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+ | ====== A Verb for Nirvana ====== | ||
+ | <span hide>A Verb for Nirvana</ | ||
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+ | Summary: | ||
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+ | Back in the days of the Buddha, nirvana // | ||
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+ | Now that nirvana has become an English word, it should have its own English verb to convey the sense of "being unbound" | ||
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+ | This may seem like a word-chopper' | ||
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+ | However, these philosophers misunderstood two important points about the Buddha' | ||
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+ | The second point is that nirvana, from the very beginning, was realized through unestablished consciousness — one that doesn' | ||
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+ | The idea of a religious ideal as lying beyond space and definition is not exclusive to the Buddha' | ||
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+ | Just as all phenomena are rooted in desire, consciousness localizes itself through passion. Passion is what creates the " | ||
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+ | If, however, the passion can be removed, there' | ||
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+ | This is why the consciousness of nirvana is said to be " | ||
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+ | The essential step toward this non-localized, | ||
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+ | With no here or there or between the two, you obviously can't use the verb " | ||
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+ | ===== Related Readings ===== | ||
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+ | <div excerpt>" | ||
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+ | Then Ven. Radha 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: "' | ||
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+ | "Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for form, Radha: when one is caught up //(satta)// there, tied up // | ||
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+ | "Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for feeling... perception... fabrications... consciousness, | ||
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+ | "If one stays obsessed with form, that's what one is measured (limited) by. Whatever one is measured by, that's how one is classified. | ||
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+ | "If one stays obsessed with feeling... | ||
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+ | "If one stays obsessed with perception... | ||
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+ | "If one stays obsessed with fabrications... | ||
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+ | "If one stays obsessed with consciousness, | ||
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+ | "But if one doesn' | ||
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+ | "If one doesn' | ||
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+ | "If one doesn' | ||
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+ | "If one doesn' | ||
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+ | "If one doesn' | ||
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+ | "If one stays obsessed with form, that's what one is measured (limited) by. | ||
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+ | "One attached is unreleased; one unattached is released. Should consciousness, | ||
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+ | [Similarly with feeling, perception, and fabrications.] | ||
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+ | "If a monk abandons passion for the property of form... feeling... perception... fabrications... consciousness, | ||
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+ | {{ : | ||
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+ | "What one intends, what one arranges, and what one obsesses about: This is a support for the stationing of consciousness. There being a support, there is a landing of consciousness. When that consciousness lands and grows, there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. When there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, | ||
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+ | "If one doesn' | ||
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+ | "But when one doesn' | ||
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+ | "There are these four nutriments for the maintenance of beings who have come into being or for the support of those in search of a place to be born. Which four? Physical food, gross or refined; contact as the second, intellectual intention the third, and consciousness the fourth. These are the four nutriments for the maintenance of beings who have come into being or for the support of those in search of a place to be born. | ||
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+ | "Where there is passion, delight, & craving for the nutriment of physical food, consciousness lands there and grows. Where consciousness lands and grows, name-& | ||
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+ | [Similarly with the nutriment of contact, intellectual intention, and consciousness.] | ||
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+ | "Just as — when there is dye, lac, yellow orpiment, indigo, or crimson — a dyer or painter would paint the picture of a woman or a man, complete in all its parts, on a well-polished panel or wall, or on a piece of cloth; in the same way, where there is passion, delight, & craving for the nutriment of physical food... contact... intellectual intention... consciousness, | ||
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+ | "Where there is no passion for the nutriment of physical food, where there is no delight, no craving, then consciousness does not land there or grow. Where consciousness does not land or grow, name-& | ||
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+ | [Similarly with the nutriment of contact, intellectual intention, and consciousness.] | ||
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+ | "Just as if there were a roofed house or a roofed hall having windows on the north, the south, or the east. When the sun rises, and a ray has entered by way of the window, where does it land?" | ||
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+ | "On the western wall, lord." | ||
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+ | "And if there is no western wall, where does it land?" | ||
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+ | "On the ground, lord." | ||
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+ | "And if there is no ground, where does it land?" | ||
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+ | "On the water, lord." | ||
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+ | "And if there is no water, where does it land?" | ||
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+ | "It does not land, lord." | ||
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+ | "In the same way, where there is no passion for the nutriment of physical food... contact... intellectual intention... consciousness, | ||
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+ | {{ : | ||
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+ | "One neither fabricates nor mentally fashions for the sake of becoming or un-becoming. This being the case, one is not sustained by anything in the world (doesn' | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | Nandaka: "Just as if a skilled butcher or butcher' | ||
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+ | "No, venerable sir. Why is that? Because if the skilled butcher or butcher' | ||
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+ | "This simile, sisters, I have given to convey a message. The message is this: The substance of the inner flesh stands for the six internal media; the substance of the outer hide, for the six external media. The skin muscles, connective tissues, & attachments in between stand for passion & delight. And the sharp knife stands for noble discernment — the noble discernment that cuts, severs, & detaches the defilements, | ||
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+ | <div freeverse> | ||
+ | Gone to the beyond of becoming, | ||
+ | you let go of //in front,// | ||
+ | let go of //behind,// | ||
+ | let go of // | ||
+ | With a heart everywhere let-go, | ||
+ | you don't come again to birth | ||
+ | & aging. | ||
+ | ]! | ||
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+ | </ | ||
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+ | Then the Blessed One went with a large number of monks to the Black Rock on the slope of Isigili. From afar he saw Ven. Vakkali lying dead on a couch. Now at that time a smokiness, a darkness was moving to the east, moved to the west, moved to the north, the south, above, below, moved to the intermediate directions. The Blessed One said, " | ||
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+ | "Yes, Lord." | ||
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+ | "That is Mara, the Evil One. He is searching for the consciousness of Vakkali the clansman: "Where is the consciousness of Vakkali the clansman established?" | ||
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+ | <div verse> | ||
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+ | Does he not exist, | ||
+ | or is he for eternity free from dis-ease? | ||
+ | Please, sage, declare this to me | ||
+ | as this phenomenon // | ||
+ | <span spkr>The Buddha:</ | ||
+ | by which anyone would say that — | ||
+ | for him it doesn' | ||
+ | When all phenomena // | ||
+ | are done away with, | ||
+ | all means of speaking | ||
+ | are done away with as well.]! | ||
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+ | {{ : | ||
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+ | "What do you think, Anuradha: Do you regard form as the Tathagata?" | ||
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+ | "No, lord." | ||
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+ | "Do you regard feeling as the Tathagata?" | ||
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+ | "No, lord." | ||
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+ | "Do you regard perception as the Tathagata?" | ||
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+ | "No, lord." | ||
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+ | "Do you regard fabrications as the Tathagata?" | ||
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+ | "No, lord." | ||
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+ | "Do you regard consciousness as the Tathagata?" | ||
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+ | "No, lord." | ||
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+ | "What do you think, Anuradha: Do you regard the Tathagata as being in form?... Elsewhere than form?... In feeling?... Elsewhere than feeling?... In perception? | ||
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+ | "No, lord." | ||
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+ | "What do you think, Anuradha: Do you regard the Tathagata as form-feeling-perception-fabrications-consciousness?" | ||
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+ | "No, lord." | ||
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+ | "Do you regard the Tathagata as that which is without form, without feeling, without perception, without fabrications, | ||
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+ | "No, lord." | ||
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+ | "And so, Anuradha — when you can't pin down the Tathagata as a truth or reality even in the present life — is it proper for you to declare, ' | ||
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+ | "No, lord." | ||
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+ | "Very good, Anuradha. Very good. Both formerly & now, it is only stress that I describe, and the cessation of stress." | ||
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+ | "But, Master Gotama, the monk whose mind is thus released: Where does he reappear?" | ||
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+ | "' | ||
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+ | "In that case, Master Gotama, he does not reappear." | ||
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+ | "How is it, Master Gotama, when Master Gotama is asked if the monk reappears... does not reappear... both does & does not reappear... neither does nor does not reappear, he says, '... doesn' | ||
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+ | "Of course you're befuddled, Vaccha. Of course you're confused. Deep, Vaccha, is this phenomenon, hard to see, hard to realize, tranquil, refined, beyond the scope of conjecture, subtle, to-be-experienced by the wise. For those with other views, other practices, other satisfactions, | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | "And suppose someone were to ask you, Vaccha, 'This fire burning in front of you, dependent on what is it burning?' | ||
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+ | "...I would reply, 'This fire burning in front of me is burning dependent on grass & timber as its sustenance.'" | ||
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+ | "If the fire burning in front of you were to go out, would you know that, 'This fire burning in front of me has gone out'?" | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | "And suppose someone were to ask you, 'This fire that has gone out in front of you, in which direction from here has it gone? East? West? North? Or south?' | ||
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+ | "That doesn' | ||
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+ | "Even so, Vaccha, any physical form by which one describing the Tathagata would describe him: That the Tathagata has abandoned, its root destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, | ||
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+ | "Any feeling... Any perception... Any mental fabrication... | ||
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+ | "Any consciousness by which one describing the Tathagata would describe him: That the Tathagata has abandoned, its root destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of development, | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | <div freeverse> | ||
+ | Consciousness without surface, | ||
+ | | ||
+ | luminous all around: | ||
+ | Here water, earth, fire, & wind | ||
+ | have no footing. | ||
+ | Here long & short | ||
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+ | fair & foul | ||
+ | name & form | ||
+ | are all brought to an end. | ||
+ | With the cessation of [the aggregate of] consciousness | ||
+ | each is here brought to an end. | ||
+ | ]! | ||
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+ | </ | ||
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+ | <div freeverse> | ||
+ | Not hoarding, | ||
+ | having comprehended food, | ||
+ | their pasture — emptiness | ||
+ | & freedom without sign: | ||
+ | their trail, | ||
+ | like that of birds through space, | ||
+ | can't be traced. | ||
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+ | Effluents ended, | ||
+ | independent of nutriment, | ||
+ | their pasture — emptiness | ||
+ | & freedom without sign: | ||
+ | their trail, | ||
+ | like that of birds through space, | ||
+ | can't be traced. | ||
+ | ]! | ||
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