Part 20 - Vipassanavagga - Insight

186. Pañcangikena turiyena
na rati hoti tadisi
yatha ekaggacittassa
samma dhammam vipassato.

Music from a five-piece ensemble
cannot produce as much delight
as that of a one-pointed mind
with perfect insight into things.

187. Ye ca santacitta nipaka
satimanto ca jhayino
samma dhammam vipassanti
kamesu anapekkhino.

Those peaceful in mind, discerning,
mindful and meditative,
having perfect insight into things,
unconcerned with sense desires,

188. Appamadarata santa
pamade bhayadassino
abhabba parihanaya
nibbanass'eva santike.

calm, delighting in diligence,
seeing fear in negligence,
can never fall away or fail,
for they are close to Nibbana.

189. Atitam nanusocanti
nappajappanti nagatam
paccuppannena yapenti
tena vanno pasidati.

They do not lament over the past,
they yearn not for what is to come,
they maintain themselves in the present,
thus their complexion is serene.

190. Atitam nanvagameyya
nappatikankhe anagatam
yad atitam pahinan tam
appattañ ca anagatam.

The past should not be followed after
and the future not desired;
what is past is dead and gone
and the future is yet to come.

191. Paccuppannañ ca yo dhammam
tattha tattha vipassati
asamhiram asamkuppam
tam vidva m-anubruhaye.

But whoever gains insight into things
presently arisen in the here and now,
knowing them, unmoved, unshaken,
let him cultivate that insight.

192. Cittam upatthapetvana
ekaggam susamahitam
paccavekkhatha sankhare
parato no ca attato.

Establish the mind, set it up
in one-pointed stability;
look upon all formations
as alien and as not self.

193. Phenapindupamam rupam
vedana bubbulupama
maricikupama sañña
sankhara kadalupama
mayupamañca viññanam.

The body is like a ball of foam,
feelings are like bubbles,
perception is like a mirage,
mental constituents like a pithy tree,
and consciousness like a magic trick.

194. Sabbalokam abhiññaya
sabbaloke yathatatham
sabbalokavisamyutto
sabbaloke anupayo.

Knowing the world in full directly,
the whole world just as it is,
from the whole world he is freed;
he clings to naught in all the world.

195. Sabbe sabbabhibhu dhiro
sabbaganthappamocano
phutthassa parama santi
nibbanam akutobhayam.

This sage all-victorious
with all bonds loosened,
has reached perfect peace:
Nibbana that is void of fear.