Ayya Jitindriya

When there is no coming or going, there is no passing away and reappearing.

At one time the Buddha was teaching the wanderer Pukasati.

After guiding him through a contemplation on the elements, when there remained only equanimity, purified and bright, the Buddha instructed him to understand thus.

If I were to direct this equanimity to the base of infinite space or the base of infinite consciousness or the base of nothingness or the base of neither perception nor non-perception and develop my mind accordingly this equanimity of mine supported by that base

clinging to it, would remain for a very long time.

One does not form any condition or generate any volition tending towards either being or non-being.

not forming any condition or generating any volition tending towards either being or non-being.

When one is not agitated,

One personally attains nibbana.

One understands.

Rebirth is ended.

The spiritual journey has been completed.

What had to be done has been done.

Monks, just as the flaming glow of iron when struck by a blacksmith's hammer gradually dissipates,

its destination unknown.

In the same way, no destination can be described for those rightly released, who have crossed the flood of sensual bonds and attained unshakable bliss.

While staying at Kampa, the Blessed One responded to the Venerable Bahuna's question thus.

Freed, unentangled, and released from ten things, Bahuna, the Tathagata dwells with unrestricted awareness.

Which ten?

freed, unentangled and released from form, from feeling, from perception, from mental formations, from sense consciousness, freed, unentangled and released from birth, from aging,