—and for his implicit one: What has the Buddhaâs own experience been of this state? Reading vajjṅ as meaning "one would say," the answer tells of how the state of the person in question would appear to someone else. Reading it as meaning "he would say," the answer tells of how the person himself would describe the experience of that state. In neither case is there any criterion by which anyone could say, looking from within or without, that such a person doesnât exist or that he exists for eternity free from disease. 7. This is one of the passages in the Canon that treats unbinding, not as a phenomenon (dhamma), but as the end of phenomena. On this point, see AN 3:137, note 1. - --> - - - -