So It Was Said 73

The Book of the Threes

Chapter Three

More Peaceful

iti73:1 This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

iti73:2 “Mendicants, formless states are more peaceful than states of form; cessation is more peaceful than formless states.” The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:

iti73:3 “There are beings in the realm of luminous form, and others stuck in the formless. Not understanding cessation, they come to the Hereafter unprepared.

iti73:4 But the people who completely understand form, not stuck in the formless, released in cessation— they are conquerors of death.

iti73:5 Having directly experienced <j>the element free of death, free of attachments; having realized relinquishment of attachments, the undefiled fully awakened Buddha teaches the sorrowless, stainless state.”

iti73:6 This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.