"Ole Holten Pind" <oleholtenpind@...> wrote:

>
> < It is a
> kind of "heat meditation" (Tejo-dhaatu samaapatti). >
>
> There is no heat-meditation in early Buddhism. The term denotes

the third of

> the four elements: earth, water, fire (tejo), wind.
>
> The sutta illustrates the paradox of nirvana: nothing perceptible

is left of

> the person who has become extinguished.
>

According to the Woodward's translation, the text shows clearly it
is a kind of meditation:

" ... the venerable Dabba of the Mallas rose from his seat, saluted
the Exalted One with his right side, rose into the air and, sitting
cross-legged in the sky, attained the sphere of heat (tejodhaatu.m
samaapajjitvaa), and rising from it passed finally away.

Now when the venerable Dabba of the Mallas [93] had risen into the
air, and after sitting cross-legged in the sky and attaining the
sphere of heat (tejodhaatu.m samaapajjitvaa), had risen from it and
passed finally away, his body was consumed, burned up utterly, so
that not an atom of ash or soot was to be seen. ..." (p. 113)

Regards,

Thomas Law