[219] **"So the sage (muni) does not cling to what is seen and heard, or to things sensed"** — **"So" (evaṃ)** is the word that completes the simile (opammasampaṭipādanā). **"Sage" (muni)**: knowledge (ñāṇa) is called sagacity (mona), that is, the wisdom which is understanding … having passed beyond the tangle and the net, he is a sage. **"Clinging" (lepa)**: there are two kinds of clinging — clinging through craving (taṇhā) and clinging through views (diṭṭhi) … this is clinging through craving … this is clinging through views. The sage, having abandoned clinging through craving and having relinquished clinging through views, does not cling to the seen, does not cling to the heard, does not cling to the sensed, does not cling to the cognized; he does not adhere, does not become attached; unclinging, unadhering, unattached, he dwells gone forth from them, released, fully freed, detached, with a mind rid of boundaries. Thus, "so the sage does not cling to what is seen and heard, or to things sensed." Therefore the Blessed One said:
As a drop of water upon a lotus leaf,
as water does not cling to the lotus flower,
so the sage does not cling
to what is seen and heard, or to things sensed.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.