It’s not to be reached by traveling, the end of the cosmos— regardless. And it’s not without reaching the end of the cosmos that there is release from suffering & stress.
So, truly, an expert with regard to the cosmos, intelligent, a knower of the end of the cosmos, having fulfilled the holy life, knowing the cosmos’ end, concentrated, doesn’t long for this cosmos or any other.
Notes
1. In AN 4:45, which is otherwise virtually identical with this sutta, this passage reads: “To me, endowed with such speed, such a stride, there came the desire: ‘I will go traveling to the end of the cosmos.’ I—with a one-hundred year life, a one-hundred year span—spent one hundred years traveling—apart from the time spent on eating, drinking, chewing & tasting, urinating & defecating, and sleeping to fight off weariness—but without reaching the end of the cosmos I died along the way.”
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