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| Pali | MO | Hare | Horner | Punnaji | Bodhi | Rhys Davids | (Mrs)Rhys Davids | Thanissaro | Walshe | Woodward |
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| ¤ki¾ca¾¾¤yatana | the realm of no things there | Hare | the plane of no-thing | Punnaji | the base of nothingness | nothing at all | (Mrs)Rhys Davids | the sphere of nothingness | Walshe | Woodward |
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¤ki¾ca¾¾¤: state of hving nothing, absence of (any) possessions; nothingness (the latter as philosophical -bh¤va: "cherish no worldly wishes whatsoever" |
"I nearly got there today!"
"Where?"
"The Sphere that isn't there.
This is a location, not the jhana, although one arrives at this location by way of the jhana; or, it is a term for describing the state of living in this jhana. In either case it is arrived at by letting go of, paying no attention to The Sphere of Unlimited Space, paying no attention to The Sphere of Unlimited Consciousness, and paying attention only to perception of The Sphere Where No Thing’s There. If you picture the Sphere of Unlimited Space as being empty of coarse material forms, and the Sphere of Unlimited Consciousness as dealing only with consciousness of the consciousness of things, then the state arrived at in this case is one up passed coarse material forms, empty space and consciousness of things
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