“Speak little or much, But do tell me the meaning. I just want the meaning, For what’s the point of a detailed exposition?”

And Assaji gave this teaching to the wanderer Sāriputta: “Of causally arisen things, The Buddha has declared their cause, As well as their ending. This is the teaching of the Great Ascetic.” When he had heard this teaching, Sāriputta experienced the stainless vision of the Truth: “Anything that has a beginning has an end.” “Now this is the truth, even just this much—The sorrowless state that you have penetrated, Unseen and neglected For innumerable eons.”