The Happiness That Needs Nothing: Pointers to That Which is Always Here by Colin Drake

Author:Colin Drake [Drake, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beyond Awakening Publications
Published: 2014-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

The cessation of craving leads successively to the cessation of grasping, of becoming, of birth, of old age and death, of grief, lamentation, pain, sadness and despair – that is to say the cessation of all this mass of ill. It is this cessation that is Nirvana.[62]

That nirvana, or ‘awakening’ is achieved by realising the truths of anicca and anatta, which leads to the cessation of craving, is also stated in the Dhammapadda : ‘Him I call a Brahmin who is free from I, me and mine, who knows the rise and fall of life. He is awake: he will not fall asleep again.’[63] One is free from ‘I, me and mine’ when one realises that there is no separate self, anatta, and one knows the ‘rise and fall of life’ when one realises the truth of impermanence, anicca.[64]

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