How, friends, is there non-agitation
through detached non-clinging?
Regarding this, friends, the educated normal
person, who is a friend
of a Noble One & who is clever & well
trained in his Dhamma, or who
is a friend of a Great Man & is clever
and well trained in his Dhamma
avoids regarding form as self, he avoids
regarding self as having form,
he avoids regarding form as inside a self,
or the self as inside a form !!!
Then inevitably his body form changes
& decays. When this change and
decay of his material form occurs, his
mind does not become occupied
with this change of just a form! Therefore
do no agitated mental states,
born of worry over this changed body form,
remain obsessing his mind...
Because his mind is not obsessed, he is not
frightened, nor distressed,
nor anxious, & by this detached
non-clinging, his agitation is all stilled !!!
He does not regard feeling
as self ... perception as self ... constructions
as self ... consciousness
as self, nor the self as possessing consciousness,
nor consciousness as
being inside the 'self', nor a 'self' as being 'inside'
consciousness ...
When his consciousness momentarily changes & alters,
his mind does not
become engaged with this fast change of consciousness!
Therefore do no
agitated mental states born of concern over this changed
consciousness remain obsessing his
mind! Because his mind is not obsessed,
he is not upset, nor troubled, nor
uneasy, & by this aloof non-clinging his
prior agitations are all
calmed & stilled! It is exactly in this way, friends,
that there is
non-agitation through non-clinging...
Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikaya XXII (7); [III 16-9]
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