[Jatukannin:]

Hearing that there was a hero — desiring no sensuality, having crossed over the flood — I've come with a question: Tell me the state of peace, O One with quick eyes. O Blessed One, tell me as it actually is. For the Blessed One lives having surpassed sensuality, as the radiant sun, in its radiance, the earth. Limited my discernment, O One whose discernment's profound. Teach me to know the Dhamma, the abandoning here of birth & aging.

[The Buddha:]

Subdue greed for sensual pleasures, & see renunciation as rest. Let there be nothing grasped or rejected by you. Burn up what's before, and have nothing for after. If you don't grasp at what's in between, [1] you will go about, calm. One completely devoid of greed for name & form, brahman, has no effluents by which he would go under Mara's sway.