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Message: <blockquote data-quote="netlife007" data-source="post: 16061599" data-attributes="member: 79514">[FONT=&quot]On Darkness and its End the Buddha taught: [/FONT][FONT=&quot]There is, monks, an inter-cosmic[/FONT][FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn56/sn56.046.than.html#n-1" target="_blank">[FONT=&quot]1[/FONT]</a>[/FONT][FONT=&quot] void, an unrestrained darkness, a pitch-black darkness, where even the light of the sun & moon — so mighty, so powerful — doesn't reach. When this was said, one of the monks said to the Blessed One, "Wow, what a great darkness! What a really great darkness! Is there any darkness greater & more frightening than that? There is, monk, a darkness greater & more frightening than that. And which darkness, lord, is greater & more frightening than that? Any priests or contemplatives who do not know, as it actually is present, that 'This is suffering' 'This is the origin of suffering' 'This is the cessation of suffering' and 'This is the Way leading to the cessation of suffering'<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.085.than.html" target="_blank">...</a>[/FONT]</blockquote>

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