Part 24 - Cessation of the Entire Chain: The Vision of Nibbāna
“Whatever is subject to arising
is subject to cessation.”
— AN 3.47
What is ceasing?
Not:
- awareness
- intelligence
- compassion
- clarity
What ceases is:
- the dependent structure of suffering
- the illusion of identity
- the push for another moment
- the fear of ending
The chain ends at its root.
What remains?
Not annihilation.
Not emptiness in the nihilistic sense.
What remains is:
- this moment
- without distortion
- without ownership
- without resistance
The Buddha called it:
Nibbāna — the cessation of suffering
It is the absence
of everything that obscured peace.
What does the end of the chain feel like?
It feels like:
- coolness — the fire goes out
- innocence — nothing to prove
- completeness — nothing missing
- fearlessness — nothing to lose
- silence — the narrative ends
The world is seen
without the world-maker.
The end of time’s burden
Because becoming has ended:
- the future has no job
- time has no threat
- urgency dissolves
There is now,
fully sufficient.
Not a moment leading anywhere —
a moment that stands on its own.
The final transformation
Ignorance was:
a misreading that generated the whole chain.
Wisdom is:
a seeing that prevents the chain.
This is the turning point:
- suffering never gets a chance to appear
- identity never takes hold
- the world never becomes adversarial
The system collapses.
The freedom remains.
Culmination Link for Part 24
The entire Path is summarized:
Remove the cause →
the result cannot exist.
This is Nibbāna:
- no becoming
- no birth
- no suffering
Not an event.
Not an experience.
Not a state of the mind.
But the complete and irreversible
non-arising of the chain.
This is the Buddha’s declaration:
“Suffering can end.”