I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying in Campa, on the shore of Gaggara Lake. Then Ven. Bahuna went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: "Lord, freed, dissociated, & released from how many things does the Tathagata dwell with limitless awareness?"
"Freed, dissociated, & released from ten things, Bahuna, the Tathagata dwells with limitless awareness. Which ten? Freed, dissociated, & released from form, the Tathagata dwells with limitless awareness. Freed, dissociated, & released from feeling... Freed, dissociated, & released from perception... Freed, dissociated, & released from fabrications... Freed, dissociated, & released from consciousness... Freed, dissociated, & released from birth... Freed, dissociated, & released from aging... Freed, dissociated, & released from death... Freed, dissociated, & released from stress... Freed, dissociated, & released from defilement, the Tathagata dwells with limitless awareness.
"Just as a red, blue, or white lotus born in the water and growing in the water, rises up above the water and stands with no water adhering to it, in the same way the Tathagata — freed, dissociated, & released from these ten things — dwells with limitless awareness."
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The Buddha here explicitly draws equivalence with this limitless awareness as being the cessation of suffering, cessation of defilements, and cessation of consciousness or cognizance, and cessation of death.
This adds to the significant suttas and verses in the canon that do not draw equivalence with the consciousness aggregate and the mind base of the six sense bases, with the liberated awareness released;
that a much more nuanced approach is needed to understanding how the Buddha uses these terms in the Canon and his equating the goal with liberation of awareness.