One who
has no objectifications,1
no standing-place,2
who has gone beyond
the tether & cross-bar:
The world, even with its devas,
doesn’t look down on him–
he, going about without craving,
a sage.
Notes
1. Papañca: A mode of thought that begins with the assumption, “I am the thinker,” and develops its categories and perceptions–about self and world, about existence and non-existence–from there. For more on this topic, see the introduction to MN 18 and Skill in Questions, chapters 3 and 8.
2. On the teaching that the awakened person has no location, see The Paradox of Becoming, chapter 7.
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