In the same way, when a mendicant’s mind is rightly freed like this, even if compelling sights come into the range of vision they don’t overcome their mind. … Their mind is quite untainted. It is steady, imperturbable, observing disappearance.

When you’re dedicated to renunciation

and seclusion of the heart;

when you’re dedicated to kindness

and the end of grasping;

when you’re dedicated to the ending of craving

and clarity of heart;

and you’ve seen the arising of the senses,

your mind is rightly freed.

For that one, rightly freed,

a mendicant with peaceful mind,

there’s nothing to be improved,

and nothing more to do.

As the wind cannot stir

a solid mass of rock,

so too sights, tastes, sounds,

smells, and touches—the lot—

and ideas, whether liked or disliked,

don’t disturb the unaffected one.

Their mind is steady and free

as they observe fall.”

Numbered Discourses 6.56 6. The Great Chapter With Phagguna