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Dhammapada
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385*385:

One whose beyond or
not-beyond or
beyond-&-not-beyond
can't be found;
unshackled, carefree:
    he's what I call
    a brahman.

 



385: DhpA: This verse refers to a person who has no sense of "I" or "mine," either for the senses ("not-beyond") or their objects ("beyond"). The passage may also refer to the sense of total limitlessness that makes the experience of Unbinding totally ineffable, as reflected in the following conversation (Sn.V.6):

Upasiva:
He who has reached the end:
    Does he not exist,
    or is he for eternity free from dis-ease?
Please, sage, declare this to me
    as this phenomenon has been known by you.

The Buddha:
One who has reached the end has no criterion
by which anyone would say that --
        it doesn't exist for him.
When all phenomena are done away with,
all means of speaking are done away with as well.





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