The Twin Truths won by Dual Consideration:
The blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, the first consideration is:
Whatever Suffering arises, all that is caused by Mental Construction!
The consequent second consideration is:
Stilling of all Mental Construction thereby ceases all Suffering completely!
Knowing this danger: - All Suffering is caused by Mental Construction -,
by silencing all experience, sensation and feeling, the wise escapes all Pain!
Considering these twin truths cautiously, resolutely and enthusiastically,
one may either enter the state of Nibbāna right here and now in this life,
or if there is remaining traces of clinging left, the state of a non-returner.
Those who neglect understanding of mental construction, the origin of
mental construction, the end of mental construction, and how mental
construction is eliminated, are incapable of release by understanding,
are incapable of mental release, are incapable of direct knowledge, and
are thereby incapable of making an end...They repeat birth, ageing, decay,
sickness and death ever again... While those who undertake understanding
of mental construction, Origin, End and Way, indeed are capable of mental
release by understanding, sure certainty, and capable of making an end...
They are near the deathless dimension!
More on Mental Construction (Sankhāra):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sankhaara.htm
On Stilling and Ceasing of all Mental Construction (Nirodha):
Stilled_but_not_Dead, Ceasing, 9_Stillings, Experiencing_Ceasing
Source: The Bundle of Threads. The Sutta-Nipāta 724-765
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/khuddaka/suttaNipāta/index.html
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=201818
The Twin Truths!
