<p>There's <a href="https://suttacentral.net/an10.219/en/sujato?layout=linebyline&amp;reference=none&amp;notes=asterisk&amp;highlight=false&amp;script=latin" rel="noreferrer">a different translation</a> of this sutta available on SuttaCentral.</p>
<p>There you can enable a line by line Pali transliteration and find the word used in the original text.</p>
<p>That word is 'cetovimutti', a synonym of Enlightenment or Liberation that's usually translated as liberation of heart or release of awareness or deliverance of mind etc. Here 'ceto' is 'citta', the mind-heart-consciousness, and 'vimutti' is 'vimukti' - liberation, independence, emancipation etc.</p>
<p>This refers to the culmination of the Buddhist path that follows the ending of defilements (greed, aversion, delusion) and transcendence of any and all conceptual ground.</p>

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<p>In &quot;<a href="https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN10_196.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Sublime Attitudes</a>&quot; the word &quot;release&quot; appears multiple times.</p>
<p>What is meant by &quot;awareness-release&quot;?<br />
What is meant by &quot;release of awareness&quot;?<br />
Do both have the same meaning?</p>
<p>Do they mean escape? As in, from becoming aware, I am released (from something).<br />
Do they mean potential attention (awareness), become manifest?<br />
Both, neither?</p>
<p>Twice in the sutta the translator uses the phrase &quot;no higher <em>release</em>&quot; (without the word <em>awareness</em>). Is this significant?</p>
<p>Help!<br />
:-)</p>

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What is meant by awareness-release, ...?
# What is meant by awareness-release, ...?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-12-15)

In "[The Sublime Attitudes](https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN10_196.html)" the word "release" appears multiple times.

What is meant by "awareness-release"?  
What is meant by "release of awareness"?  
Do both have the same meaning?

Do they mean escape? As in, from becoming aware, I am released (from something).  
Do they mean potential attention (awareness), become manifest?  
Both, neither?

Twice in the sutta the translator uses the phrase "no higher *release*" (without the word *awareness*). Is this significant?

Help!  
:-)

**Tags:** theravada, brahmavihara, awareness


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### Answer by username_1 on 2022-12-16. Score: 4

There's [a different translation](https://suttacentral.net/an10.219/en/sujato?layout=linebyline&reference=none¬es=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin) of this sutta available on SuttaCentral.

There you can enable a line by line Pali transliteration and find the word used in the original text.

That word is 'cetovimutti', a synonym of Enlightenment or Liberation that's usually translated as liberation of heart or release of awareness or deliverance of mind etc. Here 'ceto' is 'citta', the mind-heart-consciousness, and 'vimutti' is 'vimukti' - liberation, independence, emancipation etc.

This refers to the culmination of the Buddhist path that follows the ending of defilements (greed, aversion, delusion) and transcendence of any and all conceptual ground.


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