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286 33. NIBBÁNA “Good day, Mr. Turtle!” said the fish. “I have not seen you for a long time. Where have you been?” “Oh”, said th ...

IS NIBBÁNA NOTHINGNESS? 287 only with water. In the same way arahants who are acquainted with both the mundane and the supramund ...

288 33. NIBBÁNA Th’escape therefrom, the real, beyond the sphere Of reason, lasting, unborn, unproduced, The sorrowless, the s ...

SOPÁDISESA AND ANUPÁDISESA NIBBÁNA DHÁTU 289 Herein, O bhikkhus, a bhikkhu is an arahant ... is delivered. In this very life all ...

290 CHAPTER 34 CHARACTERISTICS OF NIBBÁNA What is Nibbána, friend? The destruction of lust, the destruction of hatred, the destr ...

NIBBÁNA AND SAÍSÁRA COMPARED 291 Men desire to live peacefully and happily with their near ones, sur- rounded by amusements and ...

292 34. CHARACTERISTICS OF NIBBÁNA and higher in the moral plane the type of happiness becomes ever more exalted, sublime and su ...

NIBBÁNA AND SAÍSÁRA COMPARED 293 he lives abiding in the third ecstasy (tatiya jhána). This is the other happiness and pleasure ...

294 34. CHARACTERISTICS OF NIBBÁNA Of all the ten grades of happiness this is the highest and the most sub- lime. This transcend ...

WHERE IS NIBBÁNA? 295 Here “world” means suffering. The cessation of the world, therefore, means the cessation of suffering whic ...

296 34. CHARACTERISTICS OF NIBBÁNA What Attains Nibbána? This question must necessarily be set aside as irrelevant, for Buddhism ...

WHAT ATTAINS NIBBÁNA? 297 lf any teach Nirvána is to cease, Say unto such they lie. If any teach Nirvána is to live, Say unto ...

298 CHAPTER 35 THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (I) This Middle Path leads to tranquillity, realisation, enlightenment, and Nibbána. — Dhamma ...

THE MIDDLE PATH 299 Knowing that life is precious to all and that none has any right what- ever to destroy the life of another, ...

300 35. THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (I) While he progress slowly and steadily, with regulated word and deed and sense-restraint, the kamm ...

THE MIDDLE PATH 301 Pátimokkha sìla: the fundamental moral code 412 Indriyasaívara-sìla: morality pertaining to sense-restraint ...

302 CHAPTER 36 THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA ( ) II MEDITATION One way is to acquire gain,  Quite another is that which leads to Nibbána. ...

SUITABILITY OF SUBJECTS FOR DIFFERENT TEMPERAMENTS 303 i. The Buddha (buddhánussati), ii. the doctrine (dhammánussati), iii.^ th ...

304 36. THE WAY TO NIBBÁNA (II) — MEDITATION Lustful temperament (rágacarita), Hateful temperament (dosacarita), Ignorant tempe ...

PREPARATION 305 Next to be decided by the aspirant is the most convenient time when he himself and his surroundings are in the b ...