{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp5-13.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp5-13.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp5-13.htm","text":"To the one in jhana\nseated dustless,\npassionless,\nhis task done,\neffluent-free,\ngone to the beyond\nof all phenomena,\nI've come with a question.\nTell me the gnosis of emancipation,\nthe breaking open\nof ignorance.\nThe abandoning\nboth of sensual desires,\n& of unhappiness,\nthe dispelling of sloth,\nthe warding off of anxieties,\nequanimity-&-mindfulness purified,\nwith inspection of mental qualities\nswift in the forefront:\nThat I call the gnosis of emancipation, [1]\nthe breaking open\nof ignorance. [2]\nWith what\nis the world fettered?\nWith what\nis it examined?\nThrough the abandoning of what\nis there said to be\nUnbinding?\nWith delight\nthe world's fettered.\nWith directed thought\nit's examined.\nThrough the abandoning of craving\nis there said to be\nUnbinding.\nLiving mindful in what way\ndoes one bring consciousness\nto a halt?\nWe've come questioning\nto the Blessed One.\nLet us hear your words.\nNot relishing feeling,\ninside or out:\nOne living mindful in this way\nbrings consciousness\nto a halt. [3]\n1. For a discussion of the \"gnosis of emancipation\" -- the state of knowledge consisting of mental absorption coupled with an analysis of mental states, see A.IX.36 and Section III.F in The Wings to Awakening. [Go back]\n2. A.III.33 contains a discussion of this verse. The Buddha tells Ven. Sariputta that one should train oneself such that \"with regard to this conscious body, there will be no 'I'-making or 'mine'-making or underlying tendency to conceit, such that with regard to all external themes [topics of concentration] there will be no 'I'-making or 'mine'-making or underlying tendency to conceit, and that we will enter & remain in the release of awareness & release of discernment in which there is no 'I'-making or 'mine'-making or underlying tendency to conceit.\" When one has trained in this way, he says, one is called a person who has cut through craving, unraveled the fetter, who has, through the right penetration of conceit, put an end to suffering & stress. He then states that it was in connection to this state that he uttered this verse. [Go back]\n3. For a discussion of \"bringing consciousness to a halt\" -- showing that it is not an annihilation of consciousness, but rather the ending of its proliferating activity -- see S.XXII.53. [Go back]","title":"Sn V.13: Udaya-manava-puccha","type":"page"}