From this passaged I noticed a lot more things the more I thought about what it said. The thing that really got my attention was on page 41 when it says
"the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, has passed beyond birth and decay. This I call neither arising, nor passing away, neither standing still, nor being born, nor dying. There is neither foothold, nor developement, nor any basis. This is the end suffering."
I noticed that there were a lot of complimentary things mentioned. Such as arising-passing away, born-dying, rage-sorrow-longing, etc but there was none for standing still. This got me thinking. Does this mean that we keep moving and experiencing life in the now? Like in meditation were thoughts flicker in and then are gone or the reflection of a cloud on the lake of how you see it but when its gone there is no trace of it ever being there. So to go with the theory that we are not real but our experiences are real in the fact that we can only experience the now. Does this mean that for that split second what we experience is real and then turns into nothing like us? That the now arising is the future and the passig is the past and if we get rid of those by not thinking about or dwelling about them and live in the now then we can truly have no suffering. Same goes for longing and sorrow. You only long for something you want that is in the future and you only get sorrow on those things that you dwell upon in the past. So if you give up those then you can reach the Peaceful One and therefore have neither death nor birth for everything is a cycle and you can only experince the now and since the now has no past nor future then death and birth can't exist like us. Plus if you only experince the now and do not long for something you can't be dissapointed and therfore there will be no more suffering. You must expose yourself to the now in order to experience it and be rid of suffering. For if you long for something you create layers and if you dwell in the past you create layers but if you live in the now and only the now you will have no layers. You may experience death for a second in the now but then it is no more it was just an acknowledgement.
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