Sutta Nipata 5.12: Jatukannimanavapuccha

‘Having heard of a hero free from lust,’—so said the venerable Jatukanni,—‘who has crossed the stream, I have come to ask him who is free from lust; tell me the seat of peace, O thou with the born eye (of wisdom), tell me this truly, O Bhagavat.

‘For Bhagavat wanders about after having conquered lust as the hot sun (conquers) the earth by its heat; tell the Dhamma to me who has (only) little understanding, O thou of great understanding, that I may ascertain how to leave in this world birth and decay.’

‘Subdue thy greediness for sensual pleasures,—O Jatukanni,’ so said Bhagavat,—‘having considered the forsaking of the world as happiness, let there not be anything either grasped after or rejected by thee.

‘What is before thee, lay that aside; let there be nothing behind thee; if thou wilt not grasp after what is in the middle, thou wilt wander calm.

‘For him whose greediness for name and form is wholly gone, O Brahmana, for him there are no passions by which he might fall into the power of death.’