Sutta Nipata 5.10: Todeyyamanavapuccha

‘He in whom there live no lusts,’—so said the venerable Todeyya,—‘to whom there is no desire, and who has overcome doubt, what sort of deliverance is there for him?’

‘He in whom there live no lusts,—O Todeyya,’ so said Bhagavat,—‘to whom there is no desire, and who has overcome doubt, for him there is no other deliverance.’

Todeyya: ‘Is he without breathing or is he breathing, is he possessed of understanding or is he forming himself an understanding? Explain this to me, O thou all-seeing one, that I may know a Muni, O Sakka.’

Buddha: ‘He is without breathing, he is not breathing, he is possessed of understanding, and he is not forming himself an understanding; know, O Todeyya, that such is the Muni, not possessing anything, not cleaving to lust and existence.’