“This world is a consuming fire. The people are sunk in ‘Contact,’ they proclaim disease as something good.    What a man supposes will happen, the opposite to that happens.    This people, who differentiate themselves, having attained to existence, sunk in existence, praise existence.    When a man praises it, there is fear: where there is fear, there is sorrow.     p. 45 The complete abandonment (of the love) of existence: that is called the holy life.    All these Samanas and Brahmanas who say that by existence there is escape from existence, these, I declare, will not escape from existence.    But all these Samanas and Brahmanas who say that by non-existence there is escape from existence, these, I declare, are independent of existence.    Not from Upadhi, as a result, does sorrow arise: when all ‘attachment’ is destroyed, then is there no resurgence of sorrow.    Behold this variegated world, sunk in ignorance, full of pleasure-loving beings, unemancipated!    All existence, whatever or wherever, is impermanent, full of sorrow and subject to change.”

   “Verily he who is skilled not in the arts, who is desirous of good, with senses stilled, wholly free, Who goes homeless, in whom the notion ‘this is mine’ is not,
   Who is passion free,
   That Bhikkhu having slain the Tempter, walks alone (independent of skill in the arts).” https://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/udn/udn3.htm

“He who has overcome the thorns of desire,    Who has overcome abuse and stripes and imprisonment,    He stands firm as a mountain,    Whether there be ease or discomfort,    That Bhikkhu trembles not.”

“He who has crossed the slough of impurity,    Who has crushed the thorns of desire,    That Bhikkhu, whether there be ease or discomfort,    Is at peace.”

  1. Thus have I heard. On a certain occasion the Blessed One dwelt at Savatthi, in the Jetavana, the garden of Anâthapindika.

   Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu, was sitting, not far from the Blessed One, in a cross-legged position, with body erect; and mindful and conscious, he bore without a murmur, acute, piercing and terrible pains, the result of deeds done in the past.

   And the Blessed One beheld that Bhikkhu, sitting not far off, in a cross-legged position, with body erect, mindful and conscious, and bearing without a murmur, acute, piercing and terrible pains, the result of deeds done in the past.

   And the Blessed One, in this connection, on that occasion, breathed forth this solemn utterance:–

“The Bhikkhu who is freed from Karma,    Who has shaken off the dust (of sin) accumulated in the past,    Who has suppressed the notion ‘this is mine’,    For such a one, there is no cause to lament.”

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An Arahant
Arahanta Sutta  (SN 1:25)

“An arahant monk,
one who is done,
effluent-free, bearing his last body:
Would he say, ‘I speak’?
Would he say, ‘They speak to me’?”
“An arahant monk,
one who is done,
effluent-free, bearing his last body:
He would say, ‘I speak’;
would say, ‘They speak to me.’
Skillful,
knowing harmonious gnosis
with regard to the world,
he uses expressions
just as expressions.”
“An arahant monk,
one who is done,
effluent-free, bearing his last body:
Is it from conceit
that he’d say, ‘ I speak’?—
that he’d say, ‘They speak to me’?”1
“For one whose conceit is abandoned,
whose knot of conceit is dispersed,
no knots exist
at all.
He, beyond any concept, wise,
would say, ‘I speak’;
would say, ‘They speak to me.’
Skillful,
knowing harmonious gnosis
with regard to the world,
he uses expressions
just as expressions.”

Note

1. This question confuses the conceit, “I am” (asmimāna) with the simple concept, “I.” The former is a fetter, in that it involves one in a tangle of views as to what the “I” is, and what it means to be. (See MN 2.) The latter, as this verse shows, is simply a conventional expression, and if it can be separated from the conceit “I am,” it need not fetter the mind.

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Excerpt from
The Great Full-Moon Night Discourse
Mahā Puṇṇama Sutta  (MN 109)

“Thus, monks, any form whatsoever that is past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near: Every form is to be seen as it has come to be with right discernment as: ‘This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am.’

“Any feeling whatsoever…

“Any perception whatsoever…

“Any fabrications whatsoever…

“Any consciousness whatsoever that is past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near: Every consciousness is to be seen as it has come to be with right discernment as: ‘This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am.’

“Seeing thus, the instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with form, disenchanted with feeling, disenchanted with perception, disenchanted with fabrications, disenchanted with consciousness. Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is released. With release, there is the knowledge, ‘Released.’ He discerns that ‘Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.’”

That is what the Blessed One said. Gratified, the monks delighted in the Blessed One’s words. And while this explanation was being given, the minds of sixty monks, through lack of clinging/sustenance, were released from effluents.

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Excerpt From
The Great Causes Discourse
Mahā Nidāna Sutta  (DN 15)

Translator’s note: The first part of the discourse takes the factors of dependent co-arising in sequence from effect to cause, tracing them down to the mutual dependency of name-&-form (mental and physical activity) on the one hand, and consciousness on the other.

“If one is asked, ‘Is there a demonstrable requisite condition for name-&-form?’ one should answer, ‘There is.’

“If one is asked, ‘From what requisite condition does name-&-form come?’ one should say, ‘Name-&-form comes from consciousness as its requisite condition.’

“If one is asked, ‘Is there a demonstrable requisite condition for consciousness?’ one should answer, ‘There is.’

“If one is asked, ‘From what requisite condition does consciousness come?’ one should say, ‘Consciousness comes from name-&-form as its requisite condition.’

“Thus, Ānanda, from name-&-form as a requisite condition comes consciousness. From consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form. From name-&-form as a requisite condition comes contact. From contact as a requisite condition comes feeling. From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving. From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging. From clinging as a requisite condition comes becoming. From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth. From birth as a requisite condition, aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of stress.

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Excerpt From
The Great Causes Discourse
Mahā Nidāna Sutta  (DN 15)

Aging-&-Death

“‘From birth as a requisite condition comes aging-&-death.’ Thus it has been said. And this is the way to understand how from birth as a requisite condition come aging & death. If there were no birth at all, in any way, of anything anywhere—i.e., of devas in the state of devas, of celestials in the state of celestials, of spirits in the state of spirits, of demons in the state of demons, of human beings in the human state, of quadrupeds in the state of quadrupeds, of birds in the state of birds, of snakes in the state of snakes, or of any being in its own state—in the utter absence of birth, from the cessation of birth, would aging-&-death be discerned?”

“No, lord.”

“Thus this is a cause, this is a reason, this is an origination, this is a requisite condition for aging-&-death, i.e., birth.”

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