Sutta Nipata V.15

Mogharaja-manava-puccha

Mogharaja's Question

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Mogharaja:

Twice now, O Sakyan,
   I've asked you,
but you, One with vision,
   haven't answered me.
When asked the third time
the celestial seer answers:
   so I have heard.
This world, the next world,
the Brahma world with its devas:
   I don't know how they're viewed
   by the glorious Gotama.
So to the one who has seen
to the far extreme,
I've come with a question:
   How does one view the world
   so as not to be seen
       by Death's king?

The Buddha:

View the world, Mogharaja,
       as void --
always mindful
to have removed any view
       about self.

This way one is above & beyond death.
   This is how one views the world
   so as not to be seen
       by Death's king.


Note

On viewing the world as void, see S.XXXV.85.