Relinquishment & Renunciation

[Tep Sastri]

Hello!

According to DN 22 (Maha-satipatthana Sutta), the noble truth of the cessation of stress (dukkha-nirodha) is "the remainderless fading & cessation, renunciation, relinquishment, release, & letting go of that very craving".

['Katamañca bhikkhave dukkhanirodho ariyasaccaṃ? Yo tassā yeva taṇhāya asesavirāganirodho cāgo paṭinissaggo mutti anāyo'] 

Paṭinissagga or vossagga = relinquishment; giving up.   Nekkhamma or cāga = renunciation.

How do the two dhammas relate?

Relinquishment -- giving up through cessation (nirodhavasena) -- is of two kinds:  1) the giving up defilements and aggregates and 2) the entering into Nibbāna dhātu.

Renunciation, the turning away from craving and its drive for gratification, is freedom from attachment. Ultimately renunciation relinquishes all 'foundations of existence' (sabb'upadhi paṭinissagga).

References:

1) Ptsm, IV, 90

2) Ptsm, I, 518

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MN 22: "Monks, whatever isn't yours, let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term welfare & happiness. And what isn't yours? Form isn't yours... Feeling isn't yours... Perception... Thought fabrications... Consciousness isn't yours, let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term welfare & happiness."

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[Tep Sastri]

• Awareness & Direct Knowing

  "When, with regard to these six bases, the defilements of awareness (cetaso upakkilese, defilement of the mind) are abandoned, then the mind is inclined to renunciation. The mind fostered by renunciation feels malleable for the direct knowing of those qualities worth realizing." [SN 27.7 Cetana Sutta]
  

  Briefly, the Pali 'ceto', or 'cetaso', means mind (or awareness, according to venerable Thanissaro Bhikkhu).
  

  cetaso ekodibhāvam = unification of mind; stilling of awareness
  cetaso vūpasamo = pacified mind
  vimokkho hoti cetaso = release of mind
  cetaso ca līnatta.m = sluggishness of awareness
  cetaso vikkhepa.m = derangement of mind
  ..........

  Direct knowledge (Abhiññā) is never mentally fabricated or concocted by craving, wrong views or ignorance (lobha/tanha, ditthi/avijjā). When direct knowing arises, all properties (dhātu), all sense media, all sensed objects, aggregates and phenomena are seen, as they truly are, with detachment.
  

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