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When 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 and find only celebration and elation in a never-ending mutually rejoicing joy! May I & all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material, and the formless plane develop and encounter this generous, infinite and mutually rejoicing joy! May I & all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left, and below as above, develop and experience openhearted, sharing, & mutually rejoicing joy! May I and all beings within this city, country, planet and universe always: Be fully aware and deeply mindful of this content and mutually rejoicing joy! Examine all details & aspects of this satisfied and mutually rejoicing joy! Put enthusiastic effort in our praxis of this devoted mutually rejoicing joy! Enjoy enraptured jubilant gladness in this exulting mutually rejoicing joy! Be silenced by the tranquillity of quiet and all smiling mutually rejoicing joy! Be concentrated & absorbed into one-pointedness by genuine rejoicing joy! Dwell in an imperturbable equanimity of pure and mutually rejoicing joy... Yeah! May it be even so, since mutual joy causes the jewel of contentment!
Comment: Mutual Joy is the 3rd infinite mental state (Appamañña): This gradually reduces all envy, jealousy, possessiveness, stinginess, avarice miserliness, green covetousness and unhappiness related with all these states. The cause of Mutual Joy in rejoicing in your child's or boon companion's success. This same joy can then be beamed towards all liked, neutral and hostile beings. Mutual Joy is then the proximate cause of satisfied and fulfilled Contentment... Lack of mutual joy is thus the proximate cause of dissatisfied discontentment... Joined with the 7 links to Awakening it will later cause a formless jhana... Be happy at all and especially other being's success! Then calm comfort grows!
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At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha once said to his monks: I will teach you the uncorrupted state, & the way to the uncorrupted state... Bhikkhus, I will teach you the truth, & the way leading to this absolute truth... I will teach you the far shore ... the subtle ... the sublime ... the difficult to see ... the unageing ... the stable ... the safe ... the undisintegrating & undecaying state ... the unmanifested ... the unproliferated ... the unclinging ... untroubled silence ... the peaceful ... the supreme bliss ... the fortunate ... the wonderful & amazing ... the cooling of craving ... disillusion ... purity ... freedom ... the island shelter ... the assured asylum ... the final refuge ... the deathless destination ... Nibbana... Listen and pay alert attention to that which will lead you to lasting happiness! And what, Bhikkhus is this Nibbana? The absence of all Greed, the stilling of all Hate, & the ending of all Ignorance: This is called the uncorrupted state of Nibbana... And what, Bhikkhus, is this very good way leading to this undying state of Nibbana?
Awareness of the body just as organs is a way to this uncorrupted state ... The four foundations of awareness is a way to this absolute truth ... Serene calm and profound insight is a way to this this far shore ... Absorption into directed thought and sustained examination is a way... Absorption into emptiness, signlessness, and into the uninclined is a way... The four right efforts are a way to this the very difficult to see state... The four roads to force are a way to this supreme bliss ... The five pure abilities are a way to this purity ... The five pure powers are a way to this freedom ... The seven links to awakening are a way to this peace ... The Noble 8-fold Way are a way to this deathless destination ...
These are ways leading to this Nibbana... I have now taught you Nibbana... and the way leading to this Nibbana... Whatever should be done, Bhikkhus, by a considerate teacher out of sympathy for his disciples, wishing only their welfare, that I have now done for you. There are roots of trees, Bhikkhus, there are empty huts. Meditate, do not neglect your meditation, Bhikkhus, otherwise you may come to regret it later. This is our instruction to you...
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All External Objects are always Fading Away & Vanishing!
At Savatthi The Blessed Buddha said this: Bhikkhus, all forms are impermanent! What is impermanent is suffering! What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self should be seen as it really is with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus: This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self ... All sounds are impermanent ... All smells are impermanent ... All flavours are impermanent ... All touches are impermanent ... All Mental states are impermanent. What is impermanent is suffering... What is suffering is no-self. What is no-self should be seen as it really is with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus: This is neither me, nor mine, this I am not, this is not my self! Seeing this, Bhikkhus, any educated Noble Disciple is disgusted with all forms, sounds, smells, flavours, touches, and with any mental state ... The experience of this disgust, brings disillusion and disenchantment! Through this disillusion, the mind is all released! When it is liberated, then there appears this assurance: "This mind is freed" and one instantly understands: Rebirth is now ended, this Noble Life is fully concluded, done is what should be done, there is no state beyond this...
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The Internal Sensors are Fragile, Decaying and Vanishing!
At Savatthi The Blessed Buddha said this: Bhikkhus, the eye is impermanent! What is impermanent is suffering! What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self should be seen as it really is with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus: This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self... The ear is impermanent.... The nose is impermanent.... The tongue is impermanent.... The body is impermanent.... The mind is impermanent. What is impermanent is ultimately suffering... What is suffering is no-self. What is no-self should be seen as it really is with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus: This is neither me, nor mine, this I am not, this is not my self! Seeing this, bhikkhus, any educated Noble Disciple is disgusted with the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body, and with the mind... The experience of this disgust, brings disillusion and disenchantment! Through this disillusion, the mind is all released! When it is liberated, then there appears this assurance: "This mind is irreversibly freed" and one instantly understands: Rebirth is now ended, this Noble Life is fully concluded, done is what should be done, there is no state beyond this...
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The purpose of purification of Morality is purification of Mentality! The purpose of purification of Mind is the purification of Understanding! The purpose of purification of Understanding is the overcoming of Doubt! The purpose of overcoming Doubt is knowing what to do & what not to do! The purpose of knowing what to do & not do is purification of the Method! The purpose of purification of the Method is purity of Knowledge & Vision! The purpose of purification of Knowledge & Vision is Release of all clinging! The purpose of Relinquishing all clinging is the only Supreme Bliss: Nibbana...
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The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, there are 3 mental fermentations. What are these three mental concoctions?
1: The mental Fermentation joined with Sensuality.. 2: The mental Fermentation linked with Becoming.. 3: The mental Fermentation associated with Ignorance..
These are the three mental fermentations. The Noble 8-fold Way is to be developed for the direct experience of these three fermentations, for the full understanding of them, for their complete elimination, and for their final overcoming, abandoning and leaving all behind...
Comments: 1: The mental fermentation (asava) linked with sensuality is the false assumption, that sensing always brings pleasure, while actually sensing also is associated with pain and also neutral feeling, which is far the most common! 2: The mental fermentation associated with becoming is like the banal yet common wishing: May I become rich, beautiful, and famous, not noticing that any becoming inevitably is associated with change, decay, death and thus suffering too! 3: The mental Fermentation associated with ignorance is the misconceptions we make by inaccurate approximation, undue generalization and over-projection: Ex: We make the observation: The horizon is linear. Then we assume, project and simplify by conceptual generalization: 'The earth must be flat', which is a false mentally ‘brewed=fermented’ misconception… For quite a while many would chop off your head, if you suggested anything else, than that screaming error… During biological fermentation sugar, water and yeast ferments into alcohol... The alcohol was not there to begin with... It was made up by the fermentation! During mental fermentation observations, mixed with ideas and assumptions ferments into a misconception, that was not there in the raw observation data... The misconception 'pancake earth' is not to be seen in an (almost) flat horizon! This 'pancake round disc earth' concept is a false idea fermented and invented by the mind desperately trying to predict the relations between what it sees...
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A certain Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha: Venerable Sir, the Noble Life, the Noble Life, is it often said… What, Sir, is this Noble Life? And what is the final goal of this Noble Life? This Noble 8-fold Way, Bhikkhu, is the Noble Life; namely:
Right View (samma-ditthi) Right Motivation (samma-sankappa) Right Speech (samma-vaca) Right Action (samma-kammanta) Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva) Right Effort (samma-vayama) Right Awareness (samma-sati) Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)
The destruction of Greed, the destruction of Hate, and the destruction of Ignorance: This is the final goal of the Noble Life…
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The blessed Buddha once asked: What do you think, Bhikkhus & friends, is form, feeling, perception mental constructions, and consciousness permanent or impermanent? Impermanent, Venerable Sir. Is what is impermanent suffering or happiness? Suffering, Venerable Sir.. Is what is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change fit to be regarded thus: "This is mine, this I am, this is my self"? No, Venerable Sir...! Therefore, Bhikkhus & friends, any kind of form whatsoever, any kind of feeling whatsoever, any kind of perception whatsoever, any kind of mental constructions whatsoever, & any kind of consciousness whatsoever, whether past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or fine, high or low, far or near, all this should be seen as it really is with true understanding thus: This is not mine, this is not me, this I am not, this is not my or any self... Seeing thus, bhikkhus & friends, the learned Noble Disciple experiences revulsion towards any form, towards any feeling, towards any perception, revulsion towards all mental constructions, revulsion towards all consciousness. While experiencing this revulsion, he becomes disillusioned and detached. Through this detaching disillusion his mind is released. When it is released there emerges this assurance: This mind is irreversibly released. He then understands: Destroyed is any new rebirth, this Noble life has been fully completed, what had to be done is done, there is no state beyond this...
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Poya is the full-moon of Poson (June), which is specially noteworthy to the Sri Lankan Buddhists as the day on which Emperor Asoka's son, the Arahat Mahinda, officially introduced Buddhism to the island in the 3rd century B.C. Accordingly, in addition to the normal ritualistic observances undertaken on a Poya day, on Poson day devotees flock to Mihintale & Anuradhapura, the ancient holy capital city of the country, for it was there that Arahat Mahinda converted the then ruler, King Devanampiya Tissa, and his court to Buddhism, thereby setting in motion a series of events that finally made Sri Lanka the stronghold home of Theravada Buddhism.
On such Uposatha 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 and head touch the floor. Then, with joined palms in front of the heart, one recite 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! This is the very start on the path towards Nibbana -the Deathless Element- This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Bliss, 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 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..." signed with name, date, town & country to me or join here. A public list of this new Saddhamma-Sangha is here!
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No Identical Identity Exists neither Internally, nor Externally!
At the time of Buddha Gotama Ven. Khemaka spoke thus: I do not regard any form as 'This I Am' or 'I am' as if 'inside' any form, nor do I regard 'This I Am' as 'apart from' any form or as if 'outside' any form! I do not regard any feeling, perception or mental construction as 'This I Am' or 'I am' as if 'inside' any feeling, perception or mental construction, nor do I regard 'This I Am' as 'apart from' any feeling, perception or mentally made construction or as if 'outside' any feeling, perception or mental construction! I do not regard any consciousness as 'This I Am' or 'I am' as if 'inside' any consciousness, nor do I regard 'This I Am' as 'apart from' any consciousness or as if 'outside' any consciousness ... !!!
Yet, although this notion, this conception, this assuming, this conceiving, this imagination, this mental fermentation, this false reference 'I Am' has not yet vanished in me, still I do not consider anything neither internal, nor external, neither among these five clusters, nor apart from the five clusters as: "Mine", nor as "This I Am", nor as "This is My Self"... !!!
When a Noble Disciple keeps contemplating the momentary arising & ceasing, the change, the becoming otherwise, the decay, fading & vanishing, and the conditioned & dependent emergence of these five clusters of clinging, then the subtle residual desire for 'identification', the remaining 'Ego'-conceit, & the lingering & latent tendency to suppose 'I Am', not yet eliminated comes to be uprooted! Thereby do the toxic traces of destructive Egoism all evaporate.. This - in itself - is release, is relinquishment, is liberation, is final freedom!
Khemaka Thera: An Arahat. Once, when he lay very ill at the Badarikarama, near Kosambi, some monks, staying at the Ghositarama, sent Dasaka, with a message to Khemaka, inquiring whether he managed to bear his pains. Dasaka returned with the reply that he did not; he was sent again to ask if Khemaka had seen the self in the five khandhas; when Dasaka returned with the answer that he had not, he was sent a third time to ask whether Khemaka was an arahant. "No," came the answer, and Dasaka had to visit him a fourth time with the inquiry, What did Khemaka mean by self? In exasperation Khemaka came himself to Ghositarama and explained how, even when the Noble Disciple has put away the five lower fetters, there still clings to him a subtle remnant of the "I" conceit. As a result of this radical sermon Khemaka himself and sixty others became Arahats right on the spot...!
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The blessed Buddha once defined sense Contact (phassa) like this: In dependence the eye and forms, visual consciousness arises... The meeting of these three phenomena is eye contact. In dependence the ear and sounds, auditory consciousness arises... The meeting of these three phenomena is ear contact. In dependence the nose and odours, olfactory consciousness arises... The meeting of these three phenomena is nose contact. In dependence the tongue and flavours, gustatory consciousness arises... The meeting of these three phenomena is tongue contact. In dependence the body and touches, tactile consciousness arises... The meeting of these three phenomena is body contact. In dependence the mind and thoughts, mental consciousness arises... The meeting of these three phenomena is mind contact. Conditioned by Contact, feeling comes into being. Conditioned by feeling, craving arises. Conditioned by craving, clinging emerges. Conditioned by clinging, becoming appears. Conditioned by becoming, rebirth happens. Conditioned by birth, ageing, sickness and death arrive! Such is this conditioned origin of that whole accumulation of suffering...! Conditioned by Contact, feeling arises. But by the complete stilling, fading all away and ceasing of that very same craving, comes the instantaneous cessation of clinging! The ending of clinging ceases becoming. The ending of becoming ceases any future rebirth. The ending of birth ceases ageing, sickness, death, sorrow, pain and panic! That is the conditioned ceasing of this entire massive bulk of suffering...!
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A wandering friend once asked the Great Disciple: Friend Sariputta, Nibbana, Nibbana is it said! What is this Nibbana? The destruction of Greed, the destruction of Hate, and the destruction of Ignorance! This, friend, is called Nibbana … But, friend, is there a method, is there a way to reach this Nibbana? There is indeed a method, friend, there is indeed a way to reach Nibbana! What, friend, is then this method, what is then that way to reach Nibbana? It is, friend, simply the completion of this Noble 8-fold Way, namely:
Right View (samma-ditthi) Right Motivation (samma-sankappa) Right Speech (samma-vaca) Right Action (samma-kammanta) Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva) Right Effort (samma-vayama) Right Awareness (samma-sati) Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)
This is undeniably the very method, friend, the only way to reach Nibbana! Oh excellent is this unique method, exquisite is this way to reach Nibbana! This –in itself- is enough for me, friend Sariputta, to begin the endeavour!
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The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, growing in five areas of progress, the Noble Disciple attains a Noble growth, and acquires the essence, acquires the best, one possibly can in this bodily existence! What are these 5 areas: 1: One grows in Faith, 2: One grows in Morality, 3: One grows in Learning, 4: One grows in Generosity, 5: One grows in Understanding. Developing in these five areas of progress, a noble disciple grows with a Noble Progress, and acquires the very core essence, acquires the optimal advantage, of this bodily existence. When one grows here in Faith and Morality, in Wisdom, Liberality, and Learning, the virtuous lay disciple acquires right here the very quintessence of all what is advantageous!
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The 3rd Precept: One accepts the training rule of avoiding All Sexual Abuse. One should cause No Pain to others or oneself in one's search for pleasure! Avoiding sexual abuse is thus an essential core component of harmlessness!
Specifically: One should not mate sexually with another's partner. One should not mate sexually with anyone engaged or married to another. One should not mate sexually with minors < 16-18 years of age. One should not mate sexually with those imprisoned, forced or under the law. One should not mate sexually with those protected by family or teachers.
kamesu-micchacara: lit. 'wrong or evil conduct with regard to sensual things'; Unlawful sexual contact refers to adultery, and to intercourse with minors or other persons under guardianship. The abstaining from this unlawful act is one of the 5 moral training rules (sikkhapada) binding upon all Buddhists. Any sexual act transgressing this rule will inevitably cause suffering later... The monk, however, has to observe perfect chastity by living fully celibate even without any masturbation. In many Suttas (e.g. A.X., 176) we find the following explanation: He avoids unlawful sexual intercourse, abstains from it. He has no intercourse with girls who are still under the protection of father or mother, brother, sister or relatives, nor with married women, nor female convicts, nor, lastly, with betrothed girls. Source: the Buddhist Dictionary: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Buddhist.Dictionary/index_dict.n2.htm
"Illicit sexual behavior, when indulged in, developed, & pursued, is something that leads to hell, leads to rebirth as a common animal, leads to the realm of the hungry ghosts. The slightest of all the results coming from illicit sexual behavior is future rivalry and revenge, when one becomes a human being. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/anguttara/an08-040.html
"Furthermore, abandoning illicit sex, the disciple of the noble ones abstains from illicit sex. In doing so, he gives freedom from danger, from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings. In giving freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings, he gains a fair share of limitless freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, and freedom from oppression. This is the 3rd gift! http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/anguttara/an08-039.html
Furthermore: Ignoring, hiding or not informing about own STD: Knowingly engaging in a sexual contact that puts another being in danger of getting a sexually transmitted disease, which later may make this being suffer and maybe even be potentially lethal (HIV/AIDS) is also not only sexual abuse in the Buddhist sense, but also illegal and forbidden by law and thus legally punishable in most countries today.
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At Savatthi. While seated, the Venerable Radha asked the Blessed Buddha: Venerable Sir, one says: Mara, Mara! What, Venerable Sir, is Mara? Form, Radha, is suffering, feeling is suffering, perception is suffering, mental constructions are suffering, consciousness is suffering... ! Radha, you should abandon desire, you should abandon lust, you should cease all desire and all lust, for whatever is a state of Mara ... for whatever is impermanent ... for whatever is of an impermanent nature ... for whatever is suffering ... for whatever is of a painful nature ... for whatever is non-self ... for whatever is of a selfless nature ... for whatever is a state of destruction ... for whatever is a state of vanishing ... for what-ever is a state of arising ... for whatever is of a nature to cease! And what, Radha, is of a nature to cease? All form is of a nature to cease... All feeling is of a nature to cease... All perception is of a nature to cease... All mental constructions are of a nature to cease... All consciousness is of a nature to cease... Understanding this, Bhikkhu, a well instructed Noble Disciple experiences disgust towards form, disgust towards feeling, disgust towards perception, disgust towards mental construction, & disgust towards consciousness itself! Experiencing disgust, he becomes disillusioned! Through disillusion his mind is released. When it is released, he instantly knows: This mind is liberated, and he understands: Extinguished is rebirth, this Noble Life is all completed, done is what should be done, there is no state of being beyond this... SN 23 24-34 III 199
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At Savatthi The Buddha once said: All form is transient, all feeling is transient, all perception is transient, all mental constructions are transient, all consciousness is transient... This transience is suffering! What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self should be seen as it really is with correct understanding in this very way: 'All this is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self!'... When one sees and understands this thus, as it really is with correct and penetrating understanding, then one maintains no views on what is past. When one maintains no more views regarding the past, then one neither maintains any views about the future. When one has relinquished all views about the future, then one is not being possessed by stubborn clinging... Having no trace of immovable clinging left, the mind becomes disillusioned regarding all form, all feeling, all perception, all mental constructions, and all consciousness. By that it is released from the 3 mental fermentations through detached non-clinging... By being released, the mind is all silenced! By being thus stilled, the mind becomes content... Being content, it is not agitated anymore... Being thus unagitated, one indeed attains Nibbana! Right there and then, one instantly understands: Ended is this process of rebirth, this Noble Life has been lived, done is all what had to be done, there is no state beyond this...
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Train yourself in doing only pure good, Since that lasts & brings great happiness! Cultivate generosity, peaceful simple living, and a mentality of infinite friendliness... _/\_ Itivuttaka 16
Who is hospitable, open, straight & friendly, Generous, gentle and always unselfish, A guide, an instructor, a true leader, Such one may great honour gain... Digha Nikaya 31
For one who deliberately and fully attentive, Develops and expands Universal Friendliness Experiencing the fading away of clinging, All his chains are worn down thereby! Itivuttaka 27
With good-will for the entire cosmos, Cultivate a limitless heart and mind: Beaming above, below, and all around, Unobstructed, without trace of hostility. Sutta Nipata I, 8
May all creatures, all breathing & living things, All beings, one and all, without any exception, Experience the good fortune of Happiness! May they not fall into any harm... Anguttara Nikaya II, 72
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Laziness overcomes one strong in concentration and weak in energy, since concentration favours idle inaction... Agitation and restlessness overpowers one strong in energy and weak in concentration, because energy stimulate agitation... But concentration coupled & ballanced with energy cannot lapse into laziness, & energy coupled & ballanced with concentration cannot provoke restlessness... Therefore should these two abilities be ballanced, since excellence of effort and mental absorption arises out of the even ballancing of the mental abilities.
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Life in the modern age has become particularly trying and problematic. Though it remains a fact that the standard of living has generally improved, man is still suffering immensely under the weight of present-day living. The physical condition of man has been reduced to such a pathetic level that he succumbs to untimely death by killer diseases such as cancer, heart failure, diabetes, etc. to an unprecedented degree. Mentally, he is so tension-ridden that he has forgotten the art of relaxing, and he cannot even enjoy sound sleep without the aid of tranquilizers. In this set up interpersonal relations have become so brittle and vulnerable that the divorce rate has indeed become alarmingly high, thus letting loose a whole series of other social problems such as uncared-for children, juvenile delinquency, suicide, etc. Thus life has become a problematic burden and a solution to make life more tolerable and enjoyable is a great and pressing need.
As the word of the Buddha is of everlasting value and universal applicability, and as the Buddha preached not only to monks and nuns but also to the lay public as well, it is useful to find a teaching of the Buddha which is relevant to our present-day problems: In the Pattakammavagga of the Anguttara Nikaya (A II, 69) the Buddha preached a sutta to Anathapindika on the fourfold pleasures of a layman. It is our considered opinion that this sutta offers adequate insight to meet the demands of the present-day problems as well. The four types of pleasure listed there are: 1: Atthisukha, the pleasure of having material wealth; 2: Bhogasukha, the pleasure of enjoying material wealth; 3: Ananasukha, the pleasure of being debtless; and 4: Anavajjaskha, the pleasure of being blameless. Let us take these for discussion one by one and see how these four sources of pleasure can be harnessed for living a happy life in the present-day world.
Atthisukha — Man should not only have a righteous means of living, avoiding blameworthy trades such as dealing in meat, liquor, poison, firearms & slavery, he should also entertain a wholesome attitude towards his right occupation. Again one could have great wealth, but if one does not experience a sense of contentment with what one has, one cannot really enjoy atthisukha or the pleasure of having. The amassing of wealth of such a person is like trying to fill a bottomless vessel. This is one of the widely spread maladies we see in the present-day society. Inordinate expansion of wealth becomes a source not of happiness, but of greed, anxiety, and envy. Such wealth exposes the possessor to the jealousies and manoeuvres of other unscrupulous individuals, hence the occurrence of blackmailing and kidnapping from time to time. But if one does have a correct means of earning one's living and the correct attitude to wealth, one can escape many of the hazards which money brings in its wake to modern man...
If we truly understand the sound significance of these 4 kinds of happiness elucidated in our sutta, and translate them into action, then our life will be much more pleasant, easy and happy even in this modern age.
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The Blessed Buddha once said: And how, Bhikkhus, is the mental release by universal friendliness achieved? What does this liberation have as its destination, what is its culmination, what is its sweet fruit, what is the final goal of such mental release by universal friendliness? Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading the frontal quadrant, with a mind imbued with infinite friendliness, so the second quarter, the third quarter, and the fourth quarter. Thus above, below, across, and everywhere, and to all beings as to himself, he dwells pervading the entire universe with a mind saturated with unlimited friendliness, immense, exalted, vast, measureless, without hostility, without enmity, without any ill will! Thus prepared and expanded he then develops: 1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with limitless friendliness. 2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such friendliness. 3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with infinite friendliness. 4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with absolute friendliness. 5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with open friendliness. 6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with friendliness. 7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with endless friendliness. Based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in the unrepulsive & tempting, then he can dwell experiencing the repulsive therein. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in the disgusting repulsive, then he dwells experiencing the unrepulsive in whatever disgusting! If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in what is both unrepulsive & repulsive, he dwells experiencing repulsive disgust in it. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in what is both unrepulsive & repulsive, he experiences only unrepulsive beauty by it! If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive and the unrepulsive, may I dwell in equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending, then he dwells in equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending. Or else he enters and dwells in the mental deliverance by the beautiful... I tell you Bhikkhus for a wise Bhikkhu here who has not penetrated to an even more superior mental release, this release of mind by pure infinite friendliness has the beautiful deliverance as its culmination!
Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness...
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The Blessed Buddha once said: And how, Bhikkhus, is the mental release by universal pity achieved? What does this liberation have as its destination, what is its culmination, what is its sweet fruit, and what is the goal of release by universal pity? Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading the frontal quadrant with a mind imbued with infinite pity, so the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter. As above, so below, across, and everywhere! To all beings and to himself, he dwells pervading the entire universe with a mind saturated with unlimited pity, immense, exalted, vast, measureless, without hostility, without enmity, without any trace of ill will! Thus prepared & expanded he then develops: 1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with this limitless pity. 2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such vast pity. 3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with this infinite pity. 4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with this absolute pity. 5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with this spacious pity. 6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with this great pity. 7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with this endless pity. While based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in the unrepulsive and tempting, then he can dwell experiencing the repulsive therein. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in the disgusting and repulsive, then he dwells experiencing pleasing beauty in whatever is disgusting! If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in what is both unrepulsive and repulsive, he dwells experiencing repulsive disgust in it. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in what is both unrepulsive and repulsive, he experiences only excessive beauty in it! If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive and the unrepulsive, may I dwell in equanimity, just aware & clearly comprehending, then he dwells in this equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending. Or else, by completely transcending of all experience of form, fully stilling any perception of all sense-reaction, non attending to any experience of diversity, only aware that space is infinite, he enters and dwells in the infinitude of space... I tell you Bhikkhus, for a wise Bhikkhu here, who has not yet penetrated to an even more superior mental release, this release of mind by infinite pity has the sublime sphere of the infinitude of space as its culmination!
Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness...
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Origination & Cessation of the 4 Reference Objects:
The Blessed Buddha once said: I will teach you the origination and passing away of the reference objects of the Four Foundations of Awareness. Listen to that:
Appearance of Nutriment produces the emergence of the Body. Disappearance of Nutriment produces the passing away of the Body.
Appearance of Contact produces the emergence of Feeling. Disappearance of Contact produces the passing away of Feeling.
Appearance of Name-&-Form produces the emergence of Mind. Disappearance of Name-&-Form produces the passing away of Mind.
Appearance of Attention produces the emergence of Phenomena. Disappearance of Attention produces the passing away of Phenomena.
Therefore: Considering, contemplating, analyzing, and always recollecting: Body merely as transient forms grown on and out of Food; Feeling only as passing emotions arised from Contact; Mind just as changing moods emerged from Naming-and-Forming; Phenomena only as momentary mental states created by Attention... repeatedly, thoroughly, and completely, is called initiating & developing the Four Foundations of Awareness, which - in itself - is the mental treasure par excellence, leading steadily and straight to the Deathless Element... Deep, deep, subtle and somewhat enigmatic is this profound classification!
Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 184-5] 47 The Foundations of Awareness: 42 Origination..
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At Savatthi, the Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, when the experience of stilling, ending, stopping, and ceasing is developed and cultivated, then it is of great fruit and immense benefit! It leads to great good, it leads to great security from bondage, it leads to a great sense of urgency, it leads to living in fearless ease and comfort! How, Bhikkhus, is the experience of ceasing developed and cultivated, so that it is of great fruit and benefit? Here, the Bhikkhu systematically develops the: 1: The Awareness Link to Awakening, joined with the experience of ceasing. 2: The Investigation of states Link to Awakening, while examining full stilling. 3: The Energy Link to Awakening, perceiving an ultimate ending of all activity. 4: The Joy Link to Awakening, while laughing at the complete cessation of all. 5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening, accompanied by calm & serene silencing. 6: The Concentration Link to Awakening, focused on fading away of all states. 7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening, indifferent even at the final stopping, while being based upon seclusion, disillusion, halting, and maturing in release... It is in this very way that the experience of stilling and ceasing into peace is developed and cultivated, so that it is of great advantage, great benefit, great good, great security from bondage, great sense of urgency, and living in the great ease of calmed, fearless and imperturbable comfort! Bhikkhus, when the perception of ceasing is developed and cultivated in this way fused and enhanced by the Seven Links to Awakening, one of two fruits is to be expected: Either final knowledge in this very life or, if there is a remaining residue of clinging, the state of non-returning...
Comments: Ceasing is Bliss... Ceasing of What? Ceasing of the internal , yet infernal Fire of Greed, Fire of Hate, and Fire of Ignorance and their derivatives!
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A not very well known Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha: Venerable Sir, 'The 7 Links to Awakening, The 7 Links to Awakening' is it always said. In what way are they called Links to Awakening? They lead to Enlightenment, friend, it is therefore they indeed are called Links to Awakening. Here, Bhikkhu, when one trains, cultivates and refines:
1: The Awareness Link to Awakening: sati-sambojjhanga. 2: The Investigation Link to Awakening: dhammavicaya-sambojjhanga. 3: The Energy Link to Awakening: viriya-sambojjhanga. 4: The Joy Link to Awakening: piti-sambojjhanga. 5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening: passaddhi-sambojjhanga. 6: The Concentration Link to Awakening: samadhi-sambojjhanga. 7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening: upekkha-sambojjhanga.
based upon seclusion, disillusion, and ceasing, maturing & culminating in release, then these Seven Links to Awakening, becomes Noble and liberating. They lead any one who trains them all out, they lead to utter revulsion, to intense disgust, to dispassion, to cessation of craving and greed, to peace, to direct knowledge, to complete destruction of suffering. They lead to Enlightenment, to Nibbana...
Source (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 82-83] section 46: The Links.19-21: Noble Revulsion leads to Enlightenment....
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How to train Rejoicing Joy in others Success?
When 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 and find
only celebration and elation in a never-ending mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material, and the formless plane
develop and encounter this generous, infinite and mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left, and below as
above, develop and experience openhearted, sharing, & mutually rejoicing joy!
May I and all beings within this city, country, planet and universe always:
Be fully aware and deeply mindful of this content and mutually rejoicing joy!
Examine all details & aspects of this satisfied and mutually rejoicing joy!
Put enthusiastic effort in our praxis of this devoted mutually rejoicing joy!
Enjoy enraptured jubilant gladness in this exulting mutually rejoicing joy!
Be silenced by the tranquillity of quiet and all smiling mutually rejoicing joy!
Be concentrated & absorbed into one-pointedness by genuine rejoicing joy!
Dwell in an imperturbable equanimity of pure and mutually rejoicing joy...
Yeah! May it be even so, since mutual joy causes the jewel of contentment!
Comment: Mutual Joy is the 3rd infinite mental state (Appamañña):
This gradually reduces all envy, jealousy, possessiveness, stinginess, avarice
miserliness, green covetousness and unhappiness related with all these states.
The cause of Mutual Joy in rejoicing in your child's or boon companion's success.
This same joy can then be beamed towards all liked, neutral and hostile beings.
Mutual Joy is then the proximate cause of satisfied and fulfilled Contentment...
Lack of mutual joy is thus the proximate cause of dissatisfied discontentment...
Joined with the 7 links to Awakening it will later cause a formless jhana...
Be happy at all and especially other being's success! Then calm comfort grows!
More on Mutual Joy (Mudita):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Rejoicing_Joy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoicing_Bliss_is_Mudita.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Infinitely_Joyous_Consciousness.htm
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Appreciative Joy Causes Contentment!
Rejoicing Joy!
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The final safe State of supreme unified Bliss!
At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha once said to his monks:
I will teach you the uncorrupted state, & the way to the uncorrupted state...
Bhikkhus, I will teach you the truth, & the way leading to this absolute truth...
I will teach you the far shore ... the subtle ... the sublime ... the difficult to see ...
the unageing ... the stable ... the safe ... the undisintegrating & undecaying state ...
the unmanifested ... the unproliferated ... the unclinging ... untroubled silence ...
the peaceful ... the supreme bliss ... the fortunate ... the wonderful & amazing ...
the cooling of craving ... disillusion ... purity ... freedom ... the island shelter ...
the assured asylum ... the final refuge ... the deathless destination ... Nibbana...
Listen and pay alert attention to that which will lead you to lasting happiness!
And what, Bhikkhus is this Nibbana?
The absence of all Greed, the stilling of all Hate, & the ending of all Ignorance:
This is called the uncorrupted state of Nibbana... And what, Bhikkhus, is this
very good way leading to this undying state of Nibbana?
Awareness of the body just as organs is a way to this uncorrupted state ...
The four foundations of awareness is a way to this absolute truth ...
Serene calm and profound insight is a way to this this far shore ...
Absorption into directed thought and sustained examination is a way...
Absorption into emptiness, signlessness, and into the uninclined is a way...
The four right efforts are a way to this the very difficult to see state...
The four roads to force are a way to this supreme bliss ...
The five pure abilities are a way to this purity ...
The five pure powers are a way to this freedom ...
The seven links to awakening are a way to this peace ...
The Noble 8-fold Way are a way to this deathless destination ...
These are ways leading to this Nibbana... I have now taught you Nibbana...
and the way leading to this Nibbana... Whatever should be done, Bhikkhus,
by a considerate teacher out of sympathy for his disciples, wishing only their
welfare, that I have now done for you. There are roots of trees, Bhikkhus,
there are empty huts. Meditate, do not neglect your meditation, Bhikkhus,
otherwise you may come to regret it later. This is our instruction to you...
Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [369-73]
Section 43: On The Unconsctructed. The way to the uninclined: 13-44.
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There is something Else and far Better...
Buddhist Bliss!
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All External Objects are always Fading Away & Vanishing!
At Savatthi The Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, all forms are impermanent! What is impermanent is suffering!
What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self should be seen as it really is
with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus:
This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self ...
All sounds are impermanent ... All smells are impermanent ...
All flavours are impermanent ... All touches are impermanent ...
All Mental states are impermanent. What is impermanent is suffering...
What is suffering is no-self. What is no-self should be seen as it really is
with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus:
This is neither me, nor mine, this I am not, this is not my self!
Seeing this, Bhikkhus, any educated Noble Disciple is disgusted with
all forms, sounds, smells, flavours, touches, and with any mental state ...
The experience of this disgust, brings disillusion and disenchantment!
Through this disillusion, the mind is all released! When it is liberated,
then there appears this assurance: "This mind is freed" and one instantly
understands: Rebirth is now ended, this Noble Life is fully concluded,
done is what should be done, there is no state beyond this...
More on impermanence, inconstancy, and transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli):
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_Fact_of_Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. IV 3-4
The group on the 6 Senses 35:4 The External as Impermanent...
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Nothing here can ever last...
Transience!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
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The Internal Sensors are Fragile, Decaying and Vanishing!
At Savatthi The Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, the eye is impermanent! What is impermanent is suffering!
What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self should be seen as it really is
with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus:
This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self...
The ear is impermanent.... The nose is impermanent....
The tongue is impermanent.... The body is impermanent....
The mind is impermanent. What is impermanent is ultimately suffering...
What is suffering is no-self. What is no-self should be seen as it really is
with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus:
This is neither me, nor mine, this I am not, this is not my self!
Seeing this, bhikkhus, any educated Noble Disciple is disgusted with
the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body, and with the mind...
The experience of this disgust, brings disillusion and disenchantment!
Through this disillusion, the mind is all released! When it is liberated,
then there appears this assurance: "This mind is irreversibly freed" and
one instantly understands: Rebirth is now ended, this Noble Life is fully
concluded, done is what should be done, there is no state beyond this...
More on impermanence, inconstancy, & transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. IV 1-2
The group on the 6 Senses 35:1 The Internal as Impermanent...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
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Nothing Here Escapes Decay!
Internal Transience!
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Mental Purification induces pure Happiness!
The purpose of purification of Morality is purification of Mentality!
The purpose of purification of Mind is the purification of Understanding!
The purpose of purification of Understanding is the overcoming of Doubt!
The purpose of overcoming Doubt is knowing what to do & what not to do!
The purpose of knowing what to do & not do is purification of the Method!
The purpose of purification of the Method is purity of Knowledge & Vision!
The purpose of purification of Knowledge & Vision is Release of all clinging!
The purpose of Relinquishing all clinging is the only Supreme Bliss: Nibbana...
More on Purification (Visuddhi):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mental_Purity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ability_Purification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_7_Purifications.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Immaculate_Integrity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/visuddhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_8_Understandings.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Levels_of_Leaving_Behind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_stages_of_Purification.htm
Source:
The Middle Length Sayings of the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya. Sutta 24 Relays.
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/majjhima/index.html
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What is your Mission here?
The Purpose of Purification is Happiness!
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There are 3 Mental Fermentations (Âsavas):
The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, there are 3 mental fermentations.
What are these three mental concoctions?
1: The mental Fermentation joined with Sensuality..
2: The mental Fermentation linked with Becoming..
3: The mental Fermentation associated with Ignorance..
These are the three mental fermentations.
The Noble 8-fold Way is to be developed for the direct experience of these
three fermentations, for the full understanding of them, for their complete
elimination, and for their final overcoming, abandoning and leaving all behind...
Comments:
1: The mental fermentation (asava) linked with sensuality is the false assumption,
that sensing always brings pleasure, while actually sensing also is associated with
pain and also neutral feeling, which is far the most common!
2: The mental fermentation associated with becoming is like the banal yet common
wishing: May I become rich, beautiful, and famous, not noticing that any becoming
inevitably is associated with change, decay, death and thus suffering too!
3: The mental Fermentation associated with ignorance is the misconceptions we
make by inaccurate approximation, undue generalization and over-projection:
Ex: We make the observation: The horizon is linear. Then we assume, project and
simplify by conceptual generalization: 'The earth must be flat', which is a false
mentally ‘brewed=fermented’ misconception… For quite a while many would chop
off your head, if you suggested anything else, than that screaming error…
During biological fermentation sugar, water and yeast ferments into alcohol...
The alcohol was not there to begin with... It was made up by the fermentation!
During mental fermentation observations, mixed with ideas and assumptions
ferments into a misconception, that was not there in the raw observation data...
The misconception 'pancake earth' is not to be seen in an (almost) flat horizon!
This 'pancake round disc earth' concept is a false idea fermented and invented
by the mind desperately trying to predict the relations between what it sees...
For Details on the 3 or 4 Mental Fermentations (asava) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Final_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Uprooting_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Naturally_Radiant.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/aasava.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Proximate_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_VI.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Freed_from_Fermentation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:56] section 45: The Way. 163: The fermentations ...
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Mind Misconstrues & Misconceives, and thus Misunderstands...
The 3 Mental Fermentations...
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What is the Noble Life leading to Nibbâna?
A certain Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, the Noble Life, the Noble Life, is it often said…
What, Sir, is this Noble Life? And what is the final goal of this Noble Life?
This Noble 8-fold Way, Bhikkhu, is the Noble Life; namely:
Right View (samma-ditthi)
Right Motivation (samma-sankappa)
Right Speech (samma-vaca)
Right Action (samma-kammanta)
Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva)
Right Effort (samma-vayama)
Right Awareness (samma-sati)
Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)
The destruction of Greed, the destruction of Hate, and the destruction
of Ignorance: This is the final goal of the Noble Life…
Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Fulfilled_First_.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Noble_8_fold_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_3-fold_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Failed_by_Neglect.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Noble_8-Fold_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fruits_of_the_Noble_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_Cease_Suffering.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book V [7-8] section 45:6 A certain Bhikkhu ...
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There is a Good Way :-)
The Noble Life!
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Seeing the 5 Clusters of Clinging as Alien:
The blessed Buddha once asked:
What do you think, Bhikkhus & friends, is form, feeling, perception
mental constructions, and consciousness permanent or impermanent?
Impermanent, Venerable Sir.
Is what is impermanent suffering or happiness? Suffering, Venerable Sir..
Is what is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change fit to be regarded
thus: "This is mine, this I am, this is my self"? No, Venerable Sir...!
Therefore, Bhikkhus & friends, any kind of form whatsoever, any kind of
feeling whatsoever, any kind of perception whatsoever, any kind of mental
constructions whatsoever, & any kind of consciousness whatsoever, whether
past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or fine, high or low, far or
near, all this should be seen as it really is with true understanding thus:
This is not mine, this is not me, this I am not, this is not my or any self...
Seeing thus, bhikkhus & friends, the learned Noble Disciple experiences
revulsion towards any form, towards any feeling, towards any perception,
revulsion towards all mental constructions, revulsion towards all consciousness.
While experiencing this revulsion, he becomes disillusioned and detached.
Through this detaching disillusion his mind is released. When it is released
there emerges this assurance: This mind is irreversibly released.
He then understands: Destroyed is any new rebirth, this Noble life has been
fully completed, what had to be done is done, there is no state beyond this...
More on impermanence, inconstancy, & transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli):
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 24:71 III 223
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Just Transient Formations...
Never returning all states pass!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
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How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?
Poya is the full-moon of Poson (June), which is specially noteworthy to the Sri Lankan
Buddhists as the day on which Emperor Asoka's son, the Arahat Mahinda, officially
introduced Buddhism to the island in the 3rd century B.C. Accordingly, in addition to
the normal ritualistic observances undertaken on a Poya day, on Poson day devotees
flock to Mihintale & Anuradhapura, the ancient holy capital city of the country, for
it was there that Arahat Mahinda converted the then ruler, King Devanampiya Tissa,
and his court to Buddhism, thereby setting in motion a series of events that finally
made Sri Lanka the stronghold home of Theravada Buddhism.
Essays about the significance of Poson Poya Days in Theravada Buddhism:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_Day.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_artikel1.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_artikel2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_artikel3.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_artikel4.htm
On such Uposatha 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 and
head touch the floor. Then, with joined palms in front of the heart,
one recite 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!
This is the very start on the path towards Nibbana -the Deathless Element-
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Bliss, 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 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..." signed with name, date, town & country
to me or join here. A public list of this new Saddhamma-Sangha is here!
The New Noble Community of Disciples: The Saddhamma Sangha:
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Join Here:
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May your journey hereby be eased, light, swift and sweet. Never give up!
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Arahat Mahinda arrives at Mihintale!
Today is Poson Poya day!
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No Identical Identity Exists neither Internally, nor Externally!
At the time of Buddha Gotama Ven. Khemaka spoke thus:
I do not regard any form as 'This I Am' or 'I am' as if 'inside' any form, nor
do I regard 'This I Am' as 'apart from' any form or as if 'outside' any form!
I do not regard any feeling, perception or mental construction as 'This I Am'
or 'I am' as if 'inside' any feeling, perception or mental construction, nor do
I regard 'This I Am' as 'apart from' any feeling, perception or mentally made
construction or as if 'outside' any feeling, perception or mental construction!
I do not regard any consciousness as 'This I Am' or 'I am' as if 'inside' any
consciousness, nor do I regard 'This I Am' as 'apart from' any consciousness
or as if 'outside' any consciousness ... !!!
Yet, although this notion, this conception, this assuming, this conceiving, this
imagination, this mental fermentation, this false reference 'I Am' has not yet
vanished in me, still I do not consider anything neither internal, nor external,
neither among these five clusters, nor apart from the five clusters as: "Mine",
nor as "This I Am", nor as "This is My Self"... !!!
When a Noble Disciple keeps contemplating the momentary arising & ceasing,
the change, the becoming otherwise, the decay, fading & vanishing, and the
conditioned & dependent emergence of these five clusters of clinging, then
the subtle residual desire for 'identification', the remaining 'Ego'-conceit, &
the lingering & latent tendency to suppose 'I Am', not yet eliminated comes to
be uprooted! Thereby do the toxic traces of destructive Egoism all evaporate..
This - in itself - is release, is relinquishment, is liberation, is final freedom!
More on Anti-Egoism:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/I-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No_Agent_is_Inside.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Solo_Self-Deception.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Reference.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Selfless_and_Harmless.htm
Khemaka Thera: An Arahat. Once, when he lay very ill at the Badarikarama,
near Kosambi, some monks, staying at the Ghositarama, sent Dasaka, with a
message to Khemaka, inquiring whether he managed to bear his pains.
Dasaka returned with the reply that he did not; he was sent again to ask if
Khemaka had seen the self in the five khandhas; when Dasaka returned with
the answer that he had not, he was sent a third time to ask whether Khemaka
was an arahant. "No," came the answer, and Dasaka had to visit him a fourth
time with the inquiry, What did Khemaka mean by self?
In exasperation Khemaka came himself to Ghositarama and explained how,
even when the Noble Disciple has put away the five lower fetters, there still
clings to him a subtle remnant of the "I" conceit. As a result of this radical
sermon Khemaka himself and sixty others became Arahats right on the spot...!
Source of inspiration:
This Elder Lion Ven. Khemaka thereby Awakened 60 Theras & himself!
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III 127-32
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A Same 'I'-dentical Self is Not...
Uprooting Egoism!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Uprooting_Egoism.htm
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Contact is a Meeting of 3 Phenomena!
The blessed Buddha once defined sense Contact (phassa) like this:
In dependence the eye and forms, visual consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is eye contact.
In dependence the ear and sounds, auditory consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is ear contact.
In dependence the nose and odours, olfactory consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is nose contact.
In dependence the tongue and flavours, gustatory consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is tongue contact.
In dependence the body and touches, tactile consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is body contact.
In dependence the mind and thoughts, mental consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is mind contact.
Conditioned by Contact, feeling comes into being.
Conditioned by feeling, craving arises.
Conditioned by craving, clinging emerges.
Conditioned by clinging, becoming appears.
Conditioned by becoming, rebirth happens.
Conditioned by birth, ageing, sickness and death arrive!
Such is this conditioned origin of that whole accumulation of suffering...!
Conditioned by Contact, feeling arises. But by the complete stilling, fading
all away and ceasing of that very same craving, comes the instantaneous
cessation of clinging! The ending of clinging ceases becoming.
The ending of becoming ceases any future rebirth.
The ending of birth ceases ageing, sickness, death, sorrow, pain and panic!
That is the conditioned ceasing of this entire massive bulk of suffering...!
On Contact (Phassa):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/In_Dependence_on_Contact.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Dependent_on_Contact.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/phassa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Diversity_of_Contacts.htm
Source (edited excerpt):
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book II 74-5
The section on Causation 12. Thread on Natika: 45.
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Contact Causes Craving!
What is Contact?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Contact.htm
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The Absolute and Ultimate Release Beyond!
A wandering friend once asked the Great Disciple:
Friend Sariputta, Nibbana, Nibbana is it said! What is this Nibbana?
The destruction of Greed, the destruction of Hate, and the destruction of
Ignorance! This, friend, is called Nibbana …
But, friend, is there a method, is there a way to reach this Nibbana?
There is indeed a method, friend, there is indeed a way to reach Nibbana!
What, friend, is then this method, what is then that way to reach Nibbana?
It is, friend, simply the completion of this Noble 8-fold Way, namely:
Right View (samma-ditthi)
Right Motivation (samma-sankappa)
Right Speech (samma-vaca)
Right Action (samma-kammanta)
Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva)
Right Effort (samma-vayama)
Right Awareness (samma-sati)
Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)
This is undeniably the very method, friend, the only way to reach Nibbana!
Oh excellent is this unique method, exquisite is this way to reach Nibbana!
This –in itself- is enough for me, friend Sariputta, to begin the endeavour!
More on Nibbana: A Quenched State of Maximum Peace, Freedom, and Bliss:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Reaching_Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Entrance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Nibbana_Still.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Enter.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Uncreated.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Proximate_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Unborn_State.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Nibbana_or_non-return.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Nibbana_True_Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/nibbaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Signless_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [251]
section 38:1 Questions on Nibbana ...
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What is Nibbãna?
Absolute Peace, Ultimate Freedom, and Supreme Bliss!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Nibbana.htm
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Real Progress is gaining Real Freedom!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, growing in five areas of progress, the Noble Disciple attains a
Noble growth, and acquires the essence, acquires the best, one possibly can
in this bodily existence! What are these 5 areas:
1: One grows in Faith,
2: One grows in Morality,
3: One grows in Learning,
4: One grows in Generosity,
5: One grows in Understanding.
Developing in these five areas of progress, a noble disciple grows with a Noble
Progress, and acquires the very core essence, acquires the optimal advantage,
of this bodily existence. When one grows here in Faith and Morality, in Wisdom,
Liberality, and Learning, the virtuous lay disciple acquires right here the very
quintessence of all what is advantageous!
More on Purification (Visuddhi):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mental_Purity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ability_Purification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_7_Purifications.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Immaculate_Integrity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/visuddhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_8_Understandings.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Levels_of_Leaving_Behind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_purpose_of_purification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_stages_of_Purification.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [250]
section 37:34 On growth ...
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What is Progress?
Real Progress is more Mental Freedom!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Progress.htm
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What is the Buddhist 3rd Precept?
The 3rd Precept: One accepts the training rule of avoiding All Sexual Abuse.
One should cause No Pain to others or oneself in one's search for pleasure!
Avoiding sexual abuse is thus an essential core component of harmlessness!
Specifically:
One should not mate sexually with another's partner.
One should not mate sexually with anyone engaged or married to another.
One should not mate sexually with minors < 16-18 years of age.
One should not mate sexually with those imprisoned, forced or under the law.
One should not mate sexually with those protected by family or teachers.
kamesu-micchacara: lit. 'wrong or evil conduct with regard to sensual things';
Unlawful sexual contact refers to adultery, and to intercourse with minors
or other persons under guardianship. The abstaining from this unlawful act is
one of the 5 moral training rules (sikkhapada) binding upon all Buddhists.
Any sexual act transgressing this rule will inevitably cause suffering later...
The monk, however, has to observe perfect chastity by living fully celibate
even without any masturbation. In many Suttas (e.g. A.X., 176) we find the
following explanation:
He avoids unlawful sexual intercourse, abstains from it. He has no intercourse
with girls who are still under the protection of father or mother, brother,
sister or relatives, nor with married women, nor female convicts, nor, lastly,
with betrothed girls. Source: the Buddhist Dictionary:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Buddhist.Dictionary/index_dict.n2.htm
"Illicit sexual behavior, when indulged in, developed, & pursued, is something
that leads to hell, leads to rebirth as a common animal, leads to the realm of
the hungry ghosts. The slightest of all the results coming from illicit sexual
behavior is future rivalry and revenge, when one becomes a human being.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/anguttara/an08-040.html
"Furthermore, abandoning illicit sex, the disciple of the noble ones abstains
from illicit sex. In doing so, he gives freedom from danger, from animosity,
freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings. In giving freedom
from danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless
numbers of beings, he gains a fair share of limitless freedom from danger,
freedom from animosity, and freedom from oppression. This is the 3rd gift!
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/anguttara/an08-039.html
Furthermore: Ignoring, hiding or not informing about own STD:
Knowingly engaging in a sexual contact that puts another being in danger
of getting a sexually transmitted disease, which later may make this being
suffer and maybe even be potentially lethal (HIV/AIDS) is also not only sexual
abuse in the Buddhist sense, but also illegal and forbidden by law and thus
legally punishable in most countries today.
More on The 5 Basic Precepts: The 5 Training rules (Sikkhapada).
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Mighty_is_Morality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Five_Basics.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_Buddhist_Praxis.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/sangha/Refuges_and_Precepts.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sikkhaa_pada.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Buddhist_Life_Standards_Law_3.htm
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Be harmless also when seeking pleasure!
What is Sexual Abuse?
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What are the primary Components of Suffering?
At Savatthi. While seated, the Venerable Radha asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, one says: Mara, Mara! What, Venerable Sir, is Mara?
Form, Radha, is suffering, feeling is suffering, perception is suffering,
mental constructions are suffering, consciousness is suffering... !
Radha, you should abandon desire, you should abandon lust, you should cease
all desire and all lust, for whatever is a state of Mara ...
for whatever is impermanent ... for whatever is of an impermanent nature ...
for whatever is suffering ... for whatever is of a painful nature ...
for whatever is non-self ... for whatever is of a selfless nature ...
for whatever is a state of destruction ... for whatever is a state of vanishing ...
for what-ever is a state of arising ... for whatever is of a nature to cease!
And what, Radha, is of a nature to cease?
All form is of a nature to cease...
All feeling is of a nature to cease...
All perception is of a nature to cease...
All mental constructions are of a nature to cease...
All consciousness is of a nature to cease...
Understanding this, Bhikkhu, a well instructed Noble Disciple experiences
disgust towards form, disgust towards feeling, disgust towards perception,
disgust towards mental construction, & disgust towards consciousness itself!
Experiencing disgust, he becomes disillusioned! Through disillusion his mind
is released. When it is released, he instantly knows: This mind is liberated,
and he understands: Extinguished is rebirth, this Noble Life is all completed,
done is what should be done, there is no state of being beyond this...
SN 23 24-34 III 199
See also how Buddha explains Radha how to smash, scatter, & demolish being:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn23/sn23.002.than.html
More on Suffering = Dukkha
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Source_of_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Origin_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Suffering_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 23:24-34 III 199
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Du = Bad, Kha = State, Duk+kha = Literally "Bad State"!
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What is Suffering?
Whatever is of an impermanent nature!
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Released by Disengaged Non-identification!
At Savatthi The Buddha once said:
All form is transient, all feeling is transient, all perception is transient,
all mental constructions are transient, all consciousness is transient...
This transience is suffering! What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self
should be seen as it really is with correct understanding in this very way:
'All this is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self!'...
When one sees and understands this thus, as it really is with correct and
penetrating understanding, then one maintains no views on what is past.
When one maintains no more views regarding the past, then one neither
maintains any views about the future. When one has relinquished all views
about the future, then one is not being possessed by stubborn clinging...
Having no trace of immovable clinging left, the mind becomes disillusioned
regarding all form, all feeling, all perception, all mental constructions, and
all consciousness. By that it is released from the 3 mental fermentations
through detached non-clinging... By being released, the mind is all silenced!
By being thus stilled, the mind becomes content... Being content, it is not
agitated anymore... Being thus unagitated, one indeed attains Nibbana!
Right there and then, one instantly understands: Ended is this process of
rebirth, this Noble Life has been lived, done is all what had to be done,
there is no state beyond this...
More on this nicely ballanced Equanimity (Upekkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_is_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Serene_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Exquisite_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Empty_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Equanimity_Upekkha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unshakable_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Serene_Equanimity_and_Beyond.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/tatra_majjhattataa.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III 55-58
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
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Without Agitation…
Equanimity ballances out the extreme states...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm
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The Buddha on Goodness:
Train yourself in doing only pure good,
Since that lasts & brings great happiness!
Cultivate generosity, peaceful simple living,
and a mentality of infinite friendliness... _/\_
Itivuttaka 16
Who is hospitable, open, straight & friendly,
Generous, gentle and always unselfish,
A guide, an instructor, a true leader,
Such one may great honour gain...
Digha Nikaya 31
For one who deliberately and fully attentive,
Develops and expands Universal Friendliness
Experiencing the fading away of clinging,
All his chains are worn down thereby!
Itivuttaka 27
With good-will for the entire cosmos,
Cultivate a limitless heart and mind:
Beaming above, below, and all around,
Unobstructed, without trace of hostility.
Sutta Nipata I, 8
May all creatures, all breathing & living things,
All beings, one and all, without any exception,
Experience the good fortune of Happiness!
May they not fall into any harm...
Anguttara Nikaya II, 72
More on this Infinite, Elevating and Protecting Goodwill:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Blazing_Goodwill.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Genuine_Goodwill.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Goodwill_Encore.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Released_by_GoodWill.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Grace_of_Goodwill.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unsurpassable_Radiance.htm
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Cosmic Goodness!
Both Elevating and Protecting is Goodwill... :-)
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Cosmic_Goodness.htm
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What are the causes of a Good Future?
Bodily Morality is:
Not Killing…
Not Stealing…
Not Abusing the Senses =
No Adultery!
No Alcohol!
No Drugs!
No Overeating!
No Porn!
Verbal Morality:
Not Lying…
Not Scolding…
Not Slandering…
Not Gossiping…
Mental Morality:
Not Wanting…
Not Hating…
Not maintaining any Wrong Views…
These are the causes of Future Good, Pleasure, Happiness and Success…
More on this basic first cause of all Good: Morality (Sila)!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sila_1_to_5.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Happy_Habit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Virtue.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Best_Protection.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Five_Basics.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_Buddhist_Praxis.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sila_Contemplation.htm
Source: The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga.
Written by 'the great explainer' Ven. Buddhaghosa in 5th century AC.
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What is Virtue?
How to Make a Good Future!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Virtue.htm
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Ballanced Energy is neither Lazy, nor Restless!
Laziness overcomes one strong in concentration and weak in energy,
since concentration favours idle inaction...
Agitation and restlessness overpowers one strong in energy and weak
in concentration, because energy stimulate agitation...
But concentration coupled & ballanced with energy cannot lapse into laziness,
& energy coupled & ballanced with concentration cannot provoke restlessness...
Therefore should these two abilities be ballanced, since excellence of effort
and mental absorption arises out of the even ballancing of the mental abilities.
For a full Study on Energy (Viriya): The root Hero of all Success:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Definition_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Arising_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Ability_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Origin_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Enthusiastic_is_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Power_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Ballanced_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Chief_Hero.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energetic_Effort.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Avoiding_Effort.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Dual_Energy.htm
Source:
The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga by Buddhaghosa 5th century AC.
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Ballanced Energy...
Ballanced Energy is neither Lazy, nor Restless!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Ballanced_Energy.htm
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The Layman's Way to Happiness:
By Prof. Lily de Silva, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Life in the modern age has become particularly trying and problematic.
Though it remains a fact that the standard of living has generally improved,
man is still suffering immensely under the weight of present-day living.
The physical condition of man has been reduced to such a pathetic level that
he succumbs to untimely death by killer diseases such as cancer, heart failure,
diabetes, etc. to an unprecedented degree. Mentally, he is so tension-ridden
that he has forgotten the art of relaxing, and he cannot even enjoy sound
sleep without the aid of tranquilizers. In this set up interpersonal relations
have become so brittle and vulnerable that the divorce rate has indeed become
alarmingly high, thus letting loose a whole series of other social problems such
as uncared-for children, juvenile delinquency, suicide, etc. Thus life has become
a problematic burden and a solution to make life more tolerable and enjoyable
is a great and pressing need.
As the word of the Buddha is of everlasting value and universal applicability,
and as the Buddha preached not only to monks and nuns but also to the lay
public as well, it is useful to find a teaching of the Buddha which is relevant
to our present-day problems:
In the Pattakammavagga of the Anguttara Nikaya (A II, 69) the Buddha
preached a sutta to Anathapindika on the fourfold pleasures of a layman.
It is our considered opinion that this sutta offers adequate insight to meet
the demands of the present-day problems as well. The four types of pleasure
listed there are:
1: Atthisukha, the pleasure of having material wealth;
2: Bhogasukha, the pleasure of enjoying material wealth;
3: Ananasukha, the pleasure of being debtless; and
4: Anavajjaskha, the pleasure of being blameless.
Let us take these for discussion one by one and see how these four sources
of pleasure can be harnessed for living a happy life in the present-day world.
Atthisukha — Man should not only have a righteous means of living, avoiding
blameworthy trades such as dealing in meat, liquor, poison, firearms & slavery,
he should also entertain a wholesome attitude towards his right occupation.
Again one could have great wealth, but if
one does not experience a sense of contentment with what one has, one cannot
really enjoy atthisukha or the pleasure of having. The amassing of wealth of
such a person is like trying to fill a bottomless vessel. This is one of the widely
spread maladies we see in the present-day society. Inordinate expansion of
wealth becomes a source not of happiness, but of greed, anxiety, and envy.
Such wealth exposes the possessor to the jealousies and manoeuvres of other
unscrupulous individuals, hence the occurrence of blackmailing and kidnapping
from time to time. But if one does have a correct means of earning one's living
and the correct attitude to wealth, one can escape many of the hazards which
money brings in its wake to modern man...
If we truly understand the sound significance of these 4 kinds of happiness
elucidated in our sutta, and translate them into action, then our life will be
much more pleasant, easy and happy even in this modern age.
Full Source text: AN 4.62 PTS: A ii 69 Anana Sutta: Debtless
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.062.than.html
More on this Happiness, pleasure,(Sukha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Happy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Samana-Sukha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Buddha_on_Bliss.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mental_Medicine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Untroubled_Yeah.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sukha.htm
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With neither Debt, nor Regret...
The Layman's Happiness!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_Laymans_Happiness.htm
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How is Release by Friendliness Achieved?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
And how, Bhikkhus, is the mental release by universal friendliness
achieved? What does this liberation have as its destination, what is
its culmination, what is its sweet fruit, what is the final goal of such
mental release by universal friendliness?
Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading the frontal quadrant,
with a mind imbued with infinite friendliness, so the second quarter,
the third quarter, and the fourth quarter. Thus above, below, across,
and everywhere, and to all beings as to himself, he dwells pervading
the entire universe with a mind saturated with unlimited friendliness,
immense, exalted, vast, measureless, without hostility, without enmity,
without any ill will! Thus prepared and expanded he then develops:
1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with limitless friendliness.
2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such friendliness.
3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with infinite friendliness.
4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with absolute friendliness.
5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with open friendliness.
6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with friendliness.
7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with endless friendliness.
Based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
If he then wishes:
May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in the unrepulsive & tempting,
then he can dwell experiencing the repulsive therein. If he wishes:
May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in the disgusting repulsive,
then he dwells experiencing the unrepulsive in whatever disgusting!
If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in what is both
unrepulsive & repulsive, he dwells experiencing repulsive disgust in it.
If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in what is both
unrepulsive & repulsive, he experiences only unrepulsive beauty by it!
If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive and the unrepulsive, may I
dwell in equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending, then he
dwells in equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending. Or else
he enters and dwells in the mental deliverance by the beautiful...
I tell you Bhikkhus for a wise Bhikkhu here who has not penetrated
to an even more superior mental release, this release of mind by pure
infinite friendliness has the beautiful deliverance as its culmination!
More on the 7 links to Awakening (bojjhanga):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Investigation_Vicaya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Joy_Piti.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Concentration_Samadhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Equanimity_Upekkha.htm
Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness...
Deliverance can be induced by friendliness :-)
The Beautiful Release!
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How is Release by Infinite Pity Achieved?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
And how, Bhikkhus, is the mental release by universal pity achieved?
What does this liberation have as its destination, what is its culmination,
what is its sweet fruit, and what is the goal of release by universal pity?
Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading the frontal quadrant with a
mind imbued with infinite pity, so the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter. As above,
so below, across, and everywhere! To all beings and to himself, he dwells
pervading the entire universe with a mind saturated with unlimited pity,
immense, exalted, vast, measureless, without hostility, without enmity,
without any trace of ill will! Thus prepared & expanded he then develops:
1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with this limitless pity.
2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such vast pity.
3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with this infinite pity.
4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with this absolute pity.
5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with this spacious pity.
6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with this great pity.
7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with this endless pity.
While based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release.
If he then wishes:
May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in the unrepulsive and tempting,
then he can dwell experiencing the repulsive therein. If he wishes:
May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in the disgusting and repulsive,
then he dwells experiencing pleasing beauty in whatever is disgusting!
If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in what is both
unrepulsive and repulsive, he dwells experiencing repulsive disgust in it.
If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in what is both
unrepulsive and repulsive, he experiences only excessive beauty in it!
If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive and the unrepulsive, may I dwell
in equanimity, just aware & clearly comprehending, then he dwells in this
equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending. Or else, by completely
transcending of all experience of form, fully stilling any perception of all
sense-reaction, non attending to any experience of diversity, only aware
that space is infinite, he enters and dwells in the infinitude of space...
I tell you Bhikkhus, for a wise Bhikkhu here, who has not yet penetrated
to an even more superior mental release, this release of mind by infinite
pity has the sublime sphere of the infinitude of space as its culmination!
On this infinite Pity (maha-karuna):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Endless_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Karuna_is_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Compassionate_Pity.htm
On these 7 Links to Awakening (Sambojjhanga):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Sun.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Peak.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Clothes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Rare_Emergence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sequential_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Vast_Penetration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Fruits.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Unsurpassable_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/When_7_becomes_14.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness...
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Infinite Pity!
Pity can open a mental infinitude of space!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Space_Compassion.htm
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Origination & Cessation of the 4 Reference Objects:
The Blessed Buddha once said: I will teach you the origination and passing
away of the reference objects of the Four Foundations of Awareness.
Listen to that:
Appearance of Nutriment produces the emergence of the Body.
Disappearance of Nutriment produces the passing away of the Body.
Appearance of Contact produces the emergence of Feeling.
Disappearance of Contact produces the passing away of Feeling.
Appearance of Name-&-Form produces the emergence of Mind.
Disappearance of Name-&-Form produces the passing away of Mind.
Appearance of Attention produces the emergence of Phenomena.
Disappearance of Attention produces the passing away of Phenomena.
Therefore: Considering, contemplating, analyzing, and always recollecting:
Body merely as transient forms grown on and out of Food;
Feeling only as passing emotions arised from Contact;
Mind just as changing moods emerged from Naming-and-Forming;
Phenomena only as momentary mental states created by Attention...
repeatedly, thoroughly, and completely, is called initiating & developing the
Four Foundations of Awareness, which - in itself - is the mental treasure
par excellence, leading steadily and straight to the Deathless Element...
Deep, deep, subtle and somewhat enigmatic is this profound classification!
Details On 4 Foundations of Awareness (Sati):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
Everything has a Cause: Conditioned Origination and Cessation:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Profound_Causality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Collapsible_Co-Cessation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dependent_Origination.htm
Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 184-5] 47 The Foundations of Awareness: 42 Origination..
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Everything has a Cause!
Emergence and Cessation!
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How to reach the Ease and Peace of Ceasing?
At Savatthi, the Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, when the experience of stilling, ending, stopping, and ceasing
is developed and cultivated, then it is of great fruit and immense benefit!
It leads to great good, it leads to great security from bondage, it leads
to a great sense of urgency, it leads to living in fearless ease and comfort!
How, Bhikkhus, is the experience of ceasing developed and cultivated, so
that it is of great fruit and benefit? Here, the Bhikkhu systematically
develops the:
1: The Awareness Link to Awakening, joined with the experience of ceasing.
2: The Investigation of states Link to Awakening, while examining full stilling.
3: The Energy Link to Awakening, perceiving an ultimate ending of all activity.
4: The Joy Link to Awakening, while laughing at the complete cessation of all.
5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening, accompanied by calm & serene silencing.
6: The Concentration Link to Awakening, focused on fading away of all states.
7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening, indifferent even at the final stopping,
while being based upon seclusion, disillusion, halting, and maturing in release...
It is in this very way that the experience of stilling and ceasing into peace
is developed and cultivated, so that it is of great advantage, great benefit,
great good, great security from bondage, great sense of urgency, and
living in the great ease of calmed, fearless and imperturbable comfort!
Bhikkhus, when the perception of ceasing is developed and cultivated
in this way fused and enhanced by the Seven Links to Awakening, one of
two fruits is to be expected: Either final knowledge in this very life or,
if there is a remaining residue of clinging, the state of non-returning...
Comments:
Ceasing is Bliss... Ceasing of What? Ceasing of the internal , yet infernal
Fire of Greed, Fire of Hate, and Fire of Ignorance and their derivatives!
More on Ceasing (Nirodha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/9_Stillings.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Stilled_but_not_Dead.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Ceasing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/nirodha_samaapatti.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:133-4] section 46: The Links. 76: Cessation...
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Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Ceasing is Bliss!
The Stilling the Fire of Greed, Hate and Ignorance...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Ceasing.htm
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The 7 Links to Awakening lead to Enlightenment!
A not very well known Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, 'The 7 Links to Awakening, The 7 Links to Awakening' is it
always said. In what way are they called Links to Awakening?
They lead to Enlightenment, friend, it is therefore they indeed are called
Links to Awakening. Here, Bhikkhu, when one trains, cultivates and refines:
1: The Awareness Link to Awakening: sati-sambojjhanga.
2: The Investigation Link to Awakening: dhammavicaya-sambojjhanga.
3: The Energy Link to Awakening: viriya-sambojjhanga.
4: The Joy Link to Awakening: piti-sambojjhanga.
5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening: passaddhi-sambojjhanga.
6: The Concentration Link to Awakening: samadhi-sambojjhanga.
7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening: upekkha-sambojjhanga.
based upon seclusion, disillusion, and ceasing, maturing & culminating in release,
then these Seven Links to Awakening, becomes Noble and liberating. They lead
any one who trains them all out, they lead to utter revulsion, to intense disgust,
to dispassion, to cessation of craving and greed, to peace, to direct knowledge,
to complete destruction of suffering. They lead to Enlightenment, to Nibbana...
On the 7 Links to Awakening (Sambojjhanga):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Sun.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Peak.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Clothes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Rare_Emergence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sequential_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Vast_Penetration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Fruits.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Unsurpassable_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/When_7_becomes_14.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Leading_to_Enlightenment.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Links_to_Awakening.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Cause_of_Knowledge_and_Vision.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Meaning_of_the-7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 82-83]
section 46: The Links.19-21: Noble Revulsion leads to Enlightenment....
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Inducing Enlightenment!
The 7 Links to Awakening lead to Enlightenment!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Leading_to_Enlightenment.htm