309. Buddhasaññaka

In a dream I saw the Buddha,
the World’s Leader, Siddhattha,
like the rising hundred-rayed sun,
bright but cool like a rayless sun,
the World’s Best, the Bull among Men,
who’d gone into the forest then.
Bringing pleasure to my heart there,
I approached the Well-Gone Buddha.

In the ninety-four aeons since
I obtained that perception then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
the fruit of perceiving Buddhas.

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!

Thus indeed Venerable Buddhasaññaka Thera spoke these verses.