If they see an advantage for themselves in what’s seen, heard, or thought; <j>or in precepts or vows, in that case, having adopted that one alone, they see all others as inferior.

Those who are skilled say that, too, is a knot, relying on which people see others as lesser. That’s why a mendicant ought not rely on what’s seen, heard, or thought, <j>or on precepts and vows.

Nor would they form a view about the world through a notion or through precepts and vows. They would never represent themselves as “equal”, nor conceive themselves “worse” or “better”.

What was picked up has been set down <j>and is not grasped again; they form no dependency even on notions. They follow no side among the factions, and believe in no view at all.

One here who has no wish for either end—for any state of existence in this life or the next—has adopted no dogma at all after judging among the teachings.