In this way I learnt. During one season, the Fortunate One was dwelling near Savatthi in Jeta grove at Anathapindika's park. On that time the Fortunate One was instructing, rousing, inspiring, and gladdening the meditators with a talk on Dhamma, connected with Nibbana, and those mendicants, being receptive and attentive and concentrating all their minds, were intent on hearing the Dhamma.
Then, on seeing the significance, the Fortunate One, in regards to this, spoke this utterance of joy:
Mendicants, there is that place where there is no earth, water, fire, nor air; no place consisting of the infinity of space, of the infinity of consciousness, of nothingness, nor of neither-perception-nor-non-perception; neither this world nor another world or both; neither sun or moon. Mendicants, here, i say there is no coming, no going, no staying, no passing away, nor re-arising. Without help, not existing, free from turmoil, unsupported. Just this, is the end of stress.
Then, on seeing the significance, the Fortunate One, in regards to this, spoke this utterance of joy:
Mendicants, there is that place where there is no earth, water, fire, nor air; no place consisting of the infinity of space, of the infinity of consciousness, of nothingness, nor of neither-perception-nor-non-perception; neither this world nor another world or both; neither sun or moon. Mendicants, here, i say there is no coming, no going, no staying, no passing away, nor re-arising. Without help, not existing, free from turmoil, unsupported. Just this, is the end of stress.
RSS Feed
