Let us pursue the question further. Given that man was born to walk the Path to nirvana, how exactly are we to set about this waliking? Buddha has said:
Sabbe sankhara aniccati
yada pannaya passati
Atha nibbindati dukkhe
Esa maggo visyddhiya.
"When a man see with insight that all compounds are transient, he becomes fed up with them as unsatisfactory. That is the Path to Nirvana, to Purity."
When a man comes to recognize the true nature of compounds (sankharas), he becomes fed up with them. And this disenchantment with compounds is the first step on the Path leading to Nirvana, to Dharma. the Buddha said furthermore:
Sabbe sankhara anicca,
Sabbe sankhara dukkha,
Sabbe dharmma anatta.
All compounds are transient,
All compounds are unsatisfactory
All things are not selves (anatta).
When one has seen these three characteristics, one becomes disenchanted with this unsatisfactory compounds. And that is the Path to nirvana-or at least the beginning of it. The point to note here is that when a person has come to a proper realization of these characteristics of compounds, he finds himself naturally repelled by compounds, that is, by the unsatisfactory condition. All compounds are thoroughly unsatisfactory. As soon as a person begins to see compounds as thoroughly unsatisfactory, he becomes utterly fed-up with compounds. Compounds are by their very nature unsatisfactory. The word "compound" automatically implies unsatisfactoriness. There is no such thing as a satisfactory compound. When compounding stops, there is nirvana, the ideal state.
But the last line of this quotation covers both compounds and non-compounds. Nothing, whatsoever, be it compound or no compound, is a self that may be grasped at as being one's own. this is the last word. Compounds are ever changing; compounds are unsatisfactory; all things, compounds or not, are such that they may not be grasped at as selves or as belonging to oneself. Only when this fact is seen in all clarity has the real Path begun; only then has one really started moving towards the overcoming of the unsatisfactory condition, that is towards nirvana.
Sabbe sankhara aniccati
yada pannaya passati
Atha nibbindati dukkhe
Esa maggo visyddhiya.
"When a man see with insight that all compounds are transient, he becomes fed up with them as unsatisfactory. That is the Path to Nirvana, to Purity."
When a man comes to recognize the true nature of compounds (sankharas), he becomes fed up with them. And this disenchantment with compounds is the first step on the Path leading to Nirvana, to Dharma. the Buddha said furthermore:
Sabbe sankhara anicca,
Sabbe sankhara dukkha,
Sabbe dharmma anatta.
All compounds are transient,
All compounds are unsatisfactory
All things are not selves (anatta).
When one has seen these three characteristics, one becomes disenchanted with this unsatisfactory compounds. And that is the Path to nirvana-or at least the beginning of it. The point to note here is that when a person has come to a proper realization of these characteristics of compounds, he finds himself naturally repelled by compounds, that is, by the unsatisfactory condition. All compounds are thoroughly unsatisfactory. As soon as a person begins to see compounds as thoroughly unsatisfactory, he becomes utterly fed-up with compounds. Compounds are by their very nature unsatisfactory. The word "compound" automatically implies unsatisfactoriness. There is no such thing as a satisfactory compound. When compounding stops, there is nirvana, the ideal state.
But the last line of this quotation covers both compounds and non-compounds. Nothing, whatsoever, be it compound or no compound, is a self that may be grasped at as being one's own. this is the last word. Compounds are ever changing; compounds are unsatisfactory; all things, compounds or not, are such that they may not be grasped at as selves or as belonging to oneself. Only when this fact is seen in all clarity has the real Path begun; only then has one really started moving towards the overcoming of the unsatisfactory condition, that is towards nirvana.
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