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The Blessed Buddha once said:
The habitual praxis of the observance day endowed with eight
features brings high reward and blessing, & is of sublime dignity
and greatness! And which are these eight features? In this, any
Noble Disciple considers within himself: Throughout their life the
Arahats avoid lying & refrain from any falsehood. They speak only
the factual & actual truth, they are very devoted to valid accuracy,
reliable, all honest, worthy of trust & confidence, & not deceivers!
May I also, this day & night, avoid lying & refrain from falsehood...
By that I will follow the track & traits of the perfected Arahats!
I shall then have observed the Uposatha observance day perfectly.
With this fourth praxis is the observance day enriched. Observed
in this very way, the observance day endowed with eight features
brings high - even divine - reward & blessing & is of sublime dignity
and immense greatness...
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 8:44
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
See also: Truth Triumphs!
Truthful Honesty is the Seventh Mental Perfection:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Truth_Triumphs.htm
More on this Optimal Buddhist Uposatha Day Observance:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fullmoon_Observance_Day.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/atthasila.html
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita Ceylon
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
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Optimal Observance IV: Neither lying nor deceiving!
1: Unprompted consciousness joined with joy and understanding.
Example: Knowing merit one spontaneously gives with joy a gift.
2: Prompted consciousness joined with joy and understanding.
Example: Knowing merit one, urged by others, gives with joy a gift.
3: Unprompted consciousness with joy, but not understanding.
Example: Unaware of merit one spontaneously gives with joy a gift.
4: Prompted consciousness joined with joy, but not understanding.
Example: Unaware of merit one, urged on, gives with joy a gift.
5: Unprompted consciousness with equanimity & understanding.
Example: Knowing merit one spontaneously gives, yet in indifference.
6: Prompted consciousness joined with equanimity & understanding.
Example: Knowing merit one, urged by others, gives in indifference.
7: Unprompted consciousness with equanimity, but no understanding.
Example: Unaware of merit one spontaneously gives in indifference.
8: Prompted consciousness with equanimity, but no understanding.
Example: Unaware of merit one, urged on, gives in indifference.
These are the 8 kinds of Advantageous Consciousness of the
Sensuous Sphere (lower worlds). 1 is the best, 8 the lowest.
The delayed effect of these is happiness, joy, and pleasure!
There are in total 89 kinds of Consciousness, all mapped here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/table1.htm
Source: The Path of Purification XIV 81ff:
Visuddhimagga by Ariya Buddhaghosa from the 5th century AC.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=771100
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What is Advantageous ?
Rooted in Greed:
1: Unprompted consciousness joined with joy and false view.
Example: Greedy & careless one spontaneously enjoys sense pleasure.
2: Prompted consciousness joined with joy and false view.
Ex: Greedy & careless one urged by others enjoys sense pleasure.
3: Unprompted consciousness with joy, but not false view.
Ex: Greedy, yet not careless one spontaneously enjoys sense pleasure.
4: Prompted consciousness joined with joy, but not false view.
Ex: Greedy, though not careless one urged on enjoys sense pleasure.
5: Unprompted consciousness with equanimity & false view.
Ex: Greedy & careless one spontaneously indifferent takes pleasure.
6: Prompted consciousness joined with equanimity & false view.
Ex: Greedy & careless one, urged on, yet indifferent takes pleasure.
7: Unprompted consciousness with equanimity, but no false view.
Ex: Greedy, not careless one spontaneously & bored takes pleasure.
8: Prompted consciousness with equanimity, but no false view.
Ex: Greedy, not careless, one urged on, takes pleasure not enjoying.
The common false view is here: There is no danger in sense pleasure!
Addicted to sensing, beings have been drawn back into birth & death
billions of times & thus killed by this sense pleasure billions of times!
Sense pleasure is therefore the most dangerous of all serial killers!
Rooted in Hate:
9: Unprompted consciousness joined with sorrow and aversion.
Example: Angry & frustrated one spontaneously harms or kills.
10: Prompted consciousness joined with sorrow and aversion.
Ex: Angry & frustrated one, urged on by others, harms or kills.
Rooted in Confusion:
11: Consciousness joined with indifference, doubt, and uncertainty.
Ex: Confused one cannot make up one's mind nor take any decision.
12: Consciousness joined with indifference, and restless agitation.
Ex: Confused one remains distracted, scattered, and unsettled.
These are the 12 kinds of Disadvantageous Consciousness of the
Sensuous Sphere (lower worlds). Delayed effect of these is Pain!
There are in total 89 kinds of Consciousness, all mapped here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/table1.htm
Source: The Path of Purification XIV 81ff:
Visuddhimagga by Ariya Buddhaghosa from the 5th century AC.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=771100
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What is Disadvantageous ?
The Blessed Buddha once said!
Bhikkhus, just as, among the trees of Jambudipa the rose-apple tree
is declared to be the chief, similarly among all the states leading to
enlightenment the understanding ability is declared to be the chief,
that is, for the attainment of the supreme enlightenment!
And what, Bhikkhus, are the states leading to enlightenment?
The ability of Faith, Bhikkhus, is a state leading to enlightenment;
The ability of Energy, Bhikkhus, is a state leading to enlightenment;
The ability of Awareness, is a state leading towards enlightenment;
The ability of Concentration, is a state leading to enlightenment;
The ability of Understanding is a state leading to enlightenment;
Why? They are conducive for, leads to and produce enlightenment...
Friends just as, the rose-apple tree among the trees of Jambudipa
is declared to be their chief, so too, among all the states leading to
enlightenment, the ability of understanding is declared to be their
chief, that is, for the attainment of enlightenment...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:237] section 48: The Abilities. 67: The Tree ...
More on this supreme Comprehension:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Understanding_is_the_Chief.htm
Understanding is the Fourth Mental Perfection!
Understanding is the Chief!
Understanding Saves!
Bhikkhu Samahita Ceylon
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Supreme Understanding!
The Bak Poya day is the full-moon of April. This holy day celebrates
that the Buddha visits Ceylon for the second time to reconcile two
local chiefs Mahodara and Culodara, uncle & nephew, who had fallen
into war threatening hostility about a throne beset with Jewels...
The story shows the Buddha as top diplomat & is given in full below!
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 white-clothed clean bare feet,
one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first 3 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! The journey towards Nibbana: The Deathless is started!
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 Observance day, where any lay
Buddhist normally keeps also the Eight Precepts from sunrise until
next dawn. If any wish official recognition by the BhikkhuSangha,
they may easily forward the lines starting with "I hereby" signed by
name, date, town, & country to me or join here. Public list of this new
quite rapidly growing global web Saddhamma-Sangha is set up here!
The New 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
Reuniting those divided, by bringing Haarmony:
Now the most compassionate Teacher, the Conqueror, rejoicing in
the salvation of the whole world, when dwelling at Jetavana in the
fifth year of his Buddhahood, saw that war, caused by a gem beset
throne, was like to come to pass between the nagas Mahodara and
Culodara, uncle and nephew and their followers! The SamBuddha,
then on the uposatha day of the dark half of the month Citta, in the
early morning, took his sacred alms bowl and his robes, and, out of
compassion for the nagas, sought the Nagadipa. At that time the
same naga Mahodara was then king, gifted with miraculous powers,
in a nagas kingdom in the ocean, which covered half a 1000 yojanas.
His younger sister had been given in marriage to the naga king on
the Kannavaddhamana mountain; her son was Culodara. His mother’s
father had given to his mother a splendid throne of jewels, then the
naga had died and therefore was this war between nephew & uncle
threatening! The nagas of the mountains were also armed with many
miraculous powers. The deva Samiddhisumana took his rajayatana
tree standing in Jetavana, his own fair habitation, holding it like a
parasol over the Conqueror, he, with the Teachers leave, attended
him to that spot where he had formerly dwelt. That very deva had
been, in his latest birth, a man in Nagadipa. On the very spot where
thereafter the rajayatana tree stood, he had seen paccekabuddhas
taking their meal. And at the sight his heart was glad & he offered
branches to cleanse their alms bowls. Therefore he was reborn in
that very same tree in the pleasant Jetavana garden, outside of the
gate rampart. The God of all gods saw in this an advantage for that
deva, and, for the sake of the good which should spring therefrom
for Ceylon, he brought him there together with his tree. Hovering
there in midair above the battlefield, the Master, who drives away
spiritual darkness, called forth dreadful darkness over the nagas!
Then comforting those who were distressed by terror he once again
spread light abroad. When they saw the Blessed One, they joyfully
did reverence to the Masters feet. Then the Vanquisher preached
to them the Dhamma that makes concord, & both nagas gladly gave
up the throne to the Sage. When the Master, having alighted on the
earth, had taken his place on a seat there, and had been refreshed
with celestial food and drink served by the naga kings, he, the Lord,
established in the three refuges and in the 8 moral precepts eighty
kotis of snake-spirits, dwellers in the ocean and on the mainland.
The nagaking Maniakkhika of Kalyani, maternal uncle to this naga
Mahodara, who had come there to take part in the battle, and who
before, at the Buddhas first coming, having heard the true Dhamma
preached, had become established in the 3 refuges & in the moral
duties, prayed now to the Tathagata: Great is the compassion that
you have shown us here, Master! Had you not appeared we had all
been consumed to ashes. May your compassion yet settle also and
especially on me, you who are rich in friendly loving kindness, please
peerless one come again back here to my home country. When the
Lord had consented by his silence to return, then he planted the
rajayatana tree on that very spot as a sacred memorial, & the Lord
of the Worlds gave over the rajayatana tree & the precious throne
seat to the naga kings to do homage thereto: In remembrance that
I have used these do homage to them naga kings! This, well beloved,
will bring to pass many blessings & happiness to you for a long time!
When the Blessed One had uttered this and other exhortations to
the nagas, he, compassionate saviour of the entire world, returned
to the Jetavana monastery.
Here ends the explanation of the Visit to Nagadipa.
Source: Mahavamsa I:44. The Great Chronicle of Ceylon.
Translated. By Wilhelm Geiger 1912; reprinted in 1980.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130010I
Bak Poya Day!
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The habitual praxis of the observance day endowed with eight
features brings high reward and blessing, & is of sublime dignity
and greatness! And which are these eight features? In this, any
Noble Disciple considers within himself: Throughout their life the
Arahats avoid all alcoholic drinks, such as beer, wine, and liquor!
May I also, this day & night, avoid alcoholic & intoxicating drinks...
By that I will follow the track & traits of the perfected Arahats!
I shall then have observed the Uposatha observance day perfectly!
With this fifth praxis is the observance day enriched. Observed
in this very way, the observance day endowed with eight features
brings high - even divine - reward & blessing & is of sublime dignity
and immense greatness...
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 8:44
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
More on this Optimal Buddhist Uposatha Day Observance:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fullmoon_Observance_Day.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/atthasila.html
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
Addiction to alcohol and drugs is often a need for tranquilization!
The side-effects are much worse than the restlessness they cure...
Drinking and drugging - though pleasant - leads to carelessness...
The lax neglect of the real world problems is often catastrophic!
Bodily decay, social isolation and steady fall is inevitable, though
often violently denied or actively ignored by the addicted person...
Compared to the calm bliss of meditation is drugged sedation banal!
Optimal Observance V: Neither Drinking nor Drugging!
Friends: Get CLEAN!
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita Ceylon
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Being Drunk and/or Drugged is always being Blurred and Blinded...
While drunk/drugged can one know what is best for oneself? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one know what is best for others? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one ever be respected by others? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one be truly upright & respectable? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one do a really good & valuable job? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one enjoy the result of a good job? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one meditate well and absorbed? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one study, reflect, and reason well? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one remember, and recollect well? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one make any progress spiritually? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one make progress professionally? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one make any progress personally? NO!
Is there any advantage or good at all in being drunk/drugged? NO!
Is being just a little drunk/drugged just little evil or tiny good? NO!
Is there any valid excuse for going completely clean & clear? NO!
Will those who regurgitates this medicine ever be healed at all? NO!
Is social and economic fall certain by being drunk/drugged? YES!
Is the sadness of a spoiled life sure by being drunk/drugged? YES!
Is bodily and mental decay severe by being drunk/drugged? YES!
Is one made into an addicted zombie by being drunk/drugged? YES!
Is one's behaviour often sub-human by being drunk/drugged? YES!
Is the future kammic effect of inebriation insanity/stupidity? YES!
Is being drunk and or drugged thus quite self-destructive? YES!
Is being drunk and or drugged thus indeed quite irrational? YES!
Is being drunk and or drugged literally the Way to Hell? YES!
Is complete abstinence from all intoxication a VICTORY? YES!
Who is the Winner? You and all other beings you contact! YES!
The 5th precept laid down by the Buddha for all was therefore:
Suramerayamajja pamadatthana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami.
I hereby accept to refrain from drinks & drugs making one careless.
The Blessed Buddha further explained this avoidance by:
Abandoning the use of intoxicants, the disciple of the Noble Ones
abstains from taking intoxicants. Doing so, he gives freedom from
danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from harm to limitless
numbers of beings. In giving freedom from danger, freedom from
animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings,
he gains a share in limitless freedom from danger, freedom from
animosity, and from oppression. This is the fifth gift, the 5th great
gift, original, long-standing, traditional, ancient, all unadulterated,
unadulterated from the beginning, that is not open to any suspicion,
that never will be open to any suspicion, and is recognized by every
knowledgeable contemplative & recluse. And this is the 8th reward
of merit, reward of skilfulness, nourishment of happiness, human as
divine, resulting in happiness, leading to heaven, leading to what is
desirable & attractive, leading to what is pleasurable and appealing.
Leading to the Welfare and to Happiness of all living Beings...
Source: Anguttara Nikaya 8.39: Abhisanda Sutta: Rewards!
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an08/an08.039.than.html
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Drunk and Drugged is always Blurred and Blinded!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
The habitual praxis of the observance day endowed with eight
features brings high reward and blessing, & is of sublime dignity
and greatness! And which are these eight features? In this, any
Noble Disciple considers within himself: Throughout their life the
Arahats eat only one time before noon, avoiding food at night, not
eating at improper and unsuitable hours. May I also this day & night
avoid all taking of food at night and eat only one time before noon!
By that I will follow the track & traits of the perfected Arahats!
I shall then have observed the Uposatha observance day perfectly!
With this fifth praxis is the observance day enriched. Observed
in this very way, the observance day endowed with eight features
brings high - even divine - reward & blessing & is of sublime dignity
and immense greatness...
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 8:44
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
More on this Optimal Buddhist Uposatha Day Observance:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fullmoon_Observance_Day.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/atthasila.html
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
Addiction to taste and eating is evident especially in the western
world since extreme obesity, a jungle of all fake slimming products,
gastric & plastic surgery have become common even among children!
Obviously can compulsive eating and bulimia not compensate for the
inherent frustration and lack of lasting comfort all life inherits...
A 700-pound (318 kg) American woman was recently rescued from
her bathroom by 10 fire-fighters who cut away part of an exterior
wall and removed a window before being able to get her out...
This absurd story in itself demonstrates the degree of the problem!
Optimal Observance VI: Avoid eating at night!
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The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these five mental abilities (indriya). What five?
The ability of Faith (saddha)
The ability of Energy (viriya)
The ability of Awareness (sati)
The ability of Concentration (samadhi)
The ability of Understanding (pañña)
This crucial core of Five Mental Abilities are explained in detail here:
The Five Mental Abilities (indriya) in general:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_the_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fruits_of_the_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Final_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Finding_the_Abilities.htm
1: Faith (saddha): The Initiating Key!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Buddha_on_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Going_Forth_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Outstanding_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Unwavering_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Power_of_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Highest_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Leaping_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fruitful_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Mutual_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Dual_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fine_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Rich_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Lay_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Faith_Summary.htm
2: Energy (viriya): The Motor & Fuel!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Definition_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Arising_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Ability_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Origin_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Enthusiastic_is_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Power_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Ballanced_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Ballanced_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energetic_Effort.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Chief_Hero.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Avoiding_Effort.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Dual_Energy.htm
3: Awareness (sati): The Light to See with!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Clear_and_Aware_Comprehension.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Careful_and_Rational_Attention.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Awareness_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Analysis.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/One_and_only_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Noble_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear_Comprehension.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Causes_of_sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Sati_Studies.htm
4: Concentration (samadhi): The Focus to Drill & Catch with!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Requisites_for_Jhana_Absorption.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Concentration_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Concentration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Concentration_Samadhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Concentration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Samma-Samadhi.htm
5: Understanding (pañña): The Resultant Aloof State!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Understanding_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Outstanding_Understanding.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Revealing_Understanding.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Understanding_is_the_Chief.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Supreme_Understanding.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Right_Understanding.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/pannaa.htm
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Summary of the Five Mental Abilities!
The habitual praxis of the observance day endowed with eight
features brings high reward and blessing, & is of sublime dignity
and greatness! And which are these eight features? In this, any
Noble Disciple considers within himself: Throughout their life the
Arahats keep aloof from dance, song, music, & shows. They reject
garlands, perfumes, ointment, as well as any kind of adornment and
cosmetics. May I also this day & night avoid all dance, songs, music,
shows, perfumes, jewellery, any adornment and all cosmetics!
By that I will follow the track & traits of the perfected Arahats!
I shall then have observed the Uposatha observance day perfectly!
With this seventh praxis is the observance day enriched. Observed
in this very way, the observance day endowed with eight features
brings high - even divine - reward & blessing & is of sublime dignity
and immense greatness...
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 8:44
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
More on this Optimal Buddhist Uposatha Day Observance:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fullmoon_Observance_Day.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/atthasila.html
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
Addiction to empty entertainment & beautification is also clinging!
Optimal Observance VII: No music, shows, perfumes, or jewellery! :wow:
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The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these five mental abilities to feel (vedana).
What five?
The ability to feel pleasure (sukha).
The ability to feel pain (dukkha).
The ability to feel gladness (somanassa).
The ability to feel sadness (domanassa).
The ability to feel equanimity (upekkha).
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability to feel pleasure?
Whatever bodily pleasure there is, whatever bodily comfort, any
pleasant agreeable feeling born of body-contact: This, Bhikkhus,
is called the ability to feel pleasure.
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability to feel pain?
Whatever bodily pain there is, whatever bodily discomfort, painful
disagreeable feeling born of body-contact: This, Bhikkhus, is called
the ability to feel pain.
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability to feel gladness?
Whatever mental pleasure & joy there is, whatever mental comfort,
pleasant agreeable feeling born of mental contact: This, Bhikkhus,
is called the ability to feel gladness.
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability to feel sadness?
Whatever mental frustration there is, whatever mental discomfort,
disagreeable feeling born of mental contact: This, Bhikkhus, is the
ability to feel sadness.
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability to feel equanimity?
Whatever feeling there is, whether bodily or mental, that is neither
comfortable nor uncomfortable, neither agreeable nor disagreeable:
This, Bhikkhus, is called the ability to feel equanimity.
These, Bhikkhus, are the five abilities to feel feelings.
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:209] section 48: The Abilities. 36: Definitions ...
Noteworthy Central Implications:
If unaware & untrained bodily pleasure & mental gladness will incite
Greed & Lust & derivatives such as desire, craving, urge & longing!
If unaware & untrained bodily pain & mental sadness will induce
Aversion & Hate & derivatives such as anger, irritation & opposition!
If unaware & untrained mental equanimity will instigate Ignorance,
Neglect, & derivatives such as doubt, uncertainty & confusion...!!!
If aware & trained mental equanimity will activate bliss, knowing &
seeing & will through peace refine & complete all other good states!
This core causality made Buddha exclaim: All converges on Feeling!!!
More on Feeling (Vedana):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Latent_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_108_Feelings.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Focusing_on_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Detached_from_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Bodily_and_Mental_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_8_Aspects_of_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Feeling_Causes_and_Effects.htm
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All states converges on Feeling!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
The habitual praxis of the observance day endowed with eight
features brings high reward and blessing, & is of sublime dignity
and greatness! And which are these eight features? In this, any
Noble Disciple considers within himself: Throughout their life the
Arahats avoid high and luxurious beds, using only a low couch, be
it a mattress on or close to the floor or simply a layer of straw...
May I also this very day & night avoid high, comfy, & luxurious beds!
By that I will follow the track & traits of the perfected Arahats!
I shall then have observed the Uposatha observance day perfectly!
With this eighth praxis is the observance day enriched. Observed
in this very way, the observance day endowed with eight features
brings high - even divine - reward & blessing & is of sublime dignity
and immense greatness...
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 8:44
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
More on this Optimal Buddhist Uposatha Day Observance:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fullmoon_Observance_Day.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/atthasila.html
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
Optimal Observance VIII: Avoidance of high and luxurious beds!
When humble as doormat, modest, living simple, the bliss is dense!
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The ability to Feel Pain ceases in the 1st Jhâna!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Here, Bhikkhus, while a Bhikkhu is dwelling diligent, enthusiastic, &
resolute, there arises in him the ability to feel pain. He understands
thus: There has arisen in me an ability to feel pain. That has a cause,
a source, a causal condition. It is impossible for that ability to feel
pain to arise without a cause, without a source, without a condition.
He thereby understands the ability to feel pain; he understands the
causal origin of the ability to feel pain; he also understands the very
ceasing of the ability to feel pain; & he understands when the ability
to feel pain ceases without any remaining trace...
And where, Bhikkhus & Friends does the arisen ability to feel pain
cease without remains? Here, Bhikkhus, aloof & above of any lust,
quite secluded from any sense desire, thus protected from every
disadvantageous mental state, one enters & dwells in the 1st Jhana
mental absorption; full of joy & pleasure born of solitude, joined &
fused with single-pointed directed thought & sustained thinking....
It is right there that the arisen ability to feel pain ceases without
remainder. This, friends, is thus a Bhikkhu who has understood the
ceasing of the ability to feel pain! He directs his mind accordingly!
More on ending Pain:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Physical_Pain.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Pain_Itself.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:213] section 48: The Abilities. 36: Irregular Order ...
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Stopping of all Physical Pain!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Here, Bhikkhus, while a Bhikkhu is dwelling diligent, enthusiastic, &
resolute, there arises in him the ability to feel mental frustration.
He notes and understands it thus: There has arisen in me an ability
to feel mental frustration. That has a cause, a source, a basis, & a
causal condition. It is impossible for that ability to feel frustration
to arise without a cause, without a source, without any condition...!
He understands how the ability to feel frustration essentially is..
He understands the causal origin of the ability to feel frustration..
He understands the very ceasing of the ability to feel frustration..
He understands when the ability to feel frustration ceases without
any remaining trace...
And where does any arisen ability to feel mental frustration cease
without remaining trace? Here, Bhikkhus, with the silent stilling of
directed & sustained thought, one enters & dwells in the 2nd jhana,
calmed assurance & unification of mind joined with joy & pleasure
now born of concentration, devoid of any thought or thinking....
It is right there that the arisen ability to feel frustration ceases
without remainder. This, Bhikkhus & friends, is thus a Bhikkhu who
has understood the ceasing of the ability to feel frustration!
He directs his mind for this purpose!
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Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:214] section 48: The Abilities. 36: Irregular Order ...
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Stopping Mental Frustration!
The rewarding fruition of morality is freedom from regrets!
The rewarding fruition of freedom from regret is gladness!
The rewarding fruition of gladness is rapturous joy!
The rewarding fruition of joy is serene tranquillity!
The rewarding fruition of tranquillity is happiness!
The rewarding fruition of happiness is concentration!
The rewarding fruition of concentration is knowing & seeing!
The rewarding fruition of knowing & seeing is realism!
The rewarding fruition of realism is disillusion!
The rewarding fruition of disillusion is release!
Step by step does morality thus lead to the highest!
AN 10:1
Rewarding Fruitions!
Sariputta once said to the Buddha:
It is indeed to be expected, Venerable Sir, that a Noble Disciple
who has faith, who has aroused energy & established awareness,
and whose mind is concentrated, will understand reality thus:
This Samsara is without discoverable beginning. Any first point for
beings roaming and wandering on, blinded by ignorance & bound by
craving cannot ever be seen. But the traceless fading & ceasing of
ignorance, this massive of darkness: This is the peaceful state, this
is the sublime state, that is, the stilling of all mental construction,
the relinquishment of all acquisition, the elimination of all craving,
disillusion, ceasing, Nibbana! That understanding of his is his ability
to understand Venerable Sir! And, Venerable Sir, when he has again
and again strived in such a way, again and again recollected in such
a way, again and again concentrated his mind in such a way, again &
again understood with understanding in exactly this way, then that
Noble Disciple gains complete faith thus: As to these things that I
previously had only heard about, now I dwell having contacted them
with the body and, having perforated them by understanding, I see!
That faith of his, Venerable Sir, is his ability of faith...
Good, good. Sariputta! Sariputta!
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:226] section 48: The Abilities. 50: At Apana ...
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Direct Experience!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
How, Cunda, is purity of bodily action threefold?
1:
Herein, someone avoids the destruction of all life, abstains from all
killing any living beings. Without stick or weapon, careful, kind, and
full of sympathy, he is anxious for the welfare of all living beings!
2:
He avoids stealing, abstains from taking what is not freely given,
what another possesses of goods and property in the village or the
woods, he does not take any of that away with thievish intent!
3:
He avoids illicit abusive sexual contacts, abstains from all adultery.
He has no intercourse with such persons as under the protection of
father, mother, brother, relatives, nor with married women nor with
convicts, nor with betrothed persons or those engaged to other side.
In this -for all- very good way, is purity of bodily action threefold!
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 10:176
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
More on Right Action (Samma Kammanta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Action.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Unintentional_Action.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_dilutes_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_enhances_other_Good_Kamma.htm
Pure Action is 3!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, when a Bhikkhu is established in one single thing,
the five mental abilities becomes quite well developed in him.
In what one thing? In alertness! What, Bhikkhus, is alertness?
Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu guards the mind against the mental
fermentations and against all fermented mental states...
While he is guarding the mind thus:
The ability of Faith goes to fulfilment by development!
The ability of Energy goes to fulfilment by development!
The ability of Awareness goes to fulfilment by development!
The ability of Concentration goes to fulfilment by development!
The ability of Understanding goes to fulfilment by development!
It is in this way, Bhikkhus, that when a Bhikkhu is established in
just one thing: Alertness that the five abilities becomes developed,
quite well developed in him...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:232] section 48: The Abilities. 56: Established.
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Alert Abilities!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
There are four efforts, Bhikkhus and friends:
1: The effort to avoid evil,
2: The effort to overcome bad,
3: The effort to develop good,
4: The effort to maintain advantage...
What, Bhikkhus and friends, is the effort to avoid?
When experiencing a form with the eye, a sound with the ear,
a smell with the nose, a taste with the tongue, a touch with the body,
or an object with the mind, the Bhikkhu neither fixes on the whole
appearance nor to any of its details. Rather he works hard to dispel
all these evil & disadvantageous states, such as greed and longing,
that would arise if he remained with the senses unguarded. He thus
watches over his senses, control his senses, and restrains his senses.
This is called the effort to avoid.
Source (edited extract):
The Numerical Sayings of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 4:14
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
The Effort that Avoids Evil!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Avoiding_Effort.htm
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The Blessed Buddha once said:
How, Cunda, is purity of verbal action fourfold?
1:
Herein, one avoids lying, abstains from false. He speaks the truth,
is devoted to the truth, reliable, trustable, never deceiving anyone.
Being at a meeting, among family, in society, or in the court called
upon and asked as witness to tell what he knows, he answers, if he
knows nothing: I know nothing; & if he knows, he answers: I know!
If he has seen nothing, he answers: I have seen nothing & if he has
seen something, he answers: I have seen this and that. Thus he never
deliberately speaks a lie, neither for his own advantage, nor for the
advantage of others, nor for the sake of any trivial gain whatsoever.
2:
He avoids divisive speech, spreading rumours, tale bearing, & gossip.
What he has heard here, he does not repeat there wishing to cause
dissension there by splitting those united. What he has heard there,
he does not tell here so to cause conflict by splitting friends here..
Rather he unites those who are divided; and those who are united
he encourages. Harmony, peace, agreement & concord gladdens him.
He delights and rejoices in Harmony. He spreads & grows Harmony!
3:
He avoids harsh & aggressive language, he abstains from all scolding.
He speaks such words that are gentle, soothing to the ear, pleasing,
heart-touching, polite, dear, considerate, interesting & agreeable..
4:
He avoids vain talk, empty & small talk, void speech and idle prattle!
He abstains from all babble, chitchat, tittle-tattle and evil hearsay.
He speaks at the right time, in accordance with facts, speaks what
is useful, speaks about the Dhamma and the Discipline; his speech is
like a precious treasure, well timed, always reasoned by arguments,
moderated, well formulated & full of sound reason & common sense.
In this -for all- very good way, is purity of verbal action fourfold!
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 10:176
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
More on Right Speech (Samma Vaca):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Speech.htm
and Animal-like Talk:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/tiracchaana_kathaa.htm
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The Fourfold Right Speech!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, red sandalwood is known as the best among fragrant and
sweet-scented heartwoods. It is declared to be their chief...
Similarly, among the various states conducive to enlightenment the
Ability of Understanding is declared to be the best & their chief,
that is, for the rapt attainment of this sublime Enlightenment...!!!
And what, Bhikkhus, are the states conducive to Enlightenment?
The Ability of Faith is a state leading to Awakening!!
The Ability of Energy is a state leading to Awakening!!
The Ability of Awareness is a state leading to Awakening!!
The Ability of Concentration is a state leading to Awakening!!
The Ability of Understanding is a state leading to Awakening!!
Bhikkhus, these five abilities, developed and cultivated, if unarisen,
do not arise except after the arrival of a Perfectly Enlightened One,
a Tathagata, an Arahat! These five abilities, advanced and refined,
do not arise apart from the Discipline & Teaching of Well Gone One!
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:231-236] section 48: The Abilities: 55+58+60.
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The Chief Ability!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, these five abilities, when developed and cultivated, lead
to the destruction of the evil mental fermentations. What five?
The Ability of Faith eliminates the fermentations!!
The Ability of Energy eliminates the fermentations!!
The Ability of Awareness eliminates the fermentations!!
The Ability of Concentration eliminates the fermentations!!
The Ability of Understanding eliminates the fermentations!!
These five abilities, when developed & cultivated, lead to the total
breaking out of the inner mental chains, to the complete uprooting
of the underlying mental tendencies, to the full understanding of
the course, method and path, and to the final destruction of the
mental fermentations. When, friends, these five abilities have been
developed and cultivated, one of 2 fruits may indeed be expected:
Either final knowledge in this very life or, if there is a residue of
clinging left, the state of non-returning...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:236] section 48: The Abilities: 64+65.
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Uprooting the mental fermentations!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
How, Cunda, is purity of mental action threefold?
1:
Herein, someone is without avarice, acquisitiveness, & greedy envy.
Whatever another person possesses of goods & property, he does
not long & yearn for it: Oh may I get what that other person has!
2:
He is free from ill-will, he harbours no angry thoughts in his mind!
Rather he thinks: Oh, may these beings be free from hate & ill-will,
and may they lead a happy & easy life free from all trouble & harm!
3:
He possesses right understanding and this unshakable right view:
Gifts, donations, and offerings are not worthless. There is a fruit
and kammic result of all advantageous & disadvantageous actions!
There is this world, and there is the next world. There are duties
towards father and mother. There are spontaneously reborn beings.
There are in this world recluses and monks of right & perfect living,
who have themselves understood and directly realized both this very
world and the next, and are able to explain them both....
This is the threefold mental purity, Cunda!
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 10:176
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_View.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Straight_View.htm
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Leaving_Wrong_View.htm
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Mental Purity x 3!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these five abilities. What five?
The Ability of Faith.
The Ability of Energy.
The Ability of Awareness.
The Ability of Concentration.
The Ability of Understanding.
When these five abilities have been developed & cultivated, then
seven supreme fruits and excellent benefits may be expected…
What are these seven fruits and benefits?
1: One attains final knowledge early in this very life. If not then;
2: One attains final knowledge at the time of death. If not then;
3: One having cut the 5 lower chains attains Nibbana in between;
4: One attains Nibbana upon landing in the pure abodes. If not then;
5: One attains Nibbana in this heaven without effort. If not then;
6: One attains Nibbana in this heaven with some effort. If not then;
7: One is bound Upstream, heading towards the Akanittha realm.
When, Bhikkhus, these five mental abilities have been developed and
cultivated, these seven sublime fruits and benefits may be expected.
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:237] section 48: The Abilities: 66.
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The Seven Supreme Benefits!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Just as the oil-lamp burns on oil and wick, but after consuming of
all oil and wick, through lack of fuel, the flame comes to ceasing,
similarly the Bhikkhu knows when sensing a feeling limited to this
body: I am sensing a feeling limited to this very body. When sensing
a feeling limited to life, he knows that: I am sensing a feeling limited
to life. He knows that: With the break-up of this fragile frame body,
after the termination of life, all sensed, not being clung to, will grow
cold and cease right there...
Here the monk, thus cooled, is endowed with the highest wisdom as
an unshakable foundation. This verily is the highest & most sacred
truth, to know how all Suffering will vanish. What can mislead, can
be mistaken, all that is untrue! Only the infallible Nibbana is true...
Source Text (extract): Majjhima Nikaya 140: Analysis of Elements:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.140.than.html
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The Stilled One!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these four right efforts. What four?
Here, Bhikkhus:
1: One generates desire for the non-emergence of yet unarisen evil
detrimental mental states, one makes an effort, one arouses energy,
one redirects the mind, and one strives enthusiastically for that...
2: One generates desire for the quick elimination of already arisen
evil detrimental states, one makes an effort, one arouses energy,
one redirects the mind, and one strives enthusiastically for that...
3: One generates desire for arising of yet unarisen advantageous
mental states, one makes an effort, one arouses energy, redirects
the mind, and one strives enthusiastically for these good states...
4: One generates desire for the fixed maintenance of already arisen
advantageous states, for their non-decay, increase, expansion, and
fulfilment by development, one makes an effort, one arouses energy,
one redirects the mind, and one strives enthusiastically in this...
These are the four right efforts!
Bhikkhus, just as the river Ganges slants, slopes, & inclines towards
the East, similarly does a Bhikkhu who develops and cultivates these
Four Right Efforts slants, slopes, and inclines towards Nibbana.
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:244] section 49: The 4 Efforts. 1: River Ganges.
More on Right Effort!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Effort.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Avoiding_Effort.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energetic_Effort.htm
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The River of Energetic Effort!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Formerly, when that person was still ignorant, then he was obsessed and
possessed of sexual & sensual greed, envy, jealousy, miserliness & he was
obsessed and possessed of hate, anger, ill-will, irritation & stubbornness &
he was obsessed by and possessed of ignorance, delusion, and foolishness...
These things are now overcome by him, rooted out, like a palm-tree razed
to the ground, destroyed, & unable to come into existence forever again!
Therefore such Bhikkhu, thus endowed, is indeed endowed with the highest
tranquillization as his unshakable foundation. Since this, friends, is the very
highest & most sacred: The Tranquillization of Greed, Hate, & Ignorance !!!
Source Text (extract): Majjhima Nikaya 140: Analysis of the Elements:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.140.than.html
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The Tranquil One!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, these four Feet of Force, when developed and cultivated,
are Noble and releasing since they lead the one who acts upon them
out of this world to and by the complete destruction of Suffering...
The lead to disgust, disillusion, to detachment, to ceasing, to peace,
to direct knowledge, to Enlightenment, to Nibbana. What four?
Here, friends, a Bhikkhu develops and refines:
1: The Feet of Force that is enriched with concentrated desire
constructed by effort...
2: The Feet of Force that is enriched with concentrated energy
constructed by effort...
3: The Feet of Force that is enriched with concentrated thought
constructed by effort...
4: The Feet of Force all enriched with concentrated investigation
constructed by effort...
These four Feet of Force are Noble and releasing, since they lead
anyone who acts upon them out of this world to & by the complete
destruction of Suffering... The lead to utter disgust, to disillusion,
to detachment, to ceasing, to direct knowledge, to Peace...
They lead to Enlightenment, they lead to Nibbana...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:255] section 51: The 4 Forces. 3+4: Noble Disgust.
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The Four Feet of Force!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
'I am' is an illusion. 'This I am' is an illusion. 'I shall be' is an illusion.
'I shall not become this or that' is an illusion. 'I shall be of form'
is an illusion. 'I shall become formless' is an illusion. 'I shall become
endowed with perception' is an illusion. 'I shall become without any
perception' is an illusion. 'I shall become neither with nor without
perception' is an illusion. Illusion is torture, illusion is a mind cancer,
illusion is a thorn in the future. If, however, all illusion is overcome,
one is called a stilled one, a sage. And the stilled one, the sage, is no
more reborn, grows no more old, & does not cumulate future death..
Why not? That craving through which he could be reborn again does
not exist anymore! If he is not reborn, how can he ever grow old?
If he never grows old, how can he ever die? If he never dies again,
how can he ever be in panic and urge? If neither in panic nor urge,
how can he still experience any craving?
Source Text (extract): Majjhima Nikaya 140: Analysis of the Elements:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.140.than.html
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Egoless Calm!
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 do no even minor thing 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 by any evil 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
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Finest Friendliness!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm
Know that Helping Others helps Yourself!
Know that Harmlessness is the prime Protection!
Know that Meditation is the Way to Calmed Bliss!
Know that Dhamma Study is the Way to Certainty!
Know that the Noble 8-fold Way makes Deathless!
Remember:
At this Full Moon 2537 years ago the Blessed Buddha awakened
by completely perfect and unsurpassable self-Enlightenment!
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 Wesak 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. 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 Bo-
tree. Reaching the imperturbable Eastern side, where all Buddhas
take their seat, he sat down saying 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 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 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 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 the Wielder of power 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. Mara yelled:
Siddhattha, leave this seat. It is not yours but mine! Hearing this
the Well-gone One replied: Mara, neither have you fulfilled the 10
perfections to the third degree nor have you given the 5 great
donations. Neither have you striven for insight, nor for the
welfare of the world, nor for enlightenment! Therefore does this
seat not belong to you, but indeed 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 snakes 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 Bo 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, & 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 destination, the lower realms, even in hell. 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 remain. With the
mind thus concentrated, fully absorbed, I directed it towards
understanding the ending of the mental fermentations. 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 was the mental fermentations...
Such is the cause of fermentation...
Such is the end of fermentation...
Such is the way leading to the end of 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 indeed 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 & broken... At this stilling
of all Craving, mind has finally calmed…
Then, friends, this vision of certainty arose in me: This release is
irreversible, this is the last birth, this endless reappearance is
finally ended...
See also: About Awakening!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/g/gotama.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/s/sujaataa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhisatta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/bodhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhirukka.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhimanda.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sammaa_sambodhi.htm
Wesak 2007!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
When a Bhikkhu develops The 4 Feet of Force quite enriched with
concentrated desire, concentrated energy, concentrated thought &
concentrated investigation constructed by effort thinking: In this
way will my desire, energy, thinking and investigating neither be too
slack nor too tense, and it will neither be constricted internally nor
distracted externally, then he dwells experiencing both what is in
front & what is behind, so above, so also below, so by day, so also at
night! Thus, with a mind that is all open & unrestricted, he develops
the unique and dazzling bright mind pervaded by own luminosity...
When the 4 feet of suprahuman force have been developed, refined
and cultivated in exactly this way, the Bhikkhu possesses the various
kinds of suprahuman force: having been one, he becomes many; having
been many, he becomes one; he appears & he vanishes; he goes fully
unhindered through a wall, through a barricade, through a mountain
as though through open space; he dives in and out of the earth at if
it were water; seated cross-legged, he travels in space like a bird,
he walks on water without sinking as though it were solid earth;
with his hand he touches and strokes the moon and sun so powerful
and mighty; he masters the body as far as the Brahma world...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:263-65]
section 51: The 4 Forces. Thread 11: Shaking The Mansion.
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Suprahuman Force 1!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
When a Bhikkhu develops The 4 Feet of Force that is enriched with
concentrated desire, concentrated energy, concentrated thought &
concentrated investigation, all constructed by effort, by thinking:
In this way will my desire, energy, thinking and investigating neither
be too slack nor too tense, it will neither be constricted internally
nor scattered externally, then he dwells experiencing both what is
in front & what is behind, so above, so also below, so by day, so also
at night! Therefore, with a mind that is all open & unrestricted, he
develops the dazzling bright mind which is pervaded by luminosity...
When the 4 feet of suprahuman force have been developed, refined
and cultivated in exactly this way, the Bhikkhu possesses the various
kinds of suprahuman force: With the divine ear element, which is
purified and surpasses the human, he hears both divine and human
sounds, both those that are far away as well as those that are near.
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:263-65]
section 51: The 4 Forces: Thread 11: Shaking The Mansion.
About Abhiñña: The 6 suprahuman forces, higher powers, or supernormal knowledge's see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/abhinna.htm
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The Divine Ear!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
When a Bhikkhu develops the Feet of Force that is enriched with
concentrated desire, concentrated energy, concentrated thought &
concentrated investigation, all constructed by effort, by thinking:
In this way will my desire, energy, thinking and investigating neither
be too slack nor too tense, it will neither be constricted internally
nor scattered externally, then he dwells experiencing both what is
in front & what is behind, so above, so also below, so by day, so also
at night! Therefore, with a mind that is all open & unrestricted, he
develops the dazzling bright mind, which is pervaded by luminosity...
When the 4 feet of suprahuman force have been developed, refined
and cultivated in exactly this way, the Bhikkhu possesses the various
kinds of suprahuman force: He understands other beings minds when
having encompassed them with his own mind. He understands a mind
with lust as a mind with lust; a mind without lust as a mind without
lust; a mind with hate as a mind with hate; a mind without hate as a
mind without hate; a mind with ignorance as a mind with ignorance;
a mind without ignorance as a mind beyond ignorance; a contracted
& lazy mind as contracted mind and a distracted mind as agitated &
distracted; an exalted mind as exalted into jhana and an unexalted
mind as unexalted; a surpassable mind as a surpassable mind and an
unsurpassable mind as unsurpassable; a well concentrated mind as
a concentrated mind & an unconcentrated mind as unconcentrated;
a released mind as released and an unreleased mind as unreleased...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:263-65]
section 51: The 4 Forces: Thread 11: Shaking The Mansion.
About Abhiñña: The 6 suprahuman forces, higher powers, or supernormal knowledge's see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/abhinna.htm
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The Suprahuman Force III: Mind-Reading!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
When a Bhikkhu develops the Feet of Force that is enriched with
concentrated desire, concentrated energy, concentrated thought &
concentrated investigation, all constructed by effort, by thinking:
In this way will my desire, energy, thinking and investigating neither
be too slack nor too tense, it will neither be constricted internally
nor scattered externally, then he dwells experiencing both what is
in front & what is behind, so above, so also below, so by day, so also
at night! Therefore, with a mind that is all open & unrestricted, he
develops the dazzling bright mind, which is pervaded by luminosity...
When the 4 feet of suprahuman force have been developed, refined
and cultivated in exactly this way, the Bhikkhu possesses the various
kinds of suprahuman force: He remembers many of his prior lives,
one rebirth, two lives, three lives, four lives, five lives, ten past lives,
twenty lives, thirty lives, forty lives, fifty lives, a hundred past lives,
one thousand prior lives, several hundred thousand lives, many aeons
(universal cycles) of world-contraction and expansion (big bangs):
There such was my name, species, family, such my appearance, such
was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such my life;
passing away from there, I was reborn elsewhere. There such was
my name, species, family, such my appearance, such was my food,
such my experience of pleasure & pain, such my life length; passing
away from there, I was reborn here. Thus he recollects his manifold
various past lives & abodes in all their particular modes & details...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:265-66]
section 51: The 4 Forces: Thread 11: Shaking The Mansion.
About Abhiñña: The 6 suprahuman forces, higher powers, or supernormal knowledge's see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/abhinna.htm
About kappa: The immensely long universal cycle or eon or kalpa (big bang to next big bang) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/kappa.htm
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Suprahuman Memory!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
When a Bhikkhu develops the Feet of Force that is enriched with
concentrated desire, concentrated energy, concentrated thought &
concentrated investigation, all constructed by effort, by thinking:
In this way will my desire, energy, thinking and investigating neither
be too slack nor too tense, it will neither be constricted internally
nor scattered externally, then he dwells experiencing both what is
in front & what is behind, so above, so also below, so by day, so also
at night! Therefore, with a mind that is all open & unrestricted, he
develops the dazzling bright mind, which is pervaded by luminosity...
When the 4 feet of suprahuman force have been developed, refined
and cultivated in exactly this way, the Bhikkhu possesses the various
kinds of suprahuman force: With the divine eye, which is purified &
surpasses the human, he sees beings passing away and being reborn,
as inferior or superior, beautiful or ugly, fortunate & unfortunate,
and he understands how beings travel on in accordance with their
actions (=kamma) thus: The beings who misbehaved bodily, verbally
and mentally, who reviled the Noble Ones, held wrong view, and did
actions based on wrong view, with the break-up of their body, right
after death, they have been reborn in a state of misery, in a painful
destination, in the lower worlds, even in hell! But these other beings
who engaged in good behaviour bodily, verbally & mentally, who did
not revile the Noble Ones, who held right view, & undertook action
based on right view, with the break-up of their body, after death,
have been reborn in a good & happy destination, even a divine world!
Thus with the divine eye, which is purified and surpasses the human,
he sees beings passing away and being reborn, inferior and superior,
beautiful and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate, and he understands
how beings is reborn on in accordance with their kamma (behaviour).
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:265-66]
section 51: The 4 Forces: Thread 11: Shaking The Mansion.
About Abhiñña: The 6 suprahuman forces, higher powers, or supernormal knowledge's see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/abhinna.htm
About Kamma: The accumulation of intentional causes, which may have spurious effects see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Kamma_and_Fruit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Kamma_is_improvable.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Inevitable_Consequences.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rebirth.htm
About the Divine Eye: The Dibba-Cakkhu see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Divine_Eye.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/dibba_cakkhu.htm
The Divine Eye!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
When a Bhikkhu develops the Feet of Force that is enriched with
concentrated desire, concentrated energy, concentrated thought &
concentrated investigation, all constructed by effort, by thinking:
In this way will my desire, energy, thinking and investigating neither
be too slack nor too tense, it will neither be constricted internally
nor scattered externally, then he dwells experiencing both what is
in front & what is behind, so above, so also below, so by day, so also
at night! Therefore, with a mind that is all open & unrestricted, he
develops the dazzling bright mind, which is pervaded by luminosity...
When the 4 feet of suprahuman force have been developed, refined
and cultivated in exactly this way, the Bhikkhu possesses the various
kinds of suprahuman force: Such Bhikkhu, by the total destruction
& complete elimination of the 3 mental fermentations, in this very
life enters and dwells in the fermentation-free release of mind, in
the fermentation-freed release of understanding, realizing it for
himself with direct knowledge, through direct experience...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:266]
section 51: The 4 Forces: Thread 11: Shaking The Mansion.
About Abhiñña: The 6 suprahuman forces, higher powers, or supernormal knowledge's see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/abhinna.htm
About Asava: The fermentation due to desire for sensing, becoming and due to ignorance see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Freed_from_Fermentation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/aasava.htm
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Freed of Mental Fermentation!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, without having mastered the basics of good morality (sila),
it is not possible to master the domain of concentration (samadhi) !
Without having mastered the domain of concentration, it is not
possible to master the sphere of understanding (pañña) !!! AN 5:22
Develop your concentration, friends, by regular & daily meditation!
Since the one who has concentration understands things according
to reality as they really are & become. And what are these things?
The arising and passing away of all form, all feeling, all perception,
all mental construction, and all consciousness. SN 22:5
About Morality (Sila): The base of all good is this mighty Morality see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Mighty_is_Morality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/siila.htm
About Concentration (Samadhi): The best Tool is Concentration see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Concentration_Samadhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/samaadhi.htm
About Understanding (Pañña): The highest Ability is Understanding see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Understanding_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/pannaa.htm
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The Triple Training!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
When a Bhikkhu develops the Ways to Force that is enriched with
concentrated desire, constructed by effort, by thinking:
In this way will my desire, neither be too slack nor too tense, it will
neither be constricted internally nor scattered externally, then he
dwells experiencing both what is in front & what is behind, so above,
so also below, so by day, so also at night! Therefore, with a mind all
open & unrestricted, he develops the dazzling bright mind, which is
pervaded by luminosity... However:
What is a desire that is too slack? It is desire joined with dullness.
This is called desire that is too slack...
What is a desire that is too tense? It is restless & agitated desire.
This is called desire that is too tense...
What is a desire that is constricted internally? It is a desire joined
with lethargy & laziness. This is desire that is constricted internally.
What is a desire that is scattered externally? It is desire that is all
distracted & diverted externally urging for the 5 sense pleasures...
This is called a desire that is scattered & distracted externally...
How does one dwell experiencing both the front & what is behind?
The perception of front, back, is well attended to, & thereby well
comprehended, well considered, & penetrated by understanding...
How does one dwell seeing as below, so above; as above, so below?
One reviews this very frame of body upwards from the soles of the
feet, & downwards from the tips of the hairs, enclosed in skin, as
full of many kinds of impurities: There are in this body head-hairs,
body-hairs, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, bone-marrow,
kidneys, heart, liver, pleura, spleen, lungs, intestines, mesentery,
vomit in the stomach, excrement, bile, lymph, pus, blood, sweat, fat,
tears, mucus, saliva, snot, fluid of the joints, and urine...
How does one dwell as by day, so at night; as at night, so by day?
Here, at night a Bhikkhu trains the Ways to Force that is enriched
with concentrated desire, constructed by effort using the same
techniques, qualities, features, & aspects, as he trains during a day.
And how, does one dwell with a mind that is all open & unrestricted,
a dazzling bright mind, which is pervaded by luminosity...?
Here, friends, the perception of day-light is well attended and well
resolved upon by determination. It is in exactly this way that one
dwell with a mind that is all open & unrestricted, a dazzling bright
mind, which is pervaded by its own luminosity...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:278]
section 51: The 4 Forces: Thread 20: Analysis of the Ways.
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Desire as Way to Force!
The Blessed Buddha once took up a little bit of soil on his fingernail
and asked: What do you think, Bhikkhus, which is more: The little bit
of soil on my fingernail or this great planet earth?
Venerable Sir, the great planet earth is much more. The little bit of
soil that the Blessed One has taken up on his fingernail is a trifle...
It is not calculable, does not bear any comparison, does not amount
even to a minute microscopic fraction of this great planet Earth!!!
The Blessed Buddha then made his forceful point clear by saying:
Similarly, Bhikkhus: So few humans are reborn among human beings!
Many human beings experience the downfall & are reborn in Hell...
For what reasons?
Because few humans honour ascetics and recluses. The majority of
humans do not honour or revere neither ascetics nor recluses....
Because few humans avoid taking what is not given. The majority of
humans do indeed take or swindle what is not openly & freely given!
Because few humans avoid false speech. The majority of humans do
indeed lie, deceive, misrepresent, bending truth misleading others...
Because few humans avoid false weights and estimates, false prices,
false measures, false papers, false information and false metals...
Because few humans avoid the crooked & warped ways of bribery,
deception, trickery, insincerity, cheating, dishonesty and fraud...
But many & numerous are the human beings who do not so refrain!!!
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:474]
section 56: The Truths: Thread 102: Passing Away as Humans.
Ex: A sure way to the Barbeque is cheating or stealing
from the Noble Bhikkhu Sangha or pure ones in need…
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The Many Ways to the Barbeque!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
If, Bhikkhus and Friends, anyone wishes: Oh, may I in this very life
be able to eliminate the mental fermentations, and thereby come to
fully experience mental release, release through understanding, by
directly realizing it and make it my own! Then he should practise to
perfect morality (sila), be devoted to mental tranquillity (samatha),
not neglect the mental absorptions, cultivate insight (vipassana),
and often frequent lonely, remote & peaceful places for training!
Source Text (extract): Majjhima Nikaya 6
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/siila.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/samatha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/jhaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vipassanaa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/samatha_vipassanaa.htm
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In this very Life!
A former husband of a Buddhist Nun (=Bhikkhuni) once asked her:
Venerable Dhammadinna, are these 3 domains of morality (sila),
concentration (samadhi), and understanding (pañña) included in the
Noble 8-fold Way, or is it rather instead the Noble 8-fold Way
that is included & divided into the 3 core domains of the training?
The 3 domains, Visakha, are not included in the Noble 8-fold Way,
but the Noble 8-fold Way is included in those 3 domains like this:
Right speech, right action, and right livelihood: These 3 things are
included in the domain of morality...
Right effort, right awareness, & right concentration: These things
are included in the domain of concentration...
Right view and right motivation: These things are included in the
domain of understanding.
Source Text (extract): Majjhima Nikaya 44:
Culavedalla Sutta: The Shorter Set of Questions-and-Answers
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.044.than.html
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The 3-fold Way!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
When a Bhikkhu develops the Ways to Force that is enriched with
concentrated Energy, constructed by effort, by thinking:
In this way will my Energy, neither be too slack nor too tense, it will
neither be constricted internally nor scattered externally, then he
dwells experiencing both what is in front & what is behind, so above,
so also below, so by day, so also at night! Therefore, with a mind all
open & unrestricted, he develops the dazzling bright mind, which is
pervaded by luminosity... However:
What is Energy that is too slack? It is Energy joined with dullness.
This is called Energy that is too slack...
What is Energy that is too tense? It is restless & agitated Energy.
This is called Energy that is too tense...
What is Energy that is constricted internally? It is Energy joined
with lethargy & laziness. This is Energy that is constricted internally.
What is Energy that is scattered externally? It is Energy that is all
distracted & diverted externally urging for the 5 sense pleasures...
This is called Energy that is scattered & distracted externally...
How does one dwell experiencing both the front & what is behind?
The perception of front, back, is well attended to, & thereby well
comprehended, well considered, & penetrated by understanding...
How does one dwell seeing as below, so above; as above, so below?
One reviews this very frame of body upwards from the soles of the
feet, & downwards from the tips of the hairs, enclosed in skin, as
full of many kinds of impurities: There are in this body head-hairs,
body-hairs, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, bone-marrow,
kidneys, heart, liver, pleura, spleen, lungs, intestines, mesentery,
vomit in the stomach, excrement, bile, lymph, pus, blood, sweat, fat,
tears, mucus, saliva, snot, fluid of the joints, and urine...
How does one dwell as by day, so at night; as at night, so by day?
Here, at night a Bhikkhu trains the Ways to Force that is enriched
with concentrated Energy, constructed by effort using the same
techniques, qualities, features, & aspects, as he trains during a day.
And how, does one dwell with a mind that is all open & unrestricted,
a dazzling bright mind, which is pervaded by luminosity...?
Here, friends, the perception of day-light is well attended and well
resolved upon by determination. It is in exactly this way that one
dwell with a mind that is all open & unrestricted, a dazzling bright
mind, which is pervaded by its own luminosity...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:278]
section 51: The 4 Forces: Thread 20: Analysis of the Ways.
More on Energy (Viriya):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm
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Energy as a Way to Force!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
There are, Bhikkhus, these three kinds of training:
1: Training in Higher Morality (Adhi-sila-sikkha)...
2: Training in Higher Consciousness (Adhi-citta-sikkha)...
3: Training in Higher Understanding (Adhi-pañña-sikkha)...
What, Bhikkhus, is the training in higher morality?
Herein the monk is possessed of morality, is fully controlled by the
monastic code of 227 disciplinary rules, perfected in conduct and
behaviour and, recoiling from even the minutest offence, he trains
himself in these higher moral rules that he has accepted to follow.
This is called the training in higher morality!
What, Bhikkhus, is the training in higher consciousness?
Herein the monk, secluded from sensual desires, protected from any
detrimental mental state, enters & dwells in the 1st jhana of joy &
pleasure born of solitude, joined with directed & sustained thought.
He enters ... the second ... the third ... the fourth absorption (jhana).
This is called the training in higher consciousness!
What, Bhikkhus, is the training in higher understanding?
Herein the monk understands fully according to the actual reality:
What Suffering is,
What the Cause of Suffering is,
What the Ceasing of Suffering is, and
What the Way leading to ceasing of Suffering is.
This is called the training in higher understanding!
Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 3:88-89
http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm
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The 3 Trainings!
There are two principal kinds of mental development:
1: Development of mental tranquillity and calm (samatha-bhavana)
culminating in the development of concentration (samadhi-bhavana)
And!
2: Development of insight (vipassana-bhavana) culminating in the
development of understanding (pañña-bhavana).
Both qualities: Calm and Insight, are essential & crucial for release!
Tranquil Calm (samatha) is the pleasant, peaceful, yet lucid state of
a settled mind acquired as a preliminary to meditative absorption.
It blesses the meditator with 3 things: Happy life, happy rebirth, &
a mental purity suitable for gaining progressive penetrating insight!
Concentration is a necessary prerequisite for such cutting insight..
Why so? It removes distractions that veil the investigating vision!
Insight is that which leads to entrance of the 4 stages of Nobility..
Why so? It irreversibly removes gross & latent mental hindrances!
The term samadhi literally means ~being firmly put evenly together
(sam + a+ dha) & is mental state focused on only one single object=
cittass'ekaggata, which literally means ~ one-pointedness of mind.
Any state of consciousness has a degree of mental concentration!
One may distinguish these four stages or levels of concentration:
1: Momentary or transient concentration (khanika-samadhi ),
2: Preliminary or preparing concentration (parikamma-samadhi ),
3: Access or approaching concentration (upacara-samadhi ),
4: Absorption or attainment concentration (appana-samadhi ).
Insight (vipassana) is the penetrative understanding, gained by only
direct meditative experience of the inherent transience, misery, &
selflessness (anicca, dukkha, anatta) of all physical & mental states
of existence all included in these 5 clusters (khandha) of clinging:
form, feeling, perception, mental construction, and consciousness.
Bhavana is derived from the causative form of the verbal root bhu,
bhavati = to be, to become, causing to be, making come into being,
the calling into existence of, the production of or development of.
When applied to Mental Training this simply means Meditation...
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Calm and Insight!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
When a Bhikkhu develops the Ways to Force that is enriched with
concentrated Investigation, constructed by effort, by thinking:
In this way will my Investigation, neither be too slack nor too tense,
it will neither be constricted internally nor scattered externally,
then he dwells experiencing both what is in front & what is behind,
what is above, so also below, so by day, so also at night! Therefore,
with a mind all open & unrestricted, he develops the dazzling bright
mind, which is pervaded by its own internal luminosity... However:
What is Investigation that is too slack? Investigation joined with
dullness is called Investigation that is too slack!
What is Investigation that is too tense? Restless, hurried, agitated
Investigation is called an Investigation that is too tense!
What is Investigation that is constricted internally? Investigation
done in laziness. This is Investigation that is constricted internally!
What is Investigation that is scattered externally? Investigation
that in craving & urge is directed towards the five sense pleasures.
This is called Investigation that is scattered & directed externally!
How does one dwell experiencing both the front & what is behind?
The perception of front, back, is well attended to, & thereby well
comprehended, well considered, & well known by understanding...
This is Investigation that knows both what is in the front & back!
How does one dwell seeing as below, so above; as above, so below?
One reviews this very frame of body upwards from the soles of the
feet, & downwards from the tips of the hairs, enclosed by skin, as
full of many kinds of impurities: There are in this body head-hairs,
body-hairs, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, bone-marrow,
kidneys, heart, liver, pleura, spleen, lungs, intestines, mesentery,
vomit in the stomach, excrement, bile, lymph, pus, blood, sweat, fat,
tears, slime, spit, snot, joint fluid, and urine...This is Investigation
that is knows what is below, so also above; as above, so also below...
How does one dwell as by day, so at night; as at night, so by day?
Here, at night a Bhikkhu trains the Ways to Force that is enriched
with concentrated Investigation, constructed by effort using the
same techniques, qualities, & aspects, as he trains during the day.
So does one abide as by day, so at night; as at night, so by day!
And how, does one dwell with a mind that is all open & unrestricted,
a dazzling bright mind, which is pervaded by its own luminosity...?
Here, friends, the perception of day-light is well attended and well
resolved upon by determination. It is in exactly this way that one
dwell with a mind that is all open & unrestricted, a dazzling bright
mind, which is pervaded by its own luminosity.
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:278]
section 51: The 4 Forces: Thread 20: Analysis of the Ways.
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/iddhi_paada.htm
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Investigation as a Way to Force!
The Blessed Buddha said:
May all creatures, all breathing things,
all beings everyone, without exception,
experience good happiness only.
May they not fall into any harm.
Anguttara Nikaya II, 72
Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Sutta Nipata I, 8
For one who deliberately & aware
develops Universal Friendliness
Seeing the fading away of clinging,
All chains are worn down & broken.
Itivuttaka 27
Overcome the angry by friendliness;
overcome the wicked by goodness;
overcome the miser by generosity;
overcome the liar by truth.
Dhammapada 223
Who is hospitable, open, and friendly,
Generous, gentle and unselfish,
A guide, an instructor, a leader,
Such a one to honour may attain.
Digha Nikaya 31
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The Sugar!
When, Ananda, the Tathagata immerses the body in the mind & the
mind in the body, by entering and dwelling in a blissful and buoyant
experience of the body, it happens that the body of the Tathagata
rises spontaneously up without difficulty from earth up into the air
just as a light tuft of cotton easily rises up into the air in the wind.
Then he possesses all the various kinds of supra-human forces:
Having been one, he becomes many; having been many, he becomes
one; he appears & he vanishes; he goes unhindered through a wall,
through a barricade, & through a mountain as through open space;
he dives in and out of the earth at if it were water; he flies freely
in space like a bird yet seated cross-legged, he walks on water as
though it were solid earth without sinking; with his hand he touches
& strikes both the moon & sun so powerful and mighty; he masters
the body and forms as far as the fine-dark-material Brahma world!
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:283-84]
section 51: The 4 Forces. Thread 22: The Iron Ball.
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/aa/aananda.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/t/tathaagata.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/b/brahmaloka.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html
Mind Body Immersing!
The Buddha taught 40 principal meditation objects kammatthana::
kammatthana literally means: Place of work, basis of action leading
to the various degrees of mental meditational absorption jhana.
These 40 meditation subjects are:
I. Ten kasina exercises: Kasina = 'Entirety'. All 4 jhanas possible:
1: Earth kasina, 2: Water kasina, 3: Fire kasina, 4: Wind kasina,
5: Blue kasina, 6: Yellow kasina, 7: Red kasina, 8: White kasina,
9: Light or consciousness kasina, 10: Space kasina.
II. Ten perceptions of disgust: asubha-sañña:. 1st jhana possible:
A swollen & bloated corpse, a bluish livid corpse, a rotting corpse,
a cut-up & split corpse, a gnawed corpse, a hacked corpse, a spread
scattered corpse, a bloody corpse, a corpse of maggots, a skeleton.
III. Ten contemplations, remembrances or recollections anussati::
1: On the Buddha, 2: The Dhamma, 3: Noble Sangha community,
4: Morality, 5: Generosity, 6: Heavenly divine beings, 7: Death,
8: Body, 9: In-and-out-breathing All 4 jhanas possible, 10: Peace.
IV. Four divine abodes or infinite states brahma-vihara::
1: All-embracing friendliness = metta:, 2: Pity = karuna:,
3: Mutual joy = mudita, 4: Equanimity = upekkha:.
V. Four formless spheres arupayatana: based on the 4th jhana:
1: The infinitude of space, 2: The infinitude of consciousness,
3: Empty nothingness, 4: Neither-perception-nor-non-perception.
VI. Perception of the disgust of food. ahare patikkula-sañña:
VII. Defining Analysis of the four elements dhatu-vavatthana:.
Details here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/l/DPPN/wtb/b_f/bhaavanaa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/libraryibrary/DPPN/wtb/g_m/kasina.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/asubha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anussati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/dhamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sangha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/caaga.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/siila.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/deva.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/marana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/kaaya_gata_sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anapana_sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/upasamaanussati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/brahma_vihaara.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/jhaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/dhaatu_vavatthaana.htm
The 40 Classic Meditation Objects!
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were living at Vesali in Ambapali's Grove. Then, in the early evening,
the Venerable Sariputta emerged from his daylong seclusion, went
to the Venerable Anuruddha and said: Friend Anuruddha, indeed is
your appearance serene and your visual expression is pure & bright!
In what dwelling does the Venerable Anuruddha now usually dwell?
Now, friend, I usually dwell with a mind well established in the four
foundations of awareness. What four? Here, friend, I dwell solely
reflecting upon the body only as a formed group ...
reflecting upon the feelings only as passing sensations ...
reflecting upon the mind only as habitual & transient moods ...
reflecting upon all phenomena only as constructed mental states ...
while keen, clearly comprehending, acutely aware, thereby removing
all desire and frustration rooted in this world. The Bhikkhu, friend,
who is an Arahat, one whose mental fermentations are destroyed,
who has lived the Noble life, done what had to be done, laid down
the burden, reached his own goal, by utterly eliminating the chains
of endless re-becoming, one entirely released through final direct
knowledge, usually dwells with a mind well established in these four
foundations of awareness.... Then Venerable Sariputta exclaimed:
It is a gain for us, friend, it is well won by us, friend, that we were
in the very presence of the Venerable Anuruddha when he roared
such a lion's roar...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
[V:301-2] section 52: Anuruddha. Thread 9: The All!
Details and references for further study:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ay/anuruddha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/sa/saariputta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/vy/vesaali.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Awareness_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear_Comprehension.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Focusing_on_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Magnificent_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Phenomena_is_Mental_States.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
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