iti73:0.1So It Was Said 73
iti73:0.2The Book of the Threes
iti73:0.3Chapter Three
iti73:0.4More Peaceful
iti73:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti73:2.1“Mendicants, formless states are more peaceful than states of form; cessation is more peaceful than formless states.”
iti73:2.2The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti73:2.3On this it is said:
iti73:3.1“There are beings in the realm of luminous form,
iti73:3.2and others stuck in the formless.
iti73:3.3Not understanding cessation,
iti73:3.4they return in future lives.
iti73:4.1But the people who completely understand form,
iti73:4.2not stuck in the formless,
iti73:4.3released in cessation—
iti73:4.4they are conquerors of death.
iti73:5.1Having directly experienced the element free of death,
iti73:5.2free of attachments;
iti73:5.3having realized relinquishment
iti73:5.4of attachments, the undefiled
iti73:5.5fully awakened Buddha teaches
iti73:5.6the sorrowless, stainless state.”
iti73:6.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.