Light – Dhammadīpa

“Just as, bhikkhus, an oil lamp burns in dependence on the oil and the wick, and with the exhaustion of the oil and the wick it is extinguished through lack of fuel, so too, bhikkhus, when a bhikkhu feels a feeling terminating with the body … terminating with life … He understands: ‘With the breakup of the body, following the exhaustion of life, all that is felt, not being delighted in, will become cool right here.’” SN 54.8

“Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, telañca paṭicca, vaṭṭiñca paṭicca telappadīpo jhāyeyya, tasseva telassa ca vaṭṭiyā ca pariyādānā anāhāro nibbāyeyya; evameva kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu kāyapariyantikaṁ vedanaṁ vedayamāno ‘kāyapariyantikaṁ vedanaṁ vedayāmī’ti pajānāti, jīvitapariyantikaṁ vedanaṁ vedayamāno ‘jīvitapariyantikaṁ vedanaṁ vedayāmī’ti pajānāti, ‘kāyassa bhedā uddhaṁ jīvitapariyādānā idheva sabbavedayitāni anabhinanditāni sītībhavissantī’ti pajānātī”ti.

“Ví như, này các Tỷ-kheo, do duyên dầu, duyên tim, một cây đèn dầu được cháy sáng. Nếu dầu và tim của ngọn đèn ấy đi đến tiêu diệt, nhiên liệu không được mang đến, thời ngọn đèn sẽ tắt. Cũng vậy, này các Tỷ-kheo, khi Tỷ-kheo cảm giác một cảm thọ tận cùng sức chịu đựng của thân, vị ấy rõ biết: “Tôi cảm giác một cảm thọ tận cùng sức chịu đựng của thân”. Khi Tỷ-kheo cảm giác một cảm thọ tận cùng sức chịu đựng của sinh mạng, vị ấy rõ biết: “Tôi cảm giác một cảm thọ tận cùng sức chịu đựng của sinh mạng”. Khi thân hoại mạng chung, vị ấy rõ biết: “Ở đây, tất cả những gì được cảm thọ đều không có gì được hân hoan, và sẽ trở thành mát lạnh.”

ရဟန်းတို့ ဥပမာသော်ကား ဆီကို စွဲ၍လည်းကောင်း၊ မီးစာကို စွဲ၍လည်းကောင်း ဆီမီးသည်တောက်လောင်ရာ၏။ ထိုဆီကုန်ခြင်းကြောင့်လည်းကောင်း၊ မီးစာကုန်ခြင်းကြောင့်လည်းကောင်း မီးစာမရှိသည် ဖြစ်၍ ငြိမ်းရာ၏။ ရဟန်းတို့ ဤအတူပင် ရဟန်းသည် ကိုယ်အပိုင်းအခြားရှိသော ဝေဒနာကိုခံစား သည်ရှိသော် “ကိုယ်အပိုင်းအခြားရှိသော ဝေဒနာကို ခံစား၏”ဟု သိ၏၊ အသက်အပိုင်းအခြားရှိသော ဝေဒနာကို ခံစားသည်ရှိသော် “အသက်အပိုင်းအခြားရှိသော ဝေဒနာကိုခံစား၏”ဟု သိ၏၊ ခန္ဓာကိုယ် ပျက်စီးသည်မှ အထက်ဖြစ်သော နောက်ကာလ၌အသက်ဆုံးသည်တိုင်အောင် “ဤဘဝ၌ပင်လျှင် အလုံးစုံ သော ခံစားခြင်းတို့ကို မနှစ်သက်အပ်ကုန်သည်ဖြစ်၍ ငြိမ်းအေးကုန်လတ္တံ့”ဟု သိ၏ဟု (မိန့်တော်မူ၏)။

「比丘們！猶如緣於油，與緣於燈芯，油燈才能燃燒，從其油與燈芯的耗盡，沒了食物，就會熄滅。同樣地，比丘們！當比丘感受身體終了的感受時，他了知：『我感受身體終了的感受。』當他感受生命終了的感受時，他了知：『我感受生命終了的感受。』他了知：『以身體的崩解，隨後生命耗盡，就在這裡，一切被感受的、不被歡喜的都將成為清涼。』」