Verses of the Senior Monks 7.5

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1. Verses of the Senior Monks 7.5
2. The Book of the Sevens
3. Chapter One
4. Sarabhaṅga
5. I broke the reeds off with my hands,
6. made a hut, and stayed there.
7. That’s how I became known
8. as “Reed-breaker”.
9. But now it’s not appropriate
10. for me to break reeds with my hands.
11. The training rules have been laid down for us
12. by Gotama the renowned.
13. Previously, I, Sarabhaṅga,
14. didn’t see the disease in its entirety.
15. But now I have seen the disease,
16. as I’ve practiced what was taught
    by he who is beyond the gods.
17. Gotama traveled by that direct route;
18. the same path traveled by Vipassī,
19. by Sikhī, Vessabhū,
20. Kakusandha, Koṇāgamana, and Kassapa.
21. These seven Buddhas have plunged into the ending,
22. free of craving, without grasping,
23. having become Dhamma, unaffected.
24. They have taught this Dhamma
25. out of compassion for living creatures—
26. suffering, origin, path,
27. and cessation, the ending of suffering.
28. In these four noble truths,
29. the endless suffering of transmigration
30. finally comes to an end.
31. When the body breaks up,
32. and life comes to an end,
33. there are no future lives;
34. I’m everywhere well freed.