SN44.2
Such a sutta is not easy to understand, i feel. What does it want to bring across?
That all those buddhist that have faith in Enlightment and the Realized One are totally deluded because such as a Realized One cannot be found? If there is nothing that we can call the Realized One, what all this talk about having faith, refuge, practice, goal is about?
What does it want to bring across? That we are involved in a dream? There is no Realized One?
My impression is that such a sutta as SN44.2 wants to bring across that there is conceptual reality, a world of names, concepts, conceiving, and there is what can be directly known.
Directly known can be shapes/colours, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile sensation, ideas, emotions, thoughts etc. and Nibbana. Nibbana is not directly known by the senses, i believe, but it is more intuitively known as ones home, the absence of grasping and any ego conceit. It cannot be grasped because it is the absence of grasping.
In that sense Nibbana is also no knowlegde or a particular kind of understanding, i believe. It is more, i feel, like an empty openess. Without any possessions or sense of a possessor. But this openess can never really be grasped by intellect. What is without grasping can only be arrived at by letting go.
Does SN44.2 suggest that the Realized One is a designation for 5 fleeting aggregates without any identity because it constant changes and for this reason cannot be pinpointed? I do not believe so. I believe it points to the impossibility to grasp that what is without grasping. There is a point that one must just accept, i think, one cannot pinpoint and grasp that dimension in ones life that is open and empty. Without conceit and conceiving.
At this moment i tend to this interpretation.
