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the round of many births I roamed House-builder,
you're seen!
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153 -154: DhpA: These verses were the Buddha's first utterance after his full Awakening. For some reason, they are not reported in any of the other canonical accounts of the events following on the Awakening. DhpA: "House" = selfhood; house-builder = craving. "House" may also refer to the nine abodes of beings -- the seven stations of consciousness and two spheres (see Khp 4 and D.15). The word anibbisam in 153 can be read either as the negative gerund of nibbisati ("earning, gaining a reward") or as the negative gerund of nivisati, altered to fit the meter, meaning "coming to a rest, settled, situated." Both readings make sense in the context of the verse, so the word is probably intended to have a double meaning: without reward, without rest. |
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