Snp 5.5 - Dhotaka-manava-puccha: Dhotaka's Questions
Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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[Dhotaka:]

 I ask you, O Blessed One. Please tell me. I hope for your words, Great Seer. Having heard your pronouncement, I'll train for my own Unbinding. 

[The Buddha:]

 In that case, be ardent — astute & mindful right here. Then, having heard my pronouncement, train for your own Unbinding. 

[Dhotaka:]

 I see in the world of beings divine & human, a brahman who lives possessing nothing. I pay homage to him the All-around Eye. From my doubts, O Sakyan, release me! 

[The Buddha:]

 No one in the world, Dhotaka, can I release from doubting. But knowing the most excellent Dhamma, you will cross over the flood. 

[Dhotaka:]

 Teach with compassion, O brahman, the Dhamma of seclusion so that I may know — so that I, unafflicted as space, may live right here, independent, at peace. 

[The Buddha:]

 I will teach you peace — in the here & now, not quoted words — knowing which, living mindfully, you'll go beyond entanglement in the world. 

[Dhotaka:]

 And I relish, Great Seer, that peace supreme, knowing which, living mindfully, I'll go beyond entanglement in the world. 

[The Buddha:]

 Whatever you're alert to, above, below, across, in between: knowing it as a bond in the world, don't create craving for becoming or non-. 

Note

Craving for becoming and non-becoming (or dis-becoming) are the two most subtle forms of craving that lead to continued existence — and suffering — in the round of birth & death.