'Whatever phenomena arise from a cause: their cause & their cessation. Such is the teaching of the Tathāgata, the Great Contemplative.'
Tied by both the yoke of sensuality & the yoke of becoming, beings continue in transmigration, leading to birth & death. Those who have abandoned sensuality without reaching the ending of effluents, are tied by the yoke of becoming: are said to be non-returners. While those who have cut off uncertainty have no more conceit or further becoming. They who have reached the ending of effluents, while in the world, have gone beyond.
— Iti 96
Knowing the All from all around, not passionate for any aims at all: He, having comprehended the All, has gone beyond all stress.
— Iti 7
Where water, earth, fire and wind have no footing: There the stars do not shine, the sun is not visible,, the moon does not appear, darkness is not found. And when a brāhman, a sage through sagacity, has known [this] for himself, then from form & formless, from pleasure & pain, he is freed.
— Ud 2.10
Everywhere the sage independent holds nothing dear or undear. In him lamentation & selfishness like water on a white lotus do not adhere. As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, doesn't adhere, so the sage doesn't adhere in connection with the seen, the heard, or the sensed; for, cleansed, he doesn't construe by means of the seen, the heard, or the sensed. In no other way does he wish for purity, for he neither takes on passion nor puts it away.
— Sn 4.6
Washing my feet, I noticed the water. And in watching it flow from high to low, my heart was composed like a fine thoroughbred steed. Then taking a lamp, I entered the hut, checked the bedding, sat down on the bed. And taking a pin, I pulled out the wick: Like the flame's unbinding was the liberation of awareness.