[678] "Not clinging, like a bamboo shoot" — a bamboo thicket is called "bamboo" (vaṃsa). Just as in a bamboo thicket the young shoots are unattached, unstuck, unentangled, unimpeded — gone out, emerged, fully released — even so, there are two kinds of clinging: clinging through craving (taṇhā) and clinging through views. … This is clinging through craving. … This is clinging through views. For that Paccekasambuddha, clinging through craving has been abandoned and clinging through views has been relinquished. Because clinging through craving has been abandoned, because clinging through views has been relinquished, that Paccekasambuddha does not cling to forms, does not cling to sounds, does not cling to odours, does not cling to tastes, does not cling to tangibles; he does not cling to family, group, dwelling, gain, fame, praise, pleasure, robes, almsfood, lodging, medicinal requisites for the sick; to the sense-sphere element, the form element, or the formless element; to sense-sphere existence, form existence, or formless existence; to percipient existence, non-percipient existence, or neither-percipient-nor-non-percipient existence; to one-constituent existence, four-constituent existence, or five-constituent existence; to the past, the future, or the present; to things seen, heard, sensed, or to be cognized — he does not cling, is not grasped, is not bound, is not impeded; gone out, emerged, fully released, detached, he dwells with a mind rid of boundaries. Thus: "not clinging, like a bamboo shoot." "One should wander alone like a rhinoceros horn." Therefore that Paccekasambuddha said:
As a widespread bamboo thicket is entangled,
such is the concern for sons and wives;
not clinging, like a bamboo shoot,
one should wander alone like a rhinoceros horn.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.