The Secrets of Buddhist Meditation by Greene Eric M.; Buswell Robert E.;

Author:Greene, Eric M.; Buswell, Robert E.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2020-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

[3.25.2] [Conclusion]

The Buddha said to Ānanda: “You must preserve this contemplation of the fire element, explaining and preaching it widely for all sentient beings of the future.” When Ānanda heard what the Buddha said, he joyfully undertook to carry it out.

This is called the accomplishment of contemplation number twenty-five.423

[3.26] [Contemplation Twenty-Six: The Stream-Enterer]

[3.26.1] [Extinction of the Fire]

The Buddha said to Ānanda: I424 see that when the fire goes out, it goes out beginning at the tip of the nose and then goes out all at once in the rest of the body. Internally, the heart-fire and the eighty-eight defilements425 are all extinguished as well, and [the practitioner’s] body feels pure, cool, balanced, and harmonized within. He deeply realizes and sees with perfect clarity that there definitely is no self. Whether in trance or not, he always knows that within the body there is no self.

This is called the accomplishment of the contemplation of the extinction [of the view of] non-self.426

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