Selected Lectures on the Saṃyuktāgama

Original text: 如是我聞。一時。佛住舍衛國祇樹給孤獨園。尔時。世尊告諸比丘。若比丘若行。若形若相。離欲惡不善法。有覺有觀。離生喜樂。初禪具足住。彼不憶念如是行。如是形如是相。然於彼色受想行識法。作如病如癰。如刺如殺。無常苦空非我思惟。於彼法生厭。怖畏防護。生厭怖畏防護已。以甘露門而自饒益。如是寂靜。如是勝妙。所謂捨離。餘愛盡無欲。滅盡涅槃。

Explanation: If a bhikṣu, in all his bodily, verbal, and mental actions while walking, standing, sitting, and lying down, and in all forms and marks, has departed from greed, desire, and evil unwholesome dharmas, and within his mind there is both initial application and sustained examination (vitarka-vicāra), with joy and bliss born of separation from the desire-realm dharmas, dwelling fully in the attainment of the first dhyāna — such a bhikṣu no longer recollects within his mind his own actions, forms, and marks of walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. Instead, he regards his five aggregates of form, feeling, perception, volitional formations, and consciousness as an illness that should not exist, as an abscess, as a poisonous thorn, as a killer and robber, seeing them as impermanent, suffering, empty, and not-self, and toward the five aggregates he gives rise to a mind of disenchantment, a mind of fear and dread, and a mind of protective vigilance.

After giving rise to disenchantment, fear and dread, and protective vigilance, he uses the tranquil and supremely wondrous nectar of the Buddha's Dharma to benefit himself, abandoning greed and desire, completely severing the final craving for the dharmas of the three realms, with no desires remaining of any kind, extinguishing all mental activities, and attaining nirvāṇa.