Ud 7.1
PTS: Ud 74
Bhaddiya Sutta: Bhaddiya (1)
translated from the Pali by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī at Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery. At that time Ven. Sāriputta was — with a variety of approaches — instructing, urging, rousing, & encouraging Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf with Dhamma-talk. As Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf was — with a variety of approaches — being instructed, urged, roused, & encouraged by Ven. Sāriputta with Dhamma-talk, his mind, through lack of clinging/sustenance, was released from the effluents.

The Blessed One saw that as Ven. Bhaddiya the Dwarf was — with a variety of approaches — being instructed, urged, roused, & encouraged by Ven. Sāriputta with Dhamma-talk, his mind, through lack of clinging/sustenance, was released from the effluents.

Then, on realizing the significance of that, the Blessed One on that occasion exclaimed:

Above, below, everywhere released, he doesn't focus on "I am this."[1] Thus released, he crosses the flood not crossed before, for the sake of no further becoming.

Note

1.
See Ud 1.1, note 3.