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B0102052105pañcamabhūmi (fifth stage)

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English

Therefore it is said: When wavering is absent, Tranquility arises. There, by that imposition, The tranquil body feels pleasure. For one who is pleased, The mind becomes concentrated. Up to the knowledge and vision of liberation. He, through the destruction of the taints, Is liberated and does not arise again. For him, with the absence Of coming and going of rebirth, There is neither here, Nor beyond, Nor in between the two. This is the end of suffering, The Nibbāna element without remainder. This is imposed in the middle of this discourse, And is the connection In dependent origination and liberation. And they do not explain in detail the meaning of what was spoken concisely. This is called the method of Imposition. And not by a discourse conducive to defilement should phenomena conducive to defilement be applied, not others. Thus in those conducive to accumulation, in those conducive to penetration, this is the method of Imposition. These are the sixteen methods. In the Piṭaka-instruction of the heroic Mahākaccāna, dwelling in the Jambu forest. The Fifth Stage.

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