Gone Away

1. I heard thus. At one time the Blessed One was living in the monastery offered by Anāthapiṇḍika in Jeta's grove in Sāvatthi.

2. Then venerable Rāhula approached the Blessed One worshipped and sat on a side.

3. Sitting on a side venerable Rāhula said to the Blessed One: “Venerable sir, Blessed One, knowing and seeing in which manner do my latent tendencies of measuring in the form of `I be' in this conscious body and all external signs with an onward drive to have likes, get destroyed completely and am released?”

4. “Rāhula, whatever matter in the past, in the future or at present, internal or external, hard or fine, un -exalted or exalted, far or near, all that matter is not mine, I am not in it and it is not my self.

“Seeing this as it really is, with right wisdom you are released without holding.

5. “Rāhula, whatever feelings, ... re ...

6. “Whatever perceptions ... re ...

7. “Whatever determinations ... re ...

8. “Whatever consciousness in the past, in the future or at present, internal or external, hard or fine, un -exalted or exalted, far or near, all that consciousness is not mine, I am not in it and it is not my self. Thus it should be seen as it really is with right wisdom.

5. “Rāhula, to him who knows and sees in this manner the latent tendencies of measuring in the form of `I be' in this conscious body and all external signs with an onward drive to have likes, get destroyed completely and you are released without holding.”