Nibbâna
A- Just like a Fire goes out
09/10/2010 19:48
Just as if a great mass of fire of ten... twenty... thirty or forty cartloads of firewood were burning, into which a man simply would not continuously throw dried grass, dried cow dung, or dried firewood, so that the great mass of fire — its original sustenance being consumed, and no other...
B- Inclining the Mind to the Deathless
08/10/2010 20:38
He regards whatever phenomena there that are connected with form, feeling, perception, formations and consciousness as impermanent, suffering, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, isappearing, empty, non-self.
He turns his mind away from those phenomena and,having done...
C- Disentchantement, Dispassion, Liberation
24/06/2010 16:11
The instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with form, disenchanted with feeling, disenchanted with perception, disenchanted with fabrications, disenchanted with consciousness. Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is fully liberated. With full ...
D- Consciousness: liberated
29/07/2010 17:15
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If a monk abandons lust for the property of form... for the property of feeling... for the property of perception... for the property of fabrications... for the property of consciousness, then owing to the abandoning of lust, the support is cut off, and consciousness is unestablished....
E- No Coming, no Going, no Staying
31/05/2010 15:08
There is that dimension where there is neither earth, nor water, nor fire, nor wind; neither dimension of the infinitude of space, nor dimension of the infinitude of consciousness, nor dimension of nothingness, nor dimension of neither perception nor non-perception; neither this world, nor...
F- Unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated
31/05/2010 15:20
There is, monks, an unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated. If there were not that unborn — unbecome — unmade — unfabricated, there would not be the case that escape from the born — become — made — fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn — unbecome — unmade — ...
G- Consciousness without Characteristic
01/10/2010 15:29
Consciousness without characteristic, without end, luminous all around: here water, earth, fire, and wind have no footing. Here long and short, gross and fine, fair and foul, name and form are completely brought to an end. With the cessation of consciousness, each is here brought to an end....