Confident, steady, and resolute
talk and think wholesome
wanting little if anything
content and secluded
aloof from society
arousing energy
wisdom delivering
concentration, virtue
renunciation – good will
kindhearted compassion.
So much is flooding in
that is going out
giving freely
not taking
together
a crowd
indulges
eventually
wholesome
talk and thought
turns toward action
better sooner than later!
“Neither nor it is” — neither minor nor major
Confident, steady, and resolute
[One’s heart-]mind enters into that signless concentration of mind and acquires confidence, steadiness, and resolution. [One] understands thus: ‘This signless concentration of mind is conditioned and volitionally produced. But whatever is conditioned and volitionally produced is impermanent, subject to cessation.’ When [one] knows and sees thus, [one’s] mind is liberated from the taint of sensual desire, from the taint of being, and from the taint of ignorance. When it is liberated there comes the knowledge: ‘It is liberated.’ [One] understands: ‘Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming to any state of being.’
There is present only this non-voidness, namely, that connected with the six [sense-]bases that are dependent on this body and conditioned by life. Thus [one] regards it as void of what is not there, but as to what remains there [one] understands that which is present thus: ‘This is present.’ … This is [one’s] genuine, undisturbed, pure descent into voidness, supreme and unsurpassed.
— Majjhima Nikāya – the middle length discourses of the Buddha, translated from Pali by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi – Cūḷasuññata Sutta, 121.11 and 12, pp. 969 and 970
Going to the forest, abiding by the root of a tree . . .
