Date: 21/02/2025 Name: Nibbāna

The Noble Council of Akanittha Brahma Realm was remembered with faith.

I repeated the 14/02/2025 Nibbana meditation. I further investigated the first aspect that was then added. That is, if birth (jati) to ageing (jara) is conversely examined from aging to birth, and when investigating the establishment of suffering (dukkha) to the name (nāma) part; this is like the path 1, 2, 3, 4 occurs due to sorrowing, just so, the arising of straying mind (vibhanta citta) due to ageing. Refer to the given diagram.

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If we use separation from what is pleasing (piyehi vippayogo dukkho) instead of ageing (jara), the path becomes clearer to understand. That is: separation from what is pleasing (piyehi vippayogo dukkho), birth (jāti), feeling (vedanā), volition (cetanā), self (atta) to permanence (nicca), going a bad way through delusion (moha agatigamanaṃ) and via the underlying tendency to greed for sensual desire (kāmarāgānusaya), to perception (saññā). Thus, it is understood that the path leading from the separation from what is pleasing (piyehi vippayogo dukkho) to the perception of pleasure (sukha saññā), occurs due to delusion (moha) (*1).

Examine again the path that arose due to sorrow.

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It should be understood that, through the path arising from sorrow, there arises an undying pleasant perception (sukha sañña) between contact (phassa) and perception (sañña), due to ‘going a bad way through fear’ (bhayā agatigamanaṃ).

Investigating how, through both these paths alone- that is, starting from separation from what is pleasing (piyehi vippayogo dukkho) leading to declaring perception as pleasurable, and starting from sorrow (soka), perception as pleasurable proliferating towards contact, it is understood that for the being afflicted by suffering, there is no escape.

If the Four Bases of Spiritual Power (Iddhipada) are well-developed according to the Nibbana meditations of 07/02/2025 and 14/02/2025, liberation from this suffering is possible. Thus, while one would have nibbana as object and only nibbana as goal, effort (viriya) must be properly maintained to establish oneself in it.

That is the meditation.

Footnotes added during discussion

(*1) So one might think that one should not seek delight in ageing at this time. What happens if you do that? One would say that the perception is pleasurable through the above path.