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Avyakata Sutta: Undeclared
Then a certain monk went to the Blessed One and, on arrival,
having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there, he said to
the Blessed One, “Lord, what is the cause, what is the reason, why
uncertainty doesn’t arise in an instructed disciple of the noble ones over the
undeclared issues?”
“Because of the cessation of views, monk, uncertainty
doesn’t arise in an instructed disciple of the noble ones over the undeclared
issues. The view-standpoint, ‘The Tathagata exists after death,’ the
view-standpoint, ‘The Tathagata doesn’t exist after death,’ the
view-standpoint, ‘The Tathagata both does and doesn’t exist after death,’ the
view-standpoint, ‘The Tathagata neither does nor doesn’t exist after death’:
The uninstructed run-of-the-mill person doesn’t discern view, doesn’t discern
the origination of view, doesn’t discern the cessation of view, doesn’t discern
the path of practice leading to the cessation of view, and so for him that view
grows. He is not freed from birth, aging, & death; from sorrows,
lamentations, pains, distresses, and despairs. He is not freed, I tell you,
from suffering & stress. But the instructed disciple of the noble ones
discerns view, discerns the origination of view, discerns the cessation of
view, discerns the path of practice leading to the cessation of view, and so
for him that view ceases. He is freed from birth, aging, & death; from
sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, and despairs. He is freed, I tell
you, from suffering & stress.
“Thus knowing, thus seeing, the instructed disciple of the
noble ones doesn’t declare that ‘The Tathagata exists after death,’ doesn’t
declare that ‘The Tathagata doesn’t exist after death,’ doesn’t declare that
‘The Tathagata both does and doesn’t exist after death,’ doesn’t declare that
‘The Tathagata neither does nor doesn’t exist after death.’ Thus knowing, thus
seeing, he is thus of a nature not to declare the undeclared issues. Thus
knowing, thus seeing, he isn’t paralyzed, doesn’t quake, doesn’t shiver or
shake over the undeclared issues.
“‘The Tathagata exists after death’ β this
craving-standpoint, this perception-standpoint, this product of conceiving,
this product of elaboration, this clinging-standpoint: That’s anguish.[1] ‘The Tathagata doesn’t exist after death’:
That’s anguish. ‘The Tathagata both does and doesn’t exist after death’: That’s
anguish. ‘The Tathagata neither does nor doesn’t exist after death’: That’s
anguish.[2]
The uninstructed run-of-the-mill person doesn’t discern anguish,
doesn’t discern the origination of anguish, doesn’t discern the cessation of
anguish, doesn’t discern the path of practice leading to the cessation of
anguish, and so for him that anguish grows. He is not freed from birth, aging,
& death; from sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, and despairs. He is
not freed, I tell you, from suffering & stress. But the instructed disciple
of the noble ones discerns anguish, discerns the origination of anguish,
discerns the cessation of anguish, discerns the path of practice leading to the
cessation of anguish, and so for him that anguish ceases. He is freed from
birth, aging, & death; from sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, and
despairs. He is freed, I tell you, from suffering & stress.
“Thus knowing, thus seeing, the instructed disciple of the
noble ones doesn’t declare that ‘The Tathagata exists after death,’ doesn’t
declare that ‘The Tathagata doesn’t exist after death,’ doesn’t declare that
‘The Tathagata both does and doesn’t after death,’ doesn’t declare that ‘The
Tathagata neither does nor doesn’t exist after death.’ Thus knowing, thus
seeing, he is thus of a nature not to declare the undeclared issues. Thus
knowing, thus seeing, he isn’t paralyzed, doesn’t quake, doesn’t shiver or
shake over the undeclared issues.”