[746] **"Meditative, one should not be footloose (jhāyī na pādalolassa):** "Meditative (jhāyī)": one is meditative with the first meditative absorption (jhāna); one is meditative with the second jhāna; one is meditative with the third jhāna; one is meditative with the fourth jhāna; one is meditative with jhāna accompanied by thought and examination (savitakka-savicāra); one is meditative with jhāna without thought but with examination only; one is meditative with jhāna without thought and without examination; one is meditative with jhāna accompanied by rapture (pīti); one is meditative with jhāna without rapture; one is meditative with jhāna conjoined with rapture; one is meditative with jhāna conjoined with delight (sāta); one is meditative with jhāna conjoined with happiness (sukha); one is meditative with jhāna conjoined with equanimity (upekkhā); one is meditative with the emptiness (suññata) jhāna; one is meditative with the signless (animitta) jhāna; one is meditative with the undirected (appaṇihita) jhāna; one is meditative with mundane (lokiya) jhāna; one is meditative with supramundane (lokuttara) jhāna — delighting in jhāna, devoted to oneness of mind, esteeming one's own goal (sadatthagaruko): thus one is "meditative."
**"One should not be footloose (na pādalolassa)":** How is one footloose? Here a certain person is footloose, possessed of restlessness of foot: he dwells devoted to long wandering, to aimless wandering, from monastery to monastery, from garden to garden, from village to village, from town to town, from city to city, from country to country, from district to district. Thus too one is footloose.
Or else, a bhikkhu is possessed of restlessness of foot within the monastery compound (saṅghārāma): not for the sake of benefit, not for the sake of any task, but restless, with unsettled mind (citta), he goes from cell to cell, goes from dwelling to dwelling, goes from single-sloped-roof house to single-sloped-roof house, goes from mansion to mansion, goes from flat-roofed house to flat-roofed house, goes from cave to cave, goes from grotto to grotto, goes from hut to hut, goes from peaked-roof house to peaked-roof house, goes from watchtower to watchtower, goes from pavilion to pavilion, goes from quarters to quarters, goes from storehouse to storehouse, goes from attendance hall to attendance hall, goes from circular pavilion to circular pavilion, goes from tree root to tree root, or goes wherever bhikkhus are sitting. There he becomes the second to one, or the third to two, or the fourth to three, and there he speaks much frivolous talk — that is to say: talk of kings, talk of thieves, talk of great ministers, talk of armies, talk of perils, talk of battles, talk of food, talk of drink, talk of clothing, talk of vehicles, talk of beds, talk of garlands, talk of scents, talk of relatives, talk of villages, talk of towns, talk of cities, talk of districts, talk of women, talk of men, talk of heroes, talk of streets, talk of wells, talk of those departed and gone before, talk of miscellaneous matters, speculation about the world, speculation about the sea, talk of becoming this or that. Thus too one is footloose.
**"One should not be footloose":** One should abandon, dispel, put an end to, and bring to non-existence restlessness of foot; one should be refrained from restlessness of foot, abstaining, desisting, gone out from it, relinquishing it, released, detached; one should dwell with a mind rid of boundaries; one should live, conduct oneself, comport oneself, behave, go on, protect oneself, keep oneself going, and sustain oneself. One should delight in seclusion, take pleasure in seclusion, be devoted to inward serenity of mind, not neglecting jhāna, endowed with insight (vipassanā), a cultivator of empty dwellings — meditative, delighting in jhāna, devoted to oneness of mind, esteeming one's own goal. Hence it is said: "Meditative, one should not be footloose."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.