The End of Stress

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.

“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 where ever 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.