Udāna — Exclamações — 3.5 — With Mahāmoggallāna

1So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time Venerable Mahāmoggallāna was sitting not far from the Buddha, cross-legged, with his body straight and mindfulness of the body well-established in himself. The Buddha saw him meditating there.

2Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

3“With mindfulness of the body established,
restrained in the six fields of contact,
a mendicant always immersed in samādhi
would know extinguishment in themselves.”