The venerable Udaya approaches the Buddha with questions about liberation through final knowledge, the fettering of the world, and how to live mindfully for consciousness to cease.

The venerable Posāla asks the Buddha how to guide a meditator who has transcended all perception of form and is established in the sphere of Nothingness.

By what is the world held bound? What is its means of locomotion? By the abandoning of what, is every bond cut?

Likening consciousness to a sunbeam entering through a window and becoming established on a wall or on the ground, the Buddha reveals how a future renewed existence comes to be through lust, delight, and craving.

The Buddha shares verses on the great heroes who wander freely, taintless, boldly roaring their lion’s roar.