Thag 1:14 · Vanavaccha’s pupil
My preceptor said to me:
Let’s go from here, Sīvaka.
My body stays in the village;
my mind has gone to the wilds.
Even though lying down,
I go.
There’s no tying down
one who knows.
Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. © 2014 / rev. 2017 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu — released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 licence, for free distribution only. Source: dhammatalks.org (Metta Forest Monastery).
