The Excerpts 16: Recollection of Peace (Upasamanussati)
Impermanent, changing are
formation
their nature is arising
and ceasing
having arisen they cease
their sitting is bliss
This is peace
this is sublime
that is:
all formations stilled
all substates (of becoming)
relinquished
craving destroyed
passionless
cessation
extinction (of craving)
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Abhidhamma: (1) In the discourses of the Pali Canon,
this term simply means "higher Dhamma," and a
systematic attempt to define the Buddha's teachings
and understand their interrelationships. (2) A later
collection of analytical treatises based on lists of
categories drawn from the teachings in the discourses,
added to the Canon several centuries after the
Buddha's life.