The Ancient Elders explained: All past constructions & all past formations, whether mental or material have dissolved, and they continue to break up into any future, just as they do now! Clearly observing the inevitable impermanence of all the present constructions, one can infer those past & future to be the same: All formations will disappear! Like dew-drops, when the morning sun comes up. All Aggregates cease & nothing else really exists. Breakup of these 5 clusters of clinging is known as death... One should watch and reflect upon their destruction carefully, just as one who with a diamond drills a hole through a jewel. Since:
One who regards all phenomena: As lasting as a bursting bubble; As illusive as a mirage; One regarding all worldly life exactly so, is forever unseen even by the King of Death! Dhammapada Illustration 170Background Story 170
Seeing the breakup of all phenomena therefore makes one approach Nibbāna with the acute imperative urgency & efficacy of one with a burning turban... Vism 645
of all phenomena!
