[216] 1. This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant (arahanta), so I have heard:
"Bhikkhus, two thoughts (vitakka) frequently occur to the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Fully Self-Enlightened One (sammāsambuddha): the thought of security (khema) and the thought of seclusion (viveka). The Tathāgata, bhikkhus, delights in non-affliction (abyāpajjha) and takes delight in non-affliction. To that Tathāgata, bhikkhus, delighting in non-affliction, taking delight in non-affliction, this very thought frequently occurs: 'By this conduct I afflict no one at all, whether frail or firm.' The Tathāgata, bhikkhus, delights in seclusion (paviveka) and takes delight in seclusion. To that Tathāgata, bhikkhus, delighting in seclusion, taking delight in seclusion, this very thought frequently occurs: 'Whatever is unwholesome (akusala), that has been abandoned.'
"Therefore, bhikkhus, you too should dwell delighting in non-affliction, taking delight in non-affliction. As you thus dwell, bhikkhus, delighting in non-affliction, taking delight in non-affliction, this very thought will frequently occur to you: 'By this conduct we afflict no one at all, whether frail or firm.' Dwell, bhikkhus, delighting in seclusion, taking delight in seclusion. As you thus dwell, bhikkhus, delighting in seclusion, taking delight in seclusion, this very thought will frequently occur to you: 'What is unwholesome? What has not been abandoned? What shall we abandon?'"
The Blessed One spoke this matter. In that connection, this is said:
"To the Tathāgata, the Buddha,
who has borne what none else can bear,
two thoughts occur:
security is the first thought uttered;
then seclusion is the second made known.
"The dispeller of darkness, gone beyond, the great seer,
who has attained what is to be attained, possessed of mastery, free of taints (āsava),
who has crossed over the poison, liberated in the destruction of craving (taṇhā) —
that sage indeed, bearing his final body,
I call one who has forsaken Māra, gone beyond aging (jarā).
"Just as one standing upon a rock at a mountain's summit
might behold the people all around,
even so the wise one, the All-Seeing One,
having ascended the palace made of Dhamma, the likeness of that,
himself freed of sorrow (soka), surveys the people
sunk in sorrow, overcome by birth (jāti) and aging."
This matter too was spoken by the Blessed One; so I have heard.
The first [sutta].
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.