ud3.10:0.1Heartfelt Sayings 3.10
ud3.10:0.2The World
ud3.10:1.1So I have heard.
ud3.10:1.2At one time, when he was first awakened, the Buddha was staying in Uruvelā at the root of the tree of awakening on the bank of the Nerañjarā River.
ud3.10:1.3There the Buddha sat cross-legged for seven days without moving, experiencing the bliss of freedom.
ud3.10:2.1When seven days had passed, the Buddha emerged from that state of immersion and surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha.
ud3.10:2.2He saw sentient beings tormented with many torments, and burning with many fevers
ud3.10:2.3born of greed, hate, and delusion.
ud3.10:3.1Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:
ud3.10:4.1“This world, born in torment,
ud3.10:4.2overcome by contact, speaks of disease as the self.
ud3.10:4.3For however you imagine it,
ud3.10:4.4it turns out to be something else.
ud3.10:5.1The world is attached to continued existence, overcome by continued existence,
ud3.10:5.2taking pleasure only in continued existence, yet it becomes something else.
ud3.10:5.3What it enjoys, that is the fear;
ud3.10:5.4what it fears, that is the suffering.
ud3.10:5.5But this spiritual life is led
ud3.10:5.6in order to give up continued existence.
ud3.10:6.1Of the ascetics and brahmins who say that through continued existence one is freed from continued existence, none are themselves freed from continued existence, I say.
ud3.10:6.2Of the ascetics and brahmins who say that through nonexistence one escapes from existence, none have themselves escaped from existence, I say.
ud3.10:7.1For this suffering originates dependent on all attachment. With the ending of all grasping there is no origination of suffering.
ud3.10:7.2Just look at this world!
ud3.10:7.3Mired in many ways by ignorance, beings in love with being are not released from continued existence.
ud3.10:7.4Whatever states of continued existence there are—everywhere, all over—all are impermanent, suffering, and perishable.
ud3.10:8.1One who sees truly like this,
ud3.10:8.2with right wisdom,
ud3.10:8.3gives up craving for continued existence,
ud3.10:8.4while not looking forward to nonexistence.
ud3.10:8.5Extinguishment comes from the ending of all cravings;
ud3.10:8.6fading away and cessation no residue left behind.
ud3.10:9.1There is no further existence
ud3.10:9.2for that mendicant extinguished by not grasping.
ud3.10:9.3Victorious in battle, such a one has defeated Māra;
ud3.10:9.4they’ve gone beyond all states of existence.”