5/10/2023 0 Comments Buddhism symbol wheel of life![]() In meditative concentration throughout one night, but after years of striving, from being a seeker, He became "the One-who-Knows, the One-who-Sees." ![]() He penetrated to the Truth underlying all existence. His Enlightenment or Awakening, called Sambodhi, abolished in himself unknowing and craving, destroyed greed, aversion and delusion in his heart, so that "vision arose, super-knowledge arose, wisdom arose, discovery arose, light arose - a total penetration into the mind and body, its origin, its cessation and the way to its cessation which was at the same time complete understanding of the "world," its origin, its cessation and the way to its cessation. Upon the Full Moon of the month of Visakha, now more than two thousand five hundred years ago, the religious wanderer known as Gotama, formerly Prince Siddhattha and heir to the throne of the Sakiyan peoples, by his full insight into the Truth called Dhamma which is this mind and body, became the One Perfectly Enlightened by himself. Translated from the Royal Chanting Book (Suan Mon Chabub Luang) compiled by H.H., the 9th Sangharaja of Siam, Sa Pussadevo, and printed at Mahamakut Press, Bangkok). Unsupported, unmoving, devoid of object - that indeed is the end of dukkha.Īnd this dhamma is profound, hard to see, hard to awaken to, peaceful, excellent, beyond logic, subtle and to be experienced by the wise. That I say, O bhikkhus, is indeed neither coming nor going nor staying, nor passing-away and not arising. O Bhikkhus, there is that sphere where is neither earth nor water nor fire nor air, nor the sphere of infinite space nor the sphere of infinite consciousness, nor the sphere of no-thingness, nor the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception not this world, nor another world, neither the moon nor the sun. Peace it is and Excellence it is, that is to say - the stilling of all conditions, the rejection of all substrates (for rebirth), the destruction of craving, passionlessness, cessation, Nibbana. Non-comprehension in dukkha, noncomprehension in dukkha's arising, non-comprehension in dukkha's cessation, non-comprehension in the practice-path leading to dukkha's cessation, non-comprehension in the past, non-comprehension in the future, non-comprehension in past and future, non-comprehension in Dependent Arising.Ĭomprehension in dukkha, comprehension in dukkha's arising, comprehension in dukkha's cessation, comprehension in the practice-path leading to dukkha's cessation, comprehension in the past, comprehension in the future, comprehension in past and future, comprehension in Dependent Arising. ![]() Two knowable dhammas should be thoroughly known - mind and body two knowable dhammas should be relinquished - unknowing and craving for existence two knowable dhammas should be realized - wisdom and freedom two knowable dhammas should be developed - calm and insight. This indeed has been said by the exalted one:
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