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he offered his own home and courtyard to the Blessed One for his use and said, “Blessed One, please always come and stay in this place out of love for me! By doing so, you will assist and bring happiness to many beings, you will show your love for the world, you will benefit a huge number of beings, and you will bring benefit and happiness to the kinnaras, the gandharvas, and the mahoragas.”

Then, the son of the kinnara king Druma called Vimalanetra offered a net of precious gems to the Blessed One and made this request: “Blessed One, although we, the kinnaras, are on the path to unsurpassed and perfect awakening, we remain strongly attached to our music and the tunes of our instruments, as well as to song and dance, and we carelessly enjoy and frolic with flowers, perfumes, incense, ointments, and powders. Blessed One, please grant us the instruction on the gateway of the seal of the precious Dharma, so that we may develop carefulness and accomplish the factors of awakening!”

The Blessed One replied to the kinnara prince Vimalanetra, “Good man, I will bless you so that, from now on, sixty-four factors that will ripen you for awakening will manifest from the tunes of your instruments and your songs. What are those sixty-four? They are (1) the sound of impermanence, (2) the sound of suffering, (3) the sound of selflessness, (4) the sound of peace, (5) the sound of the absence of formation, (6) the sound of detachment, (7) the sound of the absence of arising, (8) the sound of insubstantiality, (9) the sound of the absence of origination, (10) the sound of the absence of abiding, (11) the sound of reality, (12) the sound of the limit of reality, (13) the sound of the realm of phenomena,