Note 10 — THE DIAMOND SUTRA

“The man for whom there is nothing upon which he depends, who is independent, having understood the Dhamma (Law), for whom there is no desire for coming into existence or having existence—him I call calm.... He has overcome desire.”—Dhammapada. Max Müller.

“This devotion should be practised with that determination by which thought becomes indifferent (to every worldly object). He who has abandoned all desires which spring from imagination, and has, by means of his heart, kept back the whole collection of the senses from every direction (in which they would go), should gradually become passive by his mind’s acquiring firmness, and, by having caused his heart to remain within himself, should not place his thoughts on anything at all.”—Bhagavad-Gita.—J. Cockburn Thomson.