How, friends, is there
non-agitation through detached non-clinging? Regarding this, friends,
the educated normal person, who is a friend of a Noble One & who is
clever & well trained in his Dhamma, or who is a friend of a Great Man
& is clever and well trained in his Dhamma avoids regarding form as
self, he avoids regarding self as having form, he avoids regarding
form as inside a self, or the self as inside a form !!! Then
inevitably his body form changes & decays. When this change and decay
of his material form occurs, his mind does not become occupied with
this change of just a form! Therefore do no agitated mental states,
born of worry over this changed body form, remain obsessing his
mind...
Because his mind is not
obsessed, he is not frightened, nor distressed,
nor anxious, & by this detached non-clinging, his agitation is all stilled
!!! He does not regard feeling as self ... perception as self ...
constructions as self ... consciousness as self, nor the self as
possessing consciousness, nor consciousness as being inside the
'self', nor a 'self' as being 'inside' consciousness ... When his
consciousness momentarily changes & alters, his mind does not
become engaged with this fast change of consciousness! Therefore do no
agitated mental states born of concern over this changed consciousness
remain obsessing his mind! Because his mind is not obsessed, he is not
upset, nor troubled, nor uneasy, & by this aloof non-clinging his
prior agitations are all calmed & stilled! It is exactly in this way,
friends,
that there is non-agitation through non-clinging...