Discourse on "Uncreate" - Lord Buddha

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"And on another occasion the Blessed One dwelt at Savatthi in the

Jetavana, the garden of Anathapindika. At that time the Blessed One

edified, aroused, quickened and gladdened the monks with a religious

discourse on the subject of Nirvana. And these monks grasping the

meaning, thinking it out, and accepting with their hearts the whole

doctrine, listened attentively. But there was one brother who had

some doubt left in his heart. He arose and clasping his hands made

the request: "May I be permitted to ask a question?" When permission

was granted he spoke as follows:

"The Buddha teaches that all conformations are transient, that all

conformations are subject to sorrow, that all conformations are

lacking a self. How then can there be Nirvana, a state of eternal

bliss?"'

And the Blessed One, this connection, on that occasion, breathed forth

this solemn utterance: "There is, O monks, a state where there is

neither earth, nor water, nor heat, nor air; neither infinity of

space nor infinity of consciousness, nor nothingness, nor perception

nor non-perception; neither this world nor that world, neither sun

nor moon. It is the uncreate. That O monks, I term neither coming nor

going nor standing; neither death nor birth. It is without stability,

without change; it is the eternal which never originates and never

passes away. There is the end of sorrow.

"It is hard to realize the essential, the truth is not easily

perceived; desire is mastered by him who knows, and to him who sees

aright all things are naught. There is, O monks, an unborn,

unoriginated, uncreated, unformed. Were there not, O monks, this

unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed, there would be no escape

from the world of the born, originated, created, formed. Since, O

monks, there is an unborn, unoriginated, uncreated and unformed,

therefore is there an escape from the born, originated, created,

formed."

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LoveAlways,

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