# (2025-11-05) Vilas' Notes on His Release ([[Vimokkha]]) 🙏🙏🙏 Tags:: [[Vilas]], #vilas, [[Arahat]] ``` Dear Dhamma Friends, This morning, after a quiet conversation with Shainiel on the theme of bonding and circularity — how the mind keeps recreating its own loops, something profound unfolded. There was a sudden loosening, a releasing, followed by a deep emptiness — the kind that is neither gained nor lost, only known through direct cessation. That very stillness is what the Buddha called “vimokkha” — release, the ceasing of saṅkhāras. Over the past five months, the practice has been ripening through six insights — each one dissolving a layer of becoming. Today, the circle seems to have closed; not in completion, but in freedom. Letting go of attainment — realizing the anutpāda Nibbāna dhātu, the unconditioned element beyond arising. Seeing things precisely as they are — yathābhūta-ñāṇadassana, vision unclouded by craving or view. Ceasing the machinery of conditioning — the silent ending of paṭiccasamuppāda. Dissolving the reflective consciousness — the dimming of anidassana viññāṇa, the non-manifest awareness. Releasing even the witness itself — viññāṇa-nirodha, the fading of the observer. Abiding in the field of emptiness — suññatā-bhūmi, where no further step remains. If this stillness sustains in the months ahead, it will mark not an achievement but an extinction — the quiet end of the engine of becoming, the waning of saṁsāra itself. With mettā, Anāgarika Vilas ``` ## 中文翻译 ``` 亲爱的法友们(Dear Dhamma Friends), 今天早晨,在与 Shainiel 关于「连结与循环」这个主题进行了一场安静的谈话后 — 谈到心如何不断地重造自身的循环 — 某种深刻的事物显现了出来。 忽然之间,有一种松开,一种释放,随后出现了一种深沉的空寂 — 那种空寂并非所得,也非所失,只能在止息中直接体证。 那份寂静,正是佛陀所称的 “vimokkha”(巴利文意为「解脱」、「释放」)— 即行(saṅkhāra)止息之境。 在过去的五个月中,这个修行过程已渐渐成熟,经由六个洞见而来 — 每一个洞见都融解了一层“有”(bhava)的结构。 而今天,这个圆似乎闭合了;不是以「完成」的方式,而是以「自由」的方式。 --- 放下对成就的执取 — 证知 anutpāda Nibbāna dhātu(不生的涅槃界)— 那超越生起的无为法。 (解释:anutpāda(不生)指「无生、无起」,Nibbāna dhātu(涅槃界)指「涅槃的界性、本质」,即无因无缘而常住的寂灭元素。) 如实见 — yathābhūta-ñāṇadassana(如实智见)— 以不为贪爱或见解所染的视野,如其本然地看见诸法。 止息缘起的机械 — 那无声的 paṭiccasamuppāda(缘起) 的终止。 (解释:paṭiccasamuppāda 为「缘起法」:此有故彼有,此无故彼无。当缘起的连锁反应止息,苦的循环亦灭。) 融解反照的识 — 即那 anidassana viññāṇa(无相识、不可示识) 的黯淡。 (解释:anidassana viññāṇa 出自巴利经典(如《长部·拘楼瘦憍陳如经》),指超越一切形相的识,非生灭识,非可显现的意识。此处意指「连最微细的觉照作用都寂灭」。) 连见证者本身也放下 — 即 viññāṇa-nirodha(识灭),观察者自身的消逝。 安住于空的境界 — suññatā-bhūmi(空性地)— 在那里,已无进一步的步伐。 --- 若这份寂静能于未来的月份中得以持续,那将不被视为一种成就,而是一种熄灭 — 成为之机(bhava)的静止,轮回(saṁsāra) 的渐息。 以慈心(mettā)祝福, 无家行者 维拉斯(Anāgarika Vilas) ```