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Jambali
Sutta: The Waste-water Pool
translated
from the Pali by
Thanissaro
Bhikkhu
“Monks,
these four types of individuals are to be found existing in the world. Which
four?
“There
is the case where a monk enters & remains in a certain peaceful
awareness-release.[1] He attends to the cessation of self-identification, but
as he is attending to the cessation of self-identification his mind doesn’t
leap up, grow confident, steadfast, or firm in the cessation of
self-identification. For him the cessation of self-identification is not to be
expected. Just as if a man were to grasp a branch with his hand smeared with
resin, his hand would stick to it, grip it, adhere to it; in the same way, the
monk enters & remains in a certain peaceful awareness-release. He attends
to the cessation of self-identification, but as he is attending to the cessation
of self-identification his mind doesn’t leap up, grow confident, steadfast, or
firm in the cessation of self-identification. For him the cessation of
self-identification is not to be expected.
“Now,
there is the case where a monk enters & remains in a certain peaceful
awareness-release. He attends to the cessation of self-identification, and as
he is attending to the cessation of self-identification his mind leaps up,
grows confident, steadfast, & firm in the cessation of self-identification.
For him the cessation of self-identification is to be expected. Just as if a
man were to grasp a branch with a clean hand, his hand would not stick to it,
grip it, or adhere to it; in the same way, the monk enters & remains in a
certain peaceful awareness-release. He attends to the cessation of
self-identification, and as he is attending to the cessation of
self-identification his mind leaps up, grows confident, steadfast, & firm
in the cessation of self-identification. For him the cessation of
self-identification is to be expected.
“Now,
there is the case where a monk enters & remains in a certain peaceful
awareness-release. He attends to the breaching of ignorance, but as he is
attending to the breaching of ignorance his mind doesn’t leap up, grow
confident, steadfast, or firm in the breaching of ignorance. For him the
breaching of ignorance is not to be expected. Just as if there were a
waste-water pool that had stood for countless years, where a man were to block
all the inlets and open all the outlets, and the sky were to not rain down in
good streams of rain: the breaching of the waste-water pool’s embankment would
not be expected; in the same way, the monk enters & remains in a certain
peaceful awareness-release. He attends to the breaching of ignorance, but as he
is attending to the breaching of ignorance his mind doesn’t leap up, grow
confident, steadfast, or firm in the breaching of ignorance. For him the
breaching of ignorance is not to be expected.
“Now,
there is the case where a monk enters & remains in a certain peaceful
awareness-release. He attends to the breaching of ignorance, and as he is
attending to the breaching of ignorance his mind leaps up, grows confident,
steadfast, & firm in the breaching of ignorance. For him the breaching of
ignorance is to be expected. Just as if there were a waste-water pool that had
stood for countless years, where a man were to open all the inlets and block
all the outlets, and the sky were to rain down in good streams of rain: the
breaching of the waste-water pool’s embankment would be expected; in the same
way, the monk enters & remains in a certain peaceful awareness-release. He
attends to the breaching of ignorance, and as he is attending to the breaching
of ignorance his mind leaps up, grows confident, steadfast, & firm in the
breaching of ignorance. For him the breaching of ignorance is to be expected.
“These
are four types of individuals to be found existing in the world.”