{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp5-5.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp5-5.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp5-5.htm","text":"I ask you, O Blessed One.\nPlease tell me.\nI hope for your words, Great Seer.\nHaving heard your pronouncement,\nI'll train for my own\nUnbinding.\nIn that case,\nbe ardent --\nastute & mindful right here.\nThen, having heard my pronouncement,\ntrain for your own\nUnbinding.\nI see in the world of beings\ndivine & human,\na brahmin who lives\npossessing nothing.\nI pay homage to him\nthe All-around Eye.\nFrom my doubts, O Sakyan, release me!\nNo one in the world, Dhotaka,\ncan I release from doubting.\nBut knowing the most excellent Dhamma,\nyou will cross over the flood.\nTeach with compassion, O brahmin,\nthe Dhamma of seclusion\nso that I may know --\nso that I, unafflicted as space,\nmay live right here,\nindependent,\nat peace.\nI will teach you peace\n-- in the here & now,\nnot quoted words --\nknowing which, living mindfully,\nyou'll go beyond\nentanglement in the world.\nAnd I relish, Great Seer,\nthat peace supreme,\nknowing which, living mindfully,\nI'll go beyond\nentanglement in the world.\nWhatever you're alert to,\nabove, below,\nacross, in between:\nknowing it as a bond in the world,\ndon't create craving\nfor becoming or non-.\nCraving for becoming and non-becoming (or dis-becoming) are the two most subtle forms of craving that lead to continued existence -- and suffering -- in the round of birth & death.","title":"Sn V.5: Dhotaka-manava-puccha","type":"page"}