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Reflection of the Day
“I do not see any other form that so completely obsesses a man’s mind as the form of a woman.”
— AN 1.1·
Fire: Investigating Recurrent Experience
The Buddha cast his entire framework of liberation in the language of fire and its cessation. This essay traces that structure using what we now understand about how fire actually works.
Experience is examined starting with the texture of a single moment, to the cascade of experience, across the terrain where consciousness takes root, and to the extinguishing that is Nibbāna.
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View all →A disciple of the Noble Ones who has thoroughly seen dependent co-arising and dependently arisen phenomena with right wisdom will no longer be doubtful about who they were in the past, who they will be in the future, or who they are now.
The five aggregates are unsatisfactory in the past and future, let alone the present.
The five aggregates are not-self in the past and future, let alone the present.
Because the five aggregates are unsatisfactory, the well-studied disciple of the Noble Ones becomes disenchanted with form, feeling, perception, intentional constructs, and consciousness.
Because the five aggregates are not-self, the well-studied disciple of the Noble Ones becomes disenchanted with form, feeling, perception, intentional constructs, and consciousness.
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