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The Four Truths perform 4 Functions in a single Moment!
The Blessed Buddha once said this:
Bhikkhus, any one who sees Suffering, sees also The Cause of Suffering,
sees also The End of Suffering, sees also The Way to End all Suffering..
Any one who sees The Cause of Suffering, sees also Suffering, Ending, &
The Way. And any one who sees The End, sees also Pain, Cause, & The Way.
Consequently any one who sees The Way to End Pain, sees also Suffering,
sees also The Cause of Suffering, sees also The Ending of Suffering!
Comments on Coming Through:
Breakthrough to the Truths thus performs 4 functions at a single moment!
4 of these breakthroughs occur at each path-entry-moment to Nobility...
The effect is each time an even deeper irreversible mental purification!
When these 4 Truths are flashing forth & forever transforms one's life
and mentality, Nibbāna is the single object pointed to as possible escape!
There is only one single Exit out of this burning cinema of appearances...
A Matrix of Clinging!
Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:436-7]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 30: Gavampati...
More on these 4 Noble Truths (Cattari Ariya Saccani):
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Ignorance.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Actually_So.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/True_Wisdom.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/The_Ultimate_Fact.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Simple_yet_Complex.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_End_Suffering.htm
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka
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Four but One!
What does it really mean to be Perfectly Self-Enlightened?
The Blessed Buddha once said this:
Those who do not understand Suffering
Who do not know how Suffering comes into being,
Nor where Suffering ceases without remaining trace!
Who do not know this Noble Way & unique Method,
Which leads straight to stilling of all Suffering!
They are indeed lacking all mental release;
They are neither released through understanding;
Thus Incapable of making an end, stranded, helpless,
They tumble on in birth, ageing, and eternal decay...
But those who do understand this Suffering,
Who also know Craving as The Cause of Suffering,
And where Suffering ceases completely,
Who understand This Noble Way and Method,
Which leads straight to The End of all Suffering!
They are endowed both with mental release;
And also released through understanding!
Being thus ready and able of making an end,
They stop tumbling on in birth, ageing & decay...
It is because one all alone has fully awakened to these 4 Noble Truths as
they really & actually are, that the Tathagata is called a worthy Arahat,
is called a Perfectly Self-Enlightened One, is called a SammāSamBuddha...
Therefore, Bhikkhus, an effort should be dedicated to really understand:
All this is Suffering! An effort should be made much of to truly comprehend:
Craving is the Cause of Suffering! An effort should be cultivated to realize:
No Craving is the End of Suffering! Effort should be made to break through,
reinforce, and develop: This Noble 8-fold Way which Ceases all Suffering...
Comments:
Only a SammāSamBuddha can rediscover & teach these Four Noble Truths!
Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:433]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 22-3: Kotigāma & Perfectly Enlightened ...
More on these 4 Noble Truths (Cattari Ariya Saccani):
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Ignorance.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Actually_So.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/True_Wisdom.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Four_but_One.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/The_Ultimate_Fact.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Simple_yet_Complex.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_End_Suffering.htm
Friendship is the Greatest Bhikkhu SamahitaSri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
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http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said
Tell your good friends about the real Truths! [FONT="]
The Blessed Buddha once said this:[/FONT][FONT="]
Bhikkhus for those you have sympathy, those you consider worth
listening to, whether friends, colleagues or family members, these
you should explain, reassure and establish in breaking through to
genuine understanding of the [/FONT] [FONT="] 4 Noble Truths as they really are...
What four?[/FONT][FONT="]The Noble Truth of [/FONT] [FONT="] Suffering as in all inherent misery[/FONT][FONT="];[/FONT][FONT="]
The Noble Truth on [/FONT] [FONT="] Craving as the Cause of all Suffering[/FONT][FONT="];[/FONT][FONT="]
T[/FONT][FONT="]he Noble Truth on [/FONT] [FONT="] Ceasing of Craving as the End of all Suffering;[/FONT][FONT="]
The Noble Truth on [/FONT] [FONT="] The Noble Eightfold Way will End all Suffering!
Therefore, Bhikkhus, an effort should be dedicated to really understand:
All this is Suffering! An effort should be made much of to truly comprehend:
Craving is the Cause of Suffering! An effort should be aroused to realize:
No Craving is the End of Suffering! Effort should be made to set in motion,
reinforce, and develop:[/FONT] [FONT="] This Noble 8-fold Way which Ceases all Suffering... [/FONT][FONT="]
Comments:
[/FONT][FONT="] Teaching the 4 Noble Truths is real compassion & giving of the Deathless!
Should only be done to those who can understand it & at the right occasion![/FONT][FONT="]
Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:434-5]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 26: Friends ...[/FONT]
More on these 4 Noble Truths (Cattari Ariya Saccani):
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Actually_So.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/True_Wisdom.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Four_but_One.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ultimate_Fact.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Simple_yet_Complex.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Perfectly_Enlightened.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_End_Suffering.htm
Pass it on!
Drifting in Samsara is like Russian Roulette!
The Blessed Buddha once said this:
Bhikkhus & friends, even exactly as a stick thrown up into the air always
falls down sometimes hitting with one end, sometimes with the other end
sometimes falling flat with on middle, so too do beings roam & wander on,
blinded by ignorance and obsessed by craving, sometimes in this world,
sometimes in another world. Why is it so?
Because they have not seen, understood known the Four Noble Truths.
What four?The Noble Truth of Suffering is an in all existence inherent misery;
The Noble Truth on Craving as the dominant Cause of all Suffering;
The Noble Truth on Ceasing of Craving as the End of all Suffering;
The Noble Truth on This Noble Eightfold Way will End all Suffering!
Therefore, Bhikkhus, an effort should be dedicated to really understand:
All this is Suffering! An effort should be made much of to truly comprehend:
Craving is the Cause of Suffering! An effort should be aroused to realize:
No Craving is the End of Suffering! Effort should be made to set in motion,
reinforce, and develop: This Noble 8-fold Way which Ceases all Suffering...
Comments on this Simile of the Stick:
Reappearing in this or that lower world is like when the stick hits with one of the ends!
Reappearing at the same level of being is like when the stick falls flat on the middle.
Reappearing at a higher level is like when the stick hits and keep standing on one end!
For the 31 levels or planes of Existence see:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:439-40]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 33: The Stick ...
More on these 4 Noble Truths (Cattari Ariya Saccani):
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Ignorance.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Pass_it_on.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Actually_So.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/True_Wisdom.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Four_but_One.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/The_Ultimate_Fact.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Simple_yet_Complex.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Perfectly_Enlightened.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_End_Suffering.htm
Seeing The Truths is of Primary Importance! [FONT="]
The Blessed [URL="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%20Documents/My%20Web%20Sites/What_Buddha_Said/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm"] Buddha[/URL] once said this:
Bhikkhus, imagine a man with a life span of a hundred years. If some ask him:
Good man, morning, noon & evening you will be pierced with a 100 spears and
and despite being stabbed & impaled daily with 300 spears, you will survive
a full 100 years, after which you will break through to the Four Noble Truths!
Will you agree to do that?
Then, Bhikkhus, he should accept this offer as a good deal..! For what reason?
Because since an inconceivable beginning of Samsaric time, all beings have been
& will eternally continue to be hit by spears, cut by swords, & chopped by axes.
[/FONT] [FONT="]Secondly: Breaking through to the Four Noble Truths is not joined by any pain
or frustration. Breaking through to the Four Noble Truths is joined only by an
extreme happiness, joy, bliss and peace...
[FONT="] What four Truths?[/FONT][FONT="]The Noble Truth of [/FONT] [FONT="] Suffering as an in all immanent misery![/FONT][FONT="]
The Noble Truth on [/FONT] [FONT="] Craving as the sole Cause of all Suffering![/FONT][FONT="]
T[/FONT][FONT="]he Noble Truth on [/FONT] [FONT="] Ceasing of Craving as the End of all Suffering![/FONT][FONT="]
The Noble Truth on [/FONT] [FONT="] This Noble 8-fold Way [/FONT] [FONT="] as the method[/FONT][FONT="] to End all Suffering!
Therefore, Bhikkhus, an effort should be dedicated to really understand:
All this is Suffering! An effort should be made much of to truly comprehend:
Craving is the Cause of Suffering! An effort should be aroused to realize:
No Craving is the End of Suffering! Effort should be made to set in motion,
[/FONT] to r[FONT="]einforce, & refine:[/FONT] [FONT="] This Noble 8-fold Way which Ceases all Suffering... [/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]
Comments:
These 4 Noble Truths are really the crucial core of Buddhism since,
they open the doors to the Deathless Dimension: [URL="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%20Documents/My%20Web%20Sites/What_Buddha_Said/drops/II/What_is_Nibbana.htm"] Nibbāna ![/URL]
Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:440-1]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 35: 100 Spears ...[/FONT]
More on these 4 Noble Truths (Cattari Ariya Saccani):
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Actually_So.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/True_Wisdom.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Four_but_One.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
[FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Stick.htm[/FONT]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ultimate_Fact.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Simple_yet_Complex.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Perfectly_Enlightened.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_End_Suffering.htm
300 Spears!
Having Right View induces Seeing The Truth! [FONT="]
The Blessed [URL="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%20Documents/My%20Web%20Sites/What_Buddha_Said/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm"] Buddha[/URL] once said this:
Bhikkhus, dawn is the forerunner and precursor for the arising of the sun...
Similarly, is Right View the forerunner and precursor for breaking through
to the [FONT="] Four Noble Truths[/FONT] as the really are. One can expect that any Bhikkhu
with Right View will understand as it really is: [FONT="]
Suffering is an in all phenomena immanent misery![/FONT] [FONT="]
Craving and Clinging is the sole Cause of all Suffering![/FONT]
[FONT="]Stilling and C[/FONT][FONT="]easing of Craving is the End of all Suffering![/FONT] [FONT="]
This Noble 8-fold Way is the sole method[/FONT][FONT="] to Ending all Suffering!
[/FONT][FONT="]Therefore, Bhikkhus, an effort should be dedicated to really understand:
All this is Suffering! An effort should be made much of to truly comprehend:
Craving is the Cause of Suffering! An effort should be aroused to realize:
No Craving is the End of Suffering! Effort should be made to set in motion,
[/FONT] to r[FONT="]einforce, & to refine:[/FONT] [FONT="] This Noble 8-fold Way which Ceases all Suffering...[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]
Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:442]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 37: The Sun ...[/FONT]
More on Right View (Sammā Ditthi):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_View.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Leaving_Wrong_View.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Advanced_Right_View.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/The_Noble_8-Fold_Way.htm
The Initiating Sun!
By constructing what does one Tumble Down the Abyss?
Once, a certain not very well-known Bhikkhu asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir: What is the steepest & most frightening abyss for downfall?
The Blessed Gotama Buddha then pointed out:
Bhikkhu: All those ascetics & priests, who do not understand as it really is:
This is Suffering; This is Causing Suffering; This is the End of Suffering;
This is the Way leading to the End of Suffering, they delight in forming
intentions, that lead to birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief
& despair. Delighting in forming such intentions, they generate & accumulate
volitional mental constructions, that indeed induce & set off rebirth, aging,
death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief & despair. Unaware of having thus
produced their own painful future, they tumble down the abyss of rebirth,
aging, & death, tumble down the abyss of sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief,
and they tumble down the abyss of utter despair. They are therefore not
freed from this rebirth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief &
not freed from despair... I tell you: They are not freed from Suffering!!!
However those ascetics & priests who do understand the 4 Noble Truths
they do not delight in forming intentions, and therefore do they neither
generate nor accumulate volitional mental constructions inducing rebirth,
aging, death, sorrow, pain, grief & despair. They are freed from rebirth!
I tell you: They are thereby freed from all future Suffering whatsoever!
Concise Comment:
Any intention that accumulates as the kammic cause of future rebirth,
thereby also includes the cause of future mortality & thus Suffering!!! [FONT="]
Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. [V:449-50]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 42: The Abyss ...[/FONT]
Forming Intention is thus the real Abyss!
The Truths have to be seen before Awakening is possible!
The Blessed Gotama Buddha once explained:
If anyone should ever postulate: Without having made the breakthrough
to understanding: This is Suffering; Craving is the Cause of Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering; The 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
as they really are, I will make a final and complete end of all suffering!
Then this is hopeless, impossible, impracticable, unachievable, & untrue!
Just as if anyone would build the second floor of a house without first
having built the first floor...
However if anyone should wish: Having made this crucial breakthrough
to understanding: This is Suffering; Craving is the Cause of Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering; The 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
as they really are, I will make a final and complete end of all suffering!
Then this is realistic, possible, likely, promising, feasible, & realizable!
Just as if one first having build the first floor of a house easily could
build and add the second floor... Therefore should an effort be made
to really understand, see, comprehend & realize these 4 Noble Truths!
Comment:
Many beings embark on raising a metaphysical religious 'Tower' from,
which they can look proud, yet forgetting all about to making a solid
foundation first! Result: At first wind this tower tumble & they fall!
Back to square one again! There is only this ONE way: Noble & 8-fold...
Never give up developing this Way further, deeper, better & purer!
Stay grounded! Pay attention to the facts & truths as they really are!
[FONT="]Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. [V:452-3]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 44: The Peaked House ...[/FONT]
Seeing the Truths are indispensable for Awakening!
Precious yet quite often wasted is this Human Opportunity!
The Blessed Gotama Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus & friends, imagine a single floating ring drifting in the great oceans!
Imagine also a blind turtle, which surfaces only once every hundred years...
What do you think, Bhikkhus, would that blind turtle by chance often dive
right up under this randomly drifting single ring & insert its neck in the hole?
If it ever would at all, Sir, it would only happen after an incredibly long time!
Yet, Bhikkhus & friends, I tell you, that this would happen sooner, than a fool
who has fallen to the lower worlds would again regain this rare human state...
Why so? Because down there exists neither behaviour guided by the Dhamma,
nor any honesty, nor any morality, nor any good doing or meritorious activity...
There prevails only this evil: beat or be beaten, eat or be eaten, and merciless
killing and voraciously swallowing up of any weak. Why is it so primitive there?
Because, Bhikkhus, there nobody have seen these 4 Noble Truths! What four?
All This is Suffering; This Greedy Craving is the sole Cause of all Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering; The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore should an effort be made now to understand the 4 Noble Truths!
Comment:
Despite the fact that downfall is a common event occurring at most deaths
(>97%) many beings think that the downfall either not happen to them (sic!),
or that it does not exist at all... They cannot remember last nasty surprise...
Learning anything about cause and effect is thus effectively disabled!
[FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[/FONT][FONT="] The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. [V:455-6]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 47: The Ring and Blind Turtle ...[/FONT]
Precious & rare is this human chance!
Precious yet quite often wasted is this Dhamma Opportunity! [FONT="]
The Blessed Gotama Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus & friends, imagine a single floating ring drifting in the great oceans!
The Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern winds drive it here and there...
Imagine also a blind turtle, which surfaces only once every hundred years...
What do you think, Bhikkhus, would that blind turtle by chance often dive
right up under this randomly drifting single ring & insert its neck in the hole?
If it ever would at all, Sir, it would only happen by an exceedingly rare chance!
Similarly, Bhikkhus it is by an exceedingly rare chance that one becomes human;
it is by an extraordinarily rare chance that a Well-Come-&-Gone-One, an Arahat,
a Perfectly Self-Enlightened Buddha arises in this world; and it is thus also by
an exceptionally rare chance that the Dhamma and Discipline explained by this
Tathagata shines forth in this world and saves it from Barbarism.
Bhikkhus: You have now gained that precious & rare human state, a Tathagata,
an Arahat, a Perfectly Self-Enlightened Buddha has arisen in the world, & the
Dhamma and Discipline proclaimed by the Tathagata shines out in this world...
Therefore, Bhikkhus & friends, an exertion should be made Now to understand:
All This[FONT="] is Suffering; [/FONT] This Greedy Craving is the[FONT="] sole Cause of all Suffering;
[/FONT] No Craving is[FONT="] the [/FONT][FONT="] End of Suffering; The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore should effort to fathom these 4 Noble Truths be made NOW!
[/FONT] [FONT="] Comment:[/FONT][FONT="]
It is now or never. May a sense of urgency save many from the ruin of neglect!
[/FONT] [FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[/FONT][FONT="]The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. [V:456-7]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 48: The Ring and Blind Turtle 2 ...[/FONT]
[/FONT]
Precious & rare is this human state & meeting the Dhamma!
How to train & expand Universal Friendliness!
Sitting alone, in silence, each early morning, with closed eyes one wishes:
May I radiate and meet only infinite friendliness, kindness, and goodwill!
May I & all the various beings on the 31 levels of existence develop & find
only the genuine good of infinite friendliness, kindness, & goodwill!
May I & all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material, and the formless plane
develop & encounter this fine infinite friendliness, kindness, & goodwill!
May I & all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left & below as
above develop & experience high infinite friendliness, kindness & goodwill!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe always be fully aware
and deeply mindful of this infinite friendliness, kindness, & goodwill!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe examine all details &
subtle aspects of this sublime infinite friendliness, kindness, & goodwill!
May I & all beings in this city, country & universe put enthusiastic effort
into their praxis of infinite friendliness, kindness, & goodwill!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe find enraptured joy &
jubilant gladness in this infinite friendliness, kindness, & goodwill!
May I & all beings in this city, country & universe cultivate the tranquillity
of quiet, silent & all stilled infinite friendliness, kindness, & goodwill!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe attain concentrated &
absorbed one-pointedness of infinite friendliness, kindness, & goodwill!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe dwell in undisturbable
& imperturbable balance of infinite friendliness, kindness & goodwill!
Yeah! (Print this out, dwell in each state until deep, use ~ 25-45 minutes.
Comment: Universal Friendliness is the 1st endless state (Appamaññā)
This gradually reduces all hate, anger, irritation, resentment, opposition,
stubbornness, mental rigidity, & unhappiness related with these states.
Release of Mind by Universal Friendliness (Mettā-Ceto-Vimutti) is >16
times more worth, than any merit won by whatever worldly gift or gain...
Joining with the 7 links to Awakening will later cause formless jhāna...
Universal Friendliness!
How to train and intensify endless Pity, Sympathy, & Compassion!
Sitting alone, in silence, each early morning, with closed eyes one wishes:
May I radiate and meet only infinite pity, sympathy, and compassion!
May I & all the various beings on the 31 levels of existence develop & find
only the genuine gentleness of infinite pity, sympathy, and compassion!
May I & all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material, & the formless plane
develop & encounter this tender infinite pity, sympathy, and compassion!
May I & all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left & below as
above develop & experience caring infinite pity, sympathy, & compassion!
May I & all beings in this city, country, and universe always be fully aware
and deeply mindful of this warm infinite pity, sympathy, and compassion!
May I & all beings in this city, country, and universe examine all details &
subtle aspects of this benevolent infinite pity, sympathy, and compassion!
May I & all beings in this city, country, & universe put enthusiastic effort
in their praxis of this affectionate infinite pity, sympathy, & compassion!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe find enraptured joy &
jubilant gladness in this fond infinite pity, sympathy, and compassion!
May I & all beings in this city, country, & universe cultivate the tranquillity
of quiet, silent, stilled, & endlessly merciful pity, sympathy, & compassion!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe attain concentrated &
absorbed one-pointedness by this infinite pity, sympathy, and compassion!
May I & all beings in this city, country, and universe dwell in undisturbable
& imperturbable balance of loving infinite pity, sympathy, & compassion...
Yeah! Print this out, dwell in each state until clear, use ~ 25-45 minutes.
Comment: All-Embracing Pity is the 2nd endless state (Appamaññā)
This gradually reduces all aggressiveness, cruelty, ferocity, viciousness,
rage, inner & outer violence, and unhappiness related with these states.
Joined with the 7 links to Awakening it will later cause formless jhāna...
All-Embracing Endless Pity (=Karunã)!
How to train & build up Mutually Rejoicing Joy in others Success!
Sitting alone, in silence, each early morning, with closed eyes one wishes:
May I radiate and meet only never-ending and mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all the various beings on the 31 levels of existence develop & find
only celebration and elation of never-ending mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material, & the formless plane
develop & encounter this generous never-ending & mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left & below as
above develop & experience sharing never-ending & mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings in this city, country, and universe always be fully aware
and deeply mindful of this content never-ending & mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings in this city, country, and universe examine all details &
subtle aspects of this satisfied never-ending and mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings in this city, country, & universe put enthusiastic effort
in their praxis of this devoted never-ending and mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe find enraptured joy &
jubilant gladness in this exulting never-ending mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings in this city, country, & universe cultivate the tranquillity
of quiet, silent, stilled, and all smiling never-ending mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe attain concentrated &
absorbed one-pointedness by such deep never-ending mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings in this city, country, and universe dwell in undisturbable
& imperturbable equanimity of pure never-ending & mutually rejoicing joy...
Yeah! Print this out, dwell in each state until pure, use ~ 25-45 minutes.
Comment: Mutual Joy is the 3rd endless state (Appamaññā)
This gradually reduces all envy, jealousy, possessiveness, stinginess, avarice
miserliness, green covetousness & unhappiness related with all these states.
Mutual Joy is the proximate cause of satisfied and fulfilled Contentment...
Lack of Mutual Joy is the proximate cause of dissatisfied discontentment...
Joined with the 7 links to Awakening it will later cause a formless jhāna...
Be happy at all & especially other being's success! Then calm comfort grows!
Pure Mutual Joy (=Muditã)!
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How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?
Binara Poya day is the full-moon of September. This holy day celebrates
the inauguration of the Bhikkhuni Sangha by the ordination on this very
day of Queen Mahāpajāpatī, the Buddha's foster-mother & her retinue.
For life details on this excellent woman, who awakened as Arahat Theri:
See: http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/maha/mahapajapati_gotami.htm
On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days:
Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges and undertakes the
Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean
bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first
three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor.
Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines
in a loud, calm & steady voice:
As long as this life lasts:
I hereby take refuge in the Buddha.
I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma.
I hereby take refuge in the Sangha.
I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time.
I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.
I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!
I accepts to respect & undertake these 5 training rules:
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Dishonesty.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs.
As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...
Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's
own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much
better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in & to
this world! So is the start towards Nibbāna: the Deathless Element!
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Ease, to Happiness,
initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and
fulfilled by training of Meditation...
Today indeed is Pooya or uposatha or observance day, where any lay
Buddhist normally keeps even the Eight Precepts from sunrise until the
next dawn... If any wish an official recognition by the Bhikkhu-Sangha,
they may simply forward the lines starting with "I hereby ..." signed with
name, date, town & country to me or join here. A public list of this new
quite rapidly growing global Saddhamma-Sangha is set up here!
The True Noble Community of Buddha's Disciples: Saddhamma Sangha:
http://what-buddha-said.net/sangha/Saddhamma_Sangha.htm
Can quite advantageously be Joined Here:
http://what-buddha-said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm
May your journey hereby be light, swift and sweet.
Never give up !!Bhikkhu Samahita: what.buddha.said@gmail.com
For Details on The Origin of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Binara_Poya_Day.htm
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita
Sri Lanka
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At least 5 Buddhists Bhikkhus have been murdered by Burma's military Junta!
Two of the monks were beaten to Death, Myanmar officials secretly told AFP!
Several hundred monks and lays Buddhists have been arrested and taken away..
Please help our Buddhist Friends in Burma by urging UN, US & EU to actively
and forcefully disable the brutal gang of Burmese generals – a longterm evil…
Act NOW! Defend Peace & Democracy! Standup for Righteousness!
Please forward this widely now to all your friends of Humanity!
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How to train, stabilize, & purify Imperturbable Equanimity!
[FONT="] Sitting alone, in silence, each early morning, with closed eyes one wishes:
May I radiate and meet only calm, imperturbable, & even equanimity!
May I & all the various beings on the 31 levels of existence develop & find
only the composure and poise of calm, imperturbable, & even equanimity!
May I & all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material, & the formless plane
develop & encounter this serene, calm, imperturbable, & even equanimity!
May I & all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left & below as
above develop & experience cool, calm, imperturbable, & even equanimity!
May I & all beings in this city, country, and universe always be fully aware
and deeply mindful of this steady, calm, imperturbable, & even equanimity!
May I & all beings in this city, country, and universe examine all details &
subtle aspects of this unstirred, placid, imperturbable, & even equanimity!
May I & all beings in this city, country, & universe put enthusiastic effort
into their training of this solid, calm, imperturbable, & even equanimity!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe find enraptured joy &
jubilant gladness in this unmovable, calm, imperturbable, & even equanimity!
May I & all beings in this city, country, & universe cultivate the tranquillity
of quiet, silent, stilled, & all smiling calm, imperturbable, & even equanimity!
May I & all beings in this city, country and universe attain concentrated &
absorbed one-pointedness by stoic, deep, imperturbable, & even equanimity!
May I & all beings in this city, country, and universe dwell in undisturbable
& imperturbable equanimity of unexcitable and unreactive detachment...
Yeah! Print this out, dwell in each state until pure, use ~ 25-45 minutes.
[/FONT]
[FONT="] Comment: Imperturbable Equanimity is the 4th infinite state (Appamaññā)[FONT="]
This gradually reduces all desire, attraction, drift, tendency, bias, preference,
favouritism, one-sided partiality & unhappiness related with all these states.
Equanimity is the [/FONT][FONT="]proximate cause[/FONT][FONT="] of any knowing & seeing leading to Wisdom...
Equanimity is an extremely subtle form of solid, calm and peaceful Happiness...
Equanimity purifies all other advantageous states & brings them to Perfection...
Equanimity is unresponsive indifference, unstirred, unaffected, & untroubled!!!
There is Equanimity both regarding all live beings and all dead things!
There is Equanimity both regarding all internal & all external states!
There is Equanimity both regarding all past, all present & all future events!
There is Equanimity both regarding all what is mental & all which is physical!
There is Equanimity both regarding all what is material & all which is immaterial!
There is Equanimity both regarding all formed & all formless phenomena!
Cultivating such six-fold equanimity brings this supreme state to completion.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_is_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Equanimity_Upekkha.htm[/FONT]
Unshakable Equanimity (=Upekkhã)!
Breakthrough to the Truths eliminates a Mountain of Suffering! [FONT="]
The Blessed Gotama Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus & friends, see this little dust, I have taken up upon the nail of
my little-finger, what do you think is most: This tiny dust or this great
planet Earth? The Bhikkhus then responded:
Venerable Sir, this great planet Earth is much more, incomparable more...
The minute speck of dust is trifling, microscopic, negligible in comparison.
The Blessed Gotama Buddha then pointed out:
Similarly and exactly so too, [FONT="] Bhikkhus & friends,[/FONT][FONT="] is t[/FONT][FONT="]hat Suffering, which
remains [/FONT][FONT="] for a Noble Disciple [/FONT][FONT="] trifling, microscopic, negligible in comparison.
For [/FONT]such[FONT="] Noble One, who is consummated in view, who has broken through
to understanding the [/FONT] 4 Noble Truths,[FONT="] the accumulated mass of Suffering,
that has been shattered & irreversibly eliminated is incomparable more...
The Suffering that remains to be experienced for such a Noble person,
is trifling, microscopic, & negligible in comparison, since there remains only
a maximum of 7 more lives for such a Noble One, as he is one who actually
understands all this as it really, truly, essentially and assuredly indeed is:
[/FONT][/FONT]
This is Suffering;
Craving is the Cause of Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering;
The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering, [FONT="]
Therefore, Bhikkhus & friends, exertion should be made Now to understand:
All This[FONT="] is Suffering; [/FONT] This Greedy Craving is the[FONT="] sole Cause of all Suffering;
[/FONT] No Craving is[FONT="] the [/FONT][FONT="] End of Suffering; The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore should effort to fathom these 4 Noble Truths be made NOW!
[/FONT] [FONT="] Comment:[/FONT][FONT="]
Seeing the Truths is thus equivalent to a saving release from gigantic pain!
[/FONT] [FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[/FONT][FONT="]The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. [V:459-60]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 51: The Fingernail ...[/FONT][/FONT]
Saved is the Noble!
Mirror Echo Effects!
[FONT="] Making others happy, makes oneself happy!
Making others unhappy, makes oneself unhappy!
When happy, one easily becomes concentrated...
When unhappy, one easily becomes distracted...
When concentrated, one sees & knows it as it really is!
When unconcentrated, one can neither see nor know reality!
Seeing & knowing reality makes exact navigation is possible!
Neither seeing nor knowing reality makes navigation is impossible!
Exact navigation enables perfectly right behaviour...
Erroneous navigation disables perfectly right behaviour...
When acting only right, one makes no mistakes!
When acting always wrong, one only makes mistakes!
Making mistakes is painful, both now & later...
Making no mistakes is pleasure, both now & later...[/FONT]
Happy is the One who Knows!
Breakthrough to the Truths safeguards against Downfall Rebirth!
The Blessed Gotama Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus & friends, see this little dust, I have taken up upon the nail of
my little-finger, what do you think is most: This tiny dust or this great
planet Earth? The Bhikkhus then responded:
Venerable Sir, this great planet Earth is much more, incomparable more...
The minute speck of dust is trifling, microscopic, negligible in comparison.
The Blessed Gotama Buddha then pointed out:
Similarly and exactly so too, Bhikkhus & friends, those beings are few &
quite rare, who are reborn among human beings!!! Beings who are reborn
elsewhere, lower, as non-humans are much more numerous and common...
Why is it so? Because, Bhikkhus, they have not seen the 4 Noble Truths!
What four?
This is Suffering;
Craving is the Cause of Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering;
The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore, Bhikkhus & friends, exertion should be made Now to understand:
All This is Suffering; This Greedy Craving is the sole Cause of all Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering; The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore should effort to fathom these 4 Noble Truths be made NOW!
Comments:
Animals are much more common than humans (trillion-billions insects & fish),
since this rebirth at this level is much more common! Similarly with ghosts,
demons, and hell beings. Downfall to these states are common, because evil
and immoral action such as: Killing, Stealing, Lying, & Abusing are common!
Ethics is thus the core factor of creation & conditioning of future being...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. [V:465-6]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 61: The Downfall ...
Rare is Human Rebirth!
Breakthrough to the Truths safeguards against Downfall Rebirth!
[FONT="] The Blessed Gotama Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus & friends, see this little dust, I have taken up upon the nail of
my little-finger, what do you think is most: This tiny dust or this great
planet Earth? The Bhikkhus then responded:
Venerable Sir, this great planet Earth is much more, incomparable more...
The minute speck of dust is trifling, microscopic, negligible in comparison.
The Blessed Gotama Buddha then succinctly pointed out:
Similarly and exactly so too, Bhikkhus & friends, those beings are few &
quite rare, who are reborn among humans or devas! Beings who are reborn
elsewhere, lower, as non-humans, in the screaming hell, as scared animals,
as hungry ghosts or as mad demons are much more numerous & common...
Why is it so? Because, Bhikkhus, they have not seen the [FONT="] 4 Noble Truths[/FONT][FONT="]![/FONT][FONT="]
What four?
[/FONT][FONT="] This[/FONT][FONT="] is Suffering; [/FONT] [FONT="] Craving is the[/FONT][FONT="] Cause of Suffering;
[/FONT][FONT="] No Craving is[/FONT][FONT="] the [/FONT][FONT="] End of Suffering; The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore, Bhikkhus & friends, exertion should be made Now to understand:
[/FONT][FONT="] All This[/FONT][FONT="] is Suffering; [/FONT][FONT="] This Greedy Craving is the[/FONT][FONT="] sole Cause of all Suffering;
[/FONT][FONT="] No Craving is[/FONT][FONT="] the [/FONT][FONT="] End of Suffering; The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore should effort to fathom these 4 Noble Truths be made NOW!
[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[FONT="]The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. [V:474-5]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 102-5: Elsewhere & etc...[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]
Comments:[FONT="]
The actions that result in rebirth in the five destinations are described in
detail in the work: Pañcagatidīpanī. Translated by Ann Appleby Hazlewood.
in Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132714[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="] For relation between cause & effect = action & result = kamma & fruit see:
[FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
[/FONT] [FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Kamma_is_intention.htm
[/FONT] [FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Beauty_&_Ugliness.htm
[/FONT] [FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_&_Sickness.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Low_or_High_Birth.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Power_or_Disrespect.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Stupidity_or_Intelligence.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Wealth_or_Poverty.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_short_&_long_life.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
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Evil_Kamma_enhances_other_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Kamma_and_Fruit.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Kamma_is_improvable.htm
[/FONT] [FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Effect_of_Action_(kamma)_is_Delayed.htm
[/FONT][/FONT]
Common is Low Rebirth!
Few are those beings who are able to Avoid all Evil Action!
[FONT="]The Blessed Gotama Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus & friends, see this little dust, I have taken up upon the nail of
my little-finger, what do you think is most: This tiny dust or this great
planet Earth? The Bhikkhus then responded:
Venerable Sir, this great planet Earth is much more, incomparable more...
The minute speck of dust is trifling, microscopic, negligible in comparison.
The Blessed Gotama Buddha then succinctly & importantly pointed out:
Similarly and exactly so too, Bhikkhus & friends, those beings are few &
quite rare, who are reborn among humans or devas! Beings who are reborn
elsewhere, lower, as non-humans, in the screaming hell, as scared animals,
as hungry ghosts or as mad demons are much more numerous & common...
Why is it so? Because:
[FONT="] Few are those beings who avoid destruction of life, who avoid all killing...
Few are those beings who avoid mutilating, murder, robbery, & violence...
Few are those beings who avoid taking what is not given by not stealing...
Few are those beings who avoid using false weights, metals, & papers...
Few are those beings who avoid being crooked by bribery, deceit, & fraud...
Few are those beings who avoid sexual misconduct & all forms of abuse...
Few are those beings who avoid booze & drugs making careless & negligent...
Few are those beings who avoid false lying, deceiving and double-dealing...
Few are those beings who avoid divisive speech, slandering & defamation...
Few are those beings who avoid harsh & aggressive scolding and blaming...
Few are those beings who avoid idle chatter, gossip, and empty hearsay...
Few are those beings who avoid damaging nature, seed and plant life...[/FONT][FONT="]
Few are those beings who respect father, mother, elders, and recluses...
Few are those beings who possess the Noble Eye of Dhamma-Wisdom.
But these beings are much more numerous, who are immersed in Ignorance!
Why is it so? Because, Bhikkhus, they have not seen the [/FONT] [FONT="] 4 Noble Truths[/FONT][FONT="]![/FONT][FONT="]
What four?
[/FONT][FONT="] This[/FONT][FONT="] is Suffering; [/FONT] [FONT="] Craving is the[/FONT][FONT="] Cause of Suffering;
[/FONT][FONT="] No Craving is[/FONT][FONT="] the [/FONT][FONT="] End of Suffering; The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore, Bhikkhus & friends, exertion should be made Now to understand:
[/FONT][FONT="] All This[/FONT][FONT="] is Suffering; [/FONT][FONT="] This Greedy Craving is the[/FONT][FONT="] sole Cause of all Suffering;
[/FONT][FONT="] No Craving is[/FONT][FONT="] the [/FONT][FONT="] End of Suffering; The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore should effort to fathom these 4 Noble Truths be made NOW!
[/FONT] [FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[/FONT][FONT="]The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. [V:467-70]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 63-78: Killing living beings & etc...[/FONT][FONT="]
Comments:[/FONT][FONT="]
The actions that result in rebirth in the five destinations are described in
detail in the work: Pañcagatidīpanī. Translated by Ann Appleby Hazlewood.
in Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132714[/FONT] [/FONT]
Few are Fine!
Downfall Rebirth in one of many Hells is Extreme Torture!
[FONT="]There are Eight Great Hells! These are: [FONT="]
1: The Revival Ever Hell (Sañjīva),
2: The Black Thread Hell (Kālasutta),
3: The Crushing Hell (Sanghāta),
4: The Screaming Hell (Roruva),
5: The Loud Screaming Hell (Mahāroruva),
6: The Burning Torture Hell (Tapa),
7: The Great Torture Hell (Mahātapa),
8: The Relentless Hell (Avicī).
[/FONT][/FONT] [FONT="]1: The Revival Hell (Sañjīva) where one survives & cannot die from pain! [FONT="]
Those who, because of greed, confusion, fear, or anger, kill living beings
or having nursed them, slaughter them for sale, they will be reborn in the
Sañjīva Hell. There though killed and killed again for many thousands of
years, because they revive there again and again for more pain, this is
called Sañjīva Hell: The Revival Forever Hell... Even death cannot stop it!
[/FONT] [FONT="] 2: The Black Thread Hell (Kālasutta) where one is cut up by a black line! [/FONT][FONT="]
Men who are hostile towards friends, mother, father & good pure ones,
who are slanderers & liars they go to The Black Thread Hell (Kālasutta).
Since they are split like wood with burning saws along a marking line,
made by black thread, so it is called Kālasutta: The Black Thread Hell...
[/FONT] [FONT="] 3: The Crushing Hell (Sanghāta) where one is crushed to pulp repeatedly! [/FONT][FONT="]
Those men who kill goats, rams, jackals, hares, rats, deer, boar & other
free living & roaming beings, they end up in The Crushing Hell (Sanghāta).
Since, crushed together between huge mountains, splattered, squeezed,
smashed, & squashed to fluid mash there in a total slaughter, this niraya
is called Sanghāta: The Crushing Hell...
[/FONT] [FONT="] 4: The Screaming Hell (Roruva) where one screams like a bound pig in fire![/FONT][FONT="]
Those who harass or torment other being's body & mind & who cheats go
to The Screaming Hell (Roruva). There they give forth terrible screams,
howls, yells, in outcry over being constantly consumed by fierce fire, &
ferocious flames. This blaze is thus called: Roruva The Screaming Hell...
[/FONT] [FONT="] 5: The Loud Screaming Hell (Mahāroruva) where one screams even more![/FONT][FONT="]
Those who steal what was entrusted to them or steal the possessions of
devas, high people, recluses & teachers, by causing suffering even to such
good ones go to Mahāroruva: The Loud Screaming Hell. There the pain &
affliction of the fire torment & the screaming is even greater then ever.
This inferno is therefore called Mahāroruva: The Loud Screaming Hell...
[/FONT] [FONT="] 6: The Torture Hell (Tapa) is an immense conflagration of bitter pain![/FONT][FONT="]
Whoever burns creatures in conflagrations such as forest fires, that
person, weeping and wailing, is eaten by a fiery fire of blazing flames.
Since this severe burning torture continues without interruption, this
is known in this world here as Tāpana: The Burning Torture Hell...[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]
7: The Great Torture Hell (Mahātapa) is an even more burning hurting![FONT="]
The foolish[/FONT][FONT="] nihilist who perversely insists that Dhamma is non-Dhamma
and whoever harms other beings deliberately is tortured by fierce fire
in The Great Torture Hell (Mahātapa). Since it burns beings even worse
than theTāpana[/FONT][FONT="],[/FONT][FONT="] this holocaust is called Mahātapa: Great Torture Hell...
[/FONT] [FONT="] 8: The Relentless Hell (Avicī) where the pain is without break or pause![/FONT][FONT="]
Those showing enmity to those of greater virtue, slaying Nobles, pure
disciples or also their mother, father, or teachers, they are reborn in
The Relentless Hell (Avicī). Even the bones burns to ashes there, since
the heat is excessively terrible. Because there is no interval, break, or
pause, this is called Avicī: The Relentless Hell... Without interruption..[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]These are the 8 great Hells explained by the Teacher of the 3 worlds!
[FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]Pañcagatidīpanī[/FONT][FONT="] by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa 11-12th century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132714[/FONT] [FONT="]
For more on the 136 Hells (Niraya, Naraka):
[/FONT][FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/n/niraya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ways_to_the_Barbeque.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Inevitable_Consequences.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/KN/Dhammapada.htm#Chapter XXII Hell - Niraya[/FONT] [FONT="]
The Buddha on the Hells: MN 130 The Divine Messengers. [/FONT]
Devadūta Sutta!
http://www.mettanet.org/tipitaka/2Sutta-Pitaka/2Majjhima-Nikaya/Majjhima3/130-devaduta-e.html[/FONT]
Having been in the Great Hells one goes to the Minor Hells!
1: The Cesspool of Excrement & Leech Hell (Milhakūpa)
2: The Red Hot Embers Hell (Kukkula)
3: The Razor & Spike Tree Hell (Asipattavana)
4: The Acid River Hell (Nadī)[/FONT]
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Those coming out of a great [/FONT] [FONT="] Niraya [/FONT][FONT="] fall into the excrement cesspit, where
thousands of leeches with rasping needle-mouths pierce through the skin,
flesh, bone and suck out their bone-marrow...[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]2: The Red Hot Embers Hell (Kukkula)
[/FONT] [FONT="]Coming out of the Excrement & Leech Hell one fall into the Red Hot Embers
Hell, where beings roast crispy dry until they crack like mustard seeds...
[FONT="] 3: The Razor & Spike Tree Hell (Asipattavana)[/FONT][FONT="]
From the embers, beings see shining green trees with many leaves and they
run towards them seeking safety. There giant crows, vultures, dogs, owls
boars, terrifying with beaks and teeth of metal, hunt them down and eat
their flesh. Yet they do not die from that. The flesh all grows out again,
the victims rise up, and are hunted down and devoured again and again...
When the leaves of the trees are stirred by the wind, then they fall and
like big razor blades cut of nose, ears, arms, & legs of the crying victims.
When they try to escape by climbing up the trees they are pierced with
burning thorns 1 foot long...
[/FONT][FONT="] 4: The Acid River Hell (Nadī)[/FONT][FONT="]
From the forest they plunge into a river of acid. There the caustic fluid
takes off their skin and bites into the flesh, pungent, sharp & sour hot...
Those who assail others in battle to destroy others, are later reborn with
swords for nails, made of iron, ablaze and sharp. Then they cut each other
to pieces and all suffers a lot...
The warders of hell make the adulterer climb that simbali tree of metal,
flaming, sharp-pointed and with thorns sixteen finger-lengths long. There
metal-toothed, huge bodied, blazing fearsome females, embraces him &
devour his flesh as he is one who stole another's wife...
Torn and lacerated in the Asipattavana forest, men who are traitors wail
while giant dogs, vultures, owls, and crows devour them...
Those steal others properties repeatedly have to swallow melted iron balls
and drink molten copper. This pass through and comes hizzing out below!
Passionate hunters are hunted down & devoured by dogs with fearsome
iron teeth violently ripping them apart, though they cry & whine like pigs...
Fishermen who routinely kill beings born in water, such as fish, go to the
terrible acid river Vetarani, whose running fluid is like blazing copper...
Whoever, was full of stubborn ignorance, or greedy for bribes, weeping,
is struck by red-hot hammers like mechanical mountains crush those who
in this world have caused crushing to other beings in various ways...
Those breakers of the Dhamma-bridges & those who preached the wrong
false Way weep, as they are forced to walk a path of sharp razor blades...
Men who crush lice between their nails are themselves crushed again and
again between rams as mighty as mountains...
Those who crush any insect are crushed again and again by iron pestles...
Men who are cruel, exceedingly hateful, always intent on killing, & happy
by the suffering of others, are reborn as barking mad rakkhasa demons.
The seeds of absolutely all this suffering are wrongdoing by way of body,
speech, or mind. One should thus eagerly avoid all even minute wrongdoing![/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]These are minor Hells explained by the Teacher of the 3 worlds!
[FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]Pañcagatidīpanī[/FONT][FONT="] by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132714
[/FONT] [FONT="] For more on the 136 Hells (Niraya, Naraka):
[/FONT][FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/n/niraya.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Ways_to_the_Barbeque.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Inevitable_Consequences.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/KN/Dhammapada.htm#Chapter XXII Hell - Niraya[/FONT] [FONT="]
The Buddha on the Hells: MN 130 The Divine Messengers: [/FONT]Devadūta Sutta!
http://www.mettanet.org/tipitaka/2Sutta-Pitaka/2Majjhima-Nikaya/Majjhima3/130-devaduta-e.html[/FONT]
Those heavily blinded by Ignorance takes Animal Rebirth!
[FONT="]Because of greed one is reborn in eggs of geese, doves & other animals
obsessed by great passion like in the womb of a rhinoceros...
Because of ignorance one is reborn in the eggs of insects and worms.
Because of hate one is reborn[FONT="]as snake. Because of pride and obduracy,
one is reborn as lion. Because of arrogance & narcissism one is reborn in
the wombs of donkeys and dogs. If miserly & discontented one creates
rebirth as a monkey. If foulmouthed, faithless & shameless one is reborn
as crow. Those flogging, chaining & injuring elephants, horses, & buffalos
become spiders, scorpions, & stinging insects of cruel character. Those who
are flesh-eating, angry, & fiery are reborn after death as tigers, jackals,
cats, sharks, vultures, wolves & the like. Those who are generous givers,
but angry & cruel become Nāgas = snake-demons of great iddhi-power...
Any deliberate wrongdoing in thought, speech &/or action can produce
rebirth as animal. Therefore should one shun all ever that is wrongdoing...
[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[FONT="]Pañcagatidīpanī[/FONT][FONT="] by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132714[/FONT][/FONT]
Animal Rebirth!
Those who steals and cheat takes Hungry Ghost Rebirth!
[FONT="]Those who steal food & who are too lazy for doing good deeds, become
corpse or menstruation eating Ghosts, and abortion eating Ghosts (Peta).
Whatsoever are engaged in low praxis, mean, miserly, avaricious, stingy,
& the constantly greedy are reborn after death as swollen neck Ghosts...
Whoever prevents others from giving & does not himself give anything,
becomes an ever hungry & thirsty Ghost, needle-mouthed & big-bellied...
Whoever clings to his wealth only for his family, but who neither enjoys
nor shares it, is reborn as ghost eating only what is given, such as things
given at funerals... Whoever longs to steal anothers property, but then
later regrets it, is reborn as a peta feeding on excrement, pus & vomit...
Whoever speaks aggressively, angry, words hitting like daggers, becomes
a ghost with mouth like a furnace burning fiercely with red coals & ashes...
And whoever is cruel minded, without sympathy and quarrelsome, would
become a fiery ghost eating worms, leeches, insects, crabs and beetles...
[FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]Pañcagatidīpanī[/FONT][FONT="] by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132714[/FONT]
[/FONT]
More details on the Peta (ghost) destination:
From the Tipitaka: Minor Anthologies Vol 4, Vimanavatthu & Petavatthu
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130738
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/pu/peta_vatthu.htm
Hungry Ghost Rebirth!
Doing much Evil & little good creates Mad Demon Rebirth!
[FONT="]Any village-fraud who himself gives but stops others giving is reborn a
kumbhanda, deformed, but doing honour. Whoever pitilessly kills animals,
but gives them to be eaten by others inevitably, after death finds his
various kinds of food as a rakkhasa. Those who are always into perfume
and garlands, are slow to anger & are munificent are reborn after death
as gandhabbas: The divine musicians furthering the delight of the devas.
Whoever is angry, malicious & offers goods out of greed is reborn as a
pisāca goblin, evil-minded, with deformed visage. Those who are always
corrupt, fickle, causing pain to others, but constantly delighting in giving,
become bhūta spirits after death. Those who are horrible, angered, but
generous, and those fond of intoxicating liquors are reborn after death
as yakkha demons feeding on horrible things, fond of liquor. Because of
the fault, which is craving & stingy avarice, after death such beings are
reborn as [URL="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%20Documents/My%20Web%20Sites/What_Buddha_Said/drops/IV/Hungry_Ghost_Rebirth.htm"]petas[/URL]; but they are reborn as yakkhas & so on because of some
good deeds, which are later spoiled by many evil deeds. One should thus
always vigorously & consistently stop all one's own wicked behaviour...
[FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]Pañcagatidīpanī[/FONT][FONT="] by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=13271[/FONT]
[/FONT] More details on the various Demon (Asura) destinations:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ay/asura.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/n/nagaa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/g/gandhabbaa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/g/garudaa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/y/yakkha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ku/kumbhanda.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/r/rakkhasaa.htm
Mad Demon Rebirth!
Doing Much Good & little evil creates Human Being Rebirth!
[FONT="]
Whether deva, [URL="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%20Documents/My%20Web%20Sites/What_Buddha_Said/drops/IV/Mad_Demon_Rebirth.htm"]asura[/URL] or human beings, one is short-lived because of killing
done in the past or long-lived because of avoidance of all killing in the past!
Leprosy, wasting, fever, madness & other diseases of human beings exist
today because of past human evil of killing, harming & chaining creatures...
Whoever is a thief of others goods & gives nothing whatsoever, will never
acquire wealth, however much he works... Whoever takes wealth not given
yet gives gifts is reborn after death first wealthy, but then later poor...
Any one who is neither a thief, nor a giver, nor an exceeding miser surely
obtains lasting wealth, though only with great difficulty... That man who
is never a thief of others goods, generous & free from avarice, easily &
swiftly obtains many rich possessions, which cannot be stolen... Whoever
gives food is always reborn in comfort, given long life, beauty & strength,
is wise & avoids disease... Whoever would offer clothes is reborn modest,
beautiful, splendid, liked by all & receives many garments & ornaments...
Whoever gives houses here with joyful heart, for that good being there
will arise future deva palaces rich in all possible pleasures of the senses...
Whatsoever men offer bridges, sandals and so on are always comfortable
in the next life & they obtain the best of vehicles & means of transport...
Those who build freshwater wells, tanks, ponds are reborn comfortable,
free from heat, sweat and thirst... Whoever offers a garden, the refuge
for all beings, will be reborn worshipped with flowers, rich & glorious...
Erudition is obtained by giving knowledge, & wisdom by giving analysis...
By giving medicine & safety, one is reborn free from illness & danger...
By giving lamps one becomes clear-sighted, by giving musical sounds one
becomes sweet-voiced, and by giving bed & seat one wins future ease...
Whoever here on earth gives milk, nutriments, vegetables & fine edibles
strengthening the body, becomes strong, beautiful, wealthy & very old...
By giving a maiden one obtains sensual pleasures and a future retinue...
By giving land one is reborn as prosperous and rich in money and grain...
Whichever return is desired whether flowers, money, or beauty, then
that itself should be given to whoever wants it... Then one will get it!!!
Whoever gives only for the egoistic purpose of later gain spoils his gift,
One who gives for the sake of heaven, out of fear, for fame or for own
comfort, or with half-hearted unhappy motivation reaps spoiled fruit...
Whoever gives something for the joy of others, warm, full of sympathy,
happy, altruistic, generous, not only for own good, reaps unspoiled fruit...
Anything whatsoever that is given to another at the proper time in the
proper way returns many-fold in many future lives in just the same way...
Not oppressing others, giving at the right time what is needed & desired,
without spoiling the fruit by regretting, one can adorn oneself with the
future effects of such Noble giving, in fine harmony with the Dhamma...
Since there verily is winning of future fruit from gifts being well given,
giving, and generosity becomes the most important and proximate cause
of all luxury that results from action. Giving causes richness as Effect!
Whoever keeps away from anothers wife, will obtain a beautiful wife!
Whoever with own wife avoids the wrong place & time becomes a man!
But that man who does not stop his horny thoughts of others wives and
who commits adultery becomes a homosexual if light, or woman if grave!
That woman who disgusts being female, is pure in moral, with little lust,
and always longs for manhood, will attain future manhood accordingly...
Whoever rightly enters upon a reclusive Noble life, all correct & pure,
becomes splendid, very blessed, wealthy & adored even by the devas...
Avoiding drinking, drugs & inebriation one is reborn with clear memory,
neither bewildered nor confused! A truthful person is reborn glorious,
provided with great security & ensured... Whoever causes no division,
even between those already split, is reborn strong-minded with faithful
followers... Whoever always carries out the Teachers bidding in a joyful
mind and who teaches what is advantageous & also what is detrimental,
becomes one whose words are welcome... One will be downed & humbled
by disrespecting others, but elevated & famed through respecting those
who are worthy of respect. Those who enjoy contempt for others, are
treacherous and untruthful, & take great pride in their beauty become
hunchbacks and dwarves. Envying other's skills, one will become stupid...
Unpleasant & rude to the pleasant & polite, one becomes dumb & ugly... [/FONT]
[FONT="]Whoever is angry at friendly words is reborn deaf, mute & bewildered...
[FONT="]Generalizing: Having given good, one gets pleasure. Having given evil bad,
one gets suffering... Suffering is the result & fruit of own bad behaviour,
while comfort, pleasure & ease is the resulted fruit of admirable action!
Most common is a mixture of pleasure & pain as the resulted effect of a
mixture of own past both good and bad mental, verbal & bodily action...
Know that every event match & accord with the actions that caused it!!!
All being & becoming is thus a complexity of cause & effect playing out...
Action and Reaction! Cause and Effect! Kamma and Fruit! Determines all!
[/FONT] [FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]Pañcagatidīpanī[/FONT][FONT="] by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=13271[/FONT][/FONT]
Human Being Rebirth!
Doing Excellent Good & no evil produces Divine Rebirth!
[FONT="] Whoever is never looking only for his own comfort & who does not enjoy
his house, job, & social status, this one as chief of planets will be reborn
at the level of the Mahārājikā gods. Whoever venerates mother, father,
clan elders and recluses, is charitable, patient and takes no pleasure in
quarrelling will be reborn among the Thirty-three gods. Whoever neither
like dispute, nor engage in quarrels, but only cherish righteousness go to
the Yāma gods. Those who are very learned, who know Dhamma by heart,
are very wise, longing for release, completely content with the virtue of
pure morality goes to the Tusita gods. Those who spontaneously are based
on right behaviour, giving, and monastic discipline, and are full of effort,
inevitably go to the Nimmānarati gods. Those who are of superior virtue,
are open-minded and devoted to giving, self-control and mental refinery
will be reborn among the Paranimitta gods. One attains to the Tavatimsa
heaven by right conduct, to the blessing of Brahmas fine material world
by jhāna meditation and to Nibbāna by knowing things as they really are.
The fruit of ones behaviour is pleasant or unpleasant. Pleasing behaviour
produce a comfortable future state[FONT="], while unpleasant[/FONT][FONT="] behaviour has pain
and suffering as future effect. These 3 should be reflected much upon:
Death, disease, decay and old age, separation from all one likes, and the
inevitable fruit of each particular type of action. Thus will one gradually
reach the destruction of greed. Whoever is free from greed, progresses
to performing much merit! Thus one discards all evil. You must all listen
carefully to this summary. This has been explained by the Great Seer!
Doing what is beneficial for others & avoiding what is harmful to others
is advantageous action, while detrimental action is doing the opposite...
Five rebirth-destinations as god, human, ghost, animal, or hell being have
been explained by Buddha himself to be the possible states of existence!
[/FONT] [FONT="] Source (edited extract):
[/FONT] [FONT="]Pañcagatidīpanī[/FONT][FONT="] by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pāli Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=13271[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]More details on the various Divine Rebirth Destinations:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/c/caatummahaaraajikaa.htm
[FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/t/taavatimsa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/y/yaamaa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/t/tusita.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/n/nimmanarati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/pa/paranimmita_vasavatti.htm[/FONT]
[/FONT]
On The Thirty-one Planes of Existence:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html
Divine Rebirth!
Buddha himself explained The 5 Rebirth Destinations!
[FONT="] The Blessed [FONT="] Buddha[/FONT][FONT="] once explained:[/FONT][FONT="]
Sariputta, there are these five destinations. What are the five?
Hell, the animal realm, the realm of ghosts, human beings, and gods...
I fully understand hell, the animal, ghost, human, and the divine realm,
and the various paths and ways leading to these realms of existence...
I also understand, know and directly see how any one who has entered
a path to hell, on the breakup of the body, right at death, will reappear
in a state of deprivation, in a painful destination, in purgatory, in hell...
Similarly do I understand, know and see directly how any one, who has
entered such path on the breakup of the body, right after death, will
reappear as animal, ghost, human or divine being...
I understand Nibbāna, the path and very way leading to this Nibbāna...
And I also understand & see directly how one who has entered this path
realising it himself by direct experience, will right there and then enter
and dwell in that release of mind & that release by understanding, which
is [URL="ttp://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm"] fermentation[/URL]-free after the elimination of the [URL="ttp://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm"] mental fermentations[/URL]!
[/FONT] [FONT="] Source (edited extract:[/FONT][FONT="]
The Middle Length Sayings of the Buddha. Majjhima Nikāya. MN 12.
i 73-4:The great lions roar:
Book: [/FONT][FONT="] http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X[/FONT]
Text: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.012.ntbb.html
[/FONT] [FONT="]Comment:
[FONT="]Seeing beings die and reappear is an ability of the Divine Eye, which is
an ability connected with gaining suprahuman force & with Awakening:
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/The_Divine_Eye.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_V.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/dibba_cakkhu.htm[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]More details on the five Rebirth Destinations:
[FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_5_Destinations.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Hell_Destiny.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Minor_Hells.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Animal_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hungry_Ghost_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mad_Demon_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Being_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Divine_Rebirth.htm[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]On The Thirty-one Planes of Existence:[FONT="]
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html[/FONT][/FONT]
The Five Rebirth Destinations!
Cultivating the 4 Infinite States produces Infinite Joy!
Cultivating Boundless Pity enables tranquil Tolerance!
Developing Mutual Joy produces deep Contentment!
Refining Equanimity establishes calm Serenity!
The Blessed [FONT="] Buddha[/FONT][FONT="] repeatedly explained:[/FONT]
May all creatures, all breathing things,
all beings one and all, without exception,
experience joy & good fortune only.
May they not fall into any harm.
Anguttara Nikaya II, 72
[/FONT]
With good will for the entire cosmos,
Cultivate a limitless heart:
Above, below, & all around,
Unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
Sutta Nipata I, 8
Overcome the angry by friendliness;
Overcome the wicked by goodness;
Overcome the miser by generosity;
Overcome the liar by truth.
Dhammapada 223
Train yourself in doing only pure good!
That lasts and brings great happiness.
Cultivate generosity, a peaceful living,
and a mentality of infinite friendliness.
Itivuttaka 16
What is the Solidity in any Cluster of Form?
[FONT="] The Blessed [FONT="] Buddha[/FONT][FONT="] once explained:[/FONT][FONT="]
What is the cluster of Forms ([/FONT][FONT="]rūpa-khandha[/FONT][FONT="])?[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]It is the 4 primary elements and all the forms derived from them...
Which are these 4 Primary Elements ([FONT="]mahā-bhūta[/FONT][FONT="])?[/FONT][/FONT]
1: The Element of Solidity... ([/FONT][FONT="]pathavī-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])
2: The Element of Fluidity... ([/FONT][FONT="]āpo-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])
3: The Element of Heat... ([/FONT][FONT="]tejo-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])
4: The Element of Motion... ([/FONT][FONT="]vāyo-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])[/FONT]
[/FONT]
ones own & internal, or it may be external & not of ones own individuality.
And what is ones own Element of Solidity? Whatever there is inside ones
own body of kammically caused hardness, firmness, being in a solid state,
such as the hairs of head, hairs of body, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews,
bones, marrow, kidneys, heart, liver, diaphragm, spleen, lungs, stomach,
bowels, mesentery, & excrement: This is called own Element of Solidity.
Now, whether it be ones own Element of Solidity, or whether it be the
external Element of Solidity (e.g. mountains of stone, forests of wood),
they are both merely This Element of Solidity. One should understand,
according to the absolute reality and true Wisdom:
This does not belong to me! This I am not! This is not my self!
One may add:
[This is not lasting, this is not a real substance, this is not safe...]
[This is not pleasure, this is not happiness, this is also suffering...]
[This induces releasing disillusion with even very attractive forms...]
[Whether internal or external, whether alive or dead, present or not...]
[FONT="] Source (edited extract:[/FONT][FONT="] The Middle Length Sayings of the Buddha. Majjhima Nikāya.
MN 28. Mahā-hatthipadopama Sutta: The Great Elephant Footprint Simile:
Splendid Book: [/FONT][FONT="] http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X[/FONT][FONT="]
Text: [/FONT][FONT="] http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.028.than.html[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]Comment:
[FONT="]The 4 Primary Elements are not 'real substances out there', but more
realistically: Experienced qualities or properties appearing 'in here'...
They are manifestations of form, and not lasting 'substantial entities'...
Their 'material' appearances depend on the level of observation:
Macroscopic Solidity is a mere manifestation of microscopic extension![/FONT] [/FONT]
What is Solidity: Neither Matter nor Substance!
Thank you for your constancy.
What is the Fluidity in any Cluster of Form?
[FONT="] The Blessed [FONT="] Buddha[/FONT][FONT="] once explained:[/FONT][FONT="]
What is the cluster of Forms ([/FONT][FONT="]rūpa-khandha[/FONT][FONT="])?[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]It is the 4 primary elements and all the forms derived from them...
Which are these 4 Primary Elements ([FONT="]mahā-bhūta[/FONT][FONT="])?[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]The 4 Primary Elements are:[FONT="]
1: The Element of Solidity... ([/FONT][FONT="]pathavī-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])
2: The Element of Fluidity... ([/FONT][FONT="]āpo-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])
3: The Element of Heat... ([/FONT][FONT="]tejo-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])
4: The Element of Motion... ([/FONT][FONT="]vāyo-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]What, now, is the element of Fluidity? The element of Fluidity may be
ones own & internal, or it may be external. And what is ones own inner
element of Fluidity? Whatever in ones own body there is of kammically
created liquidity or fluidity, such as bile, lymph, pus, blood, sweat, fat,
tears, skin grease, spit, snot, oil of the joints, & urine: This is ones own
internal element of Fluidity. However, whether it be ones own internal
element of Fluidity, or whether it be the external element of Fluidity,
such as oceans & rivers, they are both merely the element of Fluidity... [FONT="]
One should understand, according to the utter reality & true Wisdom:
This does not belong to me! This I am not! This is not my self![/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]One may add:[FONT="]
This is not lasting, this is not a real substance, this is not safe...
This is not pleasure, this is not happiness, this is also suffering...
In order to induce releasing disillusion with attractive fluidities...
Whether internal or external, whether alive or dead, present or not...
Clinging to any kind of Fluidity, both internal & external is Suffering...
[/FONT] [FONT="] Source (edited extract):[/FONT][FONT="] The Middle Length Sayings of the Buddha.
Majjhima Nikāya. MN 28. Mahā-hatthipadopama Sutta:
The Great Elephant Footprint Simile:
Splendid Book: [/FONT][FONT="] http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X[/FONT][FONT="]
Text: [/FONT][FONT="] http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.028.than.html[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]Comment:
[FONT="]The 4 Primary Elements are not 'real substances out there', but more
realistically: Experienced qualities or properties appearing 'in here'...
They are manifestations of form, and not lasting 'substantial entities'!
Their 'material' appearances depend on the level of observation:
Macroscopic Fluidity is a mere manifestation of microscopic cohesion!
In all forms of materiality coexists all 4 primary elements in graduation.
In water, the element of fluidity is domination at ambient temperature.
When frozen into ice, the solidity element becomes the dominant aspect.[/FONT][FONT="]
In stone, the element of solidity is domination at ambient temperature.
When melted into lava, the fluidity element becomes the main feature...[/FONT][/FONT]
What is Fluidity: Neither Substance nor Matter!
However hang on to this
daily dhamma drop injection
will make progress towards
Nibbana...
Whoever not hang on
will not make ...
What is the Heat in any Cluster of Form?
[FONT="] The Blessed [FONT="] Buddha[/FONT][FONT="] once explained:[/FONT][FONT="]
What is the cluster of Forms ([/FONT][FONT="]rūpa-khandha[/FONT][FONT="])?[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]It is the 4 primary elements and all the forms derived from them...
Which are these 4 Primary Elements ([FONT="]mahā-bhūta[/FONT][FONT="])?[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]The 4 Primary Elements are:[FONT="]
1: The Element of Solidity... ([/FONT][FONT="]pathavī-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])
2: The Element of Fluidity... ([/FONT][FONT="]āpo-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])
3: The Element of Heat... ([/FONT][FONT="]tejo-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])
4: The Element of Motion... ([/FONT][FONT="]vāyo-dhātu[/FONT][FONT="])[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="] What, now, is the Element of [/FONT] [FONT="] Heat[/FONT]? The Element of [FONT="] Heat[/FONT] may be internal,
one's own, or it may be external. And what is one's own Element of [FONT="] Heat[/FONT]?
Whatever in one's own person or body, there is of kammically acquired
heat or hotness, such as that whereby one is heated, warmed up, metabolic
active, consumed, burning, scorched, that which digests, chemically breaks
and absorbs, what has been eaten, drunk, chewed, & tasted: this is called
one's own internal Element of [FONT="] Heat[/FONT]. Now, whether it be one's own Element
of [FONT="] Heat[/FONT], or whether it be the external Element of [FONT="] Heat[/FONT], as fires and suns,
they are both only the Element of [FONT="] Heat[/FONT]. [FONT="] One should therefore understand,
according to the utter reality & true Wisdom: This does not belong to me!
This I am not! This is not my self!
[/FONT] [FONT="]One may add:[FONT="]
This is not lasting, this is not a permanent property, this is not safe...
This is not pleasure, this is not happiness, this is also only suffering...
In order to induce releasing disillusion with attractive warm objects...
Whether internal or external, whether alive or dead, present or not...
Clinging to any kind of [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT="] Heat[/FONT][FONT="], whether internal or external, is Suffering...
[FONT="] Source (edited extract):[/FONT][FONT="] The Middle Length Sayings of the Buddha. Majjhima Nikāya. MN 28.
Mahā-hatthipadopama Sutta: The Great Elephant Footprint Simile:
Splendid Book: [/FONT][FONT="] http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X[/FONT][FONT="]
Text: [/FONT][FONT="] http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.028.than.html[/FONT]
[/FONT] [FONT="]Comment:
[FONT="]The 4 Primary Elements are not 'real substances out there', but more
realistically: Experienced qualities or properties appearing 'in here'...
They are manifestations of form, and not lasting 'substantial entities'!
Their 'material' appearances depend on the level of observation:
Macroscopic Heat is a mere manifestation of microscopic vibration!
In all forms of materiality coexists all 4 primary elements in graduation.
In water, the element of fluidity is dominating at ambient temperature.
When frozen into ice, the solidity element becomes the dominant aspect.[/FONT][FONT="]
In stone, the element of solidity is domination at ambient temperature.
When melted into lava, the fluidity element becomes the main feature...
Here one thus realizes, that it is the presence or absence of [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT="] Heat[/FONT][FONT="] defined
by temperature, that determines the relative degree of manifestation of
[/FONT] the two other elements: Solidity and Fluidity. All 4 are interdependent!
Heat is an elemental property of materiality!
What is the Consciousness of any Mentality?
[FONT="] The Blessed [FONT="] Buddha[/FONT][FONT="] has explained consciousness as:[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]A: Definitions:[FONT="]
What, now, is consciousness?
There are six kinds of consciousness ([/FONT][FONT="]viññāna-khandha[/FONT][FONT="]):
1: Consciousness of form is visual consciousness,
2: Consciousness of sound is auditory consciousness,
3: Consciousness of smell is olfactory consciousness,
4: Consciousness of taste is gustatory consciousness,
5: Consciousness of touch is tactile consciousness,
6: Consciousness of thought is mental consciousness.
SN: 22:56[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]B: Causation by Dependent Origination:
[FONT="]The arising of consciousness is dependent upon specific conditions...
Without presence of these conditions, no consciousness will ever emerge...
Consciousness is named after the conditions upon which it is dependent!
Consciousness, whose arising depends on the encounter of eye & forms,
is called visual consciousness. Consciousness, whose arising depends on
the ear & sounds, is called auditory consciousness. Consciousness, whose
arising depends on the nose and smells, is called olfactory consciousness.
Consciousness, whose arising depends on the tongue and tastes, is called
gustatory consciousness. Consciousness, whose arising depends on the
meeting of the body or skin and touches is called tactile consciousness.
Consciousness, whose arising depends on mind meeting a mental object,
state, idea or thought is called mental consciousness. MN 38
[/FONT] [FONT="] The central role of active Attention:
[/FONT][FONT="]Even though the eye is intact, if external form does not fall within the
field of vision, then no attentive combination of eye & form takes place,
therefore there will not emerge any visual consciousness. Or even though
external form actually fall within the field of vision, yet if no attentive
combination of eye & form takes place, there will neither emerge any
visual consciousness. Only if, the eye is intact, external form fall within
the range of vision, & attentive combination of eye & form takes place,
then there arises the corresponding phenomenon of visual consciousness.
(Similarly so with the other 5 kinds of consciousness) MN 28
[/FONT] [FONT="] C: Dependency on the other four Clusters of Clinging:[/FONT][FONT="]
It is impossible for anyone to explain the passing out of one existence,
and the entering into a new process of existence during transmigration,
or the initiation, growth, increase, and development of consciousness,
independently of form, feeling, perception, and mental construction...
SN 22: 53
[/FONT]D[FONT="]: Consciousness is constructed & causes a duality: Naming & Forming:[/FONT][FONT="]
The Origin of Consciousness is the arising of Mental Construction...
The Ceasing of Mental Construction also ceases Consciousness...
The Origin of Name-&-Form is the arising of Consciousness...
The Ceasing of Consciousness also ceases Name-&-Form... MN 9
Only this silencing stilling is Peace, is Bliss, is Freedom…[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]Comment:[FONT="]
Like space has no essence in itself beyond being 'spacious', but can
contain, accommodate, hold, & include all material phenomena, then
similarly has consciousness no essence in itself beyond being 'aware'
of all the mental phenomena it can manifest, display, show, exhibit,
expose, express, create and reveal. It defines & establishes being...
It is momentary and vanishes instantly after it has arisen. It is Not
an abiding presence, entity, soul, I, me, ego, core, nor any identity...
Apart from conditions, there is nothing arising as or in consciousness...
All forms of consciousness are impermanence, suffering, and no-self,
whether it is past, future or present, gross or subtle, arisen internally
in oneself or externally in others, inferior or exalted, far or near...
Buddha likened consciousness to a deceiving trick: A made-up Illusion...
Consciousness is like a burning pit of hot embers one should not enter![/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]For more on consciousness see:
[FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/In_Dependence_on_Contact.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/The_Selfless_Camera.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Like_Foam.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Ego-Projection.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/By_Nature.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Origin.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Without_Wavering.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm[/FONT][/FONT]
Consciousness is the crucial element of existence!
The Anatta Doctrine is the core of Buddhism!
Individual existence, as well as the whole world, is in absolute reality nothing
but a process of ever changing phenomena, which all are included in the five
groups of existence: Form, Feeling, Perception, Construction & Consciousness!
This process has gone on from time immemorial, before ones birth, & also after
one's death it will continue for an endless period of time, as long, and as far,
as there are causing conditions feeding it! These five groups of phenomena in
no way constitute an ego-entity, enduring personality, same self or inner soul
neither when taken separately nor when combined... Neither can any identity
or substance be found 'outside' of these all embracing groups of phenomena...
In other words, the five groups of existence are not-self or no-self = anatta,
nor do they belong to a self = anattaniya. In view of the impermanence & the
conditionality of all existence, a belief in any form of self must be evaluated
as an illusion. Why so? Self must stay the 'same' in order to remain a true self.
But nothing here or there ever stays the same! All is transient & impermanent!
Secondly: Self must be in control to be called a self. But no self can control
causality... Things arise & cease - despite whatever self - due to conditions...
Since nothing stays the 'same' as an identical indentity, no thing can be self!
Since nothing is in full control even of itself or any other, no thing can be self!
Just as what we designate by the name car, has no existence apart from axle,
wheels, motor, chassis, and so forth, or as the word house is only a convenient
designation for various materials such as cement, clay, wood etc. put together
in a specific way so as to close a portion of space. Apart from these materials
there is no separate 'house entity' in existence! In exactly same way is that,
which we call a 'being' or 'individual', or 'person', or by the name 'I' or 'Me'
nothing but an ever changing mixture of physical & mental phenomena, made up
of the above mentioned five groups and has as such no real existence in itself.
This is, in brief, the anatta doctrine of the Buddha: The teaching that fathoms
that all existing dead or alive is void (suñña) of a permanent self or substance!
It is the fundamental Buddhist doctrine, not found at all in any other religious
or philosophical system. To comprehend it fully, not only in a neat abstract and
intellectual way, but by constant reference to actual experience, is indeed an
indispensable condition for the true understanding of the Buddha-Dhamma and
for therealization of its goal: Nibbāna... Yeah!
Venerable Nyanatiloka Thera: Born 1922 in Germany. Died 1957 on Ceylon.
[FONT="]For more on Anatta = No-Self see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm[/FONT]
Selflessness is the hidden & missing core in being!
Imploding Vacuum Personality: Void of Self!
[FONT="] The Blessed [FONT="] Buddha[/FONT][FONT="] explained the flowing transience of existence as void:[/FONT]
[/FONT]Suppose a man with good sight observed the many bubbles on the Ganges
river as they drifted along, by carefully watching and examining them all.
Then after he had carefully examined them, they would appear to him as
empty, evanescent, and unsubstantial. In exactly the same way does the
Bhikkhu observe all the material phenomena, all feelings, all perceptions,
all mental constructions, & all states of consciousness, whether they be
past, present, or future, far or near. By carefully watching, analysing &
examining them all, they appear to him as empty, void, & without a self...
Source (edited extract) SN 22:95
[FONT="]
Comment:
If feeling a bit nausea or dizziness or fear when rigorously attempting
to comprehend egolessness, then one is going in the right direction...
Worth noticing is that one cannot ever loose a self that never was there!
[FONT="]
For more on this universality of selfless impersonality (anatta) see:
[/FONT] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Anatta_Doctrine.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm [/FONT]
Ownerlessness is a universal characteristic of being!
Deceiving Sensuality: Empty of Happiness!
[FONT="] The Blessed [FONT="] Buddha[/FONT][FONT="] explained all the phenomena of existence as a pain:[/FONT][FONT="]
Whoever delights in forms, feelings, perceptions, mental constructions,
and in whatever kind of consciousness, also delights in plain Suffering!
Whoever delights in Suffering, cannot ever be freed from Suffering...
I tell you: So is it really![/FONT][FONT="]SN 22:29[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]INAPPROPRIATE[FONT="]
Why laugh ? Why party ?
Always is the world burning.
In darkness do you not seek light?
How can you find delight and laughter
Where there is burning without end?
In deepest darkness you are wrapped!
Why do you not seek for the light?
Dhammapada 146
[/FONT] [FONT="] THE FRAGILE FRAME[/FONT][FONT="]
See this painted puppet, one big mass of sores,
a diseased frame of skin drawn upon bones,
once possessing many evil thoughts, a thing much
regarded & beloved, yet of neither stable nor
lasting nature ...
Look at this puppet here, well rigged up,
A heap of many sores, piled up,
Diseased, and full of greediness,
Unstable, and impermanent!
Dhammapada 147
[/FONT] [FONT="] ONLY A FORM[/FONT][FONT="]
This body is worn out, a fragile form, a nest of disease,
a rotting mass of deception since its life
surely ends in Death ...
Devoured by old age is this frame,
A prey to sickness, weak and frail;
To pieces breaks this putrid body,
All life must truly end in death!
Dhammapada 148[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]Blissful[FONT="] is solitude for one who is content, learned & who see True Dhamma.
[/FONT][FONT="] Blissful[/FONT][FONT="] is harmlessness towards all beings without exception.
[/FONT][FONT="] Blissful[/FONT][FONT="] is freedom from any sensual urge whatsoever.
Yet, the supreme [/FONT][FONT="]Bliss[/FONT][FONT="], is the elimination of the abysmal conceit “I am”!’[/FONT][FONT="] Udana – Inspiration: II – 1 [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]Comment:
[FONT="]Yes there is pleasure in the world. But it always goes away & turns into pain!
Taking delight means urging back here by rebirth and thus also more deaths![/FONT] [FONT="]
All This - whatsoever - is Suffering: Such is the 1st Noble Truth:
[/FONT][FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
[/FONT][FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm[/FONT][/FONT]
Dissatisfaction is an evitable characteristic of being!
Have Observed, yet failed to pay Attention!
[FONT="] During Transmigration downwards the Yāma deva asks one this:
Did you never see in this world a man or a woman, eighty, ninety, or a 100
years old, frail, crooked as a gable-roof, bent down, resting on crutches,
with tottering steps, shaking, far from young, with broken teeth, grey &
scanty hair or bald, wrinkled, with black blotched limbs? Did that sight
never make you think, that you also will become old, & cannot escape it?
Did you never see in this world a man or a woman who, being sick, ailing,
and grievously ill, fumbling in own filth & excrement, lifted up by some
and put to bed by others? And did that sight never make you think that
you also inevitably will become sick, & that you cannot ever escape it?
Did you never see in this world the corpse of a man or a woman, 1, 2 or
three days dead, swollen up, pale bluish-black, smelling & half-rotten?
Did that repulsive sight never make you realize, that you indeed also
inevitably will meet death, disintegrate and that you cannot escape it?
Source: (edited excerpt) AN 3:35[/FONT]
[FONT="]Comment:
Despite observing Suffering one self-deceives:'It will not come to me'!
Paying attention to these 3 divine messengers can lift out of Samsara... [FONT="]
All in this World, whatsoever, is Suffering: This is the 1st Noble Truth:
[/FONT][FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
[/FONT] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm[/FONT]
Self-Deception is a common characteristic of being!
One can Escape the Suffering of Samsara!
[FONT="] The Blessed [FONT="] Buddha[/FONT][FONT="] once said:
[/FONT][FONT="]The flood of tears that all beings have shed, while weeping and wailing
upon this loong way, hurrying and hastening through this endless round
of rebirths, while forced together with the disliked, & separated from
anything liked, is far greater than all the water of the four oceans!
So long have you lamented the death of your father & mother, of sons,
of daughters, brothers, & sisters. While you were thus wretched by all
this misery, agony, & anguish you have surely shed more tears upon this
immensely loong way, than there is water in the four oceans...
The flood of blood that all beings have shed, having been beheaded, or
stabbed or injured during this long way, through billions of rebirths as
punished killer, murderer, or soldier is far greater, than all the water in
the 4 oceans! So long have you been caught as robber, thief, & adulterer
& beheaded as punishment, truly more blood has flowed along this vastly
long way, than there is water in all the four oceans even when summed...
But how is this possible? Inconceivable is the beginning of this Samsara;
not to be discovered is any first beginning of beings, who, being blinded
by ignorance and ensnared by craving, have been hurrying and hastening
through many repeated rebirths... In this way have you & all other beings
long been suffering, been tortured, experienced disasters & tragedies,
and filled many graveyards full with bones! This truly, is long enough to
be dissatisfied with all forms of existence, is long enough to turn away
and free your self from all that suffering, that awaits in the future...
[/FONT] [FONT="]
Source: (edited excerpts) SN 15:1+3+13
[/FONT][FONT="]From: The Word of the Buddha: [/FONT][FONT="]Venerable Nyanatiloka Mahāthera.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book_404201.html[/FONT]
[FONT="]
All in this World, whatsoever, is Suffering: This is the 1st Noble Truth:
[/FONT][FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
[/FONT] [FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm[/FONT] [FONT="]
For details on this Round of Rebirths: Samsara see:
[/FONT] [FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/samsaara.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Samsara.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Endless_Round.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Samsaric_Round.htm[/FONT][/FONT]
Oceans of tears & blood have we all shed in Samsara!
How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?
Vap Poya day is the full-moon of October. This holy day celebrates the
end of the Bhikkhu's three months rains retreat and marks the Kathina
month of robes , where lay people donate a set of robes to the Sangha.
This also celebrates the day that Buddha began to teach the Abhidhamma!
On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days:
Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges and undertakes the
Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean
bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first
three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor.
Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines
in a loud, calm & steady voice:
As long as this life lasts:
I hereby take refuge in the Buddha.
I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma.
I hereby take refuge in the Sangha.
I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time.
I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.
I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!
I accept to respect & undertake these 5 training rules:
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Dishonesty.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs.
As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...
Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's
own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much
better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in & to
this world! So is the start towards Nibbāna: the Deathless Element!
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Ease, to Happiness,
initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and
fulfilled by training of Meditation...
Today indeed is Pooya or Uposatha or observance day, where any lay
Buddhist normally keeps even the Eight Precepts from sunrise until the
next dawn... If any wish an official recognition by the Bhikkhu-Sangha,
they may simply forward the lines starting with "I hereby ..." signed with
name, date, town & country to me or join here. A public list of this new
quite rapidly growing global Saddhamma-Sangha is set up here!
The True Noble Community of Buddha's Disciples: Saddhamma Sangha:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Saddhamma_Sangha.htm
Bhikkhu Samahita: what.buddha.said@gmail.com
For Details on The Origin of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
For the 2007 Calendar of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Poya.Uposatha.Observance_days.2007.htm
Impersonal Processes: Action without an Actor:
- Neither Agent nor Actor exists, only egoless Acting Processes Unfolds! -
[FONT="]Ask Not 'Who' but 'What'!
Who feels ? - Nobody feels !
What feels ? - Feeling itself feels !
What does feeling feel ?
Feeling feels pain, pleasure & neutral indifference...
Who perceives ? - Nobody perceives !
What perceives ? - Perception itself perceives !
What does perception perceive ?
Perception perceives forms, colours, sounds, smells,
tastes, touches and ideas, thoughts & mental states...
Who (re)cognizes ? - Nobody cognizes !
What cognizes ? - Consciousness itself cognizes !
What does consciousness recognize ?
Consciousness cognizes feelings, perceived experiences
and all the other various mental states as joy, anger etc...
These imprints arise & cease incessantly. Observable is this!
No lasting same 'self' can ever 'reside' or 'remain' within this!
In this passing flux of discrete mental states - exactly like when
the single still pictures of a rolling film, momentarily passes in between
the lens & lamp, causing a blinking projection to appear as ‘real’ or ‘here’
neither a 'feeler' nor a 'experiencer' as an 'Observing Agent'
can be found, assumed, constructed, concluded or deposited...
No-one is ‘in’ or ‘behind’ neither the film nor the mental projection…
Just this blinking projection itself - IS – for a short moment!
Feeling itself does not per se imply any 'feeler', as often assumed!
Perception does not itself imply any 'experiencer', as often assumed!
Just like we cannot conclude from the 2 facts:
1: That there is a cinema.
2: There is a film projected inside this cinema.
That there actually are anybody 'inside' that cinema !!!
As the external cinema very well may be all empty of any ‘audience’,
then this 'internal cinema' of mere experience, is also empty of any 'Self',
empty of any 'Person', empty of any 'Soul', empty of any 'Entity'
apart from the projected passing experience itself... !!!
________________________________________________________
Where – actually – is or resides this adored yet imaginary Ego?
Is the self identical with the body ? - No !
Is the self hidden inside the body ? - No !
Is the self outside or apart from the body ? - No !
Does the self own & posses a body ? - No !
Does the body own & posses a self ? - No !
There is just this frame of a body, but no self as controller...
Is the self identical with the feeling ? - No !
Is the self hidden inside the feeling ? - No !
Is the self outside apart from the feeling ? - No !
Does the self own & posses a feeling ? - No !
Does the feeling own & posses a self ? - No !
There is just this sensation of feeling, but no self as feeler...
Is the self identical with the experience ? - No !
Is the self hidden inside the experience ? - No !
Is the self outside & apart from experience ? - No !
Does the self own & posses an experience ? - No !
Does the experience own & posses a self ? - No !
There is just this moment of a experience, but no self as experiencer...
Is the self identical with the mental construction ? - No !
Is the self hidden inside the mental construction ? - No !
Is the self outside apart from mental construction ? - No !
Does the self own & posses a mental construction ? - No !
Does the mental construction own & posses a self ? - No !
There is just this activity of mental construction, but no self as constructor...
Is the self identical with the consciousness ? - No !
Is the self hidden inside the consciousness ? - No !
Is the self outside apart from consciousness ? - No !
Does the self own & posses a consciousness ? - No !
Does the consciousness own & posses a self ? - No !
There is just this aware consciousness, but no self ‘being’ conscious...
Why not ?
Because all these phenomena arise, change & cease...!!!
If the proposition of a self is taken as affirmed, then the:
'The Identical, Same & Unchanging Self' should arise, change
and cease in every moment... Which is absurd, contradictory, and
inconsistent with any concept, which we identify with as 'my self'...!!!
How can a so-called ‘same’ self arise as new and cease in each moment?!?
If the self is not ‘same’, is it then changed into ‘another’… ???
Any 'self' who is 'another' is clearly absurd... !!!
Is the self then a collective conglomerate of body, feeling,
experience & consciousness ? - No !
Why not ?
If self is not found within any of the parts, it cannot either
ever be found within any collection of the very same parts!
In Conclusion:
All 'Egoism' is based on an assumed & long cherished & reinforced idea
of an 'agent inside' labelled as a self, which does not exist except
as a mental construction which we fall in love with and violently defend...
This ‘auto-romance’ has taken place in all the prior rebirths also when animal!
This falsehood is more than fatal! Why so? Because it drags beings back into
rebirth and thus also repeated death… The assumed 'self', 'agent', 'identity',
'soul' or 'personality' does not exist as an unchanging entity… Or reality…
Freed of such self-Obsession, one is freed of the first hindrance
blocking all ways to Nibbana: Personality-belief![/FONT]
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Buddha once said:[/FONT][FONT="]
Blissful is solitude for one who is content, learned & who see the True Dhamma.
Blissful is harmlessness towards all beings without exception.
Blissful is freedom from any sensual urge whatsoever.
Yet, the supreme bliss, is the elimination of the abysmal conceit “I am”!’
Udana – Inspiration: II – 1
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This -the Buddha's doctrine of No-Self- is called Anatta.
May all come to see & be calmed thereby.
Subtle & complex, yet true & freeing.[/FONT]
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Who_or_what_is_the_Agent.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No_Substance_'Out_There'.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Clinging_to_the_notion_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Neither_Agent_nor_Actor.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Egolessness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Identity_View.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Selfless_Camera.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Input_'I'-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/No-Agent_but_Dependence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Just_Passing_Bubbles.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Anatta_Doctrine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Smoke_of_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-'I'-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Leaving_Wrong_View.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Who_is_the_Creator.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Solo_Self-Deception.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Uprooting_Egoism.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Refence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Empty_of_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Egoless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Double_Problem.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sandcastles.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Ego-Projection.htm[/FONT]
Impersonal are all states & phenomena!
Seeing Disgusting Objects Dispels Greed!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Awareness of the Body induces all advantageous qualities including clear
comprehension! The ancients said: Protect the sign, protect the nimitta...!
The Asubha Nimitta is a Disgusting Sign fixed in memory by meditation,
that one can redirect mind to whenever overcome by lust, greed & desire.
This sign detaches the mind from clinging to mere forms of foul impurities...
One then gain an 'off' button to turn 'off' desire and craving... This is the
KEY to disable suffering, as Craving is the primary cause of all suffering...
Most effective in reducing lust is Corpse Meditation (Asubha-Bhāvanā):
How to cure compulsive over-eating, bulimia, and anorexia:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_32_Parts.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Body_as_only_Form.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm
How to cure sex obsession, porno addiction and gross perversions:
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Corpse_Meditation.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Body_Contemplation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_9_Corpse_Meditations.htm
How to cure any greed, lust, desire, voracity, lewdness, longing & craving:d
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/The_Skeleton.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Disgust.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Meditation_On_the_Body_Kayagata-Sati.htm
Clever Disgust cools all obsessive greed and addictive lust:
For Inspiration: A collection of Corpse Pictures (Only for Adults!):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16308356@N02/?donelayout=1
Pick out the most disgusting and memorize it firmly. Remember it when greedy!
Then the greed instantly vanishes! And the frustrating longing subsides!
Evaporating Greed & Lust by Disgust!
That Craving Causes Suffering is The Second Noble Truth!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, now, is the Second Noble Truth on the Cause of Suffering?
The Cause of suffering is Craving, which bound up with pleasure and
desire, delighting now here, now there, gives rise to renewed rebirth!
SN 56:11
But where and when does this Craving arise and take root?
Wherever in the world there are delightful and pleasurable objects,
exactly right there & then this craving arises, takes root & grows...
The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind, forms, sounds, smells, tastes,
touches, ideas, thoughts, mental states, consciousness of sensation,
sense contacts, feelings born of contact, perceptions, intentions,
cravings, thoughts, & reflections are all attractive and pleasurable:
Right there & then this toxic craving arises, roots & grows...
This is called the Noble Truth on the Origin of Suffering!
Feeling is the Cause of Craving:
If perceiving a form, sound, smell, taste, touch, idea, or mental state
as pleasant, then one is attracted: Right there craving, greed, desire,
lust, longing and urge is born. Pleasant feeling thus causes Greed!
If perceiving the sense object as unpleasant, then one is repelled:
Right there hate, anger, aversion, antipathy, and opposition is born!
Unpleasant or painful feeling thus causes Hate & all it's derivatives!
If perceiving the object as neither pleasant nor unpleasant, then one
is disinterested, and thus neither observes nor examines the object:
Right there Ignorance, neglect, unawareness, and disregard is born...
Neutral & indifferent feeling thus causes Ignorance to arise! MN 38
The 3 kinds of Craving:
1: There is craving for Sensing forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touches,
ideas, thoughts and mental objects & states! (This is Kāma-Tanhā)...
2: There is craving for Becoming this or that like rich, healthy, famous,
beautiful, respected, successful & adored etc. (This is Bhava-Tanhā)...
3: There is craving for Non-Becoming this or that like poor, sick, dead,
ignored, disregarded, ugly, failed & despised. (This is Vibhava-Tanhā)...
DN 22
More on this thorny Craving:[FONT="]
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm[/FONT]
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Cut_Craving.htm
[FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Sandcastles.htm[/FONT]
[FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm[/FONT]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Feeling_Causes_and_Effects.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Proximate_Causes_of_the_Root_Defilements.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
Craving is the Cause of Suffering!
Craving causes conflict, competition, & catastrophic calamity!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Truly, caused by craving for sense pleasure, conditioned by craving
for simple sense pleasure, propelled by craving for sense pleasure,
wholly induced by craving for sense pleasure, kings fight with kings,
princes with princes, priests with priests, citizens with citizens and
the mother quarrels with the son, the son with the mother, the father
with the son, the son with the father; brother quarrels with brother,
brother with sister, sister with brother, & friend brawl with friend!
Thus, pushed into conflict, quarrelling, & fighting, they readily attack
each other with fists and weapons, thereby suffering pain & death!
Furthermore, caused by craving for plain sense pleasure, conditioned
by craving for simple sense pleasure, propelled by craving for sense
pleasure, wholly induced by craving for sense pleasure, people break
into houses, rob, plunder, steal from friends, commit highway robbery,
seduce the wives of others. Then the rulers have such people caught
and inflict on them various forms of punishment. Thereby they meet
death or deadly pain. Such is the misery of craving for sense pleasure,
accumulation of pain & suffering in this present life, caused, initiated,
prepared & entirely dependent upon this evil urge for sense pleasure!
Finally: Beings start to take up evil mental, verbal & bodily behaviour;
as a consequence of that, at breakup of the body, right after death,
they are whirled into the downfall, and re-arise in a state of misery,
in an unhappy destination, in the abyss of the many inferno hells...
Such also is the misery of craving for sense pleasure: Accumulation
of suffering in the future life, entirely due to craving for pleasure,
created by craving for pleasure, caused by craving for pleasure,
utterly dependent on this malign sense pleasure craving. MN 13...
More on this painful Craving:[FONT="]
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm[/FONT]
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Cut_Craving.htm
[FONT="] http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Sandcastles.htm[/FONT]
[FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm[/FONT]
[FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Cause.htm[/FONT]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Feeling_Causes_and_Effects.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Proximate_Causes_of_the_Root_Defilements.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
Craving is Catastrophic now & later!
The Intention behind the Action is the resulting Kamma!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
It is the intention behind the action, that I call kamma.
Having wanted, wished, & willed, one acts by body, speech, and mind.
There are actions (kamma) which cause later effects to ripen in hell!
There are actions which cause later effects to ripen when an animal!
There is kamma which cause later effects to ripen as a hungry ghost!
There are actions which cause later effects to ripen as human being!
There is kamma which cause later effects to ripen in divine states!
The result of actions (vipāka) is of three kinds: Ripening here & now
in the present life, in the next life, or in future lives. AN 6:63
Ownership & inheritance of the delayed results of action:
All beings are the owners of their actions, inheritor of their deeds!
They are literally created by & born of their behaviour, they are tied
to their acts, & their undertakings determines their future destiny...
Whatever they do, good as bad, the delayed results of that action,
will be the only theirs... AN 10:206
Wherever beings spring into existence, there their actions will ripen!
Wherever the effects of their past actions matures, there, they will
earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or in the next life, or
in any other remote future life. AN 3:33
Neither high up in the air or free space, nor deep down in the oceans,
Nor hidden inside any distant remote & secret mountain cleft or cave
Nowhere... is a place or location found in any universe, where one can
escape the inevitable later results of wrong, bad, & evil behaviour...
Dhammapada 127
Comments: Cause & Effect. Everything arises from a reason or cause!
Doing Good gets Good! The result of advantageous action is pleasure!
Doing Bad begets Evil! The result of disadvantageous action is pain!
Suffering now is often the delayed result of own past bad behaviour!
Enjoying now is often the delayed result of own past good behaviour!
On intentional Action = Kamma & resulting effects (vipāka):
[FONT="]http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Kamma_and_Fruit.htm[/FONT]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_is_intention.htm
[FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/karma.htm[/FONT]
[FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vipaaka.htm[/FONT]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_dilutes_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_short_&_long_life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Effect_of_Action_(kamma)_is_Delayed.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_&_Sickness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Low_or_High_Birth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Wealth_or_Poverty.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Beauty_&_Ugliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Power_or_Disrespect.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil_Kamma_enhances_other_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Stupidity_or_Intelligence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_enhances_other_Good_Kamma.htm
Intention is the Kamma!
Craving as the Origin of Suffering accumulates Kamma!
Wherever there is craving, may also arise envy, jealousy, anger, hate,
and many other evil selfish states causing much suffering and misery!
All these impulsive actions, and their painful fruitions long time after,
are ultimately rooted in blindness, neglect and ignorance (avijjā)...
The Second Noble Truth: Craving also explains the cause of the many
seeming social injustices both in society & in nature, by insisting on
that nothing in this world can come into existence without a cause...
All beings destiny and quality of life are caused by their own latent
tendencies in an endless sequence of former states of existence...
These causes are past action or activities (kamma, Sanskrit: karma)
produced by body, speech, & mind. It is thus this 3-fold action that
determines the character & destiny of all beings and not injustice!
More exactly defined, kamma denotes those good & evil intentions
which causes rebirth & shapes future destinies. The process of ever
new becoming (bhava) consists therefore of an active & conditioning
kamma creation (kamma-bhava), and its result: Renewed Rebirth...
By 'rebirth' is here meant both the 'rebirth' of the next moment of
consciousness and the next birth into a new existence after death!
Here, too, when considering kamma, one must not lose sight of the
utterly impersonal nature (anattatā) of this process of becoming!!!
As in the case of a storm-swept sea, it is not an identical wave that
hastens over the surface of the ocean, but it is the rising & falling
of quite different masses of water... In quite same way should it be
understood, that there are no real 'ego-entities' hastening through
this ocean of rebirth, but merely 'life'-waves, arising and ceasing,
which, according to their good and evil nature manifest themselves
here as humans, there as animals, and elsewhere as invisible beings!
Once more it may be emphasized here that, correctly speaking, the
term kamma=karma signifies only the intentional action itself, &
does not include this action's later effects & results (vipāka)...
The Blessed Buddha once said:
There will come a time when the mighty oceans will dry up, vanish,
and exist no more (like on mars!)... There will come a time when the
mighty earth will be devoured by fire, perish, and cease to exist...
But yet there will be no end to the suffering of sentient beings,
who blinded & obstructed by ignorance and ensnared by craving,
are hurrying & hastening through this round of rebirths. SN 22:99
[FONT="] Source: (edited excerpts): [FONT="]Venerable Nyanatiloka Mahāthera.[/FONT][FONT="]
The Word of the Buddha: [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT="] http://www.pariyatti.com/book_404201.html[/FONT]
On intentional Action = Kamma & resulting effects (vipāka):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
[FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Kamma_and_Fruit.htm[/FONT]
[FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/karma.htm[/FONT]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_is_intention.htm
[FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Intention_is_Kamma.htm[/FONT]
[FONT="] http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vipaaka.htm[/FONT]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_dilutes_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_short_&_long_life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_&_Sickness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Wealth_or_Poverty.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Beauty_&_Ugliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Low_or_High_Birth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Effect_of_Action_(kamma)_is_Delayed.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Power_or_Disrespect.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil_Kamma_enhances_other_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_enhances_other_Good_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Stupidity_or_Intelligence.htm
Craving: Origin of Suffering causes Kamma!
Ceasing of all Craving is the Ceasing of all Suffering!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, now, is this Noble Truth on the Elimination of all Suffering?
It is a complete fading away & irreversible elimination of all Craving,
the rejection & leaving of it, & the liberating release from it! SN 56:11
But where may this craving vanish, where may it be extinguished?
Wherever in the world there are delightful and pleasurable things!
Right there & then may this craving be overcome, quenched & vanish...
DN 22
Be it in the past, present, or any future, whatever recluse or monk
considers all delightful, attractive & pleasurable things in this world
as impermanent anicca, miserable dukkha, & without a self anatta,
as diseases & as cancers, it is they who conquer craving... SN 12:66
By final fading away and elimination of craving, clinging also ceases;
By the elimination of clinging, the process of becoming also ceases;
By the elimination of the process of becoming, rebirth also ceases;
Through the elimination of all rebirth, is all decay, ageing & death!,
sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, & despair finally extinguished...
Only that is the eradication of this entire mass of Suffering...
SN 12:43
On the irreversible & final ceasing of all pain:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
Ceasing of Suffering is Nibbâna!