Mahàtanhàsankhayasutta (38) – Majjhima Nikàya I 4. 8. (The Major Discourse on the Destruction of Craving)

compress_past-present-futureBhikkhus, this view of yours so clean and pure, do not covet, fondle, treasure and take pride in it. Do you know this Teaching comparable to a raft, taught for the purpose of giving up and not for the purpose of holding? 

Yet bhikkhus, you who know thus and see thus, would your mind run to the past? Was I in the past or was I not in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past? Being who was I in the past?

bhikkhus, I have led you up in this Teaching. It is here and now. Time does not matter. It is open to inspection, leads to the beyond and is to be experienced by the wise, by themselves.

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    • සුමුදු හෙට්ටිආරච්ති on November 27, 2013 at 5:29 pm
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    ඇත්තෙන්ම මේකනම් මහා පිනක් ඔබවහන්සේගේ සේවය මම එකසිතින් අගයමි.

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