Gautama Buddha spoke about the aluba wheel to which we are chained, and taught us to renounce all desires and, thus getting rid of desires, enter into nothingness, which he called nirvana.
One day his disciples asked him:
- What is this Nothing, Teacher? We all strive to renounce, as you call, lust, but tell us, is this nothingness where we will enter, approximately the same as consubstantiality with all created things, when you lie mindlessly in the water at noon, almost not feeling your body, lie lazily in the water or fall into sleep, mechanically pulling on the blanket that falls in your sleep? Is your nothingness just as beautiful, your good nothingness, or is your nothingness an ordinary nothingness, cold, empty and meaningless?
Buddha was silent for a long time, then casually said:
- There is no answer to your question.
But in the evening, when the disciples left, Buddha was still sitting under the breadfruit tree and telling the other disciples, those who did not ask questions, this parable:
— I recently saw the house. He was burning. Flames licked the roof. I approached and noticed that there were still people in the house. I entered and shouted that the roof was on fire, thereby urging them to come out quickly. But people seemed to be in no hurry, asking how it was on the street, whether there was another house there, and other things like that. I left without answering. “Such a person will burn asking questions,” I thought.
In fact, friends, those for whom the ground under their feet is not yet so hot that they would be ready to exchange it for any other, have nothing to advise.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru