[894] **Unattached (asita)**: there are two dependencies (nissaya): dependence through craving (taṇhā) and dependence through views (diṭṭhi).
What is dependence through craving? To whatever extent something is made a boundary, made a limit, made a portion, made a border by what is reckoned as craving, is taken possession of and cherished as one's own — "this is mine, that is mine, this much is mine, to this extent it is mine; mine are forms, sounds, odors, tastes, tangibles; spreads and coverings; women slaves and men slaves; goats and sheep; fowl and swine; elephants, cattle, horses, and mares; field and land; silver and gold; villages, towns, and royal capitals; kingdom and country; treasury and granary" — and one cherishes as one's own even the whole great earth by the power of craving, extending as far as the one hundred and eight distortions of craving: this is dependence through craving.
What is dependence through views? The personality-view (sakkāyadiṭṭhi) with its twenty grounds, the wrong view (micchādiṭṭhi) with its ten grounds, the extremist view (antaggāhikā diṭṭhi) with its ten grounds; whatever view is of such a kind — the resort to views, the thicket of views, the wilderness of views, the contortion of views, the vacillation of views, the fetter of views; grasping, holding fast, insistence, misapprehension; the wrong road, the wrong path, wrongness; the sectarian tenets (titthāyatana); the grasp of the inverted, the distorted grasp, the perverted grasp, the wrong grasp; the grasping of what is untrue as "true" — extending as far as the sixty-two views: this is dependence through views.
For the Buddha, the Blessed One, dependence through craving has been abandoned; dependence through views has been relinquished. Because dependence through craving has been abandoned and dependence through views has been relinquished, the Blessed One is not dependent on the eye; not dependent on the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body, or the mind (citta); not dependent on forms, sounds, odors, tastes, or tangibles; on family, following, or dwelling; on gain, fame, praise, or pleasure; on robes, almsfood, lodging, or medicinal requisites for the sick; on the sense-sphere element (dhātu), the form element, or the formless element; on sense-sphere existence, form existence, or formless existence; on percipient existence, non-percipient existence, or neither-percipient-nor-non-percipient existence; on one-constituent existence, four-constituent existence, or five-constituent existence; on the past, the future, or the present; on dhammas seen, heard, sensed, or to be cognized — he is not dependent, not attached, not drawn near, not infatuated, not resolved thereon; he has gone out, given up, been freed, become detached; he dwells with a mind made free of boundaries. Therefore: "that Buddha, unattached."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.