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### Sutta Nipata V.12

# Bhadravudha-manava-puccha

# Bhadravudha's Questions

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Bhadravudha:

> I entreat the one
> who is very intelligent,
> released, unperturbed --
> who has abandoned home,
> abandoned delight,
> abandoned resemblances,
> cut through craving,
> crossed over the flood.

> Having heard the Great One, they will leave --
> the many gathered
> from many lands, hero,
> in hopes of your words.
> So tell them, please,
> how this Dhamma has
> been known to you.

The Buddha:

> Subdue craving & clinging -- all --
> above, below,
> across, in between. [1]
> For whatever people cling to in the world,
> it's through that
> that Mara pursues them.

> So a monk, mindful,
> seeing these people
> clinging to entanglement
> as entangled in Death's realm,
> should cling to nothing
> in all the world,
> every world.

### Note

1. For Nd.II's discussion of the various meanings of the objects of craving "above, below, across, in between," see Note [2] to Sn.V.4 (Mettagu's Question). [Go back]

Revised: Wed 16 May 2001