Sutta Nipāta — Antologia de Discursos — 4.4 — Eight on the Pure

1“I see someone pure, perfectly healthy;
it is vision that grants a person purity.”
Recalling this notion of the ultimate,
they believe in the notion <j>that there is one who observes purity.

2If a person were granted purity through what is seen,
or if by a notion they could give up suffering,
then one with attachments is purified by another:
their view betrays them as one who asserts thus.

3The brahmin speaks not of purity from another
in terms of what has been seen, heard, or thought; <j>or by precepts or vows.
They are unsullied in the midst of good and evil,
letting go what was picked up, <j>without creating anything new here.

4Having let go the last they lay hold of the next;
following impulse, they don’t pass the chain.
They grab on and let loose like a monkey
grabbing and releasing a branch.

5Having undertaken their own vows, a personage
visits various teachers, <j>being attached to perception.
One who knows, having comprehended the truth <j>through the knowledges,
does not visit various teachers, being of vast wisdom.

6They are remote from all things
seen, heard, or thought.
Seeing them living openly,
how could anyone in this world judge them?

7They don’t make things up or promote them,
or speak of the uttermost purity.
After untying the tight knot of grasping
they long for nothing in the world.

8The brahmin has stepped over the perimeter;
knowing and seeing, they adopt nothing.
Neither in love with passion <j>nor besotted by dispassion,
there is nothing here they adopt as the ultimate.