When the tasks we have had to do — abandoning and striving —
are done to completion, we know right here, because delusion lay right
here in the heart. We study and practice simply to cure our own
delusion. Once we know right here, and delusion is gone, what else is
there to know? — for beyond this there is nothing further to know. What
else is there for us to be deluded about? We’re no longer deluded,
because we know fully all around.

This very state of mind: When at the beginning I referred to
the superlative Dhamma, the marvelous Dhamma, I was referring to this
very state of mind, this very Dhamma — but it’s something known
exclusively within itself, and exists only within itself. It’s marvelous
— this we know within our own mind. It’s superlative — this we also
know within our own mind. We can’t take it out or unfurl it like other
things for other people to see.

So if you want to have any Noble Treasures to show for
yourself, practice. Remove all those dirty stains from the heart, and
the superlative things I have mentioned will appear by their own nature —
in other words, they will appear in the mind.

This is called completing your study of the Dhamma; and your
study of the world is completed right here. The ‘world’ means the world
of elements, the world of the khandhas that lie right here with each of us, which are more important than the worlds of elements and khandhas belonging to other people, because this world of elements and khandhas lies with us and has been weighing on the heart all along.

When we have studied the Dhamma to the attainment of release, that’s all there is to study. We’ve studied the world to completion and studied the Dhamma in full. Our doubts are gone,
and there is nothing that will ever make us doubt again. As the Buddha
exclaimed, ‘When dhammas become apparent to the Brahman, earnest and
absorbed, doubt comes to an end because the conditions, the factors for
continued being and birth, come to an end.’

Once we have reached this level, we can live wherever we
like. The war is ended — the war between the mind and defilement, or the
war between Dhamma and defilement, is over. This is where we dismantle
being and birth. This is where we dismantle the heap of suffering in the round of rebirth — right here in the heart.
Since the heart is the wanderer through the cycle of rebirth, we have
to dismantle things right here, to know them right here. Once we know,
that’s the end of all problems right here.

In this whole wide world there are no problems. The only
problem was the issue of the heart that was deluded about itself and
about the things that became involved with it. Now that it has
completely rectified the way it is involved with things, there is
nothing left — and that’s the end of the problem.

From this point on, there are no more problems to trouble the heart until the day of its total nibbana. This is how the Dhamma is studied to completion. The world — the world of elements and khandhas — is studied to completion right here.

So keep striving in order to see the marvel described at the
beginning, which was described in line with the truth with no aspect to
invite any doubt.

The Buddha and the Noble Disciples have Dhamma filling their
hearts to the brim. You are a disciple of the Tathagata, with a mind
that can be made to show its marvelousness through the practice of
making it pure, just like the Buddha and the Noble Disciples. So try to
make it still and radiant, because the heart has long lain buried in the
mud. As soon as you can see the harm of the mud and grow tired of it,
you should urgently wake up, take notice, and exert yourself till you
can manage to make your way free. Nibbana is holding its hand out, waiting for you. Aren’t you going to come out?

Rebelliousness is simply distraction. The end of
rebelliousness is stillness. When the heart is still, it’s at ease. If
it’s not still, it’s as hot as fire. Wherever you are, everything is hot
and troubled. Once it is still, then it’s cool and peaceful wherever
you are — cool right here in the heart. So make the heart cool with the
practice, because the heat and trouble lie with the heart. The heat of
fire is one thing, but the heat of a troubled heart is hotter than fire.
Try to put out the fires of defilement, craving, and mental effluents
burning here in the heart, so that only the phenomenon of genuine Dhamma
remains. Then you will be cool and at peace, everywhere and always.

And so I’ll ask to stop here.