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The Goal

7/12/2020

 
The greater mind creates matter and matter creates mind. This is the cycle of birth and rebirth where the mind is bound to matter. Nothing arises out of nothing. 

But nothing, or emptiness, can arise out of something, through Dhamma. In fact an eternal, blissful emptiness can arise out of everything. This is the goal, the transcendent.
 
Thus the transcendent is not the Creator of the world. The world of truth, of Dhamma, creates the transcendent which, aware of itself, becomes stable within itself. This is liberation.



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I offer this for your reflection

Ajahn Kalyāno
http://www.openthesky.co.uk


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