[458] When he sees a form with the eye, he is not enamored of a pleasing form, nor is he averse to a displeasing form. He dwells with mindfulness of the body established and with a measureless mind (citta), and he understands as it really is that liberation of mind (cetovimutti) and liberation by wisdom (paññāvimutti) wherein those evil, unskillful dhammas cease without remainder. Having thus abandoned favoring and opposing, whatever feeling (vedanā) he feels — whether pleasant, or painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — he does not delight in that feeling, does not welcome it, does not remain holding to it. As he does not delight in that feeling, does not welcome it, does not remain holding to it, whatever delight (nandi) there is in feelings ceases. With the cessation of his delight comes the cessation of clinging (upādāna); with the cessation of clinging, the cessation of existence (bhava); with the cessation of existence, the cessation of birth; with the cessation of birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair cease. Thus is the cessation of this entire mass of suffering (dukkha).
When he hears a sound with the ear … when he smells an odor with the nose … when he tastes a flavor with the tongue … when he touches a tangible with the body … when he cognizes a dhamma with the mind, he is not enamored of a pleasing dhamma, nor is he averse to a displeasing dhamma. He dwells with mindfulness of the body established and with a measureless mind, and he understands as it really is that liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom wherein those evil, unskillful dhammas cease without remainder. Having thus abandoned favoring and opposing, whatever feeling he feels — whether pleasant, or painful, or neither-painful-nor-pleasant — he does not delight in that feeling, does not welcome it, does not remain holding to it. As he does not delight in that feeling, does not welcome it, does not remain holding to it, whatever delight there is in feelings ceases. With the cessation of his delight comes the cessation of clinging; with the cessation of clinging, the cessation of existence; with the cessation of existence, the cessation of birth; with the cessation of birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair cease. Thus is the cessation of this entire mass of suffering.
Bhikkhus, remember this liberation through the destruction of craving (taṇhā) taught by me in brief; but remember the bhikkhu Sāti, son of a fisherman, as one caught in the great net of craving, the tangle of craving.
Thus spoke the Blessed One. Elated, those bhikkhus rejoiced in the words of the Blessed One.
[Footnote ๑: The Burmese edition reads "nandī" throughout.]
The Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhaya Sutta, the eighth, is finished.
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Mahā-assapura Sutta
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.