Friends: Complete Detachment by Relinquishing of all Clinging: Friends, you should Train yourself in this Way: I will not cling to neither the eye, the ear, the nose the tongue, the body, nor the mind... Thus will my consciousness depend neither on any awareness of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touches nor any mental states... Thus will my consciousness depend neither on any visual contact, auditory contact, olfactory contact, gustatory contact, tactile contact, nor any mental contact... Thus will my consciousness neither depend on any feeling aroused from these visual, auditory, or ... mental contacts... Thus will my consciousness neither depend on any form, emotion, perception, mental construction, nor on any bare awareness itself... Thus will my consciousness depend neither on any solidity, fluidity, heat, motion, space nor on any sort of subtle mentality... Thus will my consciousness neither depend on any infinitude of space, any infinitude of consciousness, any sphere of nothingness, any sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception... Thus will my consciousness neither depend on anything at all in this world nor on anything at all in any other world beyond that… Thus will my consciousness be independent of what is seen, heard, sensed, cognized, encountered, searched and examined by the mind... This -only this- itself leads to the final fundamental freedom !!! Source: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya MN 143 [iii 258-261] http://www.pariyatti.com/book.phtml?prod_id=25072X http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/majjhima/index.html Friendship is the Greatest ! Bhikkhu Samāhita, Sri Lanka.
The burden of words: The finger pointing to nirvana, Can sway oh so easily away, away, Lost in the path between understanding and delusion.
