Iti 72Elements of Escape
Pāli / Sanskrit:Nissaraṇiyasutta
Three properties for escape: from sensuality, from form, and from whatever is fabricated and dependently co-arisen.
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– So It Was Said 72
The Book of the Threes Chapter Three Elements of Escape
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, there are these three elements of escape. What three? Renunciation is the escape from sensual pleasures. Formlessness is the escape from form. Cessation is the escape from whatever is created, conditioned, and dependently originated. These are the three elements of escape.”
The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.
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