According to the Hatthaka
Sutta, the Buddha was staying in a forest near Alavi, on a spread of leaves.
Hatthaka, while walking around for exercise, saw him, prostrated and expressed
his wish that the Buddha had slept in ease, to which he replied, 'I have slept
in ease. Of those in the world who sleep in ease, I am one.' Hatthaka remarked
however, that the winter night was cold, the ground hard, with the leaves and his
robes being thin.
The
Buddha asked if he thinks a householder('s son) with the following will sleep
in ease... in a well-sheltered house, with luxurious bedding and many charming
wives. Hatthaka replied that he would. The Buddha then asked if the same
person might have fevers of body and mind born of passion (i.e.
attachment), aversion and delusion (i.e. the Three Poisons), such that he
sleeps miserably. Hatthaka agreed that it is possible. (As such, ease of body
arises from peace of mind.)
The
Buddha replied that as the roots of these poisons had been abandoned by him,
like a stump without conditions for further growth, he always sleeps [and
wakes] in ease. He is totally unbound (i.e. liberated), neither craving for, nor
clinging to sense pleasures, having subdued fear, and is with peaceful
awareness. (Such
is the blissful rest of the morally upright, spiritually pure, free and
awakened, which is absent for those with the opposite qualities.)
Source : Thedailyenlightement.com (posted by Shen Shi'an)
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