Page 76 - Because I know, I can let go

Therefore, if anyone doesn’t want to be born in any of the five realms mentioned, then,
for such, the Buddha taught the quenching of phassa, of sense contact, which is different

from the full quenching of dukkha, for which he prescribed the complete quenching of
avijjā, tanhā, and upādāna.

This means that: Whenever we receive a sense contact via the eyes, ears, nose, tongue,

body, or the mind, then we need to employ sati, mindfulness, as the controller so that the
mind doesn’t think about the event in a defiled way and give rise to lobha, greed, to koda,
anger, and to moha, delusion, plus the concomitant blind belief.

That contact won’t then cause any undue response to happen.

As, for instance, when we see something and we just let the seeing take place, we don’t
allow the vedanā to become feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction, then desire of the

tanhā variety won’t arise, there’ll be no clinging, no becoming, and no birth of ‘me’ or of
‘mine,’ that is, we won’t be born, or come to exist, as anything.

This itself is the quenching of kamma. It’s to be above kamma, it’s the ending of kamma,

the escape from kamma by way of the eightfold path.

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