The Stilling
of all Mental Construction is Nibbâna!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Here, Ananda, the Bhikkhu considers it all like this:
This is the supreme peace, this is the sublime calm: The standstill of
all forming activities, the silencing of all kammic mental construction,
the relinquishing of all substrata fuelling existence, the fading away
of all craving, detachment, release, ceasing, Nibbāna...
In this way, Ananda, the Bhikkhu may enter a mental absorption in
which there is no notion of I and mine, no attacks of conceiving any
internal consciousness or any external objects & wherein he is both
mentally released & fully liberated through understanding the all...
There is no inclination to I and mine-making, and no more attacks of
conceit by latent tendencies to identification, egotism, & narcissism!
Knowing both what the inner
is and the outer is, one is neither stirred nor troubled any more! When thus stilled and imperturbable, there is neither any attraction, nor any aversion... One has crossed & escaped ageing & death!!! Sutta Nipāta 1048
