Good evening!
As today is the first day of fall, the bright sun is still high with bright daylight, like midday. The sky is cloudless, even though it was all covered by ball-shaped clouds this morning.
The bright cloudless world is the Buddha’s world. He saw the truth:
All created things are impermanent, suffering, and all dharmas are selfless. Our karma created world is unreliable, unsatisfactory, and uncontrollable. So, he attained nirvâna, uncreated and unconditioned peace, transcending them.
It is good for all in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end. Only through sitting and stopping karma, can we attain it, tasting amrita, ambrosia of immortality, transcending samsâra, transmigration, through six worlds.
6/22/12
Note: The three dharma marks are:
- All created phenomena are impermanent. Sabbe sankhârâ aniccâ.
- All created phenomena are unsatisfactory. Sabbe sankhârâ dukkhâ.
- All phenomena are selfless. Sabbe dhammâ anattâ.
- Cessation(created/constituents/craving) is nirvana. Nirodho nibbâna.*
Duk-kha literally means “wrong going” (going against wish). Because of no self-sameness (1) and no self-sovereignty (2), there is no self-substantiality (“no self” or “no self substance” or “no independent eternal being called self”). The four dharma marks are these three marks plus nirvana. These are uniquely Buddhist, and the common conventions, concerns, and contrivances contradict them (permanent, happy, selfish, active: karmic).
* Cessation of all created phenomena, renunciation of all appropriations (five aggregates: form/idea/feeling/action/consciousness), extinction of craving, no-lust, cessation is nirvana (yo so sabbasaṅkhārasamatho sabbūpadhipaṭinissaggo taṇhākkhayo virāgo nirodho nibbāna).
