from family to family, senses guarded, masterful, mindful, stay in isolated dwellings. Freed from fear, released in the fearless, where fearful snakes are, lightning wanders, the sky thunders, in the thick darkness of night, there sits the monk— horripilation left behind. And this has actually been seen by me, itâs not hearsay, quotation marks. In a single holy life, a thousand have left death behind. More in training, five hundred plus ten times tenfold ten: All have attained the stream that never leads to an animal birth. As for other people, partaking of merit, —so to my mind— I cannot count them, for fear of telling a falsehood." See also: DN 29; MN 4; Thag 1:50; Thag 2:11 - --> - - - -