. The Death of the Buddha and Afterwards
The venerable Anuruddha was present in the last hours before the Buddha’s decease, recounted in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta (DN 16) . When the Master knew that death was close, he entered into the full sequence of the meditative absorptions on the fine-material and immaterial levels, and then entered the state of cessation of perception and feeling (sañña-vedayita-nirodha).
At that moment Ananda turned to his brother, the venerable Anuruddha, saying: “Revered Anuruddha, the Blessed One has passed away.” But Anuruddha, an Arahant endowed with the divine eye, had been able to gauge the level of meditation into which the Buddha had entered, and he said: “Not so, friend Ananda the Blessed One has not passed away. He has entered the state of cessation of perception and feeling.”
The Buddha, however, rising from that attainment of cessation, turned his mind back to the stages of immaterial absorption in their reverse order until he reached the first jhana, then rose up again to the fourth fine-material jhana, and rising from it he instantly passed away into the Nibbana-element which is without any remainder of the aggregates of existence.
When the Enlightened One had finally passed away, Brahma the High Divinity and Sakka, king of the Thirty-three gods, honoured the Buddha in verses evoking the law of impermanence. The third to speak was Anuruddha who uttered these verses:
No movement of the breath, but with a steadfast heart,
Desireless and tranquil comes the Sage to his end.
With heart unshaken by any painful feeling,
Like a flame extinguished, found his mind release.
. The Death of the Buddha and AfterwardsThe venerable Anuruddha was present in the last hours before the Buddha’s decease, recounted in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta (DN 16) . When the Master knew that death was close, he entered into the full sequence of the meditative absorptions on the fine-material and immaterial levels, and then entered the state of cessation of perception and feeling (sañña-vedayita-nirodha).At that moment Ananda turned to his brother, the venerable Anuruddha, saying: “Revered Anuruddha, the Blessed One has passed away.” But Anuruddha, an Arahant endowed with the divine eye, had been able to gauge the level of meditation into which the Buddha had entered, and he said: “Not so, friend Ananda the Blessed One has not passed away. He has entered the state of cessation of perception and feeling.”The Buddha, however, rising from that attainment of cessation, turned his mind back to the stages of immaterial absorption in their reverse order until he reached the first jhana, then rose up again to the fourth fine-material jhana, and rising from it he instantly passed away into the Nibbana-element which is without any remainder of the aggregates of existence.When the Enlightened One had finally passed away, Brahma the High Divinity and Sakka, king of the Thirty-three gods, honoured the Buddha in verses evoking the law of impermanence. The third to speak was Anuruddha who uttered these verses:ไม่มีการเคลื่อนไหว ของลมหายใจ แต่ หัวใจ steadfastDesireless และสงบมาปราชญ์การสิ้นสุดของเขา ด้วยหัวใจ ด้วยความรู้สึกเจ็บปวด unshakenเช่นเปลวไฟที่ยกเลิก พบปล่อยจิตใจของเขา
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