The Miracle of Contact – Ven Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda Thero

The Dhamma that the Teacher of the Three Worlds, the fully Enlightened Fortunate One placed before the world is one that goes against the current. That Dhamma which flows against the pervert and narrow current of becoming is the massive body of water called ‘Dhammasota’ that takes one towards the cessation of becoming. The worldlings caught up in the current of becoming go on revolving in this Saṁsāric whirlpool.

Disciple who has fallen into the Dhamma current reaches Nibbāna which is called the cessation of becoming. The turning point between these two is contact.

Therefore we have chosen as the topic of this 15th sermon, two verses on contact found in the       12Dvayatānupassanā Sutta of the Sutta Nipāta, III Mahavaggo,Khuddaka Nikaya.

Introducing various items of Dhamma which incline to two sides and distinguishing their arising aspect and the cessation aspect is the style of preaching in this discourse. Now the two aspects of contact the Buddha first of all introduces to the congregation of monks with this statement in prose. “If there are those who ask whether there could be another mode of contemplating the dualities, they should be told: ‘There is.’ How could there be? ‘Whatever suffering that arises, all that is due to contact.’ This is one mode of contemplation. With the remainderless cessation of contact,……….

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