Ekottaragama (Sanskrit fragments) 12.1.24

12.1.24

「復次，比丘！捨苦樂心，無復憂喜，無苦無樂，護念清淨，樂於四禪。如是，比丘法法相觀意止。彼行習法，行盡法，并行習盡之法而自娛樂，便得法意止而現在前。可知可見，除去亂想，無所依猗，不起世間想；已不起想，便無畏怖；已無畏怖，生死便盡；梵行已立，所作已辦，更不復受有，如實知之。諸比丘！依一入道眾生得清淨，遠愁憂，無復喜想，便逮智慧，得涅槃證。所謂滅五蓋，修四意止也。」

“Furthermore, a monk is detached from pleasant and painful thoughts. No longer saddened or joyous, he has no pleasure or pain. Being detached, mindful, and pure, he abides in the fourth dhyāna. Thus, a monk contemplates principles as principles as an abode of mindfulness.

“He contemplates [principles] as subject to arising and contemplates them as subject to ending. Again, he contemplates them as subject to both arising and ending. He then attains the mindfulness abode of principles, and he can know and see them right in front of him. He turns away from confused notions, depends on nothing, and doesn’t produce notions about the world. Not producing such notions, he isn’t alarmed. Not being alarmed, [he then knows]: ‘Birth has been ended, the religious practice has been established, and the task has been accomplished. I truly know that I’m no longer subject to existence.’

“Monks, sentient beings become purified, distance themselves from grief, and no longer delight in notions by relying on this single-entry path. They then gain wisdom and attain nirvāṇa. That is, they cease the five hindrances and cultivate the four abodes of mindfulness.”