Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

The Five Methods 297yet are not different from the set of two.The five states of form, odour and the rest,rise not from tongue, and also not from taste;yet are not different from the set of two.The five states of form, odour and the rest,rise not from body; also not from touch;yet are not different from the set of two.These are not born of form material;these do not rise out of the sphere of thought;they rise depending on condition-causelike the sound when a drum is struck.The functions are themselves without strength;weak is the former cause; what has becomeis feeble, poor. Infirm is that which isto others bound. Co-states are also weak.There is no strength at all in union;and what rolls on is always impotent,for what rolls on has no abiding strength.It has no pith; it cannot cause to rise;-.•"-:..••• 'tiscorelessevenasatownofgods; 1none cause this to be;'tis not produced,. - -.. by self and does not by its strength remain.On other states, depending, does it rise,-.-.- and what it does produce is called corrupt.Weak is this body, it is not produced,by itself and is low. It is not 'cause'or 'object', by itself. It has no pithand is not free of states conditioned, but.is truly due to many complex-states.Short is its life, because it is most weak ;it goes not anywhere; from nowhere comes;and is not born in some land, distant, far.The mind is not a person, soul or self;at every point of thought it is bound up,with what is pleasing or with what is ill.It passes over mountain, sea and clime,sees eighty thousand aeons in a trice,lives only once and does not come again,does not to two thought-moments bind itself,and in it is all past and future lost.All that remains is merely aggregateand this is ever falling without endand so will also fall the state to be.1. Gandhabba nagara.