Side note:Srilankaputra wrote: ↑Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:05 amSomewhat, the Blessed One also taught a way of exhausting old fuel by burning it off. But in order to do this adding new fuel has to be stopped.
https://suttacentral.net/sn46.26/en/sujatoAnd so, Udāyī, when craving ends, deeds end; when deeds end suffering ends.”
Iti kho, udāyi, taṇhakkhayā kammakkhayo, kammakkhayā dukkhakkhayo”ti.
Suppose, bhikkhus, an oil lamp was burning in dependence on oil and a wick, and a man would pour oil into it and adjust the wick from time to time. Thus, sustained by that oil, fuelled by it, that oil lamp would burn for a very long timehttps://suttacentral.net/sn12.53/en/bodhiSuppose, bhikkhus, an oil lamp was burning in dependence on oil and a wick, and the man would not pour oil into it or adjust the wick from time to time. Thus, when the former supply of fuel is exhausted, that oil lamp, not being fed with any more fuel, lacking sustenance, would be extinguished
https://suttacentral.net/an3.34/en/sujatoAnd wherever that deed ripens, its result is experienced—either in the present life, or in the next life, or in some subsequent period.
Yattha taṃ kammaṃ vipaccati tattha tassa kammassa vipākaṃ paṭisaṃvedeti, diṭṭhe vā dhamme upapajja vā apare vā pariyāye
What gets exhausted is the kamma, for lack of a better term, that is destined to be experienced in this life.
Kamma that was destined to be experienced next life, or in some subsequent period looses any basis for ripening.
https://suttacentral.net/an3.76/en/sujatoSo, Ānanda, deeds are the field, consciousness is the seed, and craving is the moisture.
Iti kho, ānanda, kammaṃ khettaṃ, viññāṇaṃ bījaṃ, taṇhā sneho.
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.htmlKhīṇaṃ purāṇaṃ nava natthi sambhavaṃ,
Virattacittāyatike bhavasmiṃ;
Te khīṇabījā avirūḷhichandā,
Nibbanti dhīrā yathāyaṃ padīpo
Ended the old, there is no new taking birth.
dispassioned their minds toward further becoming,
they, with no seed, no desire for growth,
the prudent, go out like this flame.