“Mendicants, it is not appropriate for you gentlemen who have gone forth out of faith from the lay life to homelessness to talk about such things. When you’re sitting together you should do one of two things: discuss the teachings or keep noble silence.”

Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

“Living without a craft, light, wanting what is best, with senses controlled, everywhere free; a migrant with no bastion, unselfish, <j>with no need for hope, having given up conceit, wandering alone: <j>that is a mendicant.”

Heartfelt Sayings 3.10 The World

So I have heard. At one time, when he was first awakened, the Buddha was staying in Uruvelā at the root of the tree of awakening on the bank of the Nerañjarā River. There the Buddha sat cross-legged for seven days without moving, experiencing the bliss of freedom.

When seven days had passed, the Buddha emerged from that state of immersion and surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha. He saw sentient beings tormented with many torments, and burning with many fevers born of greed, hate, and delusion.

Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:

“This world, born in torment, overcome by contact, speaks of disease as the self. For however you imagine it, it turns out to be something else.