dn9:18.1 What do you think, Poṭṭhapāda?
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dn9:18.2 Have you ever heard of this before?”
dn9:18.3 “No, sir.
dn9:18.4 This is how I understand what the Buddha said:
dn9:18.5 ‘From the time a mendicant here takes charge of their own perception, they proceed from one stage to the next, progressively reaching the peak of perception.
dn9:18.6 Standing on the peak of perception they think,
dn9:18.7 “Intentionality is bad for me, it’s better to be free of it.
dn9:18.8 For if I were to intend and choose, these perceptions would cease in me, and other coarser perceptions would arise.
dn9:18.9 Why don’t I neither make a choice nor form an intention?”
dn9:18.10 Those perceptions cease in them, and other coarser perceptions don’t arise.
dn9:18.11 They touch cessation.
dn9:18.12 And that is how the progressive cessation of perception is attained with awareness.’”
dn9:18.13 “That’s right, Poṭṭhapāda.”