Anthology of Discourses 4.10

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1. Anthology of Discourses 4.10
2. Before the Breakup
3. “Seeing how, behaving how,
4. is one said to be at peace?
5. When asked, Gotama, please tell me
6. about the ultimate person.”
7. “Rid of craving before the breakup,”
8. said the Buddha,
9. “not dependent on the past,
10. unfathomable in the middle,
11. they are not governed by anything.
12. Unangry, unafraid,
13. not boastful or regretful,
14. thoughtful in counsel, not restless—
15. truly that sage is controlled in speech.
16. Rid of attachment to the future,
17. they don’t grieve for the past.
18. A seer of seclusion in the midst of contacts
19. is not led astray among views.
20. Withdrawn, free of deceit,
21. they’re not envious or stingy,
22. nor rude or disgusting,
23. or given to slander.
24. Not swept up in pleasures,
25. or given to arrogance,
26. they’re gentle and articulate,
27. neither hungering nor growing dispassionate.
28. Not training for desire for profit,
29. nor getting annoyed at lack of profit;
30. they are not hostile due to craving,
31. for they are not greedy for flavors.
32. Equanimous, ever mindful,
33. they never conceive themselves in the world
34. as equal, special, or less than;
35. they have no pretensions.
36. They have no dependencies,
37. understanding the teaching, they are independent.
38. No craving is found in them
39. to continue existence or to end it.
40. I declare them to be at peace,
41. unconcerned for sensual pleasures.
42. No ties are found in them,
43. they have crossed over clinging.
44. They have no children or livestock,
45. nor possess fields or lands.
46. No picking up or putting down
47. is found in them.
48. That by which one might describe
49. an ordinary person or ascetics and brahmins
50. has no importance to them,
51. which is why they’re unperturbed by words.
52. Freed of greed, not stingy,
53. a sage doesn’t speak of themselves as being
54. among superiors, inferiors, or equals.
55. One not prone to creation
    does not return to creation.
56. They who have nothing in the world of their own
57. do not grieve for that which is not,
58. or drift among the teachings;
59. that’s who is said to be at peace.”