[811] **Having drawn out that very dart, one neither runs nor sinks**: having drawn out — having extracted, pulled up, thoroughly pulled up, plucked out, thoroughly plucked out, abandoned, dispelled, made an end of, and brought to non-existence — that very dart (salla) of lust (rāga), dart of hatred, dart of delusion, dart of conceit, dart of views, dart of sorrow, and dart of doubt (kathaṃkathā), one does not run to the eastern direction, does not run to the western direction, does not run to the northern direction, does not run to the southern direction. Those dart-formations (sallābhisaṅkhārā) have been abandoned; because the dart-formations have been abandoned, one does not run to a destination: one does not run to hell, does not run to the animal realm, does not run to the realm of hungry ghosts, does not run to the human world, does not run to the deva world; one does not run, run about, run on, or wander from destination to destination, from rebirth to rebirth, from rebirth-linking (paṭisandhi) to rebirth-linking, from existence to existence, from saṃsāra to saṃsāra, from cycle (vaṭṭa) to cycle. Thus: having drawn out that very dart, one does not run. **One does not sink**: one does not sink in the flood of sensuality, does not sink in the flood of existence, does not sink in the flood of views, does not sink in the flood of ignorance; one does not sink down, does not subside, does not founder, does not go under. Thus: having drawn out that very dart, one neither runs nor sinks.
Therefore the Blessed One said:
Pierced by whatever dart, one runs about in all directions;
having drawn out that very dart, one neither runs nor sinks.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.