5:13 Udayaâs Questions

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('â', Iâ-making or ),

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('â', mineâ-making or obsession with conceit, such that with regard to all external themes [topics of concentration] there will be no ),

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('â', Iâ-making or ),

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('â', mineâ-making or obsession with conceit, and that we will enter & remain in the awareness-release & discernment-release in which there is no ),

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('â', mineâ-making or obsession with conceit." When one has trained in this way, he says, one is called a person who has cut through craving, unraveled the fetter, who has, through the right penetration of conceit, put an end to suffering and stress. He then states that it was in connection to this state that he uttered this verse. 3. See DN 11, DN 15, MN 49, and SN 12:67. For a discussion of "bringing consciousness to a halt"—showing that it is not an annihilation of consciousness, but rather the ending of its proliferating activity—see SN 22:53. See also the image in SN 12:64. - --> - - - -