5:8 Hemakaâs Question

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('â', It is,â ),

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('â', It will be,â all that was hearsay, quotation marks. All that promoted conjecture and gave me no pleasure. Now, sage, teach me the Dhamma demolishing craving, knowing which, living mindfully, one would cross over beyond entanglement in the world. The Buddha: Here, Hemaka, with regard to things dear —seen, heard, sensed, & cognized— there is: the dispelling of passion & desire, the unfallen, undying1 state of unbinding. Those knowing this, mindful, fully unbound in the here-&-now, are always2 calmed, have crossed over beyond entanglement in the world. vv. 1084–1087 Notes 1. "Unfallen, undying": two meanings of the word, accuta. 2. Reading sadṅ with the Burmese, Sri Lankan, and PTS editions. The Thai edition read satṅ, mindful, but this is a repetition of satṅ in the previous line, something that Pali poetry tends to avoid except for purposes of emphasis. - --> - - - -