Yang berikut ini saya baca dalam buku Pak-Auk Sayadaw:
"The splendour, radiance, light, brilliance and brightness of wisdom that you have developed [dengan konsentrasi seperti diuraikan terdahulu/hh] enables you to go back along the line of successive mentality-materiality from the present to the moment of your rebirth in this life, to the moment of your death in your past life, and further back in the same way to as many lives as you can discern, and then also look into the future, to the time of your own Parinibbāna. ...
Without seeing past lives and future lives it is impossible for you to understand dependent origination as it really is: to know and see how past causes have given results in the present, and present causes will give results in the future, and how the cessation of the causes gives the cessation of the results. And without knowing and seeing dependent origination, it is impossible to know and see the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering as it really is. ..."
Betulkah ini? Betulkah untuk bisa MELIHAT/MENEMBUS Paticcasamuppada--dan dengan demikian untuk mencapai nibbana--orang harus memiliki abhinna untuk melihat kehidupannya di masa lampau dan masa depan?
Adakah arahat yang tidak memiliki abhinna itu?
Lalu argumentasi itu dihubungkan dengan kutipan dari Visuddhimagga:
"It is explained in the Visuddhi Magga:
There is no one, even in a dream, who has got out of the fearful round of rebirths, which is ever destroying like a thunderbolt, unless he has severed with the knife of knowledge well whetted on the stone of sublime concentration, this Wheel of Becoming, which offers no footing owing to its great profundity, and is hard to get by owing to the maze of many methods.
And this has been said by the Blessed One:
'This dependent origination is profound, Ānanda, and profound it appears. And, Ānanda, it is through not understanding, through not penetrating it, that this generation has become a tangled skein, a knotted ball of thread, matted as the roots in a bed of reeds, and finds no way out of the round of rebirths, with its states of loss, unhappy destinations… perdition.' (Maha-nidana Sutta, DN 15)"
(Pa-Auk Sayadaw, "Knowing and Seeing", Revised Edition, halaman 30-31)
Sepertinya kutipan Visuddhimagga itu kok tidak nyambung dengan argumentasi di atasnya, ya. ...
Salam,
hudoyo
masa lalu
apakah masa lalu itu ada
IMHO, yang diperlukan utk realisasi Nibbana adalah "bebas dari mentalitas bisnis/jual-beli/untung-rugi".
itu saja, realistis, efektif dan praktis!!!
ika.
Uda capai nibbana om?
Tau proses mencapai nibbana?
Apa tanda dari bebas dari mentalitas bisnis/jual-beli/untung rugi?
Om ika masih pegang duit?
IMHO, itulah pentingnya utk mampu melakukan "pengembalian fungsi semua indria" tsb!!!
jika pada saat mata melihat "sesuatu" dan lantas "tergiur" atau "terheran" atau "bingung", anda sdh mencederai fungsi melihatnya indria mata !!!
akibatnya???, ...
anda bisa pikirkan sendiri dgn organ Otak anda, dan jgn pakai organ hidung!!!
ika.