The Way to the Beyond
13: Udaya’s Questions
“To the meditator who sits dust-free, with duty-done, pollutant-free, who is perfect in all things, I have come in need with a question: please tell of freedom through knowledge, the breaking up of ignorance.” [130]
“The giving up of sensual desire, and of sorrow, these two, the dispelling of sloth, and constraint of worry about wrong-doing, purity through equanimity and mindfulness,Alluding to the fourth absorption (
“By what is the world fettered? By what does it roam about? By completely giving up what, is there that thing called Nibbāna?” [133]
“The world is fettered by enjoyment, it roams about through reflections. By completely giving up craving there is that thing called Nibbāna.” [134]
“For he who lives mindfully, how is it consciousness ceases? We have come to ask the Fortunate One, therefore may we hear a word of yours.” [135]
“Without rejoicing over feeling on the inside or outside - for he who lives mindfully in this way, consciousness surely ceases.”i.e. rebirth-consciousness (