Iti 45

Itivuttaka: The Group of Twos

translated from the Pali by

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, live enjoying aloofness, delighting in aloofness, inwardly committed to awareness-tranquillity, not neglecting jhana, endowed with clear-seeing insight, and frequenting empty buildings. As you live enjoying aloofness, delighting in aloofness, inwardly committed to awareness-tranquillity, not neglecting jhana, endowed with clear-seeing insight, and frequenting empty buildings, then one of two fruits can be expected: either gnosis right in the present life, or if there be any remnant of clinging-sustenance non-return."

Those with calm minds masterful, mindful, absorbed in jhana clearly see things rightly, not intent on sensual pleasures. Delighting in heedfulness, calm, seeing danger in heedlessness, they incapable of falling away are right on the verge of Unbinding.