'self-confidence' of a Buddha is fourfold.
He is confident:
- 1. to have attained to a perfect Enlightenment of which it cannot be said
that it omits anything essential to it;
- 2. to have destroyed all cankers
(āsava), leaving none that can be said to be undestroyed by him;
- 3. that what were declared by him as obstacles to liberation are undeniably
such;
- 4. that his teaching fulfils its purpose of actually leading to final
liberation from suffering.
See A.IV.8; VII.58; M.12.
