So It Was Said 51

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1. So It Was Said 51
2. The Book of the Threes
3. Chapter One
4. Elements
5. This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
6. “Mendicants, there are these three elements.
7. What three?
8. The elements of form, formlessness, and cessation.
9. These are the three elements.”
10. The Buddha spoke this matter.
11. On this it is said:
12. “Comprehending the element of form,
13. not stuck in the formless,
14. those who are released in cessation,
15. they are conquerors of death.
16. Having directly experienced
    the element free of death,
17. free of attachments;
18. having realised relinquishment
19. of attachments, the undefiled
20. fully awakened Buddha teaches
21. the sorrowless, stainless state.”
22. This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.