The venerable Upasiva once requested the
Buddha:
Sir, I am alone, dependent, helpless, I can neither cross the flood of sense
desire,
nor the flood of becoming, nor the flood of ignorance, nor the flood of views!
Please, All-Seeing-One, tell me the meditation object by which, I may cross this
flood.
Aware, direct mind towards Nothingness,
replied the Buddha, be helped by relying on the
notion: 'Nothing really is...'! Thus by relinquishing all desires, by stilling
all speculative
opinions & by reviewing the elimination of craving day & night, you may cross
this flood…!!!
