Good morning!

We see now the daybreak getting earlier. When we move, the candle flames flicker. Depending on the candle container shapes some move more even when we stop.

“The candle flame in no wind (ni-vâte padîpa/pradîpa)” is the stock phrase describing nib-bâna (nir-vâna/vâta), candle burning straight and serene in the windless state.

The sun looks like moving, but actually our earth is moving around it. When we sit straight and solid, we are in nirvana state, windless of all karmas, unaffected by them.

The stable serene light illuminates the world calm and clear without shaky shades and somber scene. This is awakening and nirvana, unconditioned totally tied together.

So, we need to sit straight and still, solid and serene, to illuminate the world bright and beautiful without shaking and shaky shadows, tasting amrita, ambrosia of immortality.

2/27/12

The meaning of nirvana is presented in new perspective in the section C2 Nibbâna, definition – experience, etymology, expression in the NO SELF – New Systematic Interpretation of Buddhism by Osamu Rosan Yoshida: World Sacred Books Publishing Society, Tokyo, 1994. The four stages of meditation confirm the author’s new interpretation of nirvana: Single-pointedness of the mind (concerted concentration without confusions and distractions) as the stages advance with less karma kinetics (conceptions, emotions, volitions).