WHAT IS DHAMMA ?
Now I will
give you the answer of what is Dhamma? Sabbe dhamma as
it means all things are dhamma. All of the nature of things
is all dhamma. If you combine all nature of things will
become the idea, which is known as "Truth ".
The answer to what is dhamma will be the idea of " Truth " and
cannot be answered anything else. And in this idea of " truth " you
have
Happening and destruction are the truth.
Non-happening and non-destruction are also the truth.
There are two different types of truth now.
Out of these two types of truth, happening and destruction
are considered as truth of impermanent.
The non-happening and non-destruction are the truth of permanency.
That is the reason I had to ask you to carefully note the
different. Although there is the truth of impermanence, which
is the happening and destruction, there is also the truth
of permanency, which is the non-happening and non-destruction;
there is the anatta which means ungovernable is also the
truth. In these two truths, the happening and destruction
are impermanent and they don't always appear but periodically.
The non-happening and non-destruction are always there and
it is the truth of permanent. Having said that non-arising
and non-destruction are the truth that is permanent, I am
not insinuating that sotapana,saagana,anagana and arahat,
picseka budha, samma sambudha, or sila,samadhi and panna
and vissapana wisdom and the fruition are also permanent.
The reason being that the non-arising and non-destruction
are not within the permanent
When I am saying the truth of non-arising and non-destruction
is always permanent, is to take all the believes and clinging
without reservation and be able to undergo eradication in
a stroke or for those who couldn't do it in one stroke, is
to use deception and exchange the with goo and evil to remove
it. Out of the two instructions, what I said now is for those
who could bear to eradicate in one stroke. By having said
in such a way is very easy to comprehend but it will be very
hard to believe. The reason being that the believe one has
to practice through difficulties so as to enable to see it
has been very strongly bedded. The name very widely use by
the laymen for the non-happening and non-destruction will
called nirvana and every one knows it.
For those who know nibbana as non-happening and non-destruction
which is permanent and is the truth. I would like to ask
in which sense that it is existing? Before anyone gives an
answer to this question I would like to say something for
you comprehend before hand. The example is that there is
a big clean, white and beautiful screen in front of the audience.
Instead of writing with colored chalks, I will write it with
a white chalk on the screen. After I have written on it,
you will not be able to see it distinctly but you know it
by your wisdom that it ha been written on the screen, as
if you have seen it with you own eyes. I beg the audience
to use this example and follow the idea of dhamma. In which
sense that it is, I will let you into the answer.
Nibbana has the sense of stillness, the sense of inexistence
and sunyata. It is impossible to find the appropriate words
to express so that you can apprehend the sense of it. If
I am ask why I couldn't find words to express, the answer
is that the good and evil, the rich and poor, the happiness
and laziness, to be happy and to be crying, joy and sad,
the scowling and the smiling, criticism and praising, hateful
and pitiful, to be compassionate and to be guilty, hard and
soft, black and white, yellow and green, here and there,
within and without, near and far, and so forth are because
of the unmentionable animetta.
If I am ask what is the reason for the appearance of the
animetta, the answer will be anidasana means there is no
idea of that could be seen or the idea of seeing. What I
have said here is like the example given above that it is
there. What there is something I cannot show you but you
will have to see to be able to see it with insight only?
The reason being that nabbana can be seen through wisdom
or insight. If you ask me how nibbasna exist and my answer
is the explanation I have given already
If I am asked why did I want to have nibanna? The answer
will be that while you do not really
Understand the idea of nibanna, and at this very moment,
and you are not satisfied with it or even you are satisfied
but you do not believe it or to say it more deeply, there
are is another one. You crave or desirously want what appears
in your thinking. If I have to say it in another way is nibbannan
paraman sukan means nibbana if the highest type of bliss
as said by our Lord Buddha in the sagadha sanyuk that it
means there are such things that you can be comfortable of
enjoy it. The meanings of what Lord Buddha said was that
the higher level of joys are dukkha, sufferings. All the
feelings over the joy and suffering are all dhamma.
Top Those who long for it are those
who are filled with indulging in the fantasy that nibbana
are in existence and expect his well being in his future
life. What have you got to long for? The answer is that there
is not feeling or sensation in nibbana. If there is feeling
or sensation, then it is suffering. Nibbana is freedom from
the suffering. Suffering is no other than feeling or suffering.
The real nibbana has none of those suffering or bliss and
is where the suffering or feeling extinguished. Nibabana
has the nature of extinguished suffering and bliss and comprehending
that it cannot be owned by anyone. If you cannot absorb that
idea, then you will have to long for it. Acquiring that wisdom
is nibbana.
You needn't have to long for
it. The reason being the longing for it in it self is the
opposite or the enemy of nibbana. The reason being the nature
of nibbana is that there weren't any idea of wanting or craving,
and is known as appanihita which means merely free from the
longing of feeling and experience. The natures of longing
or experience are not there from the beginning, so it is
free in principle from the start. The truth is this nibbana
is also known as non-happening and non-annihilation that
is permanently there the above statement will be sufficient
to answer the following questions: -.
(1) In what nature does it exists?
(2) Why do you want it?
(3) What have you got so as to long for it? The nibbana has the nature of Sunyata, animetta, aniasana,
appatihita and our Lord Buddha had discoursed that deathless,
non-vanishing, non-destructive are the realities, which is
known amata nibbana. The above statement will be sufficient
answers for the following questions.
Nibbana will not arrive before the eyes of the meditator.
It will only be there as soon as he started meditating
Isata nibbana is already there even before the meditater
starting meditating. Nibbana has nothing to do with the
manipulation and is free from creation. It is not there
without being supported or being helped, provision or expenses
a without connection and is known as appisaya nibbana.
To enable to observe nibbana, one needs no instigation,
no striving but only with ease and without effort as sukhapadipada
such as: -
(1) Sandahika - - At once, here and now.
(2) Akalika - - Without delay.
(3) Ehipasika - - Be able to observe.
(4) Awpaneyika - -Cannot differentiate between the cause and effect.
(5) Piccatam veditabo venyuhi. - -Only person with wisdom could see it.
I had completely defined nibbana and allow me to conclude
here, but I prefer to continue with nama rupan and sankhara,
which is the complete opposite to nibbana. I have mentioned
that nibbana is : -
(1) Sunyata- Has the nature of emptiness or void.
(2) Animetta- Without form.
(3) Anidasana- Nothing to see or being seen.
(4) Amata- Non-death, non-vanishing, or non-annihilation.
(5) Etsuta- Non-moving.
(6) Akata- No creation or production.
(7) Appiccaya No support, help or connection.
It has sankata nature of nama rupam and sankhara portend and sankhara fume
which hasn't vapourize completely. You can't see them so as to differentiate
them as this is snakhata nibbana and that is nama rupa sankhara. The reason
being that " to happen and wanting to happen" and " could happen
and should happen" are both ceased to exist. If you observe nibbana's
original nature, there isn't any seeing or be seen and unblemished. But only
those with wisdom will be able to observe, understand. Although nibbana is
permanent for those without wisdom will be very hard to believe. If there are
people without wisdom believes in the dhamma then it cannot be nibbana which
was seen by the wise. For they are combining sankhata nama rupa with sankhara
portend and sankhara fume and vapor that it made them to meditate.
The nama rupa weren't before it happens an even if they
are happening are bound to be annihilated. After the annihilation,
not even a trace is left behind. Therefore, for the goodness
ess or badness, peace or otherwise, and for the nama rupa
you needn't do anything at all.
For example, let us look at a gong. Look at it from the
aspect of producing sound. Do not look at the gong with the
striker or their connections. Merely looking at the gong,
you needn't be suspicious whether it will produce the sound
or not. Suspicious is created when you connected the gong
with the striker and their action, but the consciousness
of observing the components will reason that when struck
it will produce the sound and when you don't, there will
be no sound.
Here, the observation of the conscious is that it has the
nature of producing the sound when the striker is included
and without it, the nature of not producing the sound., but
the sound is not being produced all the time. Hence the original
nature of the sound and striker, coul produce and shall produce
the sound, are are actually ceased to exist. Similar to the
example, try and see on your own body. There is an original
and a superflueous body. You cannot achieve , perceive or
see with this original body. |