Gautama Dhamma

Anekajāti saṃsāraṃ, sandhāvissaṃ anibbisaṃ;
Gahakāraṃ gavesanto: dukkhā jāti punappunaṃ.
Gahakāraka diṭṭho’si, puna gehaṃ na kāhasi;
Sabbā te phāsukā bhaggā, gahakūṭaṃ visaṅkhataṃ;
Visaṅkhāragataṃ cittaṃ, taṇhānaṃ khayam ajjhagā.

Through many births in saṃsāra I wandered,
not finding the house-builder.
Painful is birth again and again.

O house-builder, you are seen!
You will not build this house again.
All your rafters are broken,
your roof-ridge is destroyed.
The mind (citta), having reached the Unconditioned,
The mind (citta), has attained the destruction of craving.
(Dhammapada Verses 153-154)

轮回无数次，
漂泊无止境；
不见造屋者，
轮回皆是苦。

造屋者，我已见你！
你将无法再造屋；
你所有的椽子都已折断，
屋脊已摧毁。
心已经离行，
已止息渴爱。

For countless lifetimes, the mind (citta) has wandered through saṃsāra, unknowingly trapped in the cycle of birth and death. Searching for the house-builder—the force constructing each new body (geham)—it has suffered again and again. At last, the house-builder (gahakāraka), the mind itself, is seen and understood. With this realization, the conditioned cycle is broken—the framework of craving and attachment that sustained rebirth is dismantled. The foundation of existence is shattered. Purified and freed from all conditioning (visaṅkhāra), the mind no longer constructs another body. With craving uprooted, it enters the Unconditioned and attains ultimate liberation, never to reenter the world of birth and death.