Nikaya

Where Suffering Subsides

Verses of the Senior Monks 2.49

The Book of the Twos

Chapter Five

Sandhita

Beneath the Bodhi Tree,

bright green and growing,

being mindful, my perception

became one with the Buddha.

It’s been thirty one eons

since I gained that perception;

and it’s due to that perception

that I’ve attained the ending of defilements.