Total Unbinding - Paranirvana

[Uncle Sam]

Total Unbinding - Paranirvana is into Dharmakaya, one hour after death of physical body.
Then the Blessed One went with a large number of monks to the Black
Rock on the slope of Isigili. From afar he saw Ven. Vakkali lying dead
on a couch. Now at that time a smokiness, a darkness was moving to the
east, moved to the west, moved to the north, the south, above, below,
moved to the intermediate directions. The Blessed One said, "Monks, do
you see that smokiness, that darkness...?"

"Yes, Lord."

"That is Mara, the Evil One. He is searching for the consciousness of
Vakkali the clansman: "Where is the consciousness of Vakkali the
clansman established?" But, monks, it is through unestablished
consciousness that Vakkali the clansman has become totally unbound."

— SN 22.87

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SN 4.400



At that time, Vaccha, when a being has laid down this body,

and that being (satto) has not yet taken up another (annataram) body

(kayam) in rebirth (anupapanno); therein I declare [that beings]

fuel to be thirstfulness (tanhupadanam). At that time, Vaccha, I

declare [the beings] fuel to be thirstfulness.

[Uncle Sam]

"Don Juan told me how some men of knowledge, after a life of impeccable fight, decide to

remain, while others dissolve like a puff of wind into infinity."



- Carlos Castaneda

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