Nodding Capala Sutta (AN 7:58)
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('â', I wonât stay indulging in the pleasure of lying down, the pleasure of reclining, the pleasure of drowsiness.â That is how you should train yourself. "And further, Moggallṅna, should you train yourself: ),
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('â', I will not visit families with my pride [literally: my trunk (i.e., an elephantâs trunk)] lifted high.â That is how you should train yourself. Among families there are many jobs that have to be done, so that people donât pay attention to a visiting monk. If a monk visits them with his trunk lifted high, the thought will occur to him, ),
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('â', Now who, I wonder, has caused a split between me and this family? The people seem to have no liking for me.â Getting nothing, he becomes abashed. Abashed, he becomes restless. Restless, he becomes unrestrained. Unrestrained, his mind is far from concentration. "And further, Moggallṅna, should you train yourself: ),
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('â', I will speak no confrontational speech.â That is how you should train yourself. When there is confrontational speech, a lot of discussion can be expected. When there is a lot of discussion, there is restlessness. One who is restless becomes unrestrained. Unrestrained, his mind is far from concentration. "Itâs not the case, Moggallṅna, that I praise association of every sort. But itâs not the case that I dispraise association of every sort. I donât praise association with householders and renunciates. But as for dwelling places that are free from noise, free from sound, their atmosphere devoid of people, appropriately secluded for resting undisturbed by human beings: I praise association with dwelling places of this sort." When this was said, Ven. Moggallṅna said to the Blessed One: "Briefly, lord, in what respect is a monk released through the ending of craving, utterly complete, utterly free from bonds, a follower of the utterly holy life, utterly consummate: foremost among devas & human beings?" "There is the case, Moggallṅna, where a monk has heard, ),
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('â', All dhammas are unworthy of adherence.â Having heard that all dhammas are unworthy of adherence, he directly knows every dhamma. Directly knowing every dhamma, he comprehends every dhamma. Comprehending every dhamma, then whatever feeling he experiences—pleasure, pain, neither pleasure nor pain—he remains focused on inconstancy, focused on dispassion, focused on cessation, focused on relinquishing with regard to that feeling. As he remains focused on inconstancy, focused on dispassion, focused on cessation, focused on relinquishing with regard to that feeling, he is unsustained by [doesnât cling to] anything in the world. Unsustained, he isnât agitated. Unagitated, he totally unbinds right within. He discerns: ),
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('â', Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.â "Itâs in this respect, Moggallṅna, that a monk, in brief, is released through the ending of craving, utterly complete, utterly free from bonds, a follower of the utterly holy life, utterly consummate: foremost among devas & human beings." See also: SN 22:23; SN 35:23–24; SN 35:80; AN 3:137; AN 4:37; Dhp 277–279; Sn 2:10; Thag 1:84; Thag 2:37 - --> - - - -