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**LICraig** · 01-08-2012, 09:43 PM

Hi Kaarine,

Thank you so much for answering my questions with such patience.

My only observation is that I do not think that I understand what this final statement meant. And I suspect that until I achieve final liberation, or close to it, I will never know what it means.
I mean, I know what I think it means. But I don't know what "They" meant.

Many suttas that adress in a definitive way the complete quenching of Dukkha, thus, the final liberation or awakening is taught in the suttas, with this final closing statement:

"He discerns that 'Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world."

01-08-2012, 09:43 PM	#31
LICraig Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 659 Senior Member	Hi Kaarine, Thank you so much for answering my questions with such patience. My only observation is that I do not think that I understand what this final statement meant. And I suspect that until I achieve final liberation, or close to it, I will never know what it means. I mean, I know what I think it means. But I don't know what "They" meant. Many suttas that adress in a definitive way the complete quenching of Dukkha, thus, the final liberation or awakening is taught in the suttas, with this final closing statement: "He discerns that 'Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world."
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