snp.5.15 Suttanipata

“To the one who points out the past,” said venerable Posāla,
“the unmoved one, who has cut off doubt,
who is perfect in everything, I have come in need with a question:

“For the one in whom perception of form has ended,
who, on the inside and outside is seeing ‘there is nothing whatsoever’,
I ask about his knowledge, Sakyan, how is such a one led further?”

“All the stations of consciousness, Posāla,” said the Gracious One,
“the Realised One knows,
he knows where that one stands, what he is intent on, what he is going towards.

“Having known the origin of nothingness, and that enjoyment is called a fetter,
knowing deeply that it is so, and then having insight into this:
this is real knowedge for him, for the brahmin who is accomplished.”

The Young Man Posāla’s Questions are Finished

Posāla
To One illuming the past,
the undisturbed who’s cut off doubt,
Gone across the dharmas all,
with this question have I come:

In whom are no perceptions of form,
abandoned it in bodies all,
who sees within, without “there’s nought”,
of such a one, what knowledge known
how will such a one be led?

Buddha
The Tathāgata knows thoroughly
all supports of consciousness:
knows this one as stuck,
that one freed, or bound for the beyond.

Having known the existence of no-thingness
together with its bond of indulgence,
then investigating this and seeing that,
just this is the knowledge of a brahmin perfected.