Catutthasāriputtakoṭṭhikasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Saḷāyatanavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 18 · Section 785

[785] "Friend, for one who does not delight in clinging (upādāna), who does not take pleasure in clinging, who does not rejoice in clinging, and who knows and sees the cessation of clinging as it really is, the thought 'The Tathāgata exists after death' does not occur to him … the thought 'The Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist after death' does not occur to him. This too, friend, is a method (pariyāya) by which this was left undeclared by the Blessed One."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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