Sutta Nipāta 67

Anthology of Discourses 5.13

1 “I beseech you, the bastion-leaver, the craving-cutter, the imperturbable,” said Venerable Bhadrāvudha,

“the delight-leaver, the flood-crosser, the freed,

the formulation-leaver, the intelligent.

Different people have gathered

from across the nations

2 wishing to hear your word, O hero.

After hearing the spiritual giant

they will depart from here.

Please, sage, answer them clearly,

for truly you understand this matter.”

3 “Dispel all craving for attachments,” replied the Buddha,

“above, below, all round, between.

For whatever a personage grasps in the world,

Māra pursues them right there.

4 So let a mindful mendicant who understands

not grasp anything in all the world,

observing that, in clinging to attachments,

these people cling to the domain of death.”