March 2011
20 posts
Anidassanam (Without Surface) - A Verb For Nirvana
If, however, the passion can be removed, there’s no more “there” there.
One sutta illustrates this with a simile: the sun shining through the eastern wall of a house and landing on the western wall. If the western wall, the ground beneath it, and the waters beneath the ground were all removed, the sunlight wouldn’t land. In the same way, if passion for form, etc., could be removed, consciousness would have no “where” to land, and so would become unestablished. This doesn’t mean that consciousness would be annihilated, simply that — like the sunlight — it would now have no locality. With no locality, it would no longer be defined. This is why the consciousness of nirvana is said to be “without surface” (anidassanam), for it doesn’t land. ~ A Verb for Nirvana, by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
japan announcer
japan tsunami announcer
English Language Japan Tsunami Warning Study : March 11, 2011
Not to make light of this historical situation which
has affected Japan;
I found the quality of this person’s annunciation
interesting.. This kind of professional “voice”
seems to be similar to the kind I grew up listening to in commercial radio,
often used to sell products…
A gathering and re-manipulation of an “ephemeral”
audio feed, after a major disaster.
My heart goes out to the wonderful people of Japan…
Jesse Paul Miller
