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Energy is the Fifth Mental Perfection:
Energy means enthusiasm
Energy means effort
Energy means exertion
Energy means interest
Energy means endeavour
Energy means eagerness
Energy means initiative
Energy means intensity
Energy means action
Energy means force
Energy means power
Energy means drive
Energy means hyper
Energy means keenness
Energy means devotion
Energy means dedication
Energy means determination
Energy means commitment
Energy means enjoyment
Energy pave the way for success in all & any project ...
Energy is thereby instrumental for all the perfections!!!
Without Energy no achievement can ever be accomplished..
The proximate cause for Energy is a sense of urgency!!!
The characteristic of Energy is Striving, it's function is
Effort, and the manifestation of Energy is Endurance.
The blessed Buddha said about the perfection of Energy:
Get up! Sit up!
Of what use are your dreams ?
How can you sleep, when mentally sick,
stabbed by the arrow of urge & craving.
Sutta Nipata 331
Get up! Sit up!
Push on your training, until reaching sole peace!
Don't let the king of death -Mara- see you sloppy &
thus delude & dominate you like a stringed toy doll...
Sutta Nipata 332
Possessed of Energy & Endurance
be always Earnest in your training.
The clever One is not satisfied before the
goal of ending all misery, is wholly achieved.
Theragatha 585
It is too cold, it is too hot...,
It is too early, it is too late!
Such bad excuses, make one
give up the training & miss one
more precious opportunity...
DN 31
This straight Way has now been clearly shown:
Don’t hesitate, walk forward & do not turn around.
Urge yourself to advance further by your own Energy,
only thus will you obviously approach & attain Nibbana!
Theragatha 637
The effort to prevent & to eliminate evil,
to develop & to maintain good: These are
the 4 right efforts, taught by the Buddha.
AN II 17
And what, friends, is feeding the Energy Link to Enlightenment,
not yet arisen, & food too for boosting of any present Energy ?
1: The element of initial initiative,
2: The element of launching into action,
3: The element of persistent endurance.
Systematic attention to these 3 aspects, is feeding the yet unarisen Energy
Link to Awakening, & food too for boosting of any already present Energy.
Samyutta Nikaya XLVI 51 Bojjhanga-samyutta
At such times, friends,
when the mind is Slow, Sluggish, and Heavy:
Then it is the Right Occasion: for cultivating the
Investigation-by-curiosity enlightenment-factor,
for cultivating the Energy-of-Enthusiasm enlightenment-factor,
for cultivating the Rapture-of-Joy enlightenment-factor...
Why is it so ? When the mind is slow, sluggish, and heavy,
it is Easily Raised Up by exactly these 3 mental qualities.
Suppose, friends, that a man wants a fire to blaze up,
and he put on dry grass, dry wood sticks and blow it
with dry hot air and do not cover it with any dust,
would that man then see his fire blaze up ?
Certainly So, Lord... SN V, 46. Bojjhanga-samyutta
When Moggallana where sitting nodding in the jungle night:
Well then, Moggallana, whatever experience you had in mind when
drowsiness demoralized you down, don't attend to that experience,
don't follow it. Remember instead the Dhamma, as you have heard &
memorized it, reflect on & examine it! Then raise up & repeat aloud
the details of Dhamma, as you have learnt it! Then pull both your
earlobes and rub your limbs with both your hands.! Then get up from
your seat, and after washing your eyes with cold water, look around
& upward in all directions and identify the major stars & planets!
Then attend to the experience of inner light, resolve on the clear
perception of daytime, by night as by day, and by day as by night!
By means of an Awareness thus open, unhindered & vivid, develop the
bright mind. It's possible, that by doing this, you will shake off your
lethargy... But if by doing this you don't shake off your laziness, then
continually noting what is both in front & behind set of a distance to
meditate walking back & forth, your senses inwardly settled, while
your mind is not getting lost outwards. It is possible that by doing this
you will finally shake off all your mental sluggishness...
Anguttara Nikaya VII 58
Born as the Brahmin Mahajanaka, the Bodhisatta was once,
aboard a sinking ship far from shore. All the crew were in great panic...!!!
The Bodhisatta though ate his belly full of sugar & ghee, oiled his clothes
and swam continuously for 7 days towards the shore, until he was rescued
by an ocean guarding female devata. Later he remembered:
"Even far out at sea, where many men were lost, yet still unruffled by worry
was my mind. Just kept swimming: This was my perfection of Energy."
Mahajanaka-Jataka no. 539
SPREADING FAME
One who exerts effort,
one who is alert and always aware,
one who does good deeds voluntarily & deliberately,
one who is kind and considerate in all dealings,
one who is restrained & controlled,
one who lives according to the real truth of Dhamma,
carefully & seriously,
the Fame of such one grows ever & exceedingly.
Dhammapada 24
SAFETY
By arousing and inspiring oneself to
putting forth stable & energetic effort;
By meticulous carefulness;
By well trained, well restrained self-control,
the wise & clever ones make themselves an
island safe no flood nor fever can ever overwhelm.
Dhammapada 25
More on Energy (viriya):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm
More of the 10 mental perfections (paramis):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ten_Perfections.htm
Have a nice energetic day!
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Enthusiastic is Energy!
What the Blessed Buddha Gotama actually said & did:
The unsurpassable blissful advantage gained by thorough study of these 3 ancient
text collections lasts much more than this single & short life ...
Not much else in this petty world give such elevating lift !!!
The core of Ancient Authentic Sacred Buddhist Scriptures:
The Long Discourses of the Buddha. Digha Nikaya 1996. Tr. by Walshe
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=251033
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html free
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya 1995. Tr. by Nanamoli. MUST READ!
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/majjhima/index.html free
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha. 2000. Tr. by Bodhi.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html free
For more serious study of the ~2491 years old sacred Buddhist texts:
Check: The 1881 founded Pali Text Society: http://www.palitext.com
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Serious Study of Sweet Sources!
Balanced Equanimity is the Tenth Mental Perfection:
Equanimity characteristically induces & promotes impartial neutrality...
It's function is to look upon things with an even unreactive indifference!
It's manifestation is the gradual stilling of both attraction & repulsion..
It's proximate cause is seeing, that all inherit the results of their actions.
It's effect is utter purification & perfection of all other mental qualities,
by ending both discontent & delight, thereby providing the necessary
equal calm required for their complete assessment & accomplishment.
Equanimity means Unaffectable..
Equanimity means Unprovokable..
Equanimity means Undisturbable..
Equanimity means Unexcitable..
Equanimity means Imperturbable..
Equanimity means Disengaged..
Equanimity means Disentangled..
Equanimity means Detached..
Equanimity means Immovable..
Equanimity means Unbeatable..
Equanimity means Untemptable..
Equanimity means Wholly Immune..
Equanimity means Indifferent..
Equanimity means Impartial..
Equanimity means Unbiased..
Equanimity means Disinterested..
Equanimity means Balanced..
Even like a smiling mountain!
Cool Calm is the ultimate Balm!
The Blessed One once said about this 3-fold Equanimity (Upekkha):
If Indifferent towards both:
Internal states & external phenomena,
Living beings & lifeless things,
Past, present & future events,
How can one be hurt, upset,
disturbed or distressed ?
Calm is his mind.
Calm is his speech.
Calm is his action.
So is the Tranquility;
So is the Equanimity;
of one freed by the Insight
of right Knowledge.
Dhammapada 96
Although a man is richly dressed and adorned,
if he is in peace, at ease, in equanimity, calmed,
composed, controlled, celibate and harmless
towards all beings, then verily he is a Holy One,
a recluse, a sage ...
Dhammapada 142
Equanimity towards one's own internal states -
that is indeed a link to Enlightenment.
Equanimity regarding external phenomena & conditions -
that is indeed also a link to Enlightenment.
Samyutta Nikaya V Bojjhanga-samyutta.
Such noble friend finally develops
the link to awakening that is Equanimity
during Awareness of in-&-out breathing,
which protect against damaging mental states,
tends to detachment, to ceasing, tends to release
& culminates in complete self-surrender...
If, friends, Awareness of in-&-out breathing,
is so cultivated and so made much of, it is
indeed of great fruit, of great advantage!
One whose Awareness of breathing in-&-out
is perfected, well developed, and gradually
brought to refined growth thus, according to the
teaching of the Buddha, such one illuminates the
entire world, just like the full moon freed from clouds.
Samyutta Nikaya V Anapana-samyutta.
Now how, Ananda, in the discipline of a Noble One is there
the unsurpassable development of the senses?
There is the case where, when seeing a form with the eye,
there arises in a monk what is agreeable, or what is disagreeable,
or what is both agreeable & disagreeable. He recognizes that:
This agreeable thing has arisen in me, or this disagreeable thing...
or this both agreeable & disagreeable thing, has arisen in me:
And that is constructed, conditioned, coarse & dependently co-arisen!
But this is peaceful, this is exquisite, namely even & equal equanimity!
Instantly, that arisen agreeable or disagreeable thing ceases,
and Equanimity takes it's calm stance!
Just as a man with good eyes, having closed them, might open them;
or when open, might close them, that is how quickly, how rapidly,
how easily, no matter what it refers to, Equanimity make
whatever arisen agreeable thing... or disagreeable thing...
or both agreeable & disagreeable thing cease right there,
and Equanimity takes it's even stance!
In the discipline of The Noble One, this is called the unsurpassable
development of the senses with regard to visible forms cognizable
by the eye. Similar is the supreme development of the other senses.
MN 152
With the fading of rapturous joy, he remains in equanimity,
aware & alert, still physically sensitive to bodily pleasure.
He enters & remains in the third jhana, of which the Noble Ones
declare: 'In aware Equanimity, one abides in pleasure...'
With the stilling of pleasure & pain as with the earlier disappearance
of elation & frustration, he enters & remains in the fourth jhana:
sole Awareness purified by equanimity, - neither pleasure nor pain -
This is called right concentration...
The elimination of both sensual desires & of discontent,
the ejection of laziness, the calming of all regrets,
just this pure Equanimity being aware of all mental
properties exactly at the moment they appear:
That I call the direct knowledge of release
the breakthrough from ignorance.
Sutta Nipata V 13: Udaya's Questions
Equanimity is 'Tatra-majjhattata', which designates the evenly balanced
keeping to the moderate middle of all things. It has as characteristic, that
it effects the balance of consciousness and mental properties as a single
function of single taste, which prevents both overt excessiveness and any
lack or insufficiency. Equanimity thereby puts an end to biased partiality by
manifesting moderation well within range of the properly reasoned midway.
Visuddhimagga XIV
The Buddha once explained:
I would make my bed in a charnel ground, with a skeleton for my pillow..
And cowherd boys came up and spat on me, urinated on me, threw dirt at me,
and poked sticks into my ears! While others, exultant & thrilled brought me
offerings of food, caskets of perfume & incense and garlands of flowers!
Yet I do not recall, that I ever showed any partiality towards any of them...
I was the same to them all! Neither arousing any fondness nor any aversion!
This was my ultimate perfection of equanimity...
MN 12 Lomahamsanapariyaya The Hair-raising Presentation
Also found in Cariyapitaka III 15
More on Equanimity (Upekkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Serene_Equanimity_and_Beyond.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unshakable_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Equanimity_Upekkha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Empty_Equanimity.htm
More of the 10 mental perfections (paramis):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ten_Perfections.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_10_mental_perfections_(parami)_in_three_levels.htm
Even & imperturbable ease is Equanimity!
The Supreme Goal Ahead:
The Blessed Buddha Gotama once said:
The purpose of morality, is control of behaviour.
The purpose of controlled behaviour, is absence of regrets.
The purpose of absence of regrets, is joy.
The purpose of joy, is satisfaction.
The purpose of satisfaction, is calm.
The purpose of calm, is happiness.
The purpose of happiness, is concentration.
The purpose of concentration, is understanding.
The purpose of understanding, is turning away.
The purpose of turning away, is disillusion.
The purpose of disillusion, is mental release.
The purpose of mental release, is Nibbana,
Final Freedom without remnants of clinging...
Have a nice free day!
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Final Freedom!
How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?
Vap Poya day is the full-moon of October. This holy day celebrates the
end of the Bhikkhu's three months rains retreat and marks the Kathina
month of robes , where lay people donate a set of robes to the Sangha.
This also celebrates the day that Buddha began to teach the Abhidhamma!
More about the Kathina Ceremony:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Kathina_Ceremony.htm
On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days:
Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges and undertakes the
Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean
bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first
three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor.
Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines
in a loud, calm & steady voice:
As long as this life lasts:
I hereby take refuge in the Buddha.
I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma.
I hereby take refuge in the Sangha.
I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time.
I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.
I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!
I accept to respect & undertake these 5 training rules:
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Dishonesty.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs.
As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...
Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's
own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much
better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in & to
this world! So is the start towards Nibbana: the Deathless Element!
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Ease, to Happiness,
initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and
fulfilled by training of Meditation...
Today indeed is Pooya or Uposatha or observance day, where any lay
Buddhist normally keeps even the Eight Precepts from sunrise until the
next dawn... If any wish an official recognition by the Bhikkhu-Sangha,
they may simply forward the lines starting with "I hereby ..." signed with
name, date, town & country to me or join here. A public list of this new
quite rapidly growing global Saddhamma-Sangha is set up here!
The True Noble Community of Buddha's Disciples: Saddhamma Sangha:
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Can quite advantageously be Joined Here:
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May your journey hereby be light, swift and sweet. Never give up !!
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For Details on The Origin of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
For the 2008 Calendar of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Poya.Uposatha.Observance_days.2008.htm
Have a nice Vap poya day!
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Vap Poya Day: The Kathina Ceremony!
Not even as much as a Fingernail of Dust Lasts a single moment!
At Savatthi. Seated to the side, a certain bhikkhu asked the
Blessed One: Is there, Venerable Sir, any form, or any feeling,
or any perception, or any construction, or any consciousness,
that is permanent, stable, eternal, not a changing state, that
will remain the same, just like eternity itself ?
Then the Blessed One took up a tiny bit of soil on his fingernail
and said to that bhikkhu: Bhikkhu, there is not even this much
form, feeling, perception, construction, nor consciousness, that
is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject to change, that will
remain the same, just like eternity itself...!!!
If there was this much form, feeling, perception, construction,
or consciousness, that was permanent, stable, eternal, and not
changing, this living of the Noble Life for the utterly complete
elimination of all suffering, could not be made known...
But because there is not even this much form, nor feeling, nor any
perception, nor construction, nor consciousness that is permanent,
stable, eternal, not subject to change, this living of the Noble Life
for the complete elimination of all suffering can be made known...
More on the Universal Fact of Impermanence:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm
VANISHING
Impermanent, Momentary;
Are all phenomena existing.
Whoever fully perceives this with Insight
straightaway develops immunity to suffering.
This is a way to freedom. Dhammapada 277
Experiencing the inevitable Break-Up of all Constructions!
Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya XXII (97); [III 147-9]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 An Ocean of Dhamma Teaching!
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/index.html#Khandha On Clusters!
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All is Vanishing Transience!
Silly Confrontational Opposition:
"I"-Dentification = Egoism is leading to Aversion:
"'I Am'... Green, while 'You Are'... Blue"
"Therefore 'I Am' Against 'You'..."
"Therefore Are You Against Me..."
"Therefore I Fear You!!!"
"Therefore I Hate You!!!"
Non-"I"-Dentification = selflessness is leading to Harmony:
"This is Green, while that is Blue ..."
"So is it! So be it! Let it be! Let it go!..."
"Polarity is Pain & Diversity is Noise..."
"Unity is Peace & Harmony is Bliss..."
"As we both & all can, so let us Meditate!"
Dwelling in Kind Peace is sweet ease.
Please repeat the argument exchanging the
Green/Blue pair with these common pairs:
Black/White, Rich/Poor, Educated/Uneducated,
High/Low, Man/Woman, Young/Old, Big/Small,
Intelligent/Stupid, Beautiful/Ugly, Strong/Weak,
Eastern/Western, North/Southern, RaceX/RaceY,
ReligionX/ReligionY, CultureX/CultureY, etc...
SkinX/SkinY NationalityX/NationalityY, etc...
PoliticalX/PoliticalY, ColorX/ColorY, etc...
FamilyX/FamilyY, GroupX/GroupY etc....!
Opposition is a diluted derivative of Hate!
Hate produces only suffering!
Have a nice selfless day!
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Sweet Selfless Ease!
The Ease of Serene Calm:
A radiant deity once asked the Buddha:
Those who dwell deep in the forest,
Peacefully living the Noble life,
Eating only a single meal a day,
Why is their appearance so serene?
The Blesses Buddha responded:
They do not trouble over the past,
Nor do they crave for any future,
They live just with what is present,
Therefore are their looks so serene!
By urging towards the yet unreal future,
By longing back into a forever lost past,
Fools verily dry up and wither away,
Like a green creeper cut at the root...
Source: The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya I 5
Have a nice forest day!
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Solitary serene calm is Bliss in the Forest!
Safe Release from all Anxiety:
The young deity Subrahma once asked the Buddha:
Always frightened is this Mind!
Always agitated is this Mind!
About present problems.
About future problems.
If there is a release from this Anxiety,
please then explain it to me...
Whereupon the Blessed Buddha declared:
I see no other real safety for any living being,
except from control of the senses,
except from the relinquishment of all,
except from awakening into Enlightenment!
Samyutta Nikaya I 54
Have a nice day without a trace of anxiety!
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Fearless Safety!
What causes mental release through Understanding?
The Blessed Buddha once explained the chain of causal events:
Association with a Great Man completes hearing the True Dhamma..
Hearing the true Dhamma completes Faith, Confidence & Conviction..
Faith, confidence and conviction completes Rational Attention..
Rational attention completes Mindfulness & Clear Comprehension..
Mindfulness & clear comprehension completes Guarding the Senses..
Guarding the senses completes good mental, verbal & bodily Behaviour..
Good modes of action completes the Four Foundations of Awareness..
The 4 foundations of Awareness completes the 7 Links to Awakening..
The 7 links to Awakening completes Mental Release by Understanding...!!!
Details are outlined here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Dhamma_Contemplation.htm|
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Lay_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Careful_and_Rational_Attention.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear_Comprehension.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Guarding_the_Sense_Doors.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Guarding_the_Senses.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Five_Basics.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Links_to_Awakening.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Understanding_is_the_Chief.htm
Source: The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: Anguttara Nikaya V 115
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Released by Understanding!
How does the Noble 8-fold Way makes one Noble?
Having cultivated the Noble 8-fold Way, a being might enter the stream,
which leads to Nibbana! The Stream-Enterer (Sotapanna) is entirely freed
from rebirth as Animal, Hungry Ghost, Angry Demon & Burning Hell Being!
Such Noble One (Ariya) will be enlightened within maximally 7 rebirths...
The Stream-Enterer has eliminated all egoism, belief in a 'person' or 'self',
eradicated all 'I-making' & 'Mine-making', abolished all sceptical doubt in
the perfect Self-Enlightenment of the Buddha, & removed silly superstitious
belief in any benefit of empowerments and empty rituals. Such Noble have
by direct momentary experience touched and tasted the deathless Nibbana
and is forever hereafter independent of any Dhamma-teacher...
Having cultured the Noble 8-fold Way even further, a being might attain the
state of a Once-Returner (Sakadagami), who is reborn only once as human or
lower god (deva) and then awakens in that next life! Such Noble has further
reduced sense-desire and aversion...
Having yet further refined the Noble 8-fold Way, a being might attain the
state of a Non-Returner (Anagami), who is reborn in the higher fine material
worlds - The Pure Abodes - where they live for many universal cycles & there
attain Nibbana without ever returning to the human or lower divine worlds...
Such Noble has furthermore entirely eliminated sense-desire and aversion!
Having fully perfected the Noble 8-fold Way one awakens as an Arahat, who
is enlightened in this very life, by elimination of all remaining mental defects
such as desire for fine form and formlessness, the subtle conceit that 'I am',
latent tendency to restlessness and all ignorance. Such Noble One enters at
the moment of death the freedom, bliss & peace of Nibbana without trace of
clinging left...
Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Noble_8_fold_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_3-fold_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Noble_8-Fold_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fruits_of_the_Noble_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_Cease_Suffering.htm
Have a nice Noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The Sweet Fruits of the Noble Way!
Cause & Effect: Action & Reward:
Giving is the prime cause of Wealth!
No giving = no wealth, much giving = much wealth!
Giving Food, one gives and later gets Strength!
Giving Clothes, one gives and later gets Beauty!
Giving Medicine, one gives and later gets Health!
Giving Shelter, one gives and later gets Protection!
Giving Transport, one gives and later gets Swift Ease!
Giving Lamps, one gives and later gets Light and Sight!
Giving Learning, one gives and later gets Intelligence!
Giving True Dhamma, one gives & later gets Deathlessness!
Thus this gift of True Dhamma exceeds all other gifts...
More on Generosity = The 1st mental perfection:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Glad_Giving.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Openhanded_Generosity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Generosity_Contemplation.htm
The Gods became the Gods, by Good Giving to the Pure Ones!
Have a nice generous day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Giving is Getting!
The Fourfold Advantage:
A deity once asked the Buddha:
What is good, even when one is old?
What is good, when established?
What is a human's most precious treasure?
What is hard for thieves to steal?
The blessed Buddha answered:
Morality is good, even when one is old!
Faith is good, when established!
Understanding is human's most precious treasure!
Merit is hard for thieves to steal!
More on these 4 Basics:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Mighty_is_Morality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Faith_Summary.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Understanding_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Advantageous.htm
Source: The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya I 36
Have a nice good day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka ;-)
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The Common Core of all Good!
Any Cause produce an Effect:
Therefore:
Never do any Evil!
Neither openly nor in Secret...
If having done bad or is doing wrong now,
pain surely returns, even though one flee
by flying away... The effect of any action,
good as bad, follows the doer like a shadow
that never leaves... Consequence is Certain...
Why so ? Because one cannot hide anything
for one's own mind! It knows & remembers!
Mind is thus forerunner of all phenomena...
The Blessed Buddha on non-violence:
I am a friend of the footless,
I am a friend of the bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed.
May not the footless harm me,
may not the bipeds harm me,
may not those with four feet harm me,
and may not those with many feet harm me.
AN. II, 72
Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the wood.
No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.
Uplifted by such universal friendliness I enjoyed the forest.
Finding great solace in sweet silent solitude.
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540
On Harmlessness:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Harmlessness_and_Tolerance.htm
Have a nice harmless day!
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Invariable Law: Do no Harm!
Essentially Luminous, but veiled by defilement is Mind:
The exalted Buddha once said:
Friends, I know of no other single thing, so quickly changing as this swift mind,
insofar as it is not easy to find just one other phenomena changing equally fast.
Shining bright, friends, is this mind, yet it is obstructed by external defilements.
Luminous absolutely, is that pure mind, when it is safely released and freed from
these alien impurities. Naturally Radiant is this mind, though it is soiled by these
accumulated foreign obscurations. This, the ordinary unlearned persons cannot
understand as it really is! I tell you, that is why uneducated ordinary persons
neither meditate nor develop mentally. Luminous is that mind, friends, when it is
purified & released from these fermented pollutions. This does the learned Noble
Disciple fully understand as it really is. I tell you, that is why that educated Noble
Disciple develops & improve mentally by training meditation...
Source: The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: Anguttara Nikaya I 8-11:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.8-10.htm
Have a nice bright day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Naturally Luminous, but veiled is this Mind!
The Buddha's Speech on Friendliness:
What should the clever one advantageously do:
To attain This State called Peace, is this:
He should be intelligent, straight, honest,
Humble, gentle and never proud,
Contented, and easy to support,
Not busy, careful, and silenced…
In abilities & senses, cautious, & modest,
Not flattering families nor be demanding.
He should not do even a minor trifle at all,
That other wise men might criticize.
Then he should think:
May all beings be joyous and safe!
Let every creature's mind rejoice.
Whatever breathing beings there are,
No matter whether feeble or firm,
With none excepted, whether long;
Tall, big, medium, short or small;
Whether seen or unseen, visible or not;
Whether living far or near, here or there;
Whether existing or just about to become;
Let every living being's mind be jubilant!!!
Let none kill or another one undo,
Nor harm anyone anywhere at all...
Let none wish another any ill,
neither from provocation nor from revenge.
Thus, as a mother with her own life
Might guard her son, her only child, thus
Should he maintain an infinite friendliness;
for every living being, in sympathy for this
entire universe, unlimited, endless & vast!
Above, below, and all around, unimpeded,
without any hatred, without any enemies!
Whether standing, walking, seated or
lying down while slumbering, he should always
maintain such Awareness of gentle kindness...
This is the Divine Abiding here, they say.
He that do not traffic with various views,
Perfected in seeing what is right & wrong,
Purged of lust for sense-pleasures, he will
surely not come back here to any womb...
Source: Minor Readings and the Illustrator
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130231
Have a nice & friendly day!
Friendship is Greatest: Mettaa!!!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
How to Cut the Five Minor Mental Chains:
Friends, how does one cut the 5 minor mental chains of:
1: Identity and personality belief.
2: Skeptical doubt in Buddha's Awakening.
3: Superstitious clinging to rule & ritual.
4: Greed, desire, lust and attraction.
5: Hate, anger, irritation & aversion.
The Blessed Buddha once explained:
In whatever situation or mental state one enters, whether high or low,
whether fine or foul, whether subtle or gross, whether far or near,
one knows, notes, reflects and remembers the facts exactly like this:
'Whatsoever herein is form, feeling, experience, mental construction, &
bare consciousness, all this is impermanent, transient, passing, unstable,
decaying, and vanishing; all this is miserable, painful, ill, a thorn, a tumor,
a disaster, a torture, and a burning pit; all this is remote, alien, impersonal,
ownerless, void of stable substance & keepable entity, completely empty of
any self-ego-me-I-mine-identity-or-personality...'
One thereby directs mind away from those unsafe phenomena and turns it
towards the freedom of the Deathless Dimension: Nibbâna like this: 'But
this is peace, the supreme stilling of all construction, the relinquishing of
all acquisition, the sublime release of all clinging, the calming of all craving,
disgust, disillusion, ceasing of all noise, perception & sensation, Nibbâna...'
Firmly established in this safe mode of reflection, one either eliminates the
mental fermentations completely and thus attains Nibbâna - here and now -
in this very life, or if not that, then one is reborn spontaneously in the pure
abodes, the pure lands, the pure realms, the pure spheres, of fine material,
where one clears the 5 lower fetters - the 5 minor mental chains - & attains
Nibbâna from there, without ever returning to this world from that level...
The Moderated Speeches by the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya 64 [I 435-7]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/majjhima/index.html
PS: The 'Pure Land' (SukhaVati) Buddhism of today may thus have begun from
what the Buddha early & originally called 'The Pure Abodes' (SuddhaVasa):
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/loka.html#rupa
Have a nice relaxed releasing day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Cutting the 5 Chains!
Who or What Creates the Pain?
They asked the blessed Buddha:
Is suffering created by oneself? He answered: Not so!
Is suffering created by another? He answered: Not so!
Is suffering created both by oneself & another? Not so!
Is suffering created neither by oneself nor another? Not so!
Suffering arise in Dependence! Dependent on what?
Dependent on Contact ... does all suffering arise ...
Without contact it is impossible to experience any suffering!
Dependent on Contact does Feeling arise.
Dependent on Feeling does Craving arise.
Dependent on Craving does Clinging arise.
Dependent on Clinging does Becoming arise.
Dependent on Becoming does Birth arise.
Dependent on Birth does Decay & Death arise.
Dependent on Decay & Death does Suffering come into being!
Note: Death here is both death of the moment & death at life's end.
There is thus no ‘agent’ or 'doer' or 'observer, neither inside nor outside...
There is this passing sequence of momentary causally dependent states.
The prior mental moment conditioning the next and this, the next etc...
Quite impersonal is this flux. Not anything worth clinging to!!!
Just ever passing states…
Imagined "God"-creator concept.
Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya II 32-43
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
All hail the "Creator"!
Have a nice passive day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
There is neither Agent, Actor nor Creator!
Only Conditioned Selfless States arising in Mutual Dependence!
Begin by extending Friendliness towards yourself:
May I be free from ill-will.
May I be free from enmity.
May I be free from affliction.
May I be happy.
May I be free from suffering.
May I not be parted from the good fortune I have attained.
I am the owner of my kamma and must inherit its results.
May the guardian deities in this house be free from anger.
May they be free from enmity.
May they be free from affliction.
May they be happy.
May they be free from suffering.
May they not be parted from the good fortune they have attained.
They are owners of their kamma and will inherit its results.
Next, extend Friendliness to your parents, teachers, relatives, and friends:
May my mother and father, teacher, relatives,
and associates be free from anger.
May they be free from enmity.
May they be free from affliction.
May they be happy.
May they be free from suffering.
May they not be parted from the good fortune they have attained.
They are owners of their kamma and will inherit its results.
Then extend Friendliness to all kinds of living beings:
May all sentient things, all breathing things, all beings, all persons, all individuals,
all women, all men, all Noble Ones, all ordinary persons, all deities, all human beings,
all those destined for the states of loss, be free from anger.
May they be free from enmity.
May they be free from affliction.
May they be happy.
May they be free from suffering.
May they not be parted from the good fortune they have attained.
All beings are the owners of their kamma and must inherit its results.
Finally, extend Friendliness in all directions:
In the east, the south, the west, the north, the south-east, the south-west, the north-west,
the north-east, below, and above. May all sentient things, all breathing things, all beings, all persons,
all individuals, all women, all men, all Noble Ones, all ordinary persons, all deities, all human beings,
all those destined for the states of loss, be free from anger.
May they be free from enmity.
May they be free from affliction.
May they be happy.
May they be free from suffering.
May they not be parted from the good fortune they have attained.
All beings every where are the owners of their kamma and will inherit its results.
Forwarded by a friend.
More on this shining, radiating through all everywhere beaming Friendliness:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Buddha_on_Noble_Frienship.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Harmlessness_and_Tolerance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/All_Embracing_Kindness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/All-Embracing_Kindness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoicing_Bliss_is_Mudita.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_Friendliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_&_Bright.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Goodwill_Encore.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Friendship.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm
Infinite Friendliness!
Only Ownerless & Transient Effects of prior Conditions:
The Blessed Buddha once stated:
Sabbe Dhamma Anatta!
which means:
All states are not self...
This body is neither yours, nor anybody else's...
These feelings are neither yours, nor anybody else's.
These perceptions are neither yours, nor anybody else's.
These mental constructions are neither yours, nor anybody else's.
These verbal constructions are neither yours, nor anybody else's.
These bodily constructions are neither yours, nor anybody else's.
This consciousness is neither yours, nor anybody else's.
They are results of old kamma, prior actions, something to be seen as generated and
shaped by accumulations of past intention, emerging as effects to be sensed now...
When this exists, that comes to be. With the arising of this, that arises.
When this does not exist, that does not come to be. When this ceases, that ceases too:
That is:
The fading away of Ignorance causes Mental Construction to cease.
The fading away of Mental Construction causes Consciousness to cease.
The fading away of Consciousness causes Name-&-Form to cease.
The fading away of Name-&-Form causes The 6 Senses to cease.
The fading away of The 6 Senses causes Contact to cease.
The fading away of Contact causes Feeling to cease.
The fading away of Feeling causes Craving to cease.
The fading away of Craving causes Clinging to cease.
The fading away of Clinging causes Becoming to cease.
The fading away of Becoming causes Birth to cease.
The fading away of Birth causes Ageing, Decay & Death to cease.
The fading away of Ageing, Decay & Death causes Pain to cease...
Such is the ceasing of this entire immense mass of Suffering!!!
As this Box is empty of any "Self", "soul" or "Ego"
so is the body and all other phenomena...
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya II 65
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Who own these? Not their owners! They are - and always was - ownerless!
More on the counter-intuitive impersonality, egolessness, or no-self (Anatta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_passes_on_by_Rebirth-Linking.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/First_I-dentification_then_Enmity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Who_or_what_is_the_Agent.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No_Substance_'Out_There'.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Clinging_to_the_notion_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Neither_Agent_nor_Actor.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Egolessness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Identity_View.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Selfless_Camera.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Input_'I'-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/No-Agent_but_Dependence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Just_Passing_Bubbles.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Anatta_Doctrine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Smoke_of_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-'I'-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Leaving_Wrong_View.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Who_is_the_Creator.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Solo_Self-Deception.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Uprooting_Egoism.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Refence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Empty_of_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Egoless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Double_Problem.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sandcastles.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Ego-Projection.htm
Have a nice egoless day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
A Void Frame!
Profound & Wisely Ballanced Ontology:
Buddha once explained existence as a chain of dependent emergence:
Some recluses & priests declare these excessively speculative views:
'Everything Exists'; which is the one extreme (Sarvastavadin Eternalism).
Other recluses & priests declare a just as hypothetical opposite extreme
view: 'Everything does Not Exist' (Sunyatavadin Annihilationism).
Avoiding both these extremes the Well-Gone-Beyond Buddha teaches
this Dhamma from the Middle:
When this is present, that also exists.
When this emerges, that also arises.
When this is absent, that neither exists.
When this ceases, that also vanishes.
From ignorance arises mental construction.
From mental construction arises consciousness.
From consciousness arises naming-&-forming.
From name-&-form arises the six senses.
From the six senses arises contact.
From contact arises feeling.
From feeling arises craving.
From craving arises clinging.
From clinging arises becoming.
From becoming arises birth.
From birth arises ageing, decay, sickness & death.
From ageing, decay & death arises Suffering!
This is the origin of this entire mass of Pain...
When ignorance ceases, mental construction stops.
When mental construction ceases, consciousness stops.
When consciousness ceases, naming-&-forming stops.
When name-&-form ceases, the six senses stops.
When the six senses ceases, contact stops.
When contact ceases, feeling stops.
When feeling ceases, craving stops.
When craving ceases, clinging stops.
When clinging ceases, becoming stops.
When becoming ceases, birth stops.
When birth ceases, ageing, decay, & death stops...
When ageing, decay & death ceases, Suffering stops!
This is the Disappearance of this entire mass of Pain...
This - only this supremely stilled silence - is Nibbana!
Everything has a Cause: More on Co-Dependent Co-Arising (paticca-samuppada):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Collapsible_Co-Cessation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Causes_of_Emergence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/paticca_samuppaada.htm
Existence is thus:
Neither a static substance out there, Nor a mental illusion in here,
But a chain of dependent states arising and ceasing momentarily...
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as behaviour;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care
And let it spring from infinite friendliness
Born out of kindness for all beings.
Ignorance leads to ego,
Ego leads selfishness,
Selfishness leads to aversion,
Aversion leads to anger,
Anger leads to hatred,
Hatred leads to Suffering…
The creator of man was greed,
For countless lives this was his drive.
With Ignorance at its helm, it grows!
No end for it until he knows...
Forwarded by a wise friend.
Have a nice day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Watch the Manifestation!
How to Beam & Extend Friendly Amity Universally:
The Grace of Goodwill: A Meditation on Friendliness:
May my mind be filled with the thought of Kind Friendliness & open Amity.
May the minds of my good teachers be filled with the thought of Friendliness.
May the minds of my parents and dear ones be filled with the thought of Friendliness.
May the minds of all unfriendly persons be filled with the thought of Friendliness.
May the minds of all living beings be filled with the thought of Friendliness.
May the minds of all strangers be filled with the thought of Friendliness.
May we be free from fear, tension, anxiety, worry, and restlessness.
May our hearts become soft. May our words be pleasing to others.
May we be generous. May we be gentle. May we be relaxed.
May we be happy and peaceful. May we be healthy.
May we be a source of pure peace and happiness.
May the minds of everyone in this room be free from greed, anger, hatred, jealousy, and fear.
May the peace and tranquillity of tender Friendliness pervade their entire bodies and minds.
May they have good fortune. May they be prosperous. May they have really good friends
May the minds of everyone in this building, in this street, in this city, in this nation on
this continent, on this planet & in this universe be free from greed, anger, & doubt.
May these thoughts of Friendliness embrace them, charge them and envelope them.
May every cell, every drop of blood, every atom, be charged with kind amity.
May the peace & tranquillity of goodwill pervade their entire bodies & minds.
May they be happy-hearted. May they be free from worries and troubles.
May all beings in all directions throughout this multiverse be happy.
May they be filled with Friendliness, abundant, exalted, & infinite!
May they be free from enmity affliction, and anxiety.
May they live happily.
May all beings in all directions, all around the universe be happy.
May they have good fortune. May they be prosperous.
May they be famous. May they have good friends.
May they be reborn in a happy destination.
May they be reborn in the heavens.
May all beings Awaken swiftly!
May they become thus Happy!
Sukhi Tatthaa!
Inspired by 2 really good friends.
More on this shining, radiating through all & everywhere beaming Friendliness:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Infinite_Friendliness.htm
The Grace of Goodwill!
Have a nice kind day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Dear and Delightful is Dangerous..!:
Whatsoever dear things, delighted in, gratified, that are pleasant to us,
all these will undergo change and alteration... We will thereby loose them
what they were before, and be separated from them, since now they have
become otherwise, and are thus not anymore the same. They have become
something different! Whatsoever is born, became, arisen, emerged, and
having come into being as a compounded and constructed phenomenon;
All that is liable to decay, is prone to fade away, and is bound to vanish...
That a thing dependent on supporting conditions should not disintegrate,
break up, fall apart, die, and cease to exist, that is indeed impossible...
Thus renouncing, letting go, leaving behind, forsaking, abandoning and
rejecting all these transient fabrications, is therefore the only true and
safe escape from the sure suffering, misery, frustration and deprivation
inherent in all this repeated & ever recurring loss, decay, demise, deficit,
ageing, sickness and Death...
This unconditional & eternal release from all Pain, Misery & Death is
called Awakening into Enlightenment... The Noble 8-fold Way is the
only real Way thereto. There is no other certain, safe & sound exit...
Yes we Can ... indeed change to the Better!
Now is the time to realize that fact ...
Now is the time to initiate that path ...
Now is the time to complete that task ...
May your journey be swift and sweet!!!
On this Way:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Noble_8-Fold_Way.htm
Have a nice changing day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Yes We Can!
The Only Clever Killing:
Sakka - the king of the 33 divinities - once
spoke these verses to the Blessed Buddha:
Having slain what, does one sleep in ease?
Having slain what, does one never sorrow?
What is the one thing 0ohh Gotama
Whose killing you approve?
The Blessed One:
Having slain Anger, one sleeps in calm ease;
Having slain Anger, one does not sorrow
The killing of Anger, 0ohh Vasava
With its poisoned root and honeyed tip:
This is the killing, the Noble Ones approve.
For having slain that, one does not grieve.
Sakka continued:
I am not one easily upset in mind.
Nor easily agitated by Anger's whirl.
I never become angry for long
Nor does Anger hang on in me.
When angry, I do not despise.
Nor do I praise own qualities.
I keep myself well controlled.
Protecting my own future good.
Therefore: Bring Anger under control;
Do not let your friendships waste away.
Do not blame the one who is blameless;
Do not speak splitting or divisive speech.
Their own Anger crushes enraged people.
Like the roaring mountain avalanche.
Do not let Anger overpower you;
Do not become angry with the angry.
Noble Ones always remain harmless.
Their own Hate crushes angry people.
Like a devastating mountain avalanche.
FUEL ON FIRE ?
Not by anger is Hate ever quenched.
Only by Kind Friendliness is Hate always quenched.
This Ancient Law is an Eternal ... Truth ...
Dhammapada 5
Source: The Grouped sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya I 237-40
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Have a nice non-angry day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Dropping the Anger...
Ancient Theravadin Thai Hard Core Oak: Venerable Luang Pu!
The Mind sent Outside is the Cause of Suffering.
The Effect of the Mind sent Outside is Suffering.
The Mind seeing the Mind is the Path: The Noble Way!
The Effect of Mind seeing Mind, is the End of Suffering!
No matter how much one thinks, one will not know directly!
Only when one stops thinking, will one know directly...
Yet, one still depends on thinking, so as to know...!!!
When mind is all quiet, one will come to know directly.
Whatever one really knows, it is from watching one's own mind!
Knowing is the ground state of the empty mind, which is bright,
pure, quiet, calm, not fabricating, not searching, not urging,
neither possessed nor attracted by anything at all...
_________________
He does, yet he doesn't:
Do you still have anger?
Yes, but I don't pick it up!
The Less the better:
Stop Thinking, & Stop Urging!
The Poorer one is, the more
Happiness one enjoys...
Source: Gifts He Left Behind: The Dhamma Legacy of Ajaan Dune Atulo:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/dune/giftsheleft.html
Have a nice empty knowing day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Knowing is the Ground State: Thai Hard Core Oak!
The Ancient Theravadin Tradition of Elders!
The 3 Kinds of Sublime Quintessence:
The cream of Teachings are The 4 Noble Truths & the 37 producers of Enlightenment.
The cream of Recipients are The Noble Disciples capable of understanding & praxis.
The cream of Holy Lives is that lived while developing the Noble 8-fold Path.
Check it out!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/modern/thanissaro/wings/index.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sangha_Contemplation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Understanding_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_Buddhist_Praxis.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Noble_8-Fold_Way.htm
Source:
Path of Discrimination: Patisambhidamagga by Sariputta...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=133494
Have a nice day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
True Dhamma is the Cream Quintessence!
What are the 7 Links to Awakening Enlightenment:
Awareness is a link to Awakening (sati-sambojjhanga).
Investigation of the states is a link to Awakening (vicaya-sambojjhanga).
Energy is a link to Awakening (viriya-sambojjhanga).
Joy is a link to Awakening (piti-sambojjhanga).
Tranquillity is a link to Awakening (passaddhi-sambojjhanga).
Concentration is a link to Awakening (samadhi-sambojjhanga).
Equanimity is a link to Awakening (upekkha-sambojjhanga).
These are the seven links leading to final Enlightenment...
Whose minds are well-developed
in the factors of self-awakening,
who delight in non-clinging,
relinquishing all grasping,
mind being radiant & beaming,
fermentations all stilled:
They, even in this world,
are Unbound here!
Further Study on the 7 Links to Awakening:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Investigation_Vicaya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Joy_Piti.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Concentration_Samadhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Equanimity_Upekkha.htm
Have a nice enlightened day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The 7 Wings!
Ten Keys with Inherent Success:
These 10 precious Helper points should be fully Understood:
1: Enthusiastic Effort in advantageous states greatly helps.
2: Joyous Awareness of the body as only a transient form is to be cultivated.
3: Contact as the cause of mental fermentation & clinging is to be recognized.
4: The Conceit: 'I Am (my Own Body or Group)' is to be extracted & eliminated.
5: That Irrational Attention leads to loss & decline is to be thoroughly known.
6: Rational Attention, discriminating cause & effect, is to be directed to.
7: That Immediate Absorption of mental Concentration is hard to penetrate to.
8: The Certainty of unshakable, & assured knowledge is to be sought & reached.
9: That all being in existence is maintained by nutriment is to be fully learnt.
10: Absolute & Irreversible mental Release is to be realized & fully entered.
These 10 things are real & true helpers, exactly so & not otherwise,
perfectly discovered & formulated by the Well-Gone-One...
1: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energetic_Effort.htm
2: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
3: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Contact.htm
4: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm
5: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Careless_and_Irrational_Attention.htm
6: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Careful_and_Rational_Attention.htm
7: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Concentration.htm
8: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Curing_Doubt_and_Uncertainty.htm
9: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Origin.htm
10: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Beyond_Release.htm
Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by the Buddha. Digha Nikaya 34
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html
Have a nice helper day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The 10 Helpers of deep Understanding!
The Divine Eye of an Awakened One:
At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, imagine there were two houses and a man with good eyes
was standing there between them, and he saw people going in and
coming out, and even passing back and forth between them.
Exactly so, do I with the purified divine eye surpassing the human,
see beings passing away and reappearing, high or low, fine or ugly,
fortunate and unfortunate! Therefore do I understand how beings
pass on according to their actions thus: These worthy beings, who
were well-behaved in body, speech, and mind, not revilers of Noble
Ones, right in their views, acting according to these right views, at
the breakup of the body, after death, have reappeared in a blissful
and pleasurable destination, even in one of the divine worlds...
Or they have reappeared here again among good human beings...
But these worthy beings, who were ill-behaved in body, speech, and
mind, revilers of Noble Ones, wrong in their views, acting according
to these wrong views, at the breakup of the body, right after death,
have re-emerged in the realm of ghosts or among animals or in a state
of deprivation, or lost a painful destination, even in the many hells...
For more about the Divine Eye: The Dibba-Cakkhu see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Seing_the_Past.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_V.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/dibba_cakkhu.htm
Source:
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. III 178-9
MN 130 Devaduta Sutta: The Divine Messengers
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/majjhima/index.html
Seeing the Past shaping the Present!
Have a nice seeing day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Insist on Direct Experience!
How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?
Il Poya day is the full-moon of November. This holy day celebrates:
1: The Buddha Gotama's declaration of the next Buddha Metteyya.
2: The sending out in the world of the 60 missionary Arahats
3: The passing away of the general of the Dhamma: Sariputta.
4: The Buddha's 1st explanation of Anapanasati Breathing Meditation.
More on the Significance of Il Poya Day:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Importance_of_Il_Poya.htm
More on The next Metteyya Buddha:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/me_mu/metteyya.htm
On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days:
Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges and undertakes the
Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean
bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first
three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor.
Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines
in a loud, calm & steady voice:
As long as this life lasts:
I hereby take refuge in the Buddha.
I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma.
I hereby take refuge in the Sangha.
I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time.
I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.
I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!
I accept to respect & undertake these 5 training rules:
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Dishonesty.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs.
As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...
Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's
own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much
better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in & to
this world! So is the start towards Nibbana: the Deathless Element!
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Ease, to Happiness,
initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and
fulfilled by training of Meditation...
Today indeed is Pooya or Uposatha or observance day, where any lay
Buddhist normally keeps even the Eight Precepts from sunrise until the
next dawn... If any wish an official recognition by the Bhikkhu-Sangha,
they may simply forward the lines starting with "I hereby ..." signed with
name, date, town & country to me or join here. A public list of this new
quite rapidly growing global Saddhamma-Sangha is set up here!
The True Noble Community of Buddha's Disciples: Saddhamma Sangha:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Saddhamma_Sangha.htm
Can quite advantageously be Joined Here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm
May your journey hereby be light, swift and sweet. Never give up !!
Bhikkhu Samahita: what.buddha.said@gmail.com
For Details on The Origin of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
Have a nice Poya Day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Il Poya today celebrates the next Buddha!
The Elimination of Anger:
BURNING
Those absorbed in such accusations as:
"He/She/They abused, hurt, did me or us wrong "
whether right or wrong!, such foolish ones only prolong
own pain by being obsessed by their own anger.
However!!!
Those freed of these accusations:
"He/She/They abused, hurt, did me or us wrong "
noting: whether right or wrong - so what!!! -
such clever ones stop own pain by relinquishing all anger.
Dhammapada 3+4
FUEL ON FIRE?
Not by anger is Hate ever quenched.
Only by Kindness is Hate always quenched.
This Ancient Law is an Eternal ... Truth ...
Dhammapada 5
What good does any accusation - whether right or wrong -
do to anybody ? Nothing...!!! On the contrary: It burns up Mind,
inflames ill-will, infects with hate! In short: The way to the Downfall!
Hate brings great misfortune,
hate churns up and harms the mind;
this fearful danger deep within
this most people do not understand.
Itivuttaka 84
More on Elimination of Anger:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Slaying_Anger.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/leaves/bl068.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Boiling_but_burnt.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Appeasing_Anger.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hot_Hostile_Hate.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Subduing_Irritation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Anger_and_Irritation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Anger_and_Irritation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Cruelty_and_Revengefulness.htm
Have a nice good-willed day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Easing all Anger!
At that time a girl named Sujata Senani lived in Uruvela. When adult,
she prayed before a certain Banyan tree, that she might get a husband
equal to herself in caste and that her firstborn may be a son. Her prayer
was successful, since so indeed did it happen. At the full moon day of the
Vesak month, she rose at early dawn & milked the cows. As soon as new
buckets were placed under the cows, their milk poured forth in streams
spontaneously all by itself. Seeing this miracle, she knew something special
was going on.
Sujata offering the Bodhisatta her milk rice.
Now at that very night the Future Buddha had 5 specific dreams, that
made him conclude: Certainly, without doubt, today is the very day,
I will reach Enlightenment! His 5 colored radiance illuminated the whole tree.
Then Sujata came & offered the cooked milk rice in the hands of the Great Being.
After that a grass-cutter came going with a bundle of grass just harvested from
nearby. He offered the Great Being 8 handfuls of Kusa grass, when he saw that
this Sage was a Holy Man. The Future Buddha accepted the grass and proceeded
to the foot of the great Bodhi-Tree. Reaching the imperturbable Eastern side,
where all Buddhas take their seat, he sat down determined & said to himself:
This is indeed the immovable spot where all the Buddhas have planted themselves!
This is the very place for destroying the net of desire!
Then the Future Buddha turned his back to the trunk and faced East.
Right there he then made this mighty decision:
Let just blood & flesh of this body dry up & let skin & sinews
fall from the frame of bones. I will not leave this seat before
having attained the absolute supreme Enlightenment!
So determined did he seat himself in this unconquerable seat, which not
even a 100 strikes of lightning could make him waver from.
At this very moment the rebel deity Mara -the Evil One- raised exclaiming:
Prince Siddhattha will now pass beyond my power, but I will never allow it!
and sounding the Mara's war shout, he prepared his army & went out for
battle. Then Mara said to his militia: This Sakyamuni, son of Suddhodana,
is far greater, than any other man, so we will never succeed to fight him
up front. We will therefore attack him from behind. Frustrated, being unable
even to touch this Wielder of Power even with 9 mighty hurricanes of wind,
rain, rocks, weapons, red coals, hot ashes, sand, mud, & darkness Mara somewhat
in panic commanded his army: Why do you stand still?
Seize, kill & drive away this prince. And Mara yelled: Siddhattha, leave this seat.
It is not yours but mine! Hearing this the Well-gone One replied:
Mara, neither have you ever fulfilled the 10 perfections to the third degree,
nor have you given the 5 great donations. Neither has you striven for insight,
nor for the welfare of the world, nor for enlightenment! Therefore does this
seat not belong to you, but indeed only and forever to me!
Suddenly overpowered by fear Mara's followers fled helter-skelter
in all directions. Not two went the same way, but leaving their weapons
in a chaos all behind, they fled terrified by panic. Seeing them flee, the
great assembly of deities triumphantly shouted: Mara is defeated. Prince
Siddhattha has Won! Let us celebrate the Victory! The deities then sang:
The Victory has this illustrious Buddha Won.
The Evil One, The End-maker is defeated & done.
Thus they jubilantly circled the wisdom throne,
the band of nagas singing their praises of the Seer,
the flocks of birds singing their praises of the Sage,
the assembly of Deities singing their praises of the Conqueror,
the group of Brahmas singing their praises of the Worthy One.
It was before the sun had set that the Tathagata thus conquered Mara &
defeated his army. Then at the same night, after having bathed, while the
Bodhi-Tree rained red sprigs on his robe, the Consummate One acquired
knowledge of previous existences in the first watch of the night:
With the mind thus concentrated, purified, bright, fixed, unified, focused,
tractable, compliant, steady & imperturbable, I directed it to remembrance
of my past lives. I recollected numerous past lives, i.e., one birth, two...five,
ten...fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand, many eons of cosmic
contraction, many eons of cosmic expansion:
There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan & species, had such
a body. Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure & pain,
such the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose there.
There I had such name, belonged to such a sort & family, had such a form.
Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure & pain, such the
end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose here. Thus I
remembered my various past lives in all their various modes & details.
This was the first knowledge I attained in the first watch of the night.
Ignorance was destroyed; knowledge arose; darkness was destroyed;
light arose as happens in one who is alert, aware, and determined.
But the pleasant feeling that arose in this way did not invade my mind
nor remain. With the mind thus still concentrated, purified, bright, intact,
pliant, malleable, steady, & imperturbable, I directed it to the knowledge
of the passing away & reappearance of beings. I saw by means of the divine
eye, purified & surpassing the human eye I saw beings passing away &
re-appearing, and I realized how & why they are high & low, beautiful &
ugly, fortunate & unfortunate all in accordance with the intentions of their
prior actions: 'These beings who were endowed with bad behaviour of
body, speech, & mind, who reviled the Noble Ones, held wrong views and
acted under the influence of wrong views, with the break-up of the body,
after death, have re-appeared in the plane of misery, the bad destinations,
the lower realms, even in the hells.
But these beings, who were gifted with good behaviour of body, speech &
mind, who did not revile the Noble Ones, who held right views and acted
under the influence of right views, with the break-up of the body, after
death, have re-appeared in happy destinations, even in a divine world.'
Thus -- by means of the divine eye, purified & surpassing the human --
I saw beings passing away & re-appearing, all in accordance with their
particular mixture of good & bad kamma.
But the satisfaction that arose in this way did not invade my mind nor did
it remain. With the mind thus concentrated, fully absorbed, I directed it
towards understanding the stilling of all the mental fermentations.
Then I realized how it actually comes to be, that:
Such is Misery...
Such is the Cause of Misery...
Such is the End of Misery...
Such is the Way to End Misery...
Such is the mental fermentations...
Such is the cause of mental fermentation...
Such is the end of mental fermentation...
Such is the way leading to the end of mental fermentation...!
When my mind saw that, realized that, it was freed of the fermentation of
sense-desire, released from the fermentation of becoming, unobstructed by
the fermentation of ignorance. Fully & Perfectly Enlightened - The Buddha -
perceiving this immense glory, spoke these 2 solemn verses, which never has
been omitted by any of countless thousands of prior Buddhas:
Through this round of countless existences have I searched
yet failed to find 'the Creator', who framed this formation:
What Misery! is such Endless Birth, Ageing, Decay & Death!!
Now I see that 'the Constructor' of this structure is Craving...!!!
Never shall this construction be build again, as all the rafters
are shattered and the main beam is busted & fully broken...
At this stilling of all Craving, mind has finally found calm…
Then, friends, this vision of certainty then arose in me: This release
is irreversible, this is the last rebirth, this endless reappearance has
finally ended...
Here do all Buddhas Awaken: Bodhgaya!
About Awakening see also:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhisatta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sammaa_sambodhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/bodhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhirukka.htm
Have a nice awesome day!
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The Supreme Awakening: Sammasambodhi!
Repeatedly Lost Golden Opportunity:
Passing it by without even noticing the treasure:
Having laid it out three ripe bananas to the monkeys here, I was quite a baffled
after seeing an adult macaque pass them by unnoticed, even though they were
within reach and less than ½m away ... !!! Why did it pass it by?
Then it appeared to me: Like drawing with stick in water:
Oohh so is it indeed also with most sentient beings in this world:
They pass by the Buddha-Dhamma again and again, life after life, never picking it up,
even though it is perfectly formulated, completely releasing, and safely saving one
from all that is suffering... Even though this Dhamma leads to the Deathless state,
beings miss the opportunity & flutter on in Samsara...
Obsessed with empty and decaying constructions...
Ever vanishing into recurring absurdity...
It is said that teaching the Dhamma when average human life length is less than 100 years,
is like drawing in water with a stick... It leaves no lasting trace!
Highly impermanent if not impossible ...
Therefore: Thanks to that monkey for telling it to me so clearly: No more 'bananas',
neither here, nor there, nor evermore.... It is time to let go of all the 'bananas'!
It is time to let it go ... It is time to relinquish ... It is time to give it up !!!
Let there be Peace ...
Let there be Happiness ...
Let there be Freedom ...
Have a nice relinquishing day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
No more Bananas!
The Seven Advantageous Mental Qualities:
What are they?
The Faith of conviction.
The Shame of conscience.
The Fear of wrongdoing.
The Learning of intelligence.
The Awareness of mindfulness.
The Understanding of wisdom.
Enabling details here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Faith_Summary.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/hiri_ottappa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Best_Protection.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Progress.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Understanding_is_the_Chief.htm
Sources:
The Exhaustive Speeches by the Buddha. Digha Nikaya III 252
The Moderated Speeches of the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya I 356
Have a nice enabling day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The 7 invisible Diamonds!
The Seventh is GENEROSITY?
Reverend Sir, did you lose count or is my monitor failing me?
Your Daily Dhamma Drops are a window into another world and your links are very helpful, too.
Please see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Seven_invisible_Diamonds.htm
Question:
>Can one be saved by an Almighty God or Divine Power?
Answer:
India has always had two holy traditions:
Brahmana: Priest, who by rituals and worship of assumed almighty ‘gods’, and ‘divinity’
believe that they can be saved by these divine other-powers, which they then rely on.
Depending thus on something they cannot see or contact their search is often blind…
Sramana: Recluses, who only trust themselves and that every-one has to purify and
thereby save themselves by themselves. They trust intense meditation & study after
guidance of a teacher, who usually is a Buddha.
No Brahmana have ever – so far reported – reached a Noble State…
That is, come within 7 rebirths of Nibbana – the only lasting safety!
No Brahmana have – so far reported – ever reached Nibbana…
Emptiness can also be tantalizing and have even been worshipped also
as a transcendental divine state … (That leads also to no safety…)
Conclusion:
There are gods out there. But they cannot save U or anyone else…
So there is no need or gain by looking ‘out there’ after a ‘saviour’…
Rather moral and mental purification can only come by looking inward.
One has to do the job oneself! Most can only do it by taking a
Teacher, who is either a Noble or an Awakened Buddhist…
NO OTHER
By self alone, is harm done.
By self alone, does one suffer from own evil.
By self alone, is harm left undone.
By self alone, is one purified & thereby saved.
Both destruction and salvation is work of self.
No-one can purify another.
Dhammapada 165
SAVIOUR
Self is indeed self's only saviour!
Who else can save you ?
With oneself well tamed, one gains a savior
hard to otherwise find.
Dhammapada 160
NOW OR NEVER
Make an island for yourself.
Strive quickly now in exerting effort.
Be the wise one. Not a naive fool…
When your defilement have been blown away
and you have freed yourself from evil passions;
Never will you again be Aging!
Never will you again be Dying!
Dhammapada 238
ISLAND
Make an island of yourself,
haste to exert effort, be clever.
When your mental defilements
have been cleaned & you have
cleared yourself of passion, then
yours will be the divine state of
exquisite choice.
Dhammapada 236
Have a nice self-reliant day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Make an island of yourself!
There is no other safety!
Be your own Lamp…
The Twin Truths won by Dual Consideration:
The blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, the first clever consideration is:
Such is Misery, and This is the Cause of Misery.
Another consequent & subsequent consideration is:
Such is the End of Misery, and This is the Way to end Misery.
One who lives considering these cautiously, resolutely & enthusiastically,
may either enter the state of Nibbana right here & now in this very life,
or if there is remaining traces of clinging, the state of non-return...
Those who neglect understanding Misery, Cause of Misery, End of Misery,
and how Misery is completely & irreversibly eliminated, are incapable of
release by understanding, are incapable of mental release, are incapable
of direct knowledge, and are thereby incapable of making an end...
While those who undertake real understanding of Misery, Cause of Misery,
End of Misery, & Way to End Misery, are indeed capable of mental release
by understanding, direct knowledge, and thus capable of making an end...
Dig further here on the 4 Great and Noble Truths:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_Cease_Suffering.htm
Source: The Bundle of Threads. The Sutta-Nipata 724-765
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/khuddaka/suttanipata/index.html
Have a nice considering day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Dual Consideration!
The Twin Truths won by keen Dual Consideration:
The blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, the first clever consideration is:
Whatever Misery arises, this Misery is caused by Acquisition!
Another consequent & subsequent consideration is:
Stopping all Acquisition of Fuel, stops all arising of Misery!
Taking up many acquisitions, clinging to possessions & thereby accumulating
fuel for renewed becoming, the fool comes to Misery ever again & again!
Letting go, renouncing, & leaving all behind, the wise goes scot free at ease!
Considering these twin truths cautiously, resolutely & enthusiastically, one
may either enter the state of Nibbana right here & now in this very life,
or if there is remaining traces of Clinging , the state of non-return...
Those who neglect understanding Clinging, origin of Clinging, End of Clinging,
and how Clinging is completely & irreversibly eliminated, are incapable of
release by understanding, are incapable of mental release, are incapable
of direct knowledge, and thereby become incapable of making an end...
They repeat birth, ageing, decay, sickness & death ever again & again...
While those who undertake understanding of Clinging, Origin, End & Way,
are indeed capable of mental release by understanding, direct knowledge,
and thus capable of making an end... They are headed towards the deathless!
Acquisition...
More on Acquisition due to Clinging here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_kinds_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
Clinging...
Source: The Bundle of Threads. The Sutta-Nipata 724-765
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/khuddaka/suttanipata/index.html
Have a nice releasing day!
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita ] Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Any Acquisition is Accumulation of Suffering!
>it's tough to let go…!!!
Please then remember what the Buddha once pointed out:
Only suffering arises… Only suffering ceases!!!
Seeing this, one understands that Nothing is Worth Clinging to…
Then it is much more Easy to Let Go, when realizing,
that it is only suffering, one separates from.
Nothing really good is thus lost.
Relinquishing all is:
Absolute Freedom;
Highest Happiness;
Supreme Peace…
Yeah!
Nothing is Worth Clinging to…
The deepest kind of craving & clinging is to that
of ever (re)becoming into a new existence!
Clinging to being in existence itself…
Makes one die again and again…
And Suffer again and again…
All phenomena are sure to cease.
All being in existence will be cut off.
All becoming is therefore truly a Terror.
The Terror of Being in existence!
Trapped into (re)becoming & Death!
On craving and clinging: Trapped into Being!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_kinds_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Trap.htm
Have a nice redirecting day!
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Trapped into Being!
The Twin Truths won by Dual Consideration:
The blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, the first clever consideration is:
Whatever Misery arises, this Misery is caused by Ignorance!
Another consequent & subsequent consideration is:
Clearing all Ignorance by Understanding, stops all arising of Misery!
This immensely long round of rebirth with transition from now this, then to that form,
is caused by this dreadfully deep Ignorance alone...!!! Those who really understand this,
do not renew coming back into any form of being...!!!
Considering these twin truths cautiously, resolutely & enthusiastically, one may either
enter the state of Nibbana right here & now in this very life, or if there is remaining
traces of Clinging , win the state of non-return...
Those who neglect Understanding of Ignorance, the origin of Ignorance, the End of
Ignorance, and how Ignorance is completely eliminated, are incapable of release by
Understanding, are incapable of mental release, are incapable of direct knowledge,
and are thereby incapable of making an end...
Therefore they will repeat birth, ageing, decay, sickness & death ever again...
While those who undertake Understanding of Ignorance, Origin, End & Way,
are indeed capable of mental release by Understanding, direct knowledge,
and thus capable of making an end... They are headed towards the deathless!
Ignorance is Not Knowing the 4 Noble Truths!
More on this Deepest Root of all Evil: Ignorance:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Causes_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Indifference_Creates_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_the_Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Because_of_Not_Knowing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Because_of_Not_Examining.htm
Deeper than eyes internal mental Blindness is Ignorance!
Source: The Bundle of Threads. The Sutta-Nipata 724-765
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/khuddaka/suttanipata/index.html
Have a nice knowing day!
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Ignorance is Not Knowing the 4 Noble Truths!
Phenomena are either Causes, or Effects or Neither:
The blessed Buddha said:
1: There are States, which are Causes...
2: There are States, which are Effects...
3: There are States, which are neither Causes, nor Effects...
Unintentional (=kiriya) action (=kamma), being neither advantageous
(=kusala) nor detrimental (=akusala), falls in the third category 3, as
neither effected themselves, nor causing any effects (=vipaka)...
Other phenomena in this third category are all inanimate Forms
such as stones, plants, mountains, instruments, oceans, trees, etc,
and the unconditional & unconstructed element of Nibbana...
They are all inactive, passive and neutral as they are neither a cause
nor an effect and they are neither advantageous nor detrimental!
Some Examples:
Unintentionally killing an ant by stepping on it carries no bad effects.
Why not? It was not caused by any evil intention by anybody!
A knife or even an atomic bomb is not evil or bad in itself since
they are merely unconscious inanimate forms lacking intention.
The evil use of these instruments however entails pain caused by
the bad intention motivating this evil action. Kamma is the intention!
If intention is evil, then the karmic effect will be pain.
If intention is good, then the karmic effect will be pleasure.
If intention is neutral, then the karmic effect will be neutral.
Mind (Mano) is an ever renewed cycle sequences of this chain of 5 events:
Sense Contact1 => Feeling1 => Perception1 => Intention1 => Attention1
Sense Contact2 => Feeling2 => Perception2 => Intention2 => Attention2
Sense Contact3 => Feeling3 => Perception3 => Intention3 => Attention3
Etc. Frequency ~ millions per second. Just an automate, a mental robot...
An impersonal 'roll out' of conditions. Neither 'I', nor 'me, nor 'mine'...
Details here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/karma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/kiriya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/kusala.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/akusala.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vipaaka.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/nibbaana.htm
Source:
The 1st AbhiDhamma Book: Dhammasanghani: The Classification of States.
The Enumeration of Ultimate Realities. Tr. by U Kyaw Khine. 1999.
Sri Satguru Publications. Delhi.
Have a nice reflecting on causality day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Intention causes the karmic effects!
Short-Cuts to Happiness:
Know that Helping Others helps Yourself!
Know that Harmlessness is the prime Protection!
Know that Meditation is the Way to Serene Bliss!
Know that Dhamma Study is the Way to Certainty!
Know that The Noble 8-fold Way makes Deathless!
Remember:
Buddha awakened by Perfect Self-Enlightenment!
Have a Happy day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Short-Cuts to Happiness!
What is it that Exists & What does Not Exist ???
The blessed Buddha once said regarding ontology:
What is it, bhikkhus, that the wise & clever in the world agree
upon as not existing, of which I too say that it does not exist?
Form that is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject to change:
This the wise & clever in the world agree upon as not existing,
and I too say, that it does not exist. So also Feeling ... Perception ...
Mental Constructions ... a Consciousness, that is permanent, stable,
eternal, & not subject to change: This the wise & clever in the world
agree upon as not existing, and I too say, that it does not exist...
That, bhikkhus, is what the wise & clever in the world agree upon
as not existing, of which I too say, that it does not exist.
And what is it, bhikkhus, that the wise & clever in the world agree
upon as existing, of which I too say that it exists? Form that is
impermanent, suffering, and subject to change: this the wise &
clever in the world agree upon as existing, and I too say, that it
exists! Transient Feelings ... Perceptions ... Mental Constructions, &
Consciousness, that is momentary, suffering, & subject to change:
this the wise & clever in the world agree upon as existing, & I too
say that it exists! That, bhikkhus is what the wise & clever in this
world agree upon as existing, of which I too say that it exists...
The Dynamics of interdependent re-becoming into being.
No existence is Static - the same over time - unchanging....
All existence is Dynamic - never the same- transient & changing!
All existence is therefore a Becoming Anew - a momentary rebirth...
Again and Again and again and again... Everything breaks up!
Everything breaks up, falls apart, and soon vanishes!
More on Buddhist Ontology: What exists & how does it exist?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_Exists.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Advanced_Right_View.htm
Existence is a Transient Flickering already passed, which never returns!
Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya XXII (94); [III 139]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 An Ocean of Dhamma Teaching!
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/index.html#Khandha On Clusters!
Have a nice passing day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
What is it that Exists?
The Four Grades of Winning Vision!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
In this some recluse or priest by means of alert energetic effort and enthusiasm,
through proper rational attention & concentrated focus reaches absorption on
this sole thought: In this foul body of disgusting things enclosed by skin, there are
head & body hairs, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, marrow, kidneys, heart,
liver, pleura, spleen, lungs, mesentery, intestines, stomach, excrement, bile, lymph,
pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, tallow, spittle, snot, urine & joint-fluid...
This is the first attainment of Vision...
Empty Frame: Having done this and gone beyond it, he regards & perceives any body,
own or others, only as a chained frame of bones covered with flesh, vessels, fat & skin.
This is the second attainment of Vision...
Discrete Moments: Having done this & gone further, he comes to understand & directly
experience this continuous sequence of discrete conscious moments established &
manifesting both in this world and the other worlds.
This is the third attainment of Vision...
Continuous yet not Established: Finally, having done this & gone even further than
beyond that, he comes to understand & directly experience this unbroken stream
of consciousness neither established nor manifesting in this or any other world...
This is the fourth attainment of Vision...
More on crucial 1st & 2nd Anatomical Visions:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Meditation_On_the_Body_Kayagata-Sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/kaaya_gata_sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_9_Corpse_Meditations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Body_as_only_Form.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil-smelling_body.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_32_Parts.htm
Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by the Buddha. Digha Nikaya III 105
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.htm
Have a nice visionary day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Winning Vision!
Nothing is Worth Clinging to!
A certain Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, how should one know and see, in order to eliminate all
ignorance and to facilitate the emergence of real and true knowledge?
Bhikkhu, when one has heard that: Nothing is worth clinging to,
then one directly knows everything! Having directly known everything,
one fully understands everything! Having fully understood everything,
one sees & regards all aspects, signs & phenomena quite differently:
As something remote, as something alien, as something other, & neither
as something that is 'me' nor 'mine', nor as an 'I', a 'self, or an 'Ego'!
One regards the eye, forms, visual consciousness, eye-contact, feelings
& experiences caused seeing quite differently... As something remote...
One regards the ear, sounds, auditory consciousness, ear-contact, and
feelings & experiences by hearing differently... As something foreign...
One regards the nose, all smells, olfactory consciousness, nose-contact,
& smelled feelings & experiences differently. As something quite alien!
One regards the tongue, taste, gustatory consciousness, tongue-contact,
tasted feelings & experiences differently... As something superficial...
One regards the body, touch, tactile consciousness, body-contacts and
touched feelings & experiences very differently... As something external!
One regards the mind, thought, mental consciousness, mental-contacts, &
thought feelings & experiences differently... As something all detached!!!
When, Bhikkhu, whoever knows & sees all signs thus, ignorance is left
behind by him and real and true knowledge has emerged...
Detached Alien Remoteness: Nothing is worth clinging to!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [50]
Section 35: On The 6 Senses. The Elimination of Ignorance: 80.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Have a nice detached day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Detached Alien Remoteness: Nothing is worth clinging to!
Tender Harmlessness & Patient Tolerance Protects all Beings!
The Blessed Buddha was a great friend of tolerance & harmlessness:
I am a friend of the footless,
I am a friend of the bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed.
May not the footless harm me,
may not the bipeds harm me,
may not those with four feet harm me,
and may not those with many feet harm me.
A. II, 72
Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the wood.
No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.
Uplifted by such universal friendliness I enjoyed the forest.
Finding great solace in sweet silent solitude.
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540
I am a friend and helper to all,
I am sympathetic to all living beings.
I develop a mind full of love and
delights always in harmlessness.
I gladden my mind, fill it with joy,
makes it immovable and unshakable.
I develop the divine states of mind
not cultivated by simple men.
Theragatha. 648-9
Thus he who both day and night
takes delight in harmlessness
sharing love with all that live,
finds enmity with none.
SN I 208
He who does not strike nor makes
others strike, who robs not nor makes
others rob, sharing love with all that lives,
finds enmity with none.
Itivuttaka 22
As a mother even with her life protects
her only son, so let one cultivate infinite,
yeah universal, friendliness towards
all sentient, living & breathing beings.
When one with a mind of true affection
feels compassion for this entire world,
above, below and across,
unlimited everywhere.
The one who has left violence,
who never harm any being,
who never kill nor causes to kill,
such one, mild, is a Holy Noble One.
Dhammapada 405
The one who is friendly among the hostile,
who is harmless among the violent,
who is detached among the greedy,
such one is a Holy Noble One.
Dhammapada 406
He is not Noble who injures living beings.
He is called Noble because he is
gentle & kind towards all living beings.
Dhammapada 270
Tolerance is the highest training.
Patience is the best praxis.
So all Buddhas say.
Dhammapada 184
Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Khuddakapatha 9
Solitude is happiness for one who is content,
who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees.
Cordial non-violence is happiness in this world
harmlessness towards all living beings.
Udana 10
How to become harmless:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Buddha_on_Noble_Frienship.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Blessing_all_Beings_by_Bliss.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Patient_is_Tolerance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Bon_Benevolence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Friendliness_Frees.htm
Have a nice Harmless day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Harmlessness & Tolerance is the Best Protection!
Forward & Reverse Causality of the Process of Being:
So have I heard:
After 7 days of non-stop sitting meditation in the bliss of Awakening, The Buddha
in the last watch of the night directed his unified attention to dependent co-arising
in both forward & reverse order in this very way:
A => B, and non-A => non-B
When this is present, then that comes to be...
When this emerges, that arises too...
When this is absent, then that does not come to be...
When this ceases, that vanishes too...
When ignorance arises, mental construction also appears..
When mental construction arises, consciousness also comes to be..
When consciousness arises, name-&-form also come in to being..
When name-&-form arises, then the six senses emerge too..
When the six senses arise, then contact is the consequence..
When contact arises, then feeling is assigned too..
When feeling arises, then urge and craving surely follows..
When craving arises, then clinging too becomes dominant..
When clinging arises, then the process of becoming is initiated..
When becoming arises, then rebirth inevitably also appears..
When birth arises, then aging & death, sorrow, distress, pain, grief &
despair also arises. This verily is the origin, the causing, the arising
of this entire mass of Suffering...
Consequently, when this very same ignorance is utterly uprooted & vanished,
then mental construction is tranquilized, all stilled, and it ceases & dissolves..
When mental construction ceases, then consciousness itself fades away..
When consciousness ceases, name-&-form also terminate..
When name-&-form ceases, then the six senses come to an end..
When the six senses cease, then contact closes down as well..
When contact ceases, then feeling fades out too..
When feeling ceases, then craving also evaporates..
When craving ceases, then clinging is relinquished too..
When clinging ceases, then becoming essentially stops.
When becoming ceases, then this process of endless rebirth is exhausted too..
When birth ceases, then aging, death, sorrow, distress, pain, & depression also finishes.
This verily is the cessation, the irreversible End of this whole mass of Suffering...
Dispersing all darkness...
Then, he, the Blessed One, on recognizing the profundity of that sequence, exclaimed:
When the appearance of phenomena becomes clearly manifest to this very Noble Friend
through rapt meditation, then he is constantly scattering Mara’s - the Evil One's - army,
exactly as the sun continuously disperses all darkness, when lighting up the bright sky...
Chained Events...
Everything has a Cause: Conditioned Origination & Cessation:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Collapsible_Co-Cessation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Causes_of_Emergence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/paticca_samuppaada.htm
Source:
The Udana: Inspired utterances by the Buddha: I – 3
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=404214
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/khuddaka/udana/index.html
Have a nice day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
All Phenomena are Chained Events!
Transient whether Internal, External, Past, Present or Future!!!
At Savatthi The Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, any eye & any form is impermanent, whether internal, external,
past, present or future. Seeing this any educated Noble Disciple becomes
indifferent towards any past vision & any past form, he does not search for
delight in any future vision nor any future form, & he cultivates disgust for
any present vision & present form in order to make it all fade away & cease...
Any ear & any sound is impermanent; Any nose & any smell is impermanent;
Any tongue & flavour is impermanent; Any body & any touch is impermanent;
Any mind & any mental state is impermanent, whether internal, or external,
past, present or future. Seeing this any educated Noble Disciple becomes
indifferent towards any past mind & any past mental state, he does not
search for delight in any future mind nor any future mental state, & he do
indeed cultivate disgust for any present mind, mood, mentality & any present
mental state so to make it fade away, be all stilled, tranquilized & cease...
More on impermanence, inconstancy, & transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli):
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. IV 4
The group on the 6 Senses 35:7 Transient in all Three Times.
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Have a nice transient day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Transience hails at all times...