“Truly in a confining place, he found an opening—
the one of extensive wisdom,
the awakened one who awakened to jhāna,1
the chief bull, withdrawn,
the sage.”
The Buddha:
“Even in a confining place they find it,
[Pañcālacaṇḍa,” said the Blessed One,]
“the Dhamma for the attainment of unbinding.
Those who have gained mindfulness
are rightly well-centered.”2
Notes
1. In CDB, this phrase is translated as “who discovered jhāna,” but the verb is abuddhi: “awakened to.”
2. In CDB, this sentence is translated as a continuation of the preceding one: “those who have acquired mindfulness, those perfectly well concentrated.” However, the Pali is constructed of two clauses in the ye… te… form that constitutes a separate sentence.
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