Nibbāna
On deliverance beyond all striving, unconditioned, uncreated, the indestructible.
On deliverance beyond all striving, unconditioned, uncreated, the indestructible.
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Contemplation is not concentration. By concentrating on conflict<br />
one can only isolate it and thereby intensify it. To end conflict<br />
one must understand conflict, and that cannot be done by suppressing<br />
it forcibly.<br />
Conflict, to end, must yield itself up; and a natural yielding is<br />
never done through violence. There may be submission as a result<br />
of violence, a result of conquest. But, that is not ending. Yielding<br />
spontaneously can come about only through understanding. Understanding<br />
what?<br />
The nature of conflict is the process of clinging to what has no<br />
substantiality, no identity, no reality. It is only an ideal one clings<br />
to, the ideal of a ‘self’ becoming secure, a problem being solved.<br />
The ideal solution has no reality; and it is that fact which has to be<br />
uncovered. Then there will be no search for the ideal. And in the<br />
cessation of searching, there is the cessation of the ideal; and in the<br />
cessation of the ideal, there is the actual, which is the real truth.
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