Thag 16:1 Adhimutta & the Bandits

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('â', I was,â no ),

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('â', I will be.â Fabrications will simply go out of existence. Whatâs to lament there in that? For one who sees, as it actually is, the pure arising of phenomena, the pure seriality of fabrications, thereâs no fear. When seeing the world, with discernment, as on a par with grass & twigs, finding no ),

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('â', mine-ness,â thinking, ),

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('â', Thereâs nothing of mine,â he feels no sorrow. Dissatisfied with this carcass, Iâm unconcerned with becoming. This body will break up and there will not be another. Do as you like with this carcass. From that I will feel neither hatred nor love." Hearing these awesome, hair-raising words, the young men threw down their weapons & said: "What have you done, sir, or who have you taken as mentor? Because of whose teachings is this lack of sorrow acquired?" Ven. Adhimutta: "The all-knowing, all-seeing conqueror: He is my mentor. Greatly compassionate teacher, all the worldâs healer, this doctrine is his, unexcelled, leading to ending. Because of his teachings is this lack of sorrow acquired." The bandits, hearing the good words of the seer, threw down their swords & their weapons. Some relinquished their life of crime, some chose the Going-forth. Having gone forth in the teachings of the One Well-Gone, developing the strengths & factors for awakening,1 wise, happy, exultant in mind, their faculties ripened, they touched uncompounded unbinding. Note 1. On the five strengths, see AN 5:2; on the seven factors for awakening, SN 46:51–52. See also: AN 4:184; Thig 14 - --> - - - -