Ceasing of all Clinging is
the Ceasing of all Suffering!
The Buddha once said about relinquishing
the 5 Clusters of Clinging:
The fading away, silencing, stilling, ceasing and bringing to an end of
all feeling, all perception, all mental construction, & all consciousness
only this completely eliminates all suffering, ends all disease, & fully
overcomes all decaying, all sickness, all ageing, & all death...
SN 22:30
Comments: Let the wave run out in mirror-blank
silver lake silence!
The fluid motion we call a wave, which in the uninformed creates the
optical illusion of one and the same mass of water moving linearly all
over the surface of the lake, is produced by the wind, & maintained
by the stored up energies. Now, after the wind has ceased, and if no
new wind again whips up the lake water, then the stored up energies
will gradually be exhausted, & that will cease the perturbed motion!
The wave will come to an end by gradual diminishing and running out..
Similarly, if a fire does not get new fuel, it will become quenched...
Just in exactly the same way is this process
of
5 Clusters of
Clinging,
which the uneducated indentifies with & construes as an illusory Ego,
produced and fed by
craving
Tanhā, and maintained for some time by
means of the stored up fuel of past habitual
clinging, i.e., the craving!
If no new craving impels again then sooner or later the accumulation
of past clinging is exhausted & the process of
5 Clusters of
Clinging
will reach final extinction. This final stilling of the course of
clinging:
Parinibbāna, which takes place at the death of the
Arahat, is called
Anupadisesa-Nibbāna, i.e.,
Nibbāna
with no residual traces of fuel!
Source: (edited excerpts):
Venerable
Nyanatiloka
Mahāthera.
The Word of the Buddha:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book_404201.html
Good Dhamma talk
by Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu on Clinging:
http://dhammatalks.org/Archive/061023%20Feeding%20Frenzy!%20Dependent%20Co-arising.mp3
More on these 5 Clusters of Clinging
(Khandha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Like_Foam.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Burning_Five.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/khandha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
On the irreversible & final ceasing
of all pain:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
More on this sublime Bliss called
Nibbāna:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Reaching_Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Nibbana_Still.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Uncreated.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2_Nibbanas.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Stilled_One.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/nibbaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm
The Ceasing of Clinging is
Nibbâna!
