No Coming or Going No Passing Away or Arising

And on that occasion The Perfectly Enlightened One was instructing, urging, rousing, and encouraging the Monk with discussion of The Teachings concerned with liberation. The Monks - receptive, attentive, focusing their entire awareness, lending ear - listened to The Teachings.

Then, on realizing the significance of that, The Perfectly Enlightened One on that occasion exclaimed:

One who is dependent has wavering.

One who is independent has no wavering.

There being no wavering, there is calm.

There being calm, there is no yearning.

There being no yearning, there is no coming or going.

There being no coming or going, there is no passing away or arising.

There being no passing away or arising, there is neither a here nor a there nor a between-the-two.

This, just this, is the end of stress.

(Reference: UD 8.4)

In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares the way to eliminate stress is to eliminate craving/desire/attachment.

He uses the word “dependent” rather than craving/desire/attachment and “independent” rather than non-craving/non-desire/non-attachment.

When the mind has eliminated craving/desire/attachment it will no longer waver and fluctuate but instead experience steadiness, stability, and calmness. There is no wavering in a mind that has eliminated craving/desire/attachment.

“Yearning” is another way to describe craving/desire/attachment. When there is “no yearning, there is no coming and going”. When the mind has extinguished craving/desire/ attachment it is peaceful and content wherever it exists and does not have the craving to always be “on the go” or “coming and going”.

When there is “no yearning (i.e. craving/desire/attachment)”, then there is “no coming and going”. The mind will not experience impermanent feelings that are “passing away or arising”. All impermanent conditioned feelings will have been eliminated.

When the impermanent conditioned feelings are eliminated, a Practitioner will not experience “passing away or arising” of discontentedness the mind is permanently peaceful and content, “there is neither a here nor a there nor a between-the-two”. Or in other words, they will not experience rebirth.

With the elimination of rebirth, “this, just this, is the end of stress” as an Enlightened being will no longer experience any stress in the remaining time of their life and they will not experience any future births to experience discontentedness ever again.

The mind is completely liberated and completely free from all discontentedness.