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Chapter 1: What does the Buddha teach about Nibbana?
At one time, the Blessed One was dwelling near Saviti, in Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's Monastery. At that time, he was instructing, urging, rousing and encouraging the monks with the Dharma talk concerned with Nibbana. The monks, receptive, attentive, focusing wholeheartedly, listened to the Dharma.
Understanding the significance of this, the Blessed One exclaimed, There is that sphere, monks, where there is no earth, no water, no fire, no air, no sphere of infinite space or infinite consciousness. no sphere of nothingness or sphere of neither perception nor non-perception no this world no world beyond neither sun nor moon their monks There is no coming. No going. No persisting.
No passing away. No rebirth.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of the unconditioned state?
Not fixed. It has no support. Unmoving. Without an object.
This, just this, is the end of suffering. Monks, it's hard to see what they call the uninclined, for the truth is not easy to see. but for one who has penetrated craving, who knows and sees. There is no impediment. The Blessed One exclaimed, There is monks and unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unconditioned.
Chapter 3: How can one attain equanimity according to the Buddha?
If this were not so, then escape from the born, the originated, the created and conditioned could not be discerned here. But since there is the unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unconditioned, then escape from the born, the originated, the created, unconditioned, is discerned.
Monks, for one who is dependent, there is agitation.
For one who is not dependent, there is no agitation. When there is no agitation, there is calm. When there is calm, there is no inclining. When there is no inclining, there is no coming or going. When there is no coming or going, there is no passing away and reappearing.
When there is no passing away and reappearing, there is no this world or world beyond, nor between the two.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of not clinging in Buddhist practice?
This, just this, is the end of suffering.
At one time the Buddha was teaching the wanderer Pukasati. After guiding him through a contemplation on the elements, when there remained only equanimity, purified and bright, the Buddha instructed him to understand thus.
If I were to direct this equanimity to the base of infinite space or the base of infinite consciousness or the base of nothingness or the base of neither perception nor non-perception and develop my mind accordingly this equanimity of mine supported by that base clinging to it, would remain for a very long time.
But this would be conditioned.
One does not form any condition or generate any volition tending towards either being or non-being. not forming any condition or generating any volition tending towards either being or non-being.
One does not cling to anything in this world. When one does not cling, one is not agitated.
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Chapter 5: What are the ten things the Tathagata is freed from?
When one is not agitated, One personally attains nibbana. One understands. Rebirth is ended. The spiritual journey has been completed. What had to be done has been done.
There is no more coming to any state of being.
Monks, just as the flaming glow of iron when struck by a blacksmith's hammer gradually dissipates, its destination unknown.
Chapter 6: How does the metaphor of the lotus relate to liberation?
In the same way, no destination can be described for those rightly released, who have crossed the flood of sensual bonds and attained unshakable bliss. While staying at Kampa, the Blessed One responded to the Venerable Bahuna's question thus. Freed, unentangled, and released from ten things, Bahuna, the Tathagata dwells with unrestricted awareness. Which ten?
freed, unentangled and released from form, from feeling, from perception, from mental formations, from sense consciousness, freed, unentangled and released from birth, from aging, from death, from stress and from defilement, the Tathagata dwells with unrestricted 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, unentangled, and released from these ten things, dwells with unrestricted awareness.
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