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### Sutta Nipata V.9

# Todeyya-manava-puccha

# Todeyya's Questions

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Todeyya:

> One in whom
> there dwell no sensualities;
> one in whom
> no craving is found;
> one who has crossed over perplexity --
> his emancipation:
> what is it like?

The Buddha:

> One in whom
> there dwell no sensualities;
> one in whom
> no craving is found;
> one who has crossed over perplexity --
> his emancipation
> is not other than that.

Todeyya:

> Is he without desire,
> or desiring?
> Discerning or
> still acquiring discernment?
> Describe the sage to me, Sakyan
> with the all-around eye,
> so that I may recognize
> what he is like.

The Buddha:

> He's without desire,
> not desiring;
> discerning,
> not still acquiring discernment.
> Recognize the sage, Todeyya,
> as having nothing,
> unentangled
> in sensuality
> & becoming.

Revised: Wed 16 May 2001