Men who have no riches, who live on recognized food, who have perceived
void and unconditioned freedom (Nirvana), their path is difficult to
understand, like that of birds in the air.
He whose appetites are stilled, who is not absorbed in enjoyment, who
has perceived void and unconditioned freedom (Nirvana), his path is
difficult to understand, like that of birds in the air.
The gods even envy him whose senses, like horses well broken in by the
driver, have been subdued, who is free from pride, and free from
appetites; such a one who does his duty is tolerant like the earth, or
like a threshold; he is like a lake without mud; no new births are in
store for him.
His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained
freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.
The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut
all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the
greatest of men.
In a hamlet or in a forest, on sea or on dry land, wherever venerable
persons (Arahanta) dwell, that place is delightful.
Forests are delightful; where the world finds no delight, there the
passionless will find delight, for they look not for pleasures.
CHAPTER VIII
THE THOUSANDS
Even though a speech be a thousand (of words), but made up of senseless
words, one word of sense is better, which if a man hears, he becomes
quiet.
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