sn41.6:5.1 Saying “Good, sir,” he asked another question:
sn41.6:5.2 “What’s the difference between someone who has passed away and a mendicant who has attained the cessation of perception and feeling?”
sn41.6:5.3 “When someone dies, their physical, verbal, and mental processes have ceased and stilled; their vitality is spent; their warmth is dissipated; and their faculties have disintegrated.
sn41.6:5.4 When a mendicant has attained the cessation of perception and feeling, their physical, verbal, and mental processes have ceased and stilled. But their vitality is not spent; their warmth is not dissipated; and their faculties are very clear.
sn41.6:5.5 That’s the difference between someone who has passed away and a mendicant who has attained the cessation of perception and feeling.”