![[info icon]](./../../../img/question_16.gif "Summary: How can one become freed of all doubt?")
Sn 5.5
PTS: Sn 1061-1068
Dhotaka-manava-puccha: Dhotaka's Questions
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
[Dhotaka:]
I ask you, O Blessed One. Please tell me. I hope for your words, Great Seer. Having heard your pronouncement, I'll train for my own Unbinding.[The Buddha:]
In that case, be ardent — astute & mindful right here. Then, having heard my pronouncement, train for your own Unbinding.[Dhotaka:]
I see in the world of beings divine & human, a brahman who lives possessing nothing. I pay homage to him the All-around Eye. From my doubts, O Sakyan, release me![The Buddha:]
No one in the world, Dhotaka, can I release from doubting. But knowing the most excellent Dhamma, you will cross over the flood.[Dhotaka:]
Teach with compassion, O brahman, the Dhamma of seclusion so that I may know — so that I, unafflicted as space, may live right here, independent, at peace.[The Buddha:]
I will teach you peace — in the here & now, not quoted words — knowing which, living mindfully, you'll go beyond entanglement in the world.[Dhotaka:]
And I relish, Great Seer, that peace supreme, knowing which, living mindfully, I'll go beyond entanglement in the world.[The Buddha:]
Whatever you're alert to, above, below, across, in between: knowing it as a bond in the world, don't create craving for becoming or non-.Note
Craving for becoming and non-becoming (or dis-becoming) are the two most subtle forms of craving that lead to continued existence — and suffering — in the round of birth & death.
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Transcribed from a file provided by the translator. Last revised for Access to Insight on 29 August 2012.
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