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Sn 5.11
PTS: Sn 1096-1100
Jatukanni-manava-puccha: Jatukannin's Question
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
© 1994

[Jatukannin:]

Hearing that there was a hero — desiring no sensuality, having crossed over the flood — I've come with a question: Tell me the state of peace, O One with quick eyes. O Blessed One, tell me as it actually is. For the Blessed One lives having surpassed sensuality, as the radiant sun, in its radiance, the earth. Limited my discernment, O One whose discernment's profound. Teach me to know the Dhamma, the abandoning here of birth & aging.

[The Buddha:]

Subdue greed for sensual pleasures, & see renunciation as rest. Let there be nothing grasped or rejected by you. Burn up what's before, and have nothing for after. If you don't grasp at what's in between, [1] you will go about, calm. One completely devoid of greed for name & form, brahman, has no effluents by which he would go under Mara's sway.

# Note

1.
  According to Nd.II, "before" stands for defilements related to the past, "after" for defilements related to the future, and "in between" for the five aggregates — form, feeling, perception, thought-fabrications, sensory consciousness — in the present.