being: a living flame – and every form of being a burning candle

image credit: Jimmy Chang*

being is a living flame,
and every form of being,
a candle burning*

living flame (!gb)

a light* …  no external refuge (!?) / words of the Buddha in his last days

Stephen Batchelor, on the last word spoken by the Buddha:
clearly appamāda, both for the Buddha and for the tradition that immediately followed him, … somehow synthesizes everything he taught (!?)

appamāda, this kind of careful, conscious awareness, is the very opposite of that loss of attention that allows us to be forgetful, carried away, or lost

one interpretation:
appamāda is being awake to what is or seems to be, carefully observing
without evaluating or judging as good or bad, in choiceless awareness* *

and, backing up to see how this “somehow synthesizes everything he taught,”
nothing is unchanging, nothing depends on nothing,
and nothing can explain this – no one can

believe no one, not even Buddhas*

keep on keeping on with appamāda


*a link; see a note on notes and links; see also a disclaimer
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