How to reach the Ease and Peace of Ceasing?
At Savatthi, the Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, when the experience of stilling, ending, stopping, and ceasing
is developed and cultivated, then it is of great fruit
and immense benefit!
It leads to great good, it leads to great security from bondage, it leads
to a great sense of urgency, it leads to living in fearless ease
and comfort!
How, Bhikkhus, is the experience of ceasing developed
and cultivated, so
that it is of great fruit and benefit? Here, the Bhikkhu systematically
develops the:
1: The
Awareness Link to Awakening, joined with the experience of ceasing.
2: The
Investigation of states Link to Awakening, while examining full stilling.
3: The
Energy Link to Awakening, perceiving an ultimate ending of all activity.
4: The
Joy Link to Awakening, while laughing at the complete cessation of all.
5: The
Tranquillity Link to Awakening, accompanied by calm & serene silencing.
6: The
Concentration Link to Awakening, focused on fading away of all states.
7: The
Equanimity Link to Awakening, indifferent even at the final stopping,
while being based upon seclusion, disillusion, halting,
and maturing in
release...
It is in this very way that the experience of stilling and ceasing into peace
is developed
and cultivated, so that it is of great advantage, great benefit,
great good, great security from bondage, great sense of urgency, and
living in the great ease of calmed, fearless and imperturbable comfort!
Bhikkhus, when the perception of ceasing is developed and cultivated
in this way fused and enhanced by the
Seven Links to Awakening, one of
two fruits is to be expected: Either final knowledge in this very life or,
if there is a remaining residue of clinging, the state of
non-returning...
Comments:
Ceasing is Bliss... Ceasing of What? Ceasing of the
internal , yet infernal
Fire of
Greed, Fire of
Hate, and Fire of
Ignorance and their derivatives!
More on Ceasing
(Nirodha):
Stilled_but_not_Dead,
9_Stillings,
Experiencing_Ceasing
Source (edited
extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:133-4] section 46: The Links. 76: Cessation...
