Letting go

paṭinissagga

Practice & instruction Going deeper Stage 7 of 8

Relinquishing what the mind still holds on to — the last of the sixteen steps of mindfulness of breathing.

On the path: 7 · Insight and letting go — What has to be seen directly for clinging to end? Arising and passing away, the three characteristics, disenchantment, ceasing, letting go. → to this stage in the learning path

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Ānāpānasati — mindfulness of breathing Ānāpānasati · MN 118

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Passages where paṭinissagga occurs literally — in the original, and, where a German translation of the same lines exists, in German.

Tipiṭaka · mn102 · German

Ayaṁ kho bhavaṁ samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā pubbantānudiṭṭhīnañca paṭinissaggā, aparantānudiṭṭhīnañca paṭinissaggā, sabbaso kāmasaṁyojanānaṁ anadhiṭṭhānā, pavivekāya pītiyā samatikkamā, nirāmisassa sukhassa samatikkamā, adukkhamasukhaṁ vedanaṁ upasampajja viharati: This good ascetic or brahmin, letting go of theories about the first beginning and the final end, not fixating on the fetters of sensuality, going beyond the rapture of seclusion and pleasure not of the flesh, enters and remains in neutral feeling.

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Tipiṭaka · m3 · Pāli

30 . ‘‘Idha , bhikkhave, ekacco samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā pubbantānudiṭṭhīnañca paṭinissaggā, aparantānudiṭṭhīnañca paṭinissaggā, sabbaso kāmasaṃyojanānaṃ anadhiṭṭhānā, pavivekaṃ pītiṃ upasampajja viharati – ‘etaṃ santaṃ etaṃ paṇītaṃ yadidaṃ pavivekaṃ pītiṃ upasampajja viharāmī’ti. Tassa sā pavivekā pīti nirujjhati. Pavivekāya pītiyā nirodhā uppajjati domanassaṃ, domanassassa nirodhā uppajjati pavivekā pīti. Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yaṃ chāyā jahati taṃ ātapo pharati, yaṃ ātapo jahati taṃ chāyā pharati; evameva kho, bhikkhave, pavivekāya pītiyā nirodhā uppajjati domanassaṃ, domanassassa nirodhā uppajjati pavivekā pīti. Tayidaṃ, bhikkhave, tathāgato abhijānāti. Ayaṃ kho bhavaṃ samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo …
Pāli commentaries · Visuddhimaggo (Paṭhamo bhāgo) · Pāli

Virāgānupassī ti ettha pana dve virāgā khayavirāgo ca accantavirāgo ca. Tattha khayavirāgo ti saṅkhārānaṃ khaṇabhaṅgo. Accantavirāgo ti nibbānaṃ. Virāgānupassanā ti tadubhayadassanavasena pavattā vipassanā ca maggo ca. Tāya duvidhāyapi anupassanāya samannāgato hutvā assasanto passasanto ca ‘‘virāgānupassī assasissāmi passasissāmīti sikkhatī’’ti veditabbo. Nirodhānupassī padepi eseva nayo. Paṭinissaggānupassī ti etthāpi dve paṭinissaggā pariccāgapaṭinissaggo ca pakkhandanapaṭinissaggo ca. Paṭinissaggoyeva anupassanā paṭinissaggānupassanā. Vipassanāmaggānaṃ etamadhivacanaṃ.

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