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- Anguttara Nikaya X.81
- Bahuna Sutta
- To Bahuna
- For free distribution only, as a gift of Dhamma
I have heard than on one occasion the Blessed One was staying in Campa,
on the shore of Gaggara Lake. Then Ven. Bahuna
went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he
was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: "Lord, freed, dissociated, &
released from how many things does the Tathagata dwell with unrestricted awareness?"
"Freed, dissociated, & released from ten things, Bahuna, the Tathagata dwells
with unrestricted awareness. Which ten? Freed, dissociated, & released from form, the
Tathagata dwells with unrestricted awareness. Freed, dissociated, & released from
feeling...Freed, dissociated, & released from perception...Freed, dissociated, &
released from fabrications...Freed, dissociated, & released from
consciousness...Freed, dissociated, & released from birth...Freed, dissociated, &
released from aging...Freed, dissociated, & released from death...Freed, dissociated,
& released from stress...Freed, dissociated, & released from defilement, the
Tathagata dwells with unrestricted awareness.
"Just as a red, blue, or white lotus born in the water and
growing in the water, rises up above the water and stands with no water adhering to it, in
the same way the Tathagata -- freed, dissociated, & released from these ten things --
dwells with unrestricted awareness."