The Word of the Buddha The Silent Thinker

¶ 49“‘I am,’ is a conception. ‘I am this’ is a conception. ‘I will be’ is a conception. ‘I will not be’ is a conception. ‘I will be with form’ is a conception. ‘I will be formless’ is a conception. ‘I will be percipient’ is a conception. ‘I will be non-percipient’ is a conception. ‘I will be neither percipient nor non-percipient’ is a conception. Conception is a disease, conception is a boil, conception is a dart. By overcoming all conceptions, he is called a sage at peace. Indeed, a sage at peace does not get born, does not age, does not die, does not get agitated, does not yearn. For him, there is nothing by which he might be born; not being born, how could he age? Not aging, how could he die? Not dying, how could he get agitated? Not getting agitated, for what could he yearn?