{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp5-11.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp5-11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp5-11.htm","text":"Hearing that there was a hero -- \ndesiring no sensuality,\nhaving crossed over the flood --\nI've come with a question:\nTell me the state of peace,\nO One with quick eyes. O Blessed One,\ntell me\nas it actually is.\nFor the Blessed One lives\nhaving surpassed sensuality,\nas the radiant sun, in its radiance,\nthe earth.\nLimited my discernment,\nO One whose discernment's profound.\nTeach me to know the Dhamma,\nthe abandoning here\nof birth\n& aging.\nSubdue greed for sensual pleasures,\n& see renunciation as rest.\nLet there be nothing grasped\nor rejected by you.\nBurn up what's before,\nand have nothing for after.\nIf you don't grasp\nat what's in between, [1]\nyou will go about, calm.\nOne completely devoid of greed\nfor name & form, brahmin,\nhas\nno effluents\nby which he would go\nunder Mara's sway.\n1. According to Nd.II, \"before\" stands for defilements related to the past, \"after\" for defilements related to the future, and \"in between\" for the five aggregates -- form, feeling, perception, thought-fabrications, sensory consciousness -- in the present. [Go back]","title":"Sn V.11: Jatukanni-manava-puccha","type":"page"}