“When a mendicant is perfected, proficient,
with defilements ended, bearing the final body:
would they say, ‘I speak’,
or even ‘they speak to me’?”
“When a mendicant is perfected, proficient,
with defilements ended, bearing the final body:
they would say, ‘I speak’,
and also ‘they speak to me’.
Skillful, understanding the world’s labels,
they’d use these terms as no more than expressions.”
“When a mendicant is perfected, proficient,
with defilements ended, bearing the final body:
is such a mendicant drawing close to conceit
if they’d say, ‘I speak’,
or even ‘they speak to me’?”
“Someone who has given up conceit has no ties,
the ties of conceit are all dissipated.
Though that intelligent person has transcended conceiving,
they’d still say, ‘I speak’,
and also ‘they speak to me’.
Skillful, understanding the world’s labels,
they’d use these terms as no more than expressions.”

The Linked Discourses

|_The Group of Linked Discourses With Verses

|__【1】SN1. Linked Discourses on Deities

|___III. The Chapter on a Sword

SN1.25 A Perfected One

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