Robin Beck

sabbe sankhara anicca

All compounded phenomena are inconstant.

Yet lurking behind phenomena, there is an unconditioned, pure, radiant, constancy.

Atthi bhikkhave ajatam abhatam akataü asamkhatam. No ce tam bhikkhave abhavissa ajatam bhatam akatam asamkhatam, na-y-idha jatassa bhatassa katassa samkhatassa nissaranam passayetha. Yasma ca kho bhikkhave atthi ajatam bhatam akatam asamkhatam, tasmà jatassa bhatassa katassa samkhatassa nissaranam passayata.

There is, oh monks [and nuns], an unborn, a non-arisen, an un-fabricated, an un-compounded or unconditioned. If there were not an unborn, a non-arisen, an un-fabricated, an unconditioned, then there would be no basis to discern or intuit emancipation from that which is born, arisen, fabricated, and conditioned. However, since there is a an unborn, a non-arisen, an un-fabricated, an un-compounded or unconditioned; there is a basis whereby emancipation from that which is born, arisen, fabricated, and conditioned is intuited / comes into view.

Posted by rbeck at July 12, 2009 11:12 PM