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9. One should not be determined on false speech, nor have affection for
form, one should completely know conceit, and live without violence
driven by passion and so forth.
10. One should not find happiness in what has passed, one should not
prefer what is present now, one should not grieve for conditioned things
in decline, one should not have an attachment to attractive things.
11. Yearning for conditioned things, I say, is a great flood, wanting is like
the rapids that washes all away. It is the basis for forming intentions, the
defilement of sensual desires which is hard to overcome.
12. The sage never deviates from truthfulness, right view and the path, the
true Brahmin stands on form ground. Having forsaken all the sense
spheres, one is indeed said to be peaceful.
13. The one who understands, the one who has highest knowledge, having
understood the Dhamma, abandoning defilements, he is independent of
the senses. He moves around rightly in the world, not yearning for
anything at all.
14. Whoever has crossed over sensual desire, the clinging that is hard to
cross over in the world, does not grieve, nor does he long for anything,
having cut off the stream, he is no longer bound.
15. One must dry up whatever defilements there are regarding what has
passed, and let there be none that come later, if you do not grasp at the
five aggregates in the present, peacefully you will wander around.
16. One who cherishes nothing in the whole realm of mind and matter,
and does not grieve for what he does not have, does not lose anything in
the world.
17. The one who has nothing that he thinks is his own or as belonging to
others, not finding any selfish attachments, has nothing to grieve about
thinking: it is mine.
18. Not being jealous, not having greed, impertubable, everywhere
eqaunimous, being asked about being unshakeable, I say those are the four
advantages.
19. The one who is impertubable, who understands the Dhamma, who
abstains from volitional striving, sees safety and security in all places.