Cooled Sīti Sutta (AN 6:85)

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('â', This is peace, this is exquisite—the pacification of all fabrications; the relinquishing of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; unbinding.â" —AN 9:36 See also: MN 118; SN 47:8; AN 3:103 - --> - - - -