ud7.8:0.1Heartfelt Sayings 7.8
ud7.8:0.2Kaccāna
ud7.8:1.1So I have heard.
ud7.8:1.2At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.
ud7.8:1.3Now at that time Venerable Mahākaccāna was sitting not far from the Buddha, cross-legged, with his body straight and mindfulness of the body well-established internally on the present.
ud7.8:2.1The Buddha saw him meditating there.
ud7.8:3.1Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:
ud7.8:4.1“Their mindfulness would always
ud7.8:4.2be established in the body, constant:
ud7.8:4.3‘It might not be, and it might not be mine,
ud7.8:4.4It will not be, and it will not be mine.’
ud7.8:4.5Meditating stage by stage on that,
ud7.8:4.6in time they’d cross over clinging.”