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Walking Meditation Discourse 11
According to the seventh principle of the Sarvāstivāda School in the Four Noble Truths:
- The three truths of suffering, origination, and path are all conditioned dharmas—“having birth, having death, having remaining, having loss.”
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Only cessation (Nirvana) is unconditioned—“not born, not dying, not remaining, not lost.”
This clearly distinguishes between conditioned and unconditioned dharmas, affirming that Nirvana is the unchanging truth amidst the impermanence of life.
Looking deeply into the non-discrimination between conditioned and unconditioned:
– Like Waves and Water: waves arise and cease but their nature is water, and water is unconditioned.
– Paul Tillich calls God the “ground of being,” approaching the harmony of creator and creation.
– In the Lotus Sutra, the Manifestation Gate (conditioned) and the Original Gate (unconditioned) are not separate, expressed through the image of the Precious Stupa of Buddha Prabhūtaratna and Shakyamuni Buddha sitting together, demonstrating the truth of non-duality: all conditioned dharmas contain the unconditioned nature of Nirvana.
