A blind man on the busy road
Unthinkables, How? Conjecturing about the beginning of the universe, and the results of kamma Conjecturing about the range of the Buddha, and the range of meditative Jhāna The four unthinkables, the four unconjecturables, the acinteyya Knowledge of all the four only to a perfect one, the Buddha Because of clear vision, laser-like focus, tarnishing of all fetters and hindrances For an ordinary person, even limitation of knowledge about childhood Then, how about the knowledge of past births till the beginning of the universe Hence, entrance of insanity, the madness, the crushing over of the mind, when intent for such exploration When such exploration without proper stillness of mind (samatha) and then without proper clear seeing (vipassanā) Not only conjecturing, but “no conjecturing” about the four acinteyya too, a hindrance, or even the same field of madness Because still contact with, or immersion in the acintyya The results of kamma with an origin, in the beginning of the universe to...