When cravings no more arise..
The Blessed Buddha once explained:
When past conditioning is exhausted, and no fresh causality is produced,
then mind is no longer lead to future rebirth. When cravings no more arise,
the seed is consumed! Still-minded ones cease like the flame of this lamp...
Early this morning, after being weakened by an illness, a sudden pneumonia has taken away the loved and treasured "vehicle/body" of my dad. He died in his sleep. All though he himself had no bond with buddhism, I like to think he has left the building he lived in an moved on to the next.