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# Snp 5:5 · 5:5 Dhotaka’s Questions
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/snp-5-5/
- Published: 2026-06-01T00:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T16:58:31.000Z
- Description: Sutta Nipāta · Snp 5:5. Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
- Author: Ninth Heaven Literature & Arts Association (NHLAA)
- Tags: Buddhism, Sutta Piṭaka, Text, Indian, The Buddha, Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, Sutta Nipāta, Verse, Pali, Early Buddhist, Library, #Import 2026-07-06 03:29

I ask you, Blessed One.

Please tell me.

I hope for your words, Great Seer.

Having heard your pronouncement,

I’ll train for my own

unbinding.

The Buddha:

In that case,

be ardent—

astute & mindful right here.

Then, having heard my pronouncement,

train for your own

unbinding.

Dhotaka:

I see in the world of beings

divine & human,

a brahman who lives

possessing nothing.

I pay homage to him,

the All-around Eye.[1](https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/StNp/StNp5%5F5.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co)

From my perplexities, Sakyan, release me!

The Buddha:

No one in the world, Dhotaka,

can I release from perplexity.

But knowing the most excellent Dhamma,

*you* will cross over this flood.

Dhotaka:

Teach with compassion, brahman,

the Dhamma of seclusion

so that I may know—

so that I, unafflicted as space,

may go about right here,

independent,

at peace.

The Buddha:

I will expound to you peace

—here-&-now,

not quoted words—

knowing which, living mindfully,

you’ll go beyond

entanglement in the world.

Dhotaka:

And I relish, Great Seer,

that peace supreme,

knowing which, living mindfully,

I’ll go beyond

entanglement in the world.

The Buddha:

Whatever you’re alert to,

above, below,

across, in between:

Knowing it as a bond in the world,

don’t create craving

for becoming or non-.[2](https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/StNp/StNp5%5F5.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co)

vv. 1061–1068

Notes

1\. See [Sn 2:12, note 2](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/snp-2-12/).

2\. Craving for becoming and non-becoming are the two most subtle forms of craving that lead to continued existence—and suffering—in the round of birth and death. See [Sn 5:4, note 5](https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/civilisation/trad-buddhism/snp-5-4/).

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*Translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. © 2014 / rev. 2017 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu — released under the [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co) licence, for free distribution only. Source: [dhammatalks.org](https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/StNp/StNp5%5F5.html?ref=journal.ninthheaven.co) (Metta Forest Monastery).*