On a website devoted to discussions of the early Buddhist texts, I found a passage and a comment:
Bāhuna, the Realized One has escaped from ten things, so that he lives unattached, liberated, his mind free of limits. What ten? Form … feeling … perception … choices … consciousness … rebirth … old age … death … suffering … defilements … Suppose there was a blue water lily, or a pink or white lotus. Though it sprouted and grew in the water, it would rise up above the water and stand with no water clinging to it. In the same way, the Realized One has escaped from ten things, so that he lives unattached, liberated, his mind free of limits.
(AN 10.81, tr. Bhikkyu Sujato; emphasis added by “travlingwonderer”) Continue reading ““Something Perfect in Itself””