[Dhotaka:]

I ask you, O Blessed One.
Please tell me.
I hope for your words, Great Seer.
Having heard your pronouncement,
I'll train for my own
	Unbinding.

[The Buddha:]

In that case,
be ardent — 
astute & mindful right here.
Then, having heard my pronouncement,
train for your own
	Unbinding.

[Dhotaka:]

I see in the world of beings
	divine & human,
a brahman who lives
possessing		nothing.
	I pay homage to him
	the All-around Eye.
From my doubts, O Sakyan, release me!

[The Buddha:]

No one in the world, Dhotaka,
can I release from doubting.
But knowing the most excellent Dhamma,
you will cross over the flood.

[Dhotaka:]

Teach with compassion, O brahman,
the Dhamma of seclusion
so that I may know — 
so that I, unafflicted as space,
may live right here,
	independent,
	at peace.

[The Buddha:]

I will teach you peace
	— in the here & now,
	not quoted words — 
knowing which, living mindfully,
you'll go beyond
entanglement in the world.

[Dhotaka:]

And I relish, Great Seer,
that peace 		supreme,
knowing which, living mindfully,
I'll go beyond
entanglement in the world.

[The Buddha:]

Whatever you're alert to,
	above, below,
	across, in between:
knowing it as a bond in the world,
	don't create craving
	for becoming or non-.