

A strong man turns it back against its will, so I shall turn you back.

"Just as an excellent horse-tamer, a supreme charioteer, tames a thoroughbred;

So I shall tame you, established in the five powers.

"With mindfulness I shall bind you, being harnessed I shall tame you;

Restrained by the yoke of energy, you shall not go far from here, O mind."

"The imprudent one with a censuring mind hears the Conqueror's Dispensation;

He is far from the Good Teaching, as the earth from the sky.

"The imprudent one with a censuring mind hears the Conqueror's Dispensation;

He falls away from the Good Teaching, like the moon in the dark fortnight.

"The imprudent one with a censuring mind hears the Conqueror's Dispensation;

He dries up in the Good Teaching, like a fish in little water.

"The imprudent one with a censuring mind hears the Conqueror's Dispensation;

He does not grow in the Good Teaching, like a rotten seed in a field.

"But whoever with a satisfied mind hears the Conqueror's Dispensation;

Having exhausted all mental corruptions, having realised the unshakable;

Having attained the supreme peace, attains final nibbāna without mental corruptions."

"Full ordination was obtained by me, and I am liberated, without mental corruptions;

And that Blessed One was seen by me, and I dwelt together with him in the dwelling-place.

"For much of the night the Blessed One spent in the open air;

The Teacher, skilled in dwelling, then entered the dwelling.

"Having spread out the double robe, Gotama lay down to sleep;

Like a lion in a rocky cave, fear and dread abandoned.

"Then the one of good conversation, the disciple of the Perfectly Self-awakened One;

Soṇa spoke the Good Teaching, in the presence of the Buddha, the foremost.

"Having fully understood the five aggregates, having developed the straight path;

Having attained the supreme peace, he will attain final nibbāna, free from mental corruptions."

"Whoever indeed, wise, understands the words of teachers, and dwelling therein would generate affection;

He is called devoted and wise, and having known, he would be distinguished in teachings.

"Whom great misfortunes having arisen do not shake, one who reflects;

He is called steadfast and wise, and having known, he would be distinguished in teachings.

"Whoever indeed stands like the ocean, without longing, of profound wisdom, a seer of subtle meaning;

He is called immovable and wise, and having known, he would be distinguished in teachings.

"Very learned and a bearer of the Teaching, one who lives in conformity with the Teaching;

Such a one is called wise, and having known, he would be distinguished in teachings.

"And whoever knows the meaning of what is spoken, and having known the meaning, acts accordingly;

He is called one with the meaning within, a wise one, and having known, he would be distinguished in teachings."

Having seen the miracles of the famous Gotama;

I did not bow down for so long, deceived by jealousy and conceit.

"Having understood my thought, the trainer of men reproved me;

Then there was spiritual urgency for me, wonderful and terrifying.

"Formerly, when I was a matted-hair ascetic, whatever success I had was small;

Having disregarded that then, I went forth in the Conqueror's Dispensation.

"Formerly content with sacrifice, with the sensual element put foremost;

Afterwards I abolished lust and hate, and delusion too.

"I know past lives, the divine eye has been purified;

Possessing supernormal power, a knower of others' minds, and I attained the divine ear.

"For whatever purpose I went forth, from home into homelessness;

That purpose has been attained by me, the destruction of all mental fetters."

"The paddy has been stored away, the rice has gone to the threshing floor;

Yet I do not obtain almsfood, what shall I do?"

"Recollect the immeasurable Buddha with devotion;

Your body pervaded with rapture, you will be constantly elated.

"Recollect the immeasurable Dhamma with devotion;

Your body pervaded with rapture, you will be constantly elated.

"Recollect the immeasurable Community with devotion;

Your body pervaded with rapture, you will be constantly elated.

"You dwell in the open air, these nights are cold and wintry;

Do not be overcome by the cold and suffer hardship, enter the dwelling with bolts fastened.

"I shall experience the four boundless states, and happy with them I shall dwell;

I shall not suffer hardship from the cold, dwelling unperturbed."

"For one in whom respect towards fellow monks in the holy life is not found;

He falls away from the Good Teaching, like a fish in little water.

"For one in whom respect towards fellow monks in the holy life is not found;

He does not grow in the Good Teaching, like a rotten seed in a field.

"For one in whom respect towards fellow monks in the holy life is not found;

He is far from Nibbāna, in the Dispensation of the King of the Dhamma.

"For one in whom respect towards fellow monks in the holy life is found;

He does not abandon the Good Teaching, like a fish in abundant water.

"For one in whom respect towards fellow monks in the holy life is found;

He grows in the Good Teaching, like a good seed in a field.

"For one in whom respect towards fellow monks in the holy life is found;

Nibbāna is near, in the Dispensation of the King of the Dhamma."

Kulla, having gone to the charnel ground, saw a woman's body cast away;

Thrown aside in the cemetery, being eaten, pervaded with worms.

"Afflicted, impure, putrid, see, Kulla, this body;

Oozing and dripping, delighted in by the foolish.

"Having taken up the mirror of the Teaching, for the attainment of knowledge and vision;

I reviewed this body, hollow within and without.

"Just as this is, so is that; just as that is, so is this;

As below so above, as above so below.

"As by day so by night, as by night so by day;

As before so after, as after so before.

"With the five-part music, there is no such delight;

As for one with a fully focused mind, rightly seeing the Teaching with insight."

For one who lives heedlessly, craving grows like a creeper;

He floats from existence to existence, like a monkey in the forest desiring fruit.

Whomever this contemptible craving in the world, this attachment, overcomes;

His sorrows increase, like bīraṇa grass rained upon.

Whoever overcomes this contemptible craving in the world, difficult to pass over;

Sorrows fall from him, like a water drop from a lotus.

This I say to you, may you be blessed, as many as are assembled here;

Dig up the root of craving, as one desiring usīra digs up bīraṇa grass;

Let not Māra break you again and again, as a stream breaks a reed.

"Practise the Buddha's teaching, let not the moment pass you by;

For those who have missed the moment grieve, consigned to hell.

"Negligence is dust, negligence; affected by negligence is dust;

By diligence, by true knowledge, one should draw out the dart from oneself."

"Twenty-five years, since I went forth;

Not even for a mere finger-snap, did I attain peace of mind.

"Not having gained one-pointedness of mind, distressed by sensual lust;

Having raised my arms, weeping, I went out from the dwelling.

"I will bring the knife, what use is life to me?

For how could one like me, having rejected the training, meet death?

"Then I, having taken a razor, sat down on a small bed;

The razor was brought up, to cut my own vein.

"Then wise attention arose in me;

Danger became manifest, disenchantment was established.

"Thereupon my mind was liberated, see the excellence of the Teaching as Teaching;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

"Get up, sit down, Kātiyāna, do not be given to much sleep, be wakeful;

Let not the King of Death, friend of the heedless, conquer you, the lazy one, as if by deceit.

"Just as the force of the great ocean, thus birth and ageing overwhelm you;

So make a good island for yourself, for indeed no other shelter for you exists.

"The Teacher indeed has conquered this path, gone beyond attachment, birth, ageing and fear;

Diligent in the former and latter parts of the night, devote yourself, make your exertion firm.

"Let go of the former bondages, wearing the double robe, shaven-headed, eating almsfood;

Do not engage in play and delight, nor in sleep, meditate, Kātiyāna.

"Meditate, conquer, Kātiyāna, you are skilled in the paths to freedom from bondage;

Having attained the unsurpassed purification, you will attain final nibbāna like a flame by water.

"The light-maker of slight rays, is bent by the wind like a creeper;

Even so you, not grasping, O kinsman of Indra, shake off Māra;

He, without lust for feelings, should await the time, become cool right here."

"Well expounded by the one with vision, by the Buddha, kinsman of the sun;

Gone beyond all fetters, destroyer of the entire round of rebirths.

"Leading to liberation, crossing over, drying up the root of craving;

Having cut off the slaughter-house, the root of poison, it causes one to reach peace.

"For the breaking of the root of not knowing, the destroyer of the machine of action;

In the possession of consciousnesses, the striker with the thunderbolt of knowledge.

"The informer of feelings, the liberator from clinging;

Observing existence with knowledge as if it were a pit of embers.

"Of great flavour, very profound, warding off ageing and death;

The noble eightfold path, alleviating suffering, secure.

"Having known action as action, and result as result;

Of phenomena arisen through dependent origination, seeing according to the light of insight;

Going to great security, peaceful, auspicious at the final goal."

"Intoxicated with the vanity of birth, and with wealth and supremacy;

With form, beauty and appearance, intoxicated with vanity I wandered.

"I did not imagine anyone equal to myself, nor exceeding;

A fool destroyed by arrogance, very stiff, with banner raised.

"Neither mother nor father, nor others held in esteem as venerable;

I saluted no one, stubborn in pride, disrespectful.

"Having seen the guide, the highest, the excellent best among charioteers;

Shining like the sun, honoured by the community of monks.

"Having abandoned conceit and vanity, with a clear mind;

With my head I saluted the highest of all beings.

"Arrogance and inferiority complex, have been abandoned, well uprooted;

The conceit 'I am' is cut off, all discriminations of conceit are destroyed."

"When newly gone forth, seven years old by birth;

Having overcome by supernormal power, the serpent king of great supernormal power.

"Water for my preceptor, from Anotatta, the great lake;

I was bringing from there when, having seen me, the Teacher said this."

"Sāriputta, see this boy coming;

Having taken a water-pot, internally well concentrated.

"With pleasing conduct, of good deportment;

The novice of Anuruddha, confident in supernormal power.

"A thoroughbred by a thoroughbred, well-trained by a good one;

Disciplined by Anuruddha, trained by one who has done his task.

"He, having attained the supreme peace, having realised the unshakable;

That novice Sumana wishes 'May they not know me'."

"You are afflicted by wind disease, dwelling in the forest grove;

In a miserable place with scarce alms-resort, monk, what will you do?"

"With extensive rapture and happiness, having pervaded the body;

Even enduring rough conditions, I will dwell in the forest.

"Developing the seven factors of enlightenment, the faculties and powers;

Accomplished in the fineness of meditative absorption, I shall dwell without mental corruptions.

"Free from mental defilements, with pure mind, undisturbed;

Repeatedly reviewing, I shall dwell without mental corruptions.

"Internally and externally, whatever mental corruptions existed in me;

All without remainder have been cut off, and they will not arise again.

"The five aggregates are fully understood, they remain with their roots cut off;

The elimination of suffering has been attained, there is now no more rebirth."

"From where would wrath come to one without wrath, to one tamed, living righteously;

To one completely liberated through final knowledge, to one at peace, to such a one.

"For that very one it is worse, who becomes angry in return at one who is angry;

Not becoming angry in return at one who is angry, one wins a battle hard to win.

"One practises for the welfare of both, of oneself and of the other;

Knowing the other to be enraged, one who is mindful becomes calm.

"Him who treats both, oneself and the other;

People think 'he is a fool' - those who are unskilled in the Teaching.

"If wrath should arise in you, reflect on the simile of the saw;

If craving for flavour should arise, remember the simile of the son's flesh.

"If your mind runs towards sensual pleasures and existences,

Quickly restrain it with mindfulness, like a bad beast that eats corn."

"What is covered rains upon, what is opened does not rain upon;

Therefore open what is covered, thus it will not rain upon that.

"By death is the world afflicted, by ageing is it surrounded;

By the dart of craving is it overcome, by desire is it always fuming.

"By death is the world afflicted, and fenced in by ageing;

Without shelter, it is always destroyed, like a thief who has received the rod.

"Like approaching masses of fire, death, illness, and ageing, these three;

There is no power to confront them, there is no speed to flee.

"One should make the day not in vain, whether with little or with much;

Whatever night one passes, by that much is one's life diminished.

"Whether walking or standing, or seated or lying down;

The final night approaches, this is not the time for you to be negligent."

"This two-footed one is impure, foul-smelling, it carries about;

Full of various corpses, oozing here and there.

"Like a deer hidden by a trap, like a fish by a hook;

Like a monkey by bird-lime, they afflict the worldling.

"Forms, sounds, flavours, odours, tangible objects and delightful things;

These five types of sensual pleasure are seen in the form of a woman.

"Those worldlings with attached minds who associate with these women;

They increase the terrible cemetery, they accumulate rebirth.

"Whoever avoids these, like a head from a snake's foot;

He, mindful, overcomes this clinging in the world.

"Having seen the danger in sensual pleasures, having seen security in renunciation;

Escaped from all sensual pleasures, the elimination of mental corruptions has been attained by me."

"Adorned, well-dressed, wearing garlands, decorated;

With feet lacquered, having mounted sandals, the courtesan.

"Having descended from her sandals, with joined palms before me;

She spoke to me with smooth and soft words, having first smiled."

"You are young, gone forth, remain in my instruction;

Enjoy human sensual pleasures, I give you wealth;

I promise you the truth, or I shall carry fire for you.

"When we become old, both leaning on a stick;

Both of us shall go forth, a winning throw in both respects."

"And having seen her begging, the harlot with palms joined;

Adorned, well-dressed, like a snare of Death laid out.

"Then wise attention arose in me - etc. disenchantment was established.

"Thereupon my mind was liberated, etc. the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."

In the excellent Ambāṭaka park, in the jungle thicket, Bhaddiya;

Having uprooted craving with its root, there the auspicious one meditates.

"Some delight in small drums, with lutes and tabors;

But I at the root of a tree, delighted in the Buddha's Dispensation.

"If the Buddha were to grant me a boon, and that boon were to be obtained by me;

I would take for the whole world, constant mindfulness of the body.

"Those who measured me by appearance, and those who followed by sound;

Overcome by the power of desire and lust, those people do not know me.

"He does not know internally, and he does not see externally;

The fool obstructed all around, he indeed is carried away by sound.

"He does not know internally, but he sees with insight externally;

Seeing the fruit externally, he too is carried away by sound.

"He understands internally, and he sees with insight externally;

One who sees without obstruction, he is not carried away by sound."

"I was an only son, dear to mother, dear to father;

Obtained through many ascetic practices and through prayers.

"And they, out of compassion for me, well-wishing, seeking my benefit;

Both father and mother, brought me near to the Buddha."

"This son was obtained with difficulty, delicate, delicately nurtured;

We give him to you, O protector, as an attendant of the Conqueror."

"And the Teacher, having accepted me, said this to Ānanda;

'Give the going forth to this one quickly, this one will be of good breed.'

"Having given me the going forth, the Teacher, the Conqueror, entered the dwelling;

While the sun had not yet set, thereupon my mind was liberated.

"Then the Teacher, having disregarded, emerged from seclusion;

'Come, Bhadda,' he said to me, that was my full ordination.

"At seven years old by birth, full ordination was obtained by me;

The three true knowledges have been attained, oh, the good nature of the Dhamma!"

"Having seen in the shade of the mansion, the highest of men walking up and down;

Having approached him there, I paid homage to the highest of men.

"Having arranged my robe on one shoulder, having joined my hands together;

I walked up and down following the stainless one, the highest of all beings.

"Then he asked me questions, the wise one skilled in questions;

Fearless and unafraid, I answered the Teacher.

"When the questions had been answered, the Tathāgata gave thanks;

Having looked at the Community of monks, he spoke this matter."

"It is a gain for the Aṅgas and Magadhans, for whom this one uses;

Robes and almsfood, requisites and lodgings;

Rising up in respect and proper treatment, it is a gain for them," he said.

"From this day forth, Sopāka, approach me for seeing;

Let this itself, Sopāka, be your full ordination."

"Seven years old by birth, having received full ordination;

I bear my final body, oh, the good nature of the Dhamma!"

"Having broken reeds with my hands, having made a hut, I dwelt;

On account of that, 'Sarabhaṅga' was my name by convention.

"It is not allowable for me today, to break reeds with my hands;

Training rules have been laid down for us, by Gotama of great fame.

"The whole, complete disease, Sarabhaṅga did not see before;

That disease was seen, by one obedient to the Super God.

"By the very path that Vipassī went, by the very path that Sikhī and Vessabhū went;

Kakusandha, Koṇāgamana, and Kassapa, by that same straight path Gotama went.

"Free from craving, without grasping, seven Buddhas grounded upon elimination;

By whom this Teaching was taught, by those such ones who have become the Teaching.

"The four noble truths, out of compassion for living beings;

Suffering, origin, path, cessation, the elimination of suffering.

"In which suffering ceases, endless in the round of rebirths;

Upon the dissolution of this body, and the extinction of life;

There is no other rebirth, I am well liberated everywhere."

"One should not undertake much work, one should avoid people, one should not exert oneself;

He who is zealous, greedy for flavours, neglects the benefit that brings happiness.

"For they declared it to be mire, this salutation and veneration in families;

A subtle dart, difficult to remove, honour is hard to give up by a contemptible person.

"Not on account of another, the evil action of a mortal;

One should not pursue that oneself, for mortals have action as their kinsman.

"Not by another's word is one a thief, not by another's word is one a sage;

As oneself knows him, so too the gods know him.

"Others do not understand that we here are perishing;

Those who understand this, thereby their quarrels are appeased.

"The wise one lives even with the utter elimination of wealth;

But with the loss of wisdom, even one with wealth does not live.

"One hears all with the ear, one sees all with the eye;

Yet the wise one should not reject all that is seen and heard.

"One with eyes should be as if blind, one with ears as if deaf;

One with wisdom should be as if mute, one with strength as if weak;

Then when a matter has arisen, one should lie like one dead."

"Without wrath, without resentment, without deceit, rid of slander;

Such a monk indeed, thus after death does not grieve.

"Without wrath, without resentment, without deceit, rid of slander;

A monk with guarded doors always, thus after death does not grieve.

"Without wrath, without resentment, without deceit, rid of slander;

That monk of good morality, thus after death does not grieve.

"Without wrath, without resentment, without deceit, rid of slander;

That monk of good friends, thus after death does not grieve.

"Without wrath, without resentment, without deceit, rid of slander;

That monk of good wisdom, thus after death does not grieve.

"One whose faith in the Tathāgata is unshakeable and well established;

And whose morality is good, dear to the noble ones, praised.

"One who has confidence in the Community, and whose vision is upright;

They call him 'not poor', his life is not in vain.

"Therefore faith and morality, confidence and vision of the Teaching;

The wise one should pursue, remembering the Buddhas' teaching."

"When I first saw the Teacher, safe from every quarter;

Then there was spiritual urgency for me, having seen the highest of men.

"Fortune with hands and feet, whoever might dismiss when it has come;

Such a Teacher he, having pleased, might fail.

"Then I abandoned children and wife, wealth and grain;

Having cut off hair and beard, I went forth into homelessness.

"Accomplished in training and way of life, well-restrained in the faculties;

Paying homage to the Self-enlightened One, I dwelt unconquered.

"Then arose my aspiration, longed for by the mind;

I would not sit even for a moment, while the dart of craving is not rooted out.

"For me dwelling thus, see the exertion of energy;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.

"I know past lives, the divine eye has been purified;

I am a Worthy One, worthy of offerings, free, without clinging.

"Then at the end of the night, towards the rising of the sun;

Having dried up all craving, he sat down cross-legged."

"When the wise one knows that ageing and death is suffering, where the foolish worldlings remain attached;

Having fully understood suffering, mindfully he meditates, from that he finds no delight more supreme.

"When the clinging that brings suffering, that conveys the suffering of the mass of obsessions;

Having abandoned craving, mindfully he meditates, from that he finds no delight more supreme.

"When the safe path leading by two and four factors, the highest path, the cleanser of all mental defilements;

Having seen it with wisdom, mindfully he meditates, from that he finds no delight more supreme.

"When the sorrowless, stainless, unconditioned, peaceful state, the cleanser of all mental defilements;

He develops that which cuts the bondage of fetters, from that he finds no delight more supreme.

"When in the sky the cloud-drum thunders, with streams of rain entangled on the bird-path all around;

And the monk, gone to a mountain slope, meditates, from that he finds no delight more supreme.

"When on the banks of rivers entangled with flowers, adorned with variegated forest-flower wreaths;

Seated, with gladdened mind he meditates, from that he finds no delight more supreme.

"When at midnight in the deserted forest, while the sky is raining, the fanged beasts roar;

And the monk, gone to a mountain slope, meditates, from that he finds no delight more supreme.

"When, having checked the applied thoughts of oneself, settled in a mountain cave in the space between mountains;

Free from anguish, free from barrenness, he meditates, from that he finds no delight more supreme.

"When happy, destroyer of stain, barrenness and sorrow, unobstructed, free from craving, free from the dart;

Having ended all mental corruptions, he meditates, from that he finds no delight more supreme."

"Now the trees are glowing like embers, venerable sir, bearing fruit, having shed their foliage;

They shine forth as if aflame, it is the right time, O great hero, partaker of essences.

"The trees in full bloom, delightful, waft fragrance all around in every direction;

Having left behind the leaves, desiring fruit, it is time to depart from here, O hero.

"Neither too cold nor too hot, the season is pleasant for travelling, venerable sir;

Let the Sākiyas and Koliyas see him crossing the Rohinī facing westward.

"With hope one ploughs the field, with hope the seed is sown;

With hope merchants go to the ocean, wealth-carriers;

By which hope I stand, may that hope of mine succeed.

"Again and again indeed they sow seed, again and again the king of gods rains;

Again and again farmers plough the field, again and again grain comes to the country.

"Again and again beggars wander, again and again donors give;

Again and again donors, having given, again and again go to the heavenly state.

"A hero indeed purifies seven generations, in whatever family one of extensive wisdom is born;

I imagine the god of gods is able, for born from you is the sage of true name.

"Suddhodana was the name of the great sage's father, and the Buddha's mother was named Māyā;

She who carried the Bodhisatta in her womb, upon the body's collapse, rejoices in heaven.

"That Gotamī, having died, passed away from here, endowed with divine sensual pleasures;

She rejoices in the five types of sensual pleasure, surrounded by those hosts of gods.

"I am a son of the Buddha, the endurer of the unbearable, the radiant one, the incomparable, the such one;

You are my father's father, O Sakyan, by the Dhamma, Gotama, you are my grandfather."

"Whether in front or behind, if no other person is found;

Exceedingly comfortable it is, for one dwelling alone in the forest.

"Well then, alone I shall go, to the forest praised by the Buddha;

Comfortable for one dwelling alone, for the resolute monk.

"Charming, bringing joy to the meditator, frequented by intoxicated elephants;

Alone, master of myself, quickly I shall enter the forest.

"In the cool grove covered with flowers, in the cool mountain grotto;

Having bathed my limbs, I shall walk up and down alone.

"Alone, without a companion, in the delightful great forest;

When shall I dwell, with obligations fulfilled, without mental corruptions.

"May the intention of me who wishes to do thus succeed;

I myself shall accomplish it, no other is the doer for another.

"Here I bind on my armour, I shall enter the forest;

I will not depart from there, not having attained the elimination of mental corruptions.

"When the wind blows towards me, cool and fragrant,

I shall break ignorance, seated on the mountain summit.

"In the forest covered with flowers, surely in the cool mountain slope;

Happy with the bliss of liberation, I shall delight in Giribbaja.

"I, with fulfilled thought, like the moon on the fifteenth;

With all mental corruptions eliminated, there is now no more rebirth."

"He who sees beforehand the future, both welfare and harm, that dyad;

His ill-wishers or well-wishers, looking for a fault, do not see one.

"Whose mindfulness of breathing is complete, well developed;

Gradually practised, as taught by the Buddha;

He illuminates this world, like the moon released from a cloud.

"My mind is indeed white, limitless, well developed;

Pierced through and uplifted, it illuminates all directions.

"The wise one lives even with the utter elimination of wealth;

But with the loss of wisdom, even one with wealth does not live.

"Wisdom is the discerner of what is learned, wisdom is the increaser of fame and praise;

A man endowed with wisdom here, even amidst sufferings, finds happiness.

"This is not a modern phenomenon, not strange nor marvellous;

Where one is born and dies, there what is marvellous?

"For one who is born, immediately after life, death is certain;

Those born, born again, die here - for such is the nature of living beings.

"For this is not for the benefit of the dead, that which is for the life of other people;

Weeping for the dead brings neither fame nor worldly esteem, nor is it praised by ascetics and brahmins.

"The eye and body are injured by that, beauty, strength and wisdom decline;

His enemies become joyful, those seeking his welfare do not become happy.

"Therefore one should wish for those dwelling in the family, the wise and the very learned;

For those by whose power of wisdom the function is done, they cross like a full river by boat."

"Slow was my progress, I was despised before;

And my brother dismissed me, 'Go now, you, to your home.'

"I, having been dismissed, being at the porch of the monastery;

Unhappy, I stood there, expectant in the Dispensation.

"The Blessed One came there, he fondled my head;

Having taken me by the arm, he led me into the monastery.

"Out of compassion for me, the Teacher gave a mat for the feet;

'Keep this pure, well determined, to one side.'

"Having heard his word, I dwelt delighted in the Dispensation;

I brought about concentration, for the attainment of the highest goal.

"I know past lives, the divine eye has been purified;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.

"Having created himself a thousand times, Panthaka;

Sat in the charming mango grove, until the announcement of the proper time.

"Then the Teacher sent me a messenger, one who announces the time;

When the time was announced, I approached through the sky.

"Having paid homage at the Teacher's feet, I sat down to one side;

Knowing me to be seated, then the Teacher accepted.

"A worthy recipient for the whole world, the receiver of oblations;

A field of merit for human beings, he accepted the offering."

"Filled with various impurities of the body, originating from a great cesspit;

Like a festering cesspool, a great boil, a great wound.

"Filled with pus and blood, immersed in a pit of excrement;

The body oozing with liquid, always flows with what is rotten.

"Bound together by sixty tendons, plastered with a coating of flesh;

Wrapped in a jacket of skin, the putrid body is useless.

"Constructed from a skeleton of bones, bound together by sinew-threads;

Through the conjunction of many elements, it performs the postures.

"Constantly proceeding towards death, near the King of Death;

Having abandoned right here, a man goes wherever he wishes.

"The body is hindered by ignorance, tied by the four mental knots;

The body is sinking in the mental floods, spread over by the net of underlying tendencies.

"Engaged in the five hindrances, applied to thought;

Followed by the root of craving, covered by the covering of delusion.

"Thus this body goes on, driven by the machine of action;

And success ends in failure, separation comes to pass.

"Those blind fools, the worldlings, who treat this body as their own;

They increase the terrible cemetery, they take up rebirth.

"Those who avoid this body, like a serpent smeared with dung;

Having vomited out the root of becoming, those without mental corruptions will attain final nibbāna."

"Secluded, with little noise, frequented by beasts of prey;

A monk should resort to such lodging, for the sake of seclusion.

"Having brought from refuse heaps, from cemeteries and from streets;

From that having made a double robe, one should wear a coarse robe.

"Having made the mind humble, successively from family to family;

A monk should walk for almsfood, with guarded doors, well-restrained.

"One should be content even with coarse food, one should not wish for abundant flavours;

For one greedy for flavours, the mind does not delight in meditative absorption.

"Of few wishes and content, secluded should the sage dwell;

Unassociated with householders, and with homeless ones, both.

"Just as if dull or mute, so should one show oneself;

The wise one should not converse excessively in the midst of the Community.

"He should not blame anyone, he should avoid causing harm;

Restrained in the principal monastic code, and moderate in food.

"For one whose sign is rightly taken, skilled in the arising of consciousness;

He should engage in tranquillity, and in insight at the proper time.

"Endowed with energy and perseverance, one should always be engaged in exertion;

And without reaching the end of suffering, the wise one should not come to trust.

"For one dwelling thus, a monk desiring purity;

All mental corruptions are exhausted, and he attains final peace."

"One should cognize one's own welfare, and should examine the Scriptures;

And whatever here would be proper for one who has entered asceticism.

"A good friend here, and extensive undertaking of the training;

And the wish to hear from teachers, this is proper for an ascetic.

"Respect for the Buddhas, esteem for the Teaching as it really is;

And honouring the Community, this is proper for an ascetic.

"Engaged in good conduct and resort, livelihood purified, blameless;

And the establishing of the mind, this is proper for an ascetic.

"Practice and avoidance, deportment inspiring confidence;

And devotion to higher consciousness, this is proper for an ascetic.

"Forest lodgings, remote, with little sound;

Should be resorted to by the sage, this is proper for an ascetic.

"Morality and great learning, investigation of phenomena as they really are;

Full realization of the truths, this is proper for an ascetic.

"One should develop the perception of impermanence, the perception of non-self and the perception of foulness;

And discontent with the world, this is proper for an ascetic.

"One should develop the factors of enlightenment, the bases for spiritual power, the faculties and powers;

The noble eightfold path, this is proper for an ascetic.

"A sage should abandon craving, should split apart the mental corruptions including the root;

He should dwell free, this is proper for an ascetic."

"What is your purpose in the forest, dear son, like the Ujjuhāna mountain in the rainy season;

The Verambha winds are delightful to you, for solitude is indeed for meditators.

"Just as the high-altitude wind drives away the clouds in the rainy season;

Perceptions draw me towards seclusion, connected with the perception of seclusion.

"The dark one, egg-born, wandering about the charnel ground as its abode;

It arouses mindfulness in me, regarding the body, based upon dispassion.

"Whom others do not protect, and who does not protect others;

That monk indeed sleeps happily, without expectation towards sensual pleasures.

"With clear waters and broad stones, frequented by yak-tailed deer;

Covered with water moss, those rocks delight me.

"I have dwelt in forests, in grottoes and caves;

In remote lodgings, frequented by beasts of prey.

'May these living beings be killed, be slaughtered, may they reach suffering';

I do not know of any thought, ignoble, connected with hate.

"The Teacher has been attended upon by me, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled;

The heavy burden has been laid down, the conduit to existence has been uprooted.

"For whatever purpose I went forth, from home into homelessness;

That purpose has been attained by me, the destruction of all mental fetters.

"I do not delight in death, I do not delight in life;

And I await the time, like a hired servant earning his wages.

"I do not delight in death, I do not delight in life;

And I await the time, fully aware, mindful."

"One should train in morality here, well-trained in this world;

For morality, when practised, brings all success.

"The wise one should guard morality, desiring three kinds of happiness;

Praise and gain of joy, and after death, rejoicing in heaven.

"For the moral one obtains many friends through self-restraint;

But the immoral one, practising evil, falls away from friends.

"Blame and disrepute, the immoral man obtains;

Praise, fame and commendation, the moral one always obtains.

"Morality is the beginning and the support, and the mother of good qualities;

The chief of all phenomena, therefore one should purify morality.

"Morality is the boundary and restraint, the gladdening of the mind;

And the ford of all Buddhas, therefore one should purify morality.

"Morality is incomparable power, morality is the highest weapon;

Morality is the foremost ornament, morality is a marvellous armour.

"Morality is an influential bridge, morality is an unsurpassed fragrance;

Morality is the foremost cosmetic, by which one's scent spreads in every direction.

"Morality is indeed the foremost provision, morality is the highest sustenance;

Morality is the best conveyance, by which one goes in every direction.

"Right here he obtains blame, and after death unhappy in the realm of misery;

Everywhere unhappy is the fool, unconcentrated in morality.

"Right here he obtains fame, and after death, glad in heaven;

Everywhere glad is the wise one, well concentrated in morality.

"Morality here is the highest, but the wise one is the best;

Among human beings and gods, victory comes from morality and wisdom."

"I was born in a low family, poor with little food;

My work was lowly, I was a remover of withered flowers.

"Loathed by human beings, despised and scoffed at;

Having made the mind humble, I paid homage to many people.

"Then I saw the self-enlightened, honoured by the community of monks;

The great hero entering the best city of the Magadhans.

"Having put down the carrying-pole, I approached to pay homage;

Out of compassion for me alone, the highest of men stood still.

"Having paid homage at the Teacher's feet, standing to one side then;

I requested the going forth from the highest of all beings.

"Then the compassionate Teacher, who has compassion for the whole world;

'Come, monk,' he said to me, that was my full ordination.

"I, alone in the forest, dwelling not lazy;

I did the Teacher's word, as the Conqueror exhorted me.

"During the first watch of the night, I recollected past births;

During the middle watch of the night, I purified the divine eye;

In the last watch of the night, I shattered the mass of darkness.

"Then at the end of the night, towards the rising of the sun;

Inda and Brahmā, having come, paid homage to me with joined palms.

"'Homage to you, thoroughbred among men, homage to you, highest of men;

Whose mental corruptions are eliminated, you are worthy of offerings, dear sir.'

"Then the Teacher, having seen me, honoured by the host of gods,

Having manifested a smile, spoke this matter.

"By austere asceticism, by the holy life, by self-control and by taming;

By this one is a brahmin, this is the highest brahmin quality."

"He who was superior in the realm, a follower of the king of Aṅga;

He today is superior in the teachings, Soṇa, who has gone beyond suffering.

"One should cut off five, give up five, and further develop five;

A monk who has gone beyond five attachments is called a crosser of the mental floods."

"For an arrogant, heedless monk, with desire for external things;

Morality, concentration, and wisdom do not go to fulfilment.

"For whatever function is thrown away, and what is not one's function is done;

For the arrogant and the heedless, their mental corruptions grow.

"And for those by whom mindfulness of the body is thoroughly undertaken, constantly;

They do not pursue what is not their function, acting continuously in their function;

For the mindful, for the fully aware, mental corruptions come to an end.

"When the straight path has been declared, go, do not turn back;

Urge oneself by oneself, one should bring oneself to Nibbāna.

"When my energy was too strenuous, the Teacher, unsurpassed in the world,

Having made the simile of the lute for me, the one with vision taught the Teaching;

Having heard his word, I dwelt delighted in the Dispensation.

"I brought about serenity, for the attainment of the highest goal;

The three true knowledges have been attained, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled.

"For one inclined to renunciation, and to solitude of mind;

For one inclined to non-ill-will, and to the elimination of clinging.

"For one inclined to the elimination of craving, and to non-confusion of mind;

Having seen the arising of the sense bases, the mind becomes rightly liberated.

"For that monk rightly liberated, with peaceful mind;

There is no adding to what has been done, nothing to be done is found.

Just as a rock, one solid mass, is not moved by the wind;

So forms, flavours, sounds, odours and contacts, all these.

"Desirable and undesirable phenomena do not cause such a one to tremble;

The mind is steady, detached, and he contemplates its passing away."

"When I went forth, from home into homelessness;

I do not know of any thought, ignoble, connected with hate.

'May these living beings be killed, be slaughtered, may they reach suffering';

I do not know of such a thought, in this long interval.

"And I directly know friendliness, limitless, well developed;

Gradually practised, as taught by the Buddha.

"A friend to all, a companion to all, compassionate to all beings;

I develop a mind of friendliness, always delighting in non-ill-will.

"Unshakable, unagitated, I gladden my mind;

I develop the divine abiding, not practised by wretched persons.

"Having attained the state without applied thought, the disciple of the Perfectly Self-awakened One;

Is endowed with noble silence at that very moment.

"Just as a rocky mountain, immovable, firmly established;

So a monk, through the elimination of delusion, does not tremble like a mountain.

"For a person without blemish, always seeking what is pure;

Even a hair-tip of evil appears like a cloud.

"Just as a borderland city, guarded within and without;

So guard yourselves, let not the moment pass you by.

"I do not delight in death, I do not delight in life;

And I await the time, like a hired servant earning his wages.

"I do not delight in death, etc. fully aware, mindful.

"The Teacher has been attended upon by me, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled;

The heavy burden has been laid down, the conduit to existence has been uprooted.

"For whatever purpose I went forth, from home into homelessness;

That purpose has been attained by me, the destruction of all mental fetters.

"Strive on with diligence, this is my instruction;

Come, I shall attain final Nibbāna, I am liberated everywhere."

"Just as a good thoroughbred, yoked to the shaft, bearing the yoke;

Though shaken by an excessive load, does not go beyond the yoke.

"Those who are thus satisfied with wisdom, as the ocean with water;

They do not despise others, this is the noble teaching for living beings.

"Having come under the control of time at the proper time, having gone under the control of existence and non-existence;

Men undergo suffering, they grieve here, young men.

"Elated by pleasant phenomena, and dejected by painful phenomena;

By this dyad the foolish are destroyed, not seeing as it really is.

"Those who in suffering and in happiness, in the middle, have gone beyond the seamstress of death;

They stand firm like a gate-post, they are neither elated nor depressed.

"Not indeed in material gain nor in loss of gain, not in fame nor in renown;

Not in blame nor in praise, not for them in suffering nor in happiness.

"Everywhere they are not stained, like a water drop on a lotus;

Everywhere happy are the wise, everywhere unconquered.

"And loss by righteousness, and gain that is not righteous;

Righteous loss is better, than if gain is not righteous.

"Fame among those of little wisdom, and disgrace among the wise;

Disgrace among the wise is better, not fame among those of little wisdom.

"Praise by the imprudent, and reproach by the wise;

Reproach by the wise is better, than if there is praise by fools.

"Happiness born of sensual pleasure, and suffering born of seclusion;

The suffering of seclusion is better, than if happiness is born of sensual pleasure.

"Life by what is not the Teaching, and death by the Teaching;

Righteous death is better, than if one should live unrighteously.

"Those who have abandoned sensual pleasure and irritation, with peaceful minds in any kind of existence;

They wander in the world unattached, for them there is nothing dear or not dear.

"Having developed the factors of enlightenment, the faculties and powers;

Having attained the supreme peace, they attain final nibbāna without mental corruptions."

"I am exceedingly pleased, having heard the Teaching of great flavour;

Dispassion is the Teaching taught, altogether by non-clinging.

"Many variegated things in the world, in this circle of the earth;

They churn, I imagine, the thought, beautiful, connected with lust.

"And as dust raised by the wind, is appeased by a rain cloud;

So thoughts are appeased, when one sees with wisdom.

"All activities are impermanent", when one sees with wisdom;

Then one becomes disenchanted with suffering, this is the path to purification.

"All activities are suffering", when one sees with wisdom;

Then one becomes disenchanted with suffering, this is the path to purification.

"All phenomena are non-self", when one sees with wisdom;

Then one becomes disenchanted with suffering, this is the path to purification.

"That elder Koṇḍañña, awakened following the Buddha, of keen energy;

Having abandoned birth and death, complete in the holy life.

"The mental flood, the snare, the firm barrenness, the mountain hard to split;

Having cut off the barrenness and the snare, having broken through the rock hard to break;

One who has crossed over, gone beyond, a meditator, he is freed from Māra's bondage.

"The agitated, fickle monk, having come to evil friends;

Sinks down in the great flood, covered over by the wave.

"Unagitated, steadfast, prudent, with controlled faculties;

A good friend, wise, one may be one who makes an end of suffering.

"Resembling a black bamboo joint, emaciated, with veins spread over him;

Moderate in food and drink, a man of undepressed mind.

"Touched by gadflies and mosquitoes, in the forest in a great wood;

Like an elephant at the head of battle, mindful, one should endure there.

"I do not delight in death, etc. like a hired servant earning his wages.

"I do not delight in death, etc. fully aware, mindful.

"The Teacher has been attended upon by me, etc. the conduit to existence has been uprooted.

"For whatever purpose I went forth, from home into homelessness;

That purpose has been attained by me, what need have I of a co-resident?"

"The Self-enlightened One who has become a human being, self-tamed, concentrated;

Dwelling on the Brahma path, delighting in the peace of mind.

"Him whom human beings pay homage to, who has gone beyond all phenomena;

Even the gods pay homage to him, thus I have heard from the Worthy One.

"One who has gone beyond all mental fetters, who has come from the forest to the forestless;

Delighting in renunciation from sensual pleasures, freed like gold from rock.

"He, the elephant, indeed outshone the Himalayas and other rocky mountains;

Of all those bearing the name of elephant, he of true name is unsurpassed.

"I will explain the elephant to you, for he does not commit an offence;

Meekness and non-violence, these two are the feet of the elephant.

"Mindfulness and full awareness, these are the other feet of the elephant;

The great elephant with faith as his trunk, with equanimity as his white tusks.

"Mindfulness is the neck, wisdom is the head, investigation is reflection on the Teaching;

The Teaching is the belly's residence, seclusion is his tail.

"He is a meditator, delighting in the in-breath, internally well concentrated;

Going, the elephant is concentrated, standing, the elephant is concentrated.

"Lying down, the elephant is concentrated, even sitting he is concentrated;

Everywhere restrained is the elephant, this is the accomplishment of the elephant.

"He consumes blameless things, blameworthy things he does not consume;

Having obtained food and clothing, he avoids storage.

"Having cut off all mental fetters, subtle and gross, all bondage;

Wherever he goes, he goes without attachment.

"Just as a white lotus born in water grows;

It is not tainted by water, fragrant and delightful.

"Just so, born in the world, the Buddha dwells in the world;

He is not tainted by the world, as a lotus by water.

"A great fire blazing, without fuel is calmed;

And when the embers are stilled, he is called 'quenched'.

"This simile is a conveyer of meaning, taught by the wise;

The great elephants will understand, the elephant taught by an elephant.

"Without lust, without hate, without delusion, without mental corruptions;

Abandoning the body, the elephant will attain final nibbāna, without mental corruptions."

"Whether for sacrifice or for wealth, those whom we killed before;

For the remainder there is fear, they tremble and they wail.

"You have no state of fear, your beauty becomes even more clear;

Why do you not lament, in such great peril?"

"There is no mental suffering, for one without expectance, headman;

All fears have been surpassed, for one whose mental fetters are eliminated indeed.

"When the craving for rebirth is eliminated, when phenomena are seen as they truly are in the present life;

There is no fear in death, just as in the laying down of a burden.

"The holy life has been well practised by me, and the path too has been well developed;

There is no fear for me in death, as in the elimination of diseases.

"The holy life has been well practised by me, and the path too has been well developed;

Existences have been seen as without gratification, like poison drunk and then vomited out.

"Gone beyond, without clinging, with obligations fulfilled, without mental corruptions;

He is satisfied at the exhaustion of life, like one released from a place of execution.

"Having attained the highest state of the Dhamma, unconcerned with the entire world;

Freed as from a blazing house, he does not grieve at death.

"Whatever there is that has come together, or existence wherever it is obtained;

All this is without a lord, thus was said by the great sage.

"Whoever understands that thus, as taught by the Buddha;

Does not grasp any existence, like a red-hot iron ball.

"'I was' does not occur to me, 'I shall be' does not occur to me;

Activities will disappear, what lamentation is there for that?

"The pure arising of phenomena, the pure continuity of activities;

For one seeing as it really is, there is no fear, headman.

"When one sees the world as similar to grass and wood, with wisdom;

He, not finding selfish attachment, does not grieve thinking 'I have not'."

"I am dissatisfied with the body, I am not desirous of existence;

This body will break up, and another will not come to be.

"Whatever function you have with the body, do that if you wish;

On that account, there will be no hate or affection in me."

Having heard that word of his, wonderful, hair-raising;

Having put down their knives, the young men said this.

"Having done what, venerable sir, and who is your teacher?

Having come to whose teaching, is that freedom from sorrow obtained?"

"Omniscient, all-seeing, the Conqueror is my teacher;

The greatly compassionate Teacher, the physician of the whole world.

"By him this Teaching was taught, leading to elimination, unsurpassed;

Having come to his teaching, that freedom from sorrow is obtained."

Having heard the sage's well-spoken words, having put down their knives and weapons;

Some desisted from that deed, and some delighted in the going forth.

Having gone forth in the Fortunate One's Dispensation, having developed the factors of enlightenment and powers, the wise ones;

With elated minds, glad, with faculties developed, they attained the unconditioned state of Nibbāna.

"A thought arose for the ascetic, the monk Pārāpariya;

Sitting alone, secluded, a meditator.

"What is the gradual progression for a person, what is the religious duty, what is the conduct;

That one doing one's own function, should not vex anyone.

"The faculties of human beings are for welfare and for harm;

Unguarded they are for harm, guarded they are for welfare.

"Guarding the faculties well, and protecting the faculties;

That one doing one's own function, should not vex anyone.

"If the eye-faculty going towards forms, one does not restrain;

Not seeing the danger, he is indeed not freed from suffering.

"If the ear-faculty going towards sounds, one does not restrain;

Not seeing the danger, he is indeed not freed from suffering.

"Not seeing the escape, if one indulges in odours;

He is not freed from suffering, infatuated with odours.

"Recalling the sour and the sweet, the bitter and the rest,

Bound by craving for flavour, the heart does not understand.

"Remembering beautiful, non-repulsive tangible objects;

One lustful, because of lust, finds various suffering.

"He who is unable to guard the mind from these mental states;

From that, suffering follows him, from all these five.

"Filled with pus and blood, and with much carrion;

Made lovely by a skilled craftsman, adorned like a casket.

"Bitter yet sweet in taste, binding to the dear, suffering;

Like a razor smeared with honey, licking it one does not understand.

"Filled with lust for a woman's form, a woman's voice, and also for a woman's touch;

Filled with lust for a woman's odours, one finds various suffering.

"All the streams of a woman, five flow in the five;

He who is able to make an obstruction to them is energetic.

"He is beneficial, he is righteous, he is skilled, he is discerning;

Even while delighting, he should do his function connected with the Teaching and welfare.

"And then he sinks what is connected, he should avoid the function that is useless;

Having thought 'that is not a function,' diligent and discerning.

"And whatever is connected with benefit, and whatever delight is directed to the Dhamma;

Having accepted that, one should practise it, for that indeed is the highest delight.

"By various high and low means, he desires to conquer others;

Having killed, having slain, and having caused sorrow, whoever forcibly seizes from others.

"Just as a powerful man, while planing, knocks out a peg with a peg;

So too the skilled one destroys the faculties with the faculties themselves.

"Developing faith, energy, and concentration, and mindfulness and wisdom;

Having killed five by five, the brahmin goes without trouble.

"He is beneficial, he is righteous, having practised the instruction of the Buddha's word;

In every respect completely, that man thrives in happiness."

"For a long time indeed, ardent, reflecting on the Teaching;

I did not obtain tranquillity of mind, asking ascetics and brahmins.

"'Who has gone beyond in the world, who has attained what is grounded upon the Deathless;

Whose teaching shall I accept, the cognition of ultimate reality?'

"I was caught inside by the hook, like a fish swallowing bait;

Bound by Mahinda's snare, just as the titan Vepacitti.

"I pull at it but do not release it, from this sorrow and lamentation;

Who in the world, releasing my bond, will make known the highest enlightenment?

"Which ascetic or brahmin, pointing out the perishable,

Whose teaching shall I accept, the sweeping away of ageing and death?

"Bound by doubt and uncertainty, endowed with the power of vehemence;

With a mind obstinate through wrath, torn apart by craving.

"Arising from the bow of craving, joined with two times fifteen;

See the strong one in the breast, if it remains having pierced through.

"The non-abandoning of speculative views, sharpened by wrong thoughts;

Pierced by that I tremble, like a leaf stirred by the wind.

"Having arisen internally in me, it quickly burns what is mine;

The body with six sense bases of contact, where it always moves.

"I do not see a physician who could extract this dart from me;

Not with a different probe or knife, nor treated by another.

"Who, without a knife, without a wound, the dart lodged within,

Without harming all my limbs, will pull out the dart for me?

"For he is the best, the lord of the Dhamma, the one who carries away the poison of defilements;

To me who has fallen into the deep, may he show dry land and a hand.

"I have plunged into a lake, with clay of impurity that cannot be removed;

Spread with deceit, envy, vehemence, sloth and torpor.

With restlessness as the thunder of clouds, with fetters as the rain clouds;

Thoughts dependent on lust carry along one of wrong view like great torrents.

"Streams flow everywhere, the creeper having sprung up stands;

Who could restrain those streams, who indeed will cut that creeper?

"Make a boundary, venerable one, a warding off of the streams;

Let not the mind-made stream suddenly cut you down like a tree.

"Thus for me, in whom fear had arisen, seeking the far shore from the near shore;

The Teacher, a shelter, with wisdom as his weapon, attended by the community of sages.

"A stairway well-made, pure, composed of the essence of the Dhamma, firm;

He gave to me who was being swept away, and said to me 'Do not fear'.

"Having ascended the mansion of the establishments of mindfulness, I reviewed;

That generation taking delight in identity, which formerly I had imagined.

"And when I saw the path, the embarking upon the boat;

Not having fixed upon a self, I saw the highest ford.

"The dart arisen from self, produced by craving for existence;

For the non-occurrence of these, he taught the highest path.

"Long lain dormant for a long time, long established for a long time;

The Buddha dispelled my mental knot, the one who washes away the poison of defilement."

"See this adorned image, a heap of sores, raised up;

Afflicted, the object of many thoughts, for which there is no stable duration.

"See this adorned form, with jewels and earrings;

Bones wrapped in skin, together with clothes it looks beautiful.

"Feet lacquered with lac, face smeared with powder;

Enough to delude a fool, but not one seeking the far shore.

"Hair arranged in eightfold braids, eyes smeared with eye ointment;

Enough to delude a fool, but not one seeking the far shore.

"Like a newly painted eye ointment container, the putrid body adorned;

Enough to delude a fool, but not one seeking the far shore.

"The hunter laid the snare, the deer did not touch the net;

Having eaten the fodder, we go, while the deer trappers lament.

"The hunter's snare is cut, the deer did not touch the net;

Having eaten the fodder, we go, while the deer hunters grieve.

"I see in the world wealthy people, having obtained riches, they do not give out of delusion;

Greedy, they make accumulation of wealth, and desire even more sensual pleasures.

"A king, having conquered the earth by force, dwelling in greatness up to the ocean's end;

Unsatisfied with this side of the ocean, he would desire even the far side of the ocean.

"The king and many other people, not free from craving, approach death;

Being still deficient, they give up the body, there is no satisfaction with sensual pleasures in the world.

"Relatives weep for him, having dishevelled their hair, saying 'Alas, would that he were immortal';

Having wrapped him in cloth and carried him out, having prepared the pyre, they then burn him.

"He is burnt, being pierced by stakes, with a single cloth, having abandoned his possessions;

For one who is dying there are no shelters, neither relatives nor friends nor companions.

"The heirs carry away his wealth, but the being goes according to his action;

No wealth follows one who is dying, neither sons, nor wife, nor wealth, nor kingdom.

"One does not obtain long life by wealth, nor by riches do they ward off ageing;

The wise have said this life is very short, non-eternal, subject to change.

"The rich and the poor experience contact, the fool and the wise are likewise touched;

But the fool, struck down by folly, lies, while the wise one does not tremble when touched by contact.

"Therefore wisdom is indeed better than wealth, by which one attains the conclusion here;

For through not having concluded, in existence after existence, one does evil deeds through delusion.

"One goes to the womb and to the other world, having entered the wandering in the round of rebirths in succession;

Another of little wisdom, believing in him, goes to the womb and to the other world.

"Just as a thief of bad character, caught at the opening of a break-in, is destroyed by his own action;

Thus people, after death, in the other world, of bad character, are destroyed by their own action.

"Sensual pleasures, variegated, sweet, delightful, in various forms they churn the mind;

Having seen the danger in the types of sensual pleasure, therefore I have gone forth, O king.

"Just like fruits from a tree, young men fall, both the young and the old, at the breaking up of the body;

Having seen this too, I have gone forth, O king, unmistakable indeed is asceticism - it is better."

"Through faith I have gone forth, endowed with the Conqueror's Dispensation;

My going forth is not in vain, I eat food free of debt.

"Having seen sensual pleasures as burning, gold as a knife;

Suffering from conception in the womb, great fear in the hells.

"Having known this danger, I gained anxiety then;

I, being pierced then, peaceful, have attained the elimination of mental corruptions.

"The Teacher has been attended upon by me, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled;

The heavy burden has been laid down, the conduit to existence has been uprooted.

"For the purpose of which I went forth, from home into homelessness;

That purpose has been attained by me, the destruction of all mental fetters."

"Having seen a form, mindfulness forgotten, for one attending to the dear sign;

With a mind filled with lust one feels, and remains grasping it.

"For him feelings grow, many originating from form;

Covetousness and harming, his mind is injured;

Thus for one accumulating suffering, Nibbāna is said to be far away.

"Having heard a sound, mindfulness forgotten, for one attending to the dear sign;

With a mind filled with lust one feels, and remains grasping it.

"For him feelings grow, many originating from sound;

Covetousness and harming, his mind is injured;

Thus for one accumulating suffering, Nibbāna is said to be far away.

"Having smelled an odour, mindfulness forgotten, for one attending to the dear sign;

With a mind filled with lust one feels, and remains grasping it.

"For him feelings grow, many originating from odour;

Covetousness and harming, his mind is injured;

Thus for one accumulating suffering, Nibbāna is said to be far away.

"Having tasted a flavour, mindfulness forgotten, for one attending to the dear sign;

With a mind filled with lust one feels, and remains grasping it.

"For him feelings grow, many originating from flavour;

Covetousness and harming, his mind is injured;

Thus for one accumulating suffering, Nibbāna is said to be far away.

"Having touched a contact, mindfulness forgotten, for one attending to the dear sign;

With a mind filled with lust one feels, and remains grasping it.

"For him feelings grow, many originating from contact;

Covetousness and harming, his mind is injured;

Thus for one accumulating suffering, Nibbāna is said to be far away.

"Having known a mental phenomenon, mindfulness forgotten, for one attending to the dear sign;

With a mind filled with lust one feels, and remains grasping it.

"For him feelings grow, many originating from mental phenomena;

Covetousness and harming, his mind is injured;

Thus for one accumulating suffering, Nibbāna is said to be far away.

"He does not find pleasure in forms, having seen a form, mindful;

With dispassionate mind he feels, and does not remain holding to that.

As he sees a form, and also cultivates feeling;

It is exhausted, not accumulated, thus he lives mindful;

Thus for one diminishing suffering, Nibbāna is said to be near.

"He does not find pleasure in sounds, having heard a sound, mindful;

With dispassionate mind he feels, and does not remain holding to that.