Buddhist Romanticism

true goal, destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right
gnosis. His five sense faculties still remain and, owing to their being intact,
he experiences the pleasing & the displeasing, and is sensitive to pleasure &
pain. His ending of passion, aversion, & delusion is termed the unbinding
property with fuel remaining.
“And what is the unbinding property with no fuel remaining? There is
the case where a monk is an arahant whose effluents have ended, who has
reached fulfillment, finished the task, laid down the burden, attained the
true goal, destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right
gnosis. For him, all that is sensed, being unrelished, will grow cold right
here. This is termed the unbinding property with no fuel remaining.”
These two
proclaimed
by the one with vision,
unbinding properties
the one independent,
the one who is Such:
one property, here in this life,
with fuel remaining
from the destruction of [craving],
the guide to becoming,
and that with no fuel remaining,
after this life,
in which all becoming
totally ceases. — Iti 44
§ 53. “If the thought should occur to you that, when defiling mental
qualities are abandoned and bright mental qualities have grown, and one
enters & remains in the culmination & abundance of discernment, having
known & realized it for oneself in the here & now, one’s abiding is
stressful/painful, you should not see it in that way. When defiling mental
qualities are abandoned and bright mental qualities have grown, and one
enters & remains in the culmination & abundance of discernment, having
known & realized it for oneself in the here & now, there is joy, rapture,
calm, mindfulness, alertness, & a pleasant abiding.” — DN 9
§ 54. “Now it’s possible, Ānanda, that some wanderers of other
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