10.
The Discourse on the World
30.
Thus have I heard -
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Uruvelā on the bank of the river Nerañjarā at the foot of the Bodhi tree, newly fully enlightened.
Now at that time the Blessed One was seated for seven days in a single cross-legged posture experiencing the bliss of liberation.
Then the Blessed One, after the elapse of that week, having risen from that concentration, surveyed the world with the Buddha-eye. The Blessed One, surveying with the Buddha-eye, saw beings being tormented by many torments, and being burnt by many fevers - those born of lust, those born of hate, and those born of delusion.
Then the Blessed One, having understood this matter, at that time uttered this inspired utterance -
Afflicted by contact, it speaks of disease as self;
For in whatever way one imagines,
Thereby it becomes otherwise.
Afflicted by existence, delights only in existence;
What one delights in, that is fear,
What one fears, that is suffering;
But this holy life is lived for the abandoning of existence."
"Whatever ascetics or brahmins who declared liberation from existence through existence, all of them, I say, are not liberated from existence. Or whatever ascetics or brahmins who declared escape from existence through non-existence, all of them, I say, have not escaped from existence.
"For dependent on clinging this suffering comes into being; with the elimination of all clinging there is no coming into being of suffering. See this world; Many, afflicted by ignorance, beings delighting in what has come to be, are not freed; For whatever existences there are, everywhere, in every way, all those existences are impermanent, suffering, subject to change."
Craving for existence is abandoned, one does not delight in non-existence.
The cessation without remainder through dispassion is Nibbāna;
For that monk who has attained quenching,
Without clinging, there is no rebirth;
Māra is overcome, the battle is won,
Such a one has overcome all existences." The tenth.