Nirvana = citta... Buddhahood = pure citta... Immortality = citta...........Doctrine superceeds Commentary

BUDDHAHOOD = CITTA<<<<<<<<<<<
"The purification of one's own mind/will (citta); this is the Doctrine
of the Buddha" [DN 2.49]

"How is it that one is called a 'Buddha'?...gnosis that the mind/will
(citta) is purified (visuddham)...such is how one is deemed a
'Buddha'." [MN 2.144]


'Etam amatam yadidam anupada cittassa vimokkho' - "This is
immortality, that being the liberated mind/will (citta) which does not
cling (after objectivity)" [MN 2.265]


'anupada cittassa vimokkhoti nibbanam
vuccati' - "The non-clinging citta is meant Nirvana" [MN2-Att. 4.68]
'Samathavipassanaya katham abhisameti Arammane cittam
upanibandhetva pañcakkhandhe dukkhato passati' - "How does one
comprehend samatha and vipassana? Seeing that the
basis for suffering is how the citta
is attached to the five-aggregates (pañcakkhandhe)."


[Petekopadesapali 133]
'Attati: citta.' - "The
Atman is meant the citta" [Pati-Att. 1.43, Cula-Att. #16]


The purified mind/will (citta) being equal to Parinirvana<<<<<<<<<<<<
[DN 2.157] "Gotama who is steadfast in mind (citta), inherently
quelled from all desires the mighty sage has passed beyond. With mind
(citta) limitless (Brahman) he no longer bears sensations;
illumined and unbound (nibbana), his mind (citta) is definitely (ahu)
liberated."

The perfect (anasava) mind (citta) being = parinirvana:
[SN 3.45] "The mind (citta) being so liberated and arisen from
defilements, one is fixed in
the Soul as liberation, one is quelled in fixation upon the Soul.
Quelled in the Soul one is unshakable. So being unshakable, the very
Soul is thoroughly unbound (parinirvana)."

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