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[color=#800000]The Blessed Buddha once said: Kayamunim vacamunim, manomunimanasavam, munim moneyyasampannam. Ahu ninhatapapakam.
Silent in body, silent in speech, silent in mind, without agitation, blessed with silence is the sage. Such One is truly washed of evil. Itivuttaka 3.67
SILENCED If silent as a broken bell, such one is close to Nibbana, and far away from arrogance. Dhammapada 134
All is by Nature inherently & inevitably Decaying & Vanishing!
At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said: Bhikkhus, All is by nature subject to birth... All is by nature subject to ageing... All is by nature subject to decay & sickness... All is by nature subject to death... All is by nature subject to trouble... All is by nature subject to corruption... All is by nature subject to destruction... All is by nature subject to vanishing... All that is by nature subject to emergence, is also by nature subject to ceasing... And what, Bhikkhus, is this All, that is by nature subject to birth, ageing, decay, sickness, death, trouble, corruption, destruction, vanishing, ever arising & ceasing ? The Eye ... Forms ... Eye-consciousness ... Eye-contact... Whatever feeling arised caused by eye-contact, that is by nature subject to ever arising and ceasing... The Ear ... Sounds ... Auditory-consciousness ... Ear-contact... The Nose ... Smells ... Olfactory-consciousness ... Nose-contact... The Tongue ... Tastes ... Gustatory-consciousness ... Tongue-contact... The Body ... Touches ... Tactile-consciousness ... Body-contact... The Mind ... Thoughts ... Mental-consciousness ... Mind-contact... & whatever feeling arised caused any contact, that is by nature subject to ever arising and ceasing... Understanding this, the intelligent noble disciple becomes disgusted with this All ... Being thus disgusted produces disillusion... This disillusion induces a mental release! When detached, the mind remains unagitated! Being utterly imperturbable one attains Awakening right there & then instantly understands: This mind is irreversibly freed! Repeated rebirth is ended, this Noble Life is completed, done is what should be done, there is no state beyond, ever after or even surpassing this ...
Venerable Mahali once asked the Buddha: But, Venerable Sir, what is the causing condition of mental defilement? By what reason, do beings become mentally defiled and degraded? The Buddha then explained: If, Mahali, this form, this feeling, this perception, this construction and this consciousness were exclusively suffering, immersed only in frustration, soaked solely in trouble and if it were not also sometimes soaked in pleasure, beings would not become enamoured with it. But since this form, this feeling, perception, construction & this consciousness is also occasionally pleasurable, immersed now and then in pleasure, soaked momentarily in delight & it is not soaked only & always in pain, beings become enamoured & enthralled with it! By being enamoured with it, they are captivated by it and obsessed with it... By being captivated by it and obsessed with it, they are defiled & degraded! This, Mahali, is the causing condition for the mental defilement of beings... By this reason, do beings become mentally defiled & detrimentally degraded!
Mental Defilement veils the light of the mind by obscuring it!
But, Venerable Sir, what is the causing condition of mental purification? By what reason, do beings become mentally purified & released? The Buddha then explained: If, Mahali, this form, this feeling, this perception, this construction & this consciousness were exclusively pleasurable, immersed only in pleasure, soaked solely in satisfaction, and if it were not also quite soaked in suffering, beings would not become disgusted with it. But because form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness is also pain, immersed in distress, soaked in agony, and it is not soaked only in pleasure, beings are disgusted with it. Being disgusted, they experience disillusion and through this disillusion, they are mentally purified! This, Mahali, is the causing condition for the mental purification of beings... By this reason, do beings become mentally purified and happily released!
1: One possessed by Greed, Desire, and Lust... 2: One possessed by Hate, Anger, and Aversion... 3: One possessed by Confusion, Doubt & Ignorance... 4: One possessed by Pride, Conceit, and Arrogance...
1: One who has learned little, but who does not act upon it... 2: One who has learned little, who does indeed act upon it... 3: One who has learned much, but who does not act upon it... 4: One who has learned much, who does indeed act upon it...
1: One drifting along with the stream, driven by craving... 2: One going against the stream of ordinary convention... 3: One remaining stuck in the middle of deep stagnation... 4: One who has reached the far shore and now dwells in fruition...
1: One who attains calm, but not insight... 2: One who attains insight, but not calm... 3: One who attains neither calm, nor insight... 4: One who attains both calm and insight...
1: The perfectly self-awakened Buddha... (Sammasambuddho) 2: The solitary self-awakened Buddha... (Paccekasambuddho ) 3: The one released both ways... (Ubhatobhagavimutto) 4: The one released by understanding... (Paññavimutto) 5: The body-witness of direct experience... (Kayasakkhi) 6: The view-winner of straight comprehension... (Ditthipattto) 7: The one released by faith... (Saddhavimutto) 8: The one guided by Dhamma... (Dhammanusari) 9: The one guided by faith... (Saddhanusari)
The Blessed Buddha once said: How, friends, is there non-agitation through detached release? Regarding this, friends, the educated normal person, who is a friend of a Noble One and who is clever and well trained in his Dhamma, or who is a friend of a Great Man and is clever and well trained in his Dhamma, avoids regarding form as self, he avoids regarding self as having form, he avoids regarding form as inside any self, or any self as inside any form! Then inevitably his body form changes and decays. When this change and decay of his material form occurs, his mind does not become occupied or obsessed with this change of just a form. Therefore does no agitated mental state, arised from worry over this changed merely physical body form, remain obsessing his mind ... Because his mind is not obsessed, then he is neither frightened, nor distressed, nor anxious, and by this detached non-clinging his inner agitation is all stilled! He does not regard feeling as self ... perception as self ... mental constructions as self ... consciousness as self, nor the self as possessing consciousness, nor as consciousness as being inside any self, nor any the self as being 'inside' any consciousness ... When his consciousness momentarily changes and alters, then his mind does not become engaged with this fast change of consciousness. Therefore does no agitated mental state, born of concern over this changed consciousness, remain obsessing his mind! Because his mind is neither obsessed, nor upset, nor troubled, nor uneasy with this or any other change whatsoever, then this aloof and detached non-clinging still, calm and evaporate all his prior agitations! It is exactly in this way, friends, that there is non-agitation caused by non-clinging.
Comment: If the 5 clusters of Clinging are no EGO, how can there ever be lost anything from such vacuum void! ;-) hihi:
The Blessed Buddha once explained: And what, Bhikkhus, is then this simple indifference of the flesh? There are these five strings of sense-pleasure. What five? Visible forms experienceable by the eye ... Hearable sounds experienceable by the ear ... Smellable odours experienceable by the nose ... Tastable flavours experienceable by the tongue ... Touchable objects experienceable by the body ... That all are attractive, captivating, desirable, irresistible, lovely, charming, tempting, pleasing, sensually enticing, seductive, alluring, and tantalizing! These are the 5 strings of sense-pleasure. The indifference that arises from these 5 strings of sense-pleasure when bored, is simply indifference of the flesh...
And what, Bhikkhus, is the equanimity, which is not of this world? With the leaving behind of both pleasure and pain, & with the prior fading away of both joy & sorrow, one enters & dwells in the 4th jhana absorption, which is an entirely stilled mental state of utter awareness, purified by the equanimity of neither-pain-nor-pleasure. This is called the equanimity, which is not of this world!
Finally, what is serenity beyond the equanimity, which is not of this world? When a bhikkhu, whose mental fermentations are eliminated, reviews his calmed mind, which is liberated from all lust, freed from all hatred, and released from uncertainty, then there arises a transcendental serenity... This is the serenity beyond that equanimity, which is not of this world!
The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, desire and lust for any form, for any feeling, for any perception, for any construction & for any consciousness is a corruption of the mind! Desire and lust for the earth element: All that is Solid... Desire and lust for the water element: All that is Fluid... Desire and lust for the fire element: All that is Hot... Desire and lust for the air element: All that is Moving... Desire and lust for the space element: All that is 3-Dimensional and Desire and lust for the consciousness element: All sense awareness itself, is a corruption of the mind! When a Bhikkhu has overcome and left all behind these mental corruptions, his mind seeks for inward withdrawal… A mind prepared and enhanced by such renunciation becomes wieldy, fit, focused and open for those subtle mental states, that are to be realized only by direct experience and assured knowledge...
At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said this: Bhikkhus, without directly knowing and completely comprehending The All, without being disgusted with it and leaving it all behind, one is incapable of irreversibly eliminating any suffering... Without directly knowing & completely comprehending the eye, forms, ear, sounds, nose, smells, tongue, tastes, body, touches, mind, ideas and all metal states, any consciousness all forms of contact and whatever kind of feeling arised caused by such sense-contacts, without becoming disgusted with it, without relinquishing it all, and without letting it all go, one is incapable of eradicating any suffering irreversibly... This, friends, is that All, which without directly knowing, without completely comprehending, without being disgusted by and without leaving, one remains incapable of eliminating all suffering...
Comments: The radical rationality of the Buddha-Dhamma here shines forth, wiping all empty babble away! Since what is suffering? The five Clusters of Clinging are suffering! Body, Feeling, Perception, Construction & Consciousness and thus also the 6 senses, their 6 objects, and the 6 kinds of consciousnesses, their 6 kinds of contact, and their 6 kinds of feeling are all suffering... Why is all that suffering? Because all that is inherently impermanent and thus always lost, decaying, and vanishing by itself right where it arised...
Clinging is an intense form of Craving. Craving is the Cause of Suffering!
Source (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [17-8] The 6 senses 35. Thread on Complete Comprehension: Parijanana Sutta (26) http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
The Blessed Buddha often noted contentment as the highest treasure: There is the case where a Bhikkhu is quite content with whatever old robe, quite content with whatever old almsfood, quite content with whatever hut, and quite content with whatever bitter medicine for curing sickness. This Dhamma is for one who is content, not for one who is discontent! Thus was it said. And with reference to exactly this salient contentment with whatever little one has, was this simple, serene modesty well spoken... AN VIII 30
Contentment with whatever little one has!
And how is a Bhikkhu content? Just as a bird, wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden, even so is he content with a single set of robes to protect his body and begged almsfood to pacify his hunger. Wherever he goes, he takes only these few simple necessities as robes, belt, bowl and razor along with him. This is how a Bhikkhu is content... DN 2
There is the case where a Bhikkhu is content with whatever old robe at all, with whatever old almsfood at all, with whatever old hut at all. He speaks in praise of being content with any old requisite at all. He does not, for the sake of any requisite, do anything unsuitable or inappropriate. When not getting any requisites, he is not troubled. When getting requisites, he just uses it without being attached to it. He is not obsessed, blameless, and seeing the drawbacks and dangers of possessions, he realizes the escape from them. He does not, on account of his contentment with any old requisite at all, exalt himself or disparage others. Thus is he modest, clever, energetic, alert, & acutely aware! This, Bhikkhus, is called a Bhikkhu standing quite firm in the ancient, original lineage of the Noble Ones... AN IV 28
Good are friends, when need arises. Good is contentment with just what one has. Good is merit done well, when life is at the end. Good is the elimination of all Suffering! Dhammapada 331
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly understands. Harmlessness is happiness in all worlds! Harmlessness towards all breathing beings. Udana 10
Therefore be capable, upright, and straight, easy to instruct, gentle, and not proud, content and easy to support with little, with few duties, living simple and light, with peaceful abilities, mastering all, modest, and with no greed for support. Do not do even a minor thing that the wise and noble would later criticize. Sutta Nipata I, 8
Only he is bright, who shines by himself! What is good, is really ... Good! What is excellent, is really ... Excellent! What is perfect, is really ... absolutely Perfect! A rose is a rose is a rose. ;-) And just that.
Canal makers direct the water. Arrow makers straighten the shafts. Carpenters plane the planks of wood. The Clever Nobles train their Mind... Dhammapada 80
Those who meditate regularly; Those who endure enthusiastically; Those who exert much right effort; These wise ones attain Nibbana: The supreme Peace, the sublime Bliss. Dhammapada 23
Health is the greatest gain! Contentment is the finest treasure! Certainty is the foremost helper! Nibbana is the highest Happiness... Dhammapada 204
Karuna is feeling the pain of other beings, either partially or completely;
Possible translations: 1: Pity not from above: “I am better”, but as if in the other being’s shoes… 2: Compassion is OK, but that is difficult to reach up to for many beings… 3: Fellow feeling, sympathy, empathy, understanding are all OK, but somewhat missing these essential points:
A: It is an inability to see and accept other being’s suffering and distress! B: It is a deep desire to make others feel free, glad, happy and peaceful! C: It is extended to and pervaded over many beings simultaneously…
The proximate cause of Karuna = pity is noticing other being’s helplessness . The immediate effect of Karuna = pity is evaporation of all evil cruelty!
The blessed Buddha once said: Mind precedes and initiates all phenomena! Mind is their chief, mind is their maker... When one speaks or performs an action with a mind, that is internally all pure, then happiness and pleasure follows, like a shadow that never departs... Dhammapada 1
Difficult to detect and very subtle, mind can seize and take up any object, so let any wise being guard the mind, for a guarded mind brings happiness... Dhammapada 36
Neither mother, nor father, nor any other family member can do greater good, both for oneself and for others as well, than the well directed & well controlled mind... Dhammapada 43
What is Mind? Mind is an ever repeating cycle sequence of: Contact1 => Feeling1 + Perception1 => Intention1 => Attention1 redirected => New Contact2 => Feeling2 + Perception2 => Intention2 => Attention2 => etc. Stilling this cycle produces Peace and Bliss! This serene Tranquillity is called: Nibbana!
Direct Experience of Development of the Noble 8-fold Way:
The Blessed Buddha once said: What, friends, should be fully understood by direct experience? The Five Clusters of Clinging. What five? The cluster of clinging to form... The cluster of clinging to feeling... The cluster of clinging to perception... The cluster of clinging to construction... The cluster of clinging to consciousness... These are the 5 things, which should be understood by direct experience!
What are the 2 things, which should be overcome & left by direct experience? Ignorance and Craving for new Becoming... These are the 2 things, which should be overcome, relinquished and left all behind by direct experience!
And what are the 2 things, which should be realized by direct experience? Complete Understanding and Absolute Freedom... These are the two things, which should be realized by direct experience!
And what are the 2 things, which should be developed by direct experience? Calm and Insight... These are the two things, which should be developed by direct experience.
And how does a Bhikkhu indeed do so? Here, friends, the Bhikkhu develops: Right View, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. Right Motivation, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. Right Speech, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. Right Action, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. Right Livelihood, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. Right Effort, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. Right Awareness, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. Right Concentration, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. It is in this way that a Bhikkhu comes to fully understand all that, which should be understood; comes to overcome, and leave behind all, which should be left behind; comes to realize by direct experience all states that is realizable, & finally comes to develop all the mental states, which should be developed…
How to be Real Buddhist through Observance? Unduwap Poya is this Fullmoon of December celebrating 2 events: 1: The arrival of Arahat Nun Theri Sanghamitta, sister of Arahat Mahinda, daughter of emperor Asoka from India in the 3rd century B.C. establishing the Order of Nuns. 2: The arrival at Anuradhapura of a sapling of the sacred Bodhi-tree at Buddhagaya, brought to Sri Lanka by Arahat Theri Sanghamitta.
Arahat Theri Sanghamitta arrives w. tree.
This day is designated Sanghamitta Day. Nowadays Dasasil Matas; ten-precept nuns, take an active part in making these celebrations.
On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days: Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges & undertakes the Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor. Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines in a loud, calm & steady voice:
As long as this life lasts: I hereby take refuge in the Buddha. I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma. I hereby take refuge in the Sangha. I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time. I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time. I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time. I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time. I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time. I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time. I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!
I accept to respect & undertake these 5 training rules: I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing. I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing. I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse. I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Dishonesty. I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs. As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...
Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in/to this world! So is the start towards Nibbana: the Deathless Element! This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Ease, to Happiness, initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and fulfilled by training of Meditation...
Today indeed is Pooya or Uposatha / observance day, where any lay Buddhist normally keeps even the Eight Precepts from sunrise until the next dawn... If any wish a recognition by the Bhikkhu-Sangha, they may simply forward the lines starting with "I hereby ..." signed with name, date, town & country to me or join here. A public list of this new quite rapidly growing global Saddhamma-Sangha is set up here!
The Blessed Buddha was a great friend of tolerance & harmlessness: I am a friend of the footless, I am a friend of the bipeds; I am a friend of those with four feet, I am a friend of the many-footed. May not the footless harm me, may not the bipeds harm me, may not those with four feet harm me, and may not those with many feet harm me. A. II, 72
Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the wood. No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone. Uplifted by such universal friendliness I enjoyed the forest. Finding great solace in sweet silent solitude. Suvanna-sama Jataka 540
I am a friend and helper to all, I am sympathetic to all living beings. I develop a mind full of love and delights always in harmlessness. I gladden my mind, fill it with joy, makes it immovable and unshakable. I develop the divine states of mind not cultivated by simple men. Theragatha. 648-9
Thus he who both day and night takes delight in harmlessness sharing love with all that live, finds enmity with none. SN I 208
He who does not strike nor makes others strike, who robs not nor makes others rob, sharing love with all that lives, finds enmity with none. Itivuttaka 22
As a mother even with her life protects her only son, so let one cultivate infinite, yeah universal, friendliness towards all sentient, living & breathing beings.
When one with a mind of true affection feels compassion for this entire world, above, below and across, unlimited everywhere.
The one who has left violence, who never harm any being, who never kill nor causes to kill, such one, mild, is a Holy Noble One. Dhammapada 405
The one who is friendly among the hostile, who is harmless among the violent, who is detached among the greedy, such one is a Holy Noble One. Dhammapada 406
He is not Noble who injures living beings. He is called Noble because he is gentle & kind towards all living beings. Dhammapada 270
Tolerance is the highest training. Patience is the best praxis. So all Buddhas say. Dhammapada 184
Let no one deceive another or despise anyone anywhere, or through anger or irritation wish for another to suffer. [color=#BF0040]Khuddakapatha 9
Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Cordial non-violence is happiness in this world harmlessness towards all living beings. Udana 10
There are these two kinds of Desire: 1: Advantageous Desire for unbinding, for release, for peace, for Nibbana... Why is this form of desire advantageous ? Because it leads towards ultimate safety, freedom, and lasting Happiness!
2: The Detrimental Desire for forms, for body, for feelings, for perceptions, for mental constructions, for sensing, & for the various types of consciousness. Why is this form of desire detrimental? Because it leads to repeated births, ageing, decaying, sickness & repeated death! Because it leads to sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, misery & desperate despair. I tell you, because such desire leads to Suffering... These are the two kinds of Desire!
There are these two kinds of Disgust: 1: The Advantageous Disgust towards forms, towards body, towards feelings, towards perceptions, towards mental constructions, towards sensing, towards the manifold and various types of consciousness, towards all internal and all external ... Why is this form of disgust advantageous ? Because it leads towards ultimate safety, freedom, and lasting Happiness!
2: The Detrimental Disgust towards friends on the Noble life, towards morality, towards meditation, towards understanding, towards right view, towards right motivation, towards right speech, towards right behaviour, towards right livelihood, towards right effort, and towards right concentration... Why is this form of disgust detrimental? Because it leads to repeated births, ageing, decaying, sickness & repeated death! Because it leads to sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, misery & desperate despair. I tell you, because such desire leads to Suffering... These are the two kinds of Disgust!
Comments: The autopilot monkey-mind runs with any desire, even if it is catastrophic... This same folly also runs away from any disgust, even if it is advantageous!
At Varanasi in the Deer Park at Isipatana, they once asked Sariputta: Ignorance, ignorance, it is said, what now, friend, is this ignorance, and in what way is one immersed in such ignorance? Here, friend, the uninstructed ordinary person does not understand as it really is: The arising, the ceasing, the satisfaction, the danger, nor the escape, nor the way leading to escape, neither in the case of form, nor of in the case of feeling, nor of in the case of perception, nor of in the case of mental construction, nor of in the case of this consciousness. This, friends, is called ignorance, and in this way is one indeed still immersed in the fatal blindness of ignorance...
Which are the mental states, that are causes? Good and bad states, belonging to the worlds of sense desire, to the planes of fine material form, to the formless realms, and to the supra-mundane states: That is the cluster of feelings, perceptions, mental constructions and the cluster of the manifold and variable kinds of consciousness... These are the phenomena, which cause results! Comment: Present mental states conditions and influences future events!
Which are the mental states, that are effects? The results of good and bad mental states, which make effects in the worlds of sense desire, in the planes of fine material form, in the formless realms, and in the supra-mundane states: That is the cluster of feelings, perceptions, mental constructions & the cluster of the various types of consciousness... These are the phenomena, which are results! Comment: Mental states are often seeded by and results of past events!
Which are the states, that neither are results nor cause results? Those mental states governing action, which are neither good, nor bad!, nor the results of other prior action, and moreover all form, and finally the unconditioned element of Nibbana... These are the three phenomena, which neither are results themselves, nor cause any other future effects! Comment: Material form, Nibbana & inoperative neutral (Kiriya) actions of the Arahats causes no future effects to arise anywhere at any time...
Source: The 1st canonical Abhidhamma Book: Dhammasanghani: pp 991-993 The Classification of States. The Enumeration of Ultimate Realities. Tr. by U Kyaw Khine. 1999. Sri Satguru Publications. Delhi.
Any moment of intentional mental activity creates and conditions the future! Any moment of intentional verbal activity creates and conditions the future! Any moment of intentional bodily activity creates and conditions the future! If the intention behind this thinking, speaking or doing is mixed with either greed, hate, or ignorance or diluted derivatives thereof, this future will inevitably be mixed with resultant states of mental and physical pain… If the intention behind this thinking, speaking & doing is mixed with either non-greed, non-hate, or non-ignorance or dilutions thereof, this future will inevitably be mixed with resultant states of mental and physical pleasure… If the intention behind this thinking, speaking & doing is mixed neither with greed nor with non-greed, neither with hate nor with non-hate,& neither with ignorance nor with non-ignorance, this future will inevitably be mixed with resultant states of neither pain nor pleasure = neutral indifference… Not intending any stills formation of becoming and is not creating any future! Therefore: Be Aware! Watch the intention! Is it mixed with exactly what? Intention is literally seeding and producing moments of your future! No other Creator is found! Silencing intention creates Peace!
Kamma is Intention behind a mental, verbal or bodily action:
Kamma is intention to push and act and not the later resulting effects!
Buddha emphasized the core Law of Kamma: Moral Efficacy of any Action!
He said: Kamma should be known and understood: The cause by which kamma comes into play should be known. The diversity in kamma should be known. The result of kamma should be known. The ending of kamma should be known. The way of practice for the ending of kamma should be known. Thus it has been said. In reference to what was it said? Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one makes kamma by way of body, speech, and mind. And what is the cause by which kamma comes into play? Contact is the cause by which kamma comes into play. And what is the diversity in kamma? There is kamma to be experienced in hell, kamma to be experienced in the realm of the various animals, kamma to be experienced in the realm of the hungry ghosts, kamma to be experienced in this human world, kamma to be experienced in the world of the divine devas. This is called the diversity in kamma.
By intending something one plants an egg of future hatching resultants!
And what is the result of kamma? The result of kamma is of three sorts, I tell you: that which arises right here and now, or later in this very lifetime, and that which arises in later lives. This is called the result of kamma. And what is the ending of kamma? The ending of contact thereby also ends kamma. And what is the way of practice for the ending of kamma? Just this Noble eightfold path: right view, right motivation, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration This is the way of praxis leading to the end of kamma.
Now when a disciple of the Noble Ones comprehends kamma in this way, the cause, the diversity, the result, the end, and the way of practice leading to the ending of kamma in this way, then he sees the fulfilment of the Noble life as the end of kamma.
Kamma should be known. The cause by which kamma comes into play... The diversity in kamma... The result of kamma... The ending of kamma... The way of practice for the ending of kamma should be known. Thus it has been said, and in reference to this was it said. Reference: AN VI.63
Intention has in future entangled physical effects outside the individual!
The Buddha to his son: How do you consider this, Rahula: What is a mirror for? Rahula: For reflection, Sir. The Buddha: In the same way, Rahula, bodily acts, verbal acts, and mental acts are to be done with constant reflection. Whenever you want to do a bodily act, then you should reflect: This bodily act I want to do, would it lead to misery to myself, to the misery of others, or to both? Is it a detrimental bodily act, with painful consequences, painful results? If, on reflection, you come to know that it would lead to your own misery, to the misery of others, or to both, and it would be an harming bodily act with painful consequences, painful results, then any bodily act whatsoever of that sort is absolutely unacceptable for you to do! But if on reflection you know that it would not cause misery. That it would be an advantageous bodily action with happy consequences, & pleasant results, then any bodily act of that sort is proper for you to do.
Any intention produces a ladder into the future upon which one climbs!
While you are doing a bodily act, you should reflect: This bodily act I am doing now does it lead to self-misery, to the misery of others, or to both? Is it an detrimental bodily act, with painful consequences, painful results? If, on reflection, you come to know that it is leading to self-misery, or to the misery of others, or to both, then you should instantly stop doing it! But if on reflection you know that it is not disadvantageous to anybody, then you may continue with it.
Having done a bodily act, you should again reflect .... If, on reflection, you come to know that it led to self-misery, to the misery of others, or to both; that it was an detrimental bodily act with painful consequences, painful results, then you should confess it, reveal it, and lay it open to the teacher or to a knowledgeable friend in the holy life. Having confessed it, you should exercise restraint and self-control in the future. But if on reflection you know that it did not lead to misery, that it was a advantageous bodily action with happy consequences, happy results, then you should stay mentally elated and joyful, training day & night in all the advantageous mental qualities.
...[similarly for verbal and mental acts]...
Intention is a choice, which reduces entropy, thus rolling out the future!
Rahula, all past bhikkhus and recluses who purified their bodily, verbal, & mental acts, did it through repeated reflection on their bodily, verbal, and mental acts in exactly this way. All the future bhikkhus and recluses & all the bhikkhus and recluses who at present purify their bodily, verbal, and mental acts, do it by repeated reflection on their bodily, verbal, & mental acts in exactly this way. Therefore, Rahula, you should train yourself: I will purify my bodily acts by repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal acts by repeated reflection. I will purify my mental acts by repeated reflection. Thus should you train yourself! reference MN 61
By seeing that: If only happy at one's own success, such egoistic Joy is rare and limited! If happy at others success also, the Joy is more frequent & even infinite!
By observing that: It starts with basic sympathy, develops into acceptance, genuine approval, & appreciation. It culminates in rejoicing altruistic sympathy by directing mind to initiation, much cultivation & boundless expansion of Mutual Joy!
By knowing that: Mutual Joy is the proximate cause of sweet, fully satisfied contentment! Lack of mutual joy is therefore the proximate cause of discontentment! Mutual Joy instantly eliminates acidic jealousy, grudge and green envy! Mutual Joy is an infinite, truly divine, elevating and sublime mental state! Mutual Joy is 1 of the 4 mental states of the Brahma-devas (Brahmavihara)
The Blessed Buddha pointed out: If it were impossible to cultivate this Good , I would not tell you to do so!
Buddhaghosa: See how this worthy being is very Happy! How fine! How excellent! How sweet!
Let there be Happiness. Let there be open Freedom. Let there be Peace. Let there be Bliss from cultivating this. Let there be Understanding of this mental state of Mutual Joy!
The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, there are these Four Foundations of Awareness.What four? When a Bhikkhu keenly contemplates: 1: Any Body just as a transient Form... 2: Any Feeling just as a passing Sensation... 3: Any Mind just as a momentary Mood... 4: Any Phenomena just as a flickering Mental State... while always acutely aware & clearly comprehending, he thereby removes any urge, envy, jealousy, frustration and discontent rooted in this world... [color=#800000]These are the Four Foundations of Awareness...
[color=#BF0040]Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 173-4] 47 The Foundations of Awareness: 24 Simple..
The Effect caused by Action is delayed as a Sown Seed!
The Blessed Buddha once explained: Regarding the effects of actions, Ananda, as to the person here who avoids all killing of any living being, who avoids all stealing of what is not given, who avoids any misconduct in sensual pleasures, who avoids all false speech, divisive speech, aggressive speech, and all idle & empty gossip, who is neither envious, nor jealous, is good-willed, and who is of right view, yet who at the breakup of the body, right after death, is reborn in a state of deprivation, a dreadful destination, in the painful purgatory, or even in one of the hells: Either earlier, prior to this, such one also did evil actions to be felt as painful, or later, after this - such one did evil actions to be felt as pain, or at moment of death such one entered into & maintained wrong views! Because of one or more of these, right after death, such one is reborn in a bad state of deprivation, a dreadful destination, in the painful purgatory, or even in the hells. But since such one also - here & now - has been one who avoids all killing of any living being, who avoids taking anything what is not given, who avoids all wrong misconduct in sensual pleasures, who avoids all false speech, divisive speech, aggressive speech, & all idle & empty gossip, who is neither envious, nor jealous, who is of good will, & who holds right views, such one will experience the pleasant results of that good behaviour, either here and now, or in the next rebirth, or in some subsequent later existence...
Comments: Behaviour (kamma) is almost always mixed: Sometimes good, sometimes bad! The later effects are therefore also mixed: Sometimes pleasure, often pain... Good begets good & dilutes+delays evil. Evil begets evil & dilutes+delays good!
An illustration of the delayed, overlapping & interfering result of mixed kamma:
Where does all mental melancholy and blue depression cease without a trace? When, with the fading away & stilling of all directed thought & any sustained thinking, one enters and remains in the second jhana absorption of assured unification of mind, merged with pleasure and joy, born of this well anchored & fixed concentration: It is right there that all mental frustration & sadness cease without a trace remaining... Therefore do beings reborn at the radiant deva level, never feel any mental sorrow, misery or sadness, since they are continuously absorbed in this subtle 2nd jhana concentration... Thus they move their body of beaming light joyously around at the speed of a thought! They are literally feeding on this pure Joy! Continuously enveloped in enraptured and exalted ecstatic bliss!
The Blessed Buddha once said: Embrace the Cosmos! Bhikkhus and Friends: There are these four infinite & divine mental states: The Bhikkhu pervades all beings with all-embracing friendliness ... The Bhikkhu encompass all beings with universal and endless pity ... The Bhikkhu permeates all beings with infinite and mutual joy ... The Bhikkhu suffuses all beings with unlimited equanimity ... First in one direction, then the second, then the third, and to the fourth, above, below, all around, in every location, uniting himself with all beings, he pervades the entire universe with an all-embracing pure friendliness, with all-embracing compassion and pity, with all-embracing mutual and altruistic joy, with an all-embracing imperturbable equanimity, using a refined mind, which is made great, vast, profound, infinite, immeasurable, released from all hate, anger, irritation, opposition and stubbornness... Source: DN33
Because of hate, overwhelmed and obsessed by hate, one lives by doing evil deeds, speaking evil words, and thinking evil thoughts... While doing this one neither really understands one's own welfare, nor the welfare of others, nor the welfare of both... If, however, this hate is overcome and subdued, then one lives while doing good deeds, speaking kind words, and thinking advantageous thoughts... Therefore while doing this good one really knows what is for one's own present & future welfare, for the welfare of others, and to the welfare of both oneself and all other beings... Source: AN 3:55
The Buddha once said about the fleeting aspects of reality: Form is like a lump of foam, feeling is like a water bubble, perception is like a mirage, constructions like a hollow tree, and consciousness like an illusion! Just a coreless appearance! However one may reflect over it, and carefully investigate it. When one views it cautiously: It appears but empty and void! Pointing at this body The One of Broad Wisdom has taught that if only three things are lacking, one will have to leave this fragile frame, ditched all behind: If metabolism, heat and consciousness depart from this physical body, then it lies there, cast away again: Unconscious food for others.. This illusion, beguiler of vain fools. It is similar to a serial killer. Neither a substance, nor any safety. A Bhikkhu with aroused enthusiasm looks upon these 5 clusters of clinging in exactly this ultra-realistic way: Disgusted, both day & night! Ever aware, calmly & clearly comprehending! He should eliminate all mental chains, thereby making his own island! Thereby becoming his own protector, refuge, lamp and light! Let him train as with his head ablaze with fire yearning only for the everlasting deathless state!
Insight culminates in the moment of attaining the recluses sublime fruit: A state tranquillizing all distress, its beauty from the Deathless draws... Its calm from lack of fuzzy worldliness. Truly a sweet and clarified bliss! It is a fountainhead, whose honey-sweet ambrosia emulates the deathless. Any being refining understanding, will experience this pure peerless bliss, which is the taste the noble fruit produces, right here in this very life! The flavour of the Noble fruit is Happiness, a blessing of fulfilled insight! Vism 702
There are 4 types of increasingly Noble individuals (Ariya-Puggala): 1: The Stream-winner (Sotapanna), 2: The Once-Returner (Sakadagami), 3: The Non-Returner (Anagami), 4: The Awakened Holy One (Arahat).
The Blessed Buddha once explained: Here, householder, the Noble Disciple possesses confirmed confidence and conviction in the Buddha in exactly his way: Worthy, honourable & perfectly self-Enlightened is the Buddha! Consummated in knowledge and behaviour, all transcended, expert in all dimensions, knower of all worlds, unsurpassable trainer of those who can be tamed, teacher & guide of both gods & humans, blessed, exalted, awakened & enlightened is the Buddha! He possesses confirmed confidence in the Dhamma in exactly this way: Perfectly formulated is this Buddha-Dhamma, visible right here and now, immediately effective, timeless, inviting each and everyone to come and see for themselves, inspect, examine and verify. Leading each and everyone through progress towards perfection. Directly observable, experiencable and realizable by each intelligence... He also possesses confirmed confidence in the Noble Sangha in this way: Perfectly training is this Noble Sangha community of the Buddha's disciples: Training the right way, the true way, the good way, the direct way! Therefore do these eight kinds of individuals, the four Noble pairs, deserve both gifts, self-sacrifice, offerings, hospitality & reverential salutation with joined palms, since this Noble Sangha community of the Buddha's disciples, is an unsurpassable & forever unsurpassed Field of Merit, in this world, for this world, to honour, protect, respect and support ... He possesses the Pure Morality esteemed by the Noble ones: Unbroken, untorn, unspotted, unmottled, freeing, praised by the wise, natural, leading to mental concentration, to absorption... These are the 4 factors of Stream-Entry that a Noble Disciple possess!
The 4 steps to Stream-entry (sotapannassa angani) are therefore obtaining: 1: Unshakable faith in the fact of the perfect Enlightenment of the Buddha. 2: Unshakable faith in the perfect correctness of the true Dhamma. 3: Unshakable faith in the Noble part of the Sangha (monastic+lay). 4: Purified and perfectly unspotted Morality (Sila). http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sotaapannassa_an.htm Canonical references: SN. LV.1; DN. 33; SN. XLVII.8
The blessed Buddha once said: Contentment is the highest Treasure! Dhammapada 204
Please imagine a state, where one always is Content… If always content, what would, one need, urge for or want? Nothing!
What is the cause of contentment? Mutual joy with others success is the proximate cause of contentment... Lack of Mutual joy is therefore the cause of discontentment…
A: When did you last rejoice happily in someone else’s success? B: When did you last enjoy the calm peace of satisfied contentment? State-A causes state-B. Therefore: Non-state-A causes non-state-B...!
Mutual joy can be trained! Result => Calm Content!
There are some fundamental tenets. One is the universal regime of cause and effect. The second is the idea of interdependence of all phenomena. The third is in understanding that there is a certain dependence in origination itself, that is that which originates, changes, disappears and disintegrates. This idea is inbuilt in origination. The 4th is the impermanence of conditioned things and absence of inherent existence of the cognizer and the cognized. The fifth is the suffering that follows from mistaken perceptions in the permanence of reality. In our social as well as individual lives, we have to encounter suffering caused by false apprehensions of reality and happiness. Buddhism does not believe in mortifying the flesh; it does not believe in ignoring the demands of life, or the potential for expanding knowledge about the universe; it does not deny that knowledge can help to reduce suffering or improve conditions of living. It has therefore no distaste for science or technology. On the contrary, it believes that skillful use of science and technology can improve the quality of our lives. But since technology involves the choice of goals, nature of the goals, as well as the motivation that prompts the choice and pursuit of goals become very important. If they ignore or violate any of the beliefs that listed above, they are bound to increase individual and social suffering, and not welfare. Hence what we believe will contribute to our pleasure sometimes could turn out to be the cause of aggravated suffering. To the Buddhist, ethics and morality are not extraneous to the realm of cause and effect. They are not commandments of one who is the creator, and who functions above the realm of cause and effect. Nor have their observance to be induced by a system of reward and punishment. The belief that actions take place in the realm of cause and effect has turned Buddhism away from the need to look for an external source of authority or reward and punishment administered by an external authority. Actions have their inescapable consequences as they are guided by the law of cause & effect. Thus my motivations and actions will have their effects on me and the social and even natural environment in which I live. I cannot overlook this effect, and therefore, the responsibility to see that my conduct to what creates a conducive effect on me as well as my social and natural environment. Advances in science and technology are not based on an analysis of motives, or the impact and chain-reactions that these are likely to cause on the psyche and environment. The negative consequences of this absence of mindfulness have now been brought to our attention. What do we do? Persist in the mindless pursuit of individual power and material possessions, unconcerned with its consequences -- in other words running the risk of a suicide of the species? The answer lies within us, within our minds. To a believer in Buddha Dharma it is this mindfulness which is the basis on which to choose the path that leads to freedom and fulfillment. Among the most powerful enemies of mindfulness are desire, greed and the ego, the desire to promote one's ego at the cost of others or society or the environment. The answer that Buddha Dhamma clearly gives is mindfulness even to protect mindfulness itself, and the ethics and morality that mindfulness makes imperative in a world governed by cause and effect. by Lama Doboom Tulku, Times of India, Dec 21, 2011
Causes, good as bad, inevitably spread as effects, like rings in water!
When one has understood constructions by seeing the three characteristics in them and their voidness, then one can leave both terror & delight by becoming indifferent and neutral to all states, taking them neither to be 'I' nor 'mine'! One becomes like a man who has recently divorced his wife: The man who were married to a lovely, gorgeous, & charming wife & so deeply in love with her as to be unable to bear separation from her for a moment. He would be disturbed & displeased to see her standing, talking & laughing with another man, and would be very unhappy, but later, when he had found out that woman's faults, and he had divorced her, he would no more take her as 'mine'; and thereafter, even though he saw her doing whatever it might be, with whomsoever it might be, he would neither be disturbed, nor displeased, but only neutral & indifferent! So too with the meditating disciple who wants to get free from all phenomena, he recognizes all constructions as impermanent, and void of pleasure and self, thus seeing that nothing is possible to take as 'I' or 'mine', he abandons both terror and delight, and becomes indifferent & neutral towards all phenomena... Vism 656
Divorced from Possessiveness, Egoism, Clinging and Frustration!
Equanimity describes the unattached awareness of one's experience as a result of perceiving the impermanence of momentary reality. It is a peace of mind and dwelling in even calmness that cannot be shaken by any grade of both fortunate and unfortunate circumstance. It is a concept promoted by several religions...! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equanimity
The Blessed Buddha once said: There are five impurities of gold impaired by which it becomes neither pliant nor wieldy, it lacks radiance, is weak & easily broken and cannot be formed... What are these five impurities? They are: Iron, copper, tin, lead and silver. But if the gold has been purified from these five impurities, then it will indeed be pliant and wieldy, radiant and firm, and can be formed well. Whatever kind of jewellery one wishes to make from it, be it a diadem, earrings, a necklace or a golden chain, it will easily serve that purpose well. Similarly, there are five impurities of the mind impaired by which the mind is neither pliant nor wieldy, it lacks radiant lucidity and stability, and cannot concentrate well upon the eradication of the mental fermentations (asava). What are these five impurities? They are:
1: Sense-Desire, 2: Evil-Will, 3: Lethargy and Laziness, 4: Restlessness and Regret, 5: Doubt and Uncertainty...
But if the mind is freed of these five mental hindrances, then it will be plastic, flexible, and wieldy, will be of radiant lucidity and firm calm stability, and will concentrate well upon the elimination of the mental fermentations. Whatever supra-human state realizable by these higher mental abilities one may pursue, one will in each case be able to directly experience it, as an eye-witness...
Buddha said: The mind is naturally radiant, but veiled by mental hindrance!
Comments: The 4 mental fermentations are wrong, false & hidden assumptions associated with: 1: Sense-desire (kamasava). Ex: "Sensing is only & always pleasant. Pain exists not!" 2: Desiring becoming into new existence (bhavasava): Ex: "All life is good, Death exists not!" 3: Wrong views (ditthasava): Ex: "I am better, know better & what I think is thus never wrong!" 4: Ignorance (avijjasava): Ex: "Suffering, craving, ending craving & the Noble Way exists not!"
A prince named fearless once asked the Blessed Buddha: Venerable Sir, what is the conditioning cause for lack of vision & wisdom? Prince, when mind is obsessed, overwhelmed, & dominated by sense-desire, or when mind is beset by evil-will, plagued, enraged & conquered by anger, or when mind is retarded, dimmed, detained & diluted by lethargic laziness, or when mind is agitated, troubled & tyrannized by restlessness & regret, or when mind is perplexed, confused & bewildered by doubt & uncertainty, and one does not understand any safe escape from any of these present mental hindrances, at that moment, one can neither see, nor understand anything of what is advantageous, neither for oneself, nor for others, nor both for oneself & others! These mental hindrances are therefore the conditioning causes for lack of vision and wisdom! It is in exactly this way, that ignorance arises from a cause, and not without a cause... What is this Dhamma explanation called, Sir? These are called the mental hindrances, prince. Surely and unquestionably they are mental hindrances. Blessed One! One overcome by even a single mental hindrance would not know and see things as they really are, not to speak of one overcome by all these 5 mental hindrances...
Doing evil, bad or wrong actions, returns in resultant pain, while doing good, right and kind actions echoes back as pleasure. Usually there is a long delay between action and resultant karmic effect. Though in rare & strong cases the effect returns immediately. This 'behavioural echo' may be designated: Instant karma. Some illustrative examples are given below:
Folly parents made him do this. Cat does not resist since it knows and likes the boy. Therefore it stays dry! Kamma in action!
This cat also likes the boy, but teaches him a lesson about not to let own anger drip on others... Kamma in action!
This foolish woman is using a far too large gun: A Desert Eagle using .50 Action Express bullets, which can kill an elephant or rhino in one shot, but has a forceful recoil. Her intention with the gun is motivated by hate. She experiences that! Kamma in action!
This cat has killed too many mice, being greedy and eaten far too much, gotten fat, and thus totally misses an otherwise easy jump. Kamma in action!
This guy was a human thief in his prior life. Note how he also now approaches slowly, looks around, and retires quickly. He knows what he is doing from earlier, since seagulls cannot be trained! Next rebirth destination for him: Stealing insect or lower. Kamma in action!
Life, person, pleasure, pain, just these join in a conscious moment that flicks by. Even gods, that live for 84.000 aeons, are not the same even for 2 such moments! Ceased aggregates of those dead & alive are all alike, gone for never to return... And those states and accumulations that break up meanwhile, and in any future, have no traits different from those ceased before. All states are equally brief! No world is born if consciousness is not produced! When consciousness is present, then the world appears as living! When consciousness dissolves, the world is dead! This is the highest sense, this concept of ever blinking re-becoming, can justify... No store of broken states exist anywhere, & no future stock of states to come! Those phenomena that are momentarily born balance like seeds on a needle point. Fall and breakup of all states is surely foredoomed, even at their fleeting birth... Those present states decay now, unmingled with those past states, just gone by. They come from nowhere, break up, & back to nowhere they inevitably then go... Reality flash in & then flash out, as a lightning in the sky... Not ever to be kept!!! Even for a single moment! Vism 625, Nd I 42
Momentary states flashes in and then immediately flashes out!
The Blessed Buddha once explained how to Enter the Stream to Nibbana: Bhikkhus & friends, these 4 states, when developed & made much of leads to the realization of the fruit of Stream-entry (sotapatti-phala)! Which four? 1: Meeting, visiting and waiting on Great Men... 2: Hearing and studying the true Dhamma Doctrine... 3: Practice in accordance with this genuine Dhamma... 4: Rational and careful Attention to cause and effect... These 4 states, when developed & made much of leads to the fruition of Once-returning (sakadagami-phala) or further to Non-return (anagami-phala). These 4 states, when developed & made much of leads finally to the fruition of Arahat-ship, the Awakening that is Enlightenment (arahatta-phala)! Bhikkhus these 4 states, when developed & made much of leads directly to the reaching, attaining & realizing of genuine and liberating Understanding; To the state of Awakening of Understanding; To the state of Wealth of Understanding; To the state of Great Understanding; To the state of Open Understanding; To the state of Wide Understanding; To the state of Profound Understanding; To the state of Deep Understanding; To the state of Unequalled Understanding; To the state of Universal Understanding; To the state of Extensive Understanding; To the state of Quick Understanding; To the state of Instant Understanding; To the state of Light Understanding; To the state of Laughing Understanding; To the state of Acute Understanding; To the state of Penetrative Understanding! To the state of Ultimate and Absolute Understanding! What four? 1: Meeting, visiting and waiting on great men... 2: Hearing and reading the true Doctrine of the Dhamma... 3: Practice in accordance with this genuine & righteous Dhamma Law... 4: Careful and rational Attention to what is cause and what is effect...
Once a certain Bhikkhu approached the Blessed One and asked him: Venerable Sir, how should one know & see, for leaving any wrong view, for eliminating any belief in an ego, for overcoming all 'self'-making? Bhikkhu, when one knows and sees any eye, form, eye-consciousness, eye-contact, & feeling arised caused by eye-contact as impermanent, when one sees this is not mine, that wrong view, that belief in an ego, that making up of a self, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned... Bhikkhu, when one knows & sees any ear, sound, ear-consciousness, ear-contact, & any feeling arised caused by ear-contact as transient, when one sees this is not "I", that wrong view, that belief in an ego, that making up of a self, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned... Bhikkhu, when one knows & sees any nose, smell, nose-consciousness, nose-contact, & any feeling arised caused by nose-contact as temporary, when one sees this is not me, that wrong view, that belief in an ego, that making up of a self, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned... Bhikkhu, when one knows & sees any tongue, taste, tongue-consciousness, tongue-contact, & feeling arised caused by tongue-contact as short-lived, when one sees this is not mine, that wrong view, that belief in an ego, that making up of a self, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned... Bhikkhu, when one knows & sees any body, touch, body-consciousness, body-contact, & feeling arised caused by body-contact as ephemeral, when one sees this is not my self, that wrong view, that belief in an ego, that making up of a self, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned... Bhikkhu, when one knows & sees any mind, thought, mind-consciousness, mental-contact, & feeling arised caused by mind-contact as momentary, when one sees this is not 'my self', that wrong view, that belief in an ego, that making up of a soul, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned...
Evil and ill-will is the mental hindrance, which is resisting against and opposing phenomena. It can be quite violent when manifesting as quarrels, conflict, hate, hostility and war. Aversion instantly destroys all harmony and peace and thus any potential for happiness. It can only be cured by meditation on the four infinitely divine states (Brahma-viharas).
First priority: Noticing evil Ill-Will arise -in itself- makes it fade away: The Buddha said: When ill-will is present in him then he understands: "There is ill-will in me now" and when ill-will is absent, he also notices: "There is no ill-will in me now". He understands how unarisen ill-will arises. He understands how to leave behind any arisen ill-will, and he understands how left ill-will will not ever arise again in the future. MN 10
What is the feeding cause that makes ill-will arise? There are displeasing and repulsive features and aspects of any object, frequently giving irrational & unwise attention to them, this is the feeding cause of the arising of unarisen ill-will, and the feeding cause of the very increase and expansion of ill-will that already has arisen. SN 46:51
The 3 paranoid thoughts that induces resentment: 1: He or she has done, is doing or will in the future do me some wrong! 2: He or she has done, is doing or will do those I like some wrong! 3: He or she has done, is doing or will do those I dislike some good!
What is the starving cause that makes ill-will cease? There is the release of mind through Universal Good-Will and Friendliness, frequently giving rational and wise attention to this is the starving cause of the non-arising of unarisen ill-will, and the starving cause of decrease and shrinking of ill-will that already has arisen. SN 46:51
Which medicine cures ill-will, so that it does not re-arise ever again? One should cultivate the meditation on Universal Friendliness (Metta)! For the meditation on universal friendliness gradually evaporates ill-will. One should cultivate the meditation on All-embracing Pity (Karuna)! Meditation on embracing pity, makes cruel harming violence fade away. One should cultivate the meditation on Sympathetic Mutual Joy (Mudita)! Meditation on mutual joy eliminates discontent, green envy and jealousy. One should cultivate the meditation on composed Equanimity (Upekkha)! Meditation on imperturbable equanimity can make anger & aversion cease. MN 62
Some advantageous reflections to return to: Remember the Simile of the Saw... The Blessed Buddha once said: Friends, even if bandits were to cut you up, savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, you should not be angry with them but do my bidding: Remain pervading them with a friendly mentality imbued only with an all embracing good will, kind, rich, expansive, and immeasurable. Free from hostility, free from ill will. Always remembering this Simile of the Saw is indeed how you should train yourselves... MN 21
Being OWNER of ANGER is Pain:Know that everyone is the owner of the consequences of all their actions (Kamma), whether good or bad...
The 11 advantages won by cultivating Universal Friendliness (Metta): 1: One sleeps happy! 2: One wakes happy! 3: One dreams no evil dreams! 4: One is liked and loved by all human beings! 5: One is liked and loved by all non-human beings too! 6: One is guarded and protected by the divine devas! 7: One cannot be harmed by fire, poison or weapons! 8: One swiftly attains the concentration of absorption! 9: Ones appearance becomes serene, calm and composed! 10: One dies without confusion, bewilderment or panic! 11: One reappears after death on the Brahma level if gone no higher! AN V342
The Blessed Buddha once said: And what, Bhikkhus, is the Joy not of this world? Aloof and above any lust, quite secluded from any sense desire, protected from any disadvantageous mental state, one enters & dwells in the 1st jhana mental absorption; full of joy & pleasure born of solitude, joined with directed & sustained thought... With the stilling of directed & sustained thought, one later enters & dwells in the 2nd jhana of calmed assurance & unification of mind devoid of any thought & thinking, joined with joy & pleasure now born of concentration! These are called the joys not of this world! And what, Bhikkhus, is the joy beyond that joy, which is not of this world? When a bhikkhu, whose mental fermentations are eliminated, reviews his mind liberated from lust, freed from hatred, and released from confusion, there arises a transcendental joy. This is called Joy quite beyond that joy, that is not of this world...
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How can one ever Succeed, when Never having Started?
The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, those who have neglected to begin this Noble 8-fold Way, have failed to develop the Noble Method, which destroys Suffering! While those who having indeed begun this Noble 8-fold Way, have indeed also initiated the Noble Method, which destroys all Suffering! And what, Bhikkhus, is this Noble 8-fold Way? It is simply this:
1: Right View (samma-ditthi) 2: Right Motivation (samma-sankappa) 3: Right Speech (samma-vaca) 4: Right Action (samma-kammanta) 5: Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva) 6: Right Effort (samma-vayama) 7: Right Awareness (samma-sati) 8: Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)
Bhikkhus, those who have failed even to start on this Noble 8-fold Way, have failed to cultivate that Noble Method, which destroys all Suffering! While those, who have really started on this Noble 8-fold Way, have indeed also made the first move capable of destroying all Suffering!
On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days: Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges and undertakes the Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor. Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines in a loud, calm & steady voice:
As long as this life lasts: I hereby take refuge in the Buddha. I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma. I hereby take refuge in the Sangha. I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time. I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time. I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time. I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time. I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time. I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time. I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!
I accept to respect & undertake these 5 training rules: I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing. I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing. I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse. I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Dishonesty. I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs. As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...
Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in & to this world! So is the start towards Nibbana: the Deathless Element! This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Ease, to Happiness, initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and fulfilled by training of Meditation...
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Not Knowing Nature & Cause of things causes Speculation to arise:
Once the wanderer Vacchagotta approached the Blessed One & greeted him. Having concluded their compliments, he sat down & asked the Blessed Buddha: Master Gotama, what is the cause, condition & reason why all these various speculative views arise in the world: This Universe is eternal, or This Universe is not eternal. &; This Universe is finite, or This Universe is infinite. &; Vitality & the body are the same, or vitality is one thing, the body is another. &; A Tathagata exists after death, or a Tathagata does not exist after death. Or; The Tathagata both exists and does not exist after death. Or; The Tathagata does neither exist, nor does not exist after death? The Blessed Buddha then replied: It is, Vaccha, because of neither knowing form, nor the cause of emergence of form (rupa), nor the cause of the ceasing of form, nor the Way to cease form, that those various speculative views, such as: "This Universe is eternal etc..." arise in the world...!!! This ignorance, this not seeing, this not understanding, Vaccha, is the cause, & reason, why those various speculative views keep arising in this world...!!!
The mind is that, which knows the object! The object is that, which is known! These two processes always arise and cease together simultaneously... Neither inside, within, nor apart from, outside these two is any observer agent, person, I, Me, or other assumed entity as a hidden variable, ever involved! The mind is immaterial, formless and invisible. The object may be designated or named 'material', 'physical', 'formed' and even 'visible' only and exactly to the extent and in so far as it is experienceable by the mind! No same, constant, lasting 'real', 'actual' or 'substantial substance' has ever existed 'out there' independently or separable from the mind, that right then momentarily perceived and thereby apprehended, displayed, manifested and designated it! This core dual pair of mentality (nama) and materiality (rupa), is thus one united yet dual continuum, like the two ends of the same stick! They do never emerge, nor do they ever exist, nor can they ever be observed separately, in and of themselves, but they can only arise in mutual dependence, like two thin creepers can only arise & stand up if intertwined with each other. Mentality & materiality thus arise and cease simultaneously in each moment! They are thus the most basic, fundamental and primary pair on the bottom of the dynamic ever-changing process of any being in any existence... What is called 'matter' is delimited, defined, characterized, conceptualized, compartmentalized and even named by mind! Therefore can matter never be separated from mind, like if one tries to break the dual-ended stick in order to separate the ends, then one always gets two sticks, still each with 2 ends! Therefore one unambiguously always ends up with observing a pair-wise new event of mentality & materiality! The basic founding, yet often unnoticed, unspoken and maybe even sometimes actively denied assumption underlying all Western science that: The naked, inert, objective observation is possible! 'Matter can be observed and analyzed objectively, independently of mind!' is therefore utterly false, futile and even somewhat childish... No observation can ever be independent of mind! Why not? What is observing IS the mind! The naive physicist who postulates: 'Independently of Mind, "I!" will observe, describe and evaluate matter!' extending out of his range of understanding, thus speaks folly false and is thereby later ultimately enforced to introduce 'mysti-phystical' entities as 'hidden variables' into his explanations, in order to reach completeness, coherence and internal consistence... He seems to be in complete oblivion of the dry fact, that even before one even thinks of, even speaks of, or experiment with any 'matter', mind have indeed been long and hard at work! The basic hidden, yet always present, factor in any observation, is naturally mind itself! However, this factor is not so hidden, that it cannot be observed & analyzed and that even without any laboratory or even a single 'instrument' apart from a pillow to sit on! Everyone, without even a single exception, who sits down with closed eyes, will instantly be overwhelmed by a veritable storm of mentally created distractions: This is the Mind! This is mental activity knocking your door... Undeniably real! When this dynamic self-sustaining duality of mentality-materiality, this self- sustaining perpetum mobile, cease to evolve, consciousness thereby ceases to establish itself on an object! This - only this, in and of itself - is the very final End of all Suffering...
The dear companion can be the proximate cause for Mutual Joy, where one rejoices in another being's success... One thus rejoicing in others fortune is called a 'boon companion', for he is constantly glad: He laughs first and speaks afterward! So he should be the first to be pervaded with gladness. Or on seeing a dear person being happy, cheerful and glad, mutual joy can be aroused thus: 'See this being is indeed glad! How good, how excellent!' Just as one would be glad at seeing a dear and beloved person very happy, exactly so does one pervade all other beings in all directions with mutual joy... Rejoicing mutual joy can also be aroused by remembering others happiness in the past and recollecting the elated joy aspect in this way: 'In the past he had great wealth, a great following and he was always glad'. Or mutual joy can be aroused by apprehending the future glad aspect of his in this way: 'In the future he will again enjoy similar success and will go about in gold palanquins, on the backs of elephants or on horseback'. Having thus aroused mutual joy regarding a dear person, one can then direct the very same feeling successively towards a neutral one, and gradually towards any hostile person. Vbh 274, Vism I 316
Comments: Mutual joy causes Contentment! No mutual joy thus means Discontentment! Therefore: If being generally dissatisfied, then be happy over others gains. Secondly: Mutual joy causes all envy & jealousy to evaporate into equanimity!
Seeing the 5 Clusters of Clinging: form, feeling, perception, mental construction, and consciousness collectively as impermanent, as painful, as a disease, a boil, a dart, a calamity, an affliction, as alien, as disintegrating, as a plague, a terror, a menace, a disaster, as fickle, as perishable, as not lasting, as transient, as no protection, no shelter, no refuge, as empty, as vain, void, as not-self, as a danger, as subject to change, as having no core, as the root of calamity, as murderous, as due to be annihilated, as subject to fermentation, as constructed of parts, as Mara's bait, as subject to birth, subject to ageing, subject to illness, subject to death, subject to sorrow, subject to lamentation, subject to despair, subject to defilement. By seeing that the 5 clusters of clinging are impermanent, one thus acquires a fondness, an inclination, a preference that conforms with the Dhamma. By seeing that ceasing of the 5 clusters of clinging is the very immutable Nibbana, one enters into the certainty of rightness. This is therefore perfectly right view! Ps II 238, Vism 611
Clusters of thoughts and mental states as clinging, can be like Bees!
The characteristic of patience is acceptance, its function is to endure, and its manifestation is non-opposing tolerance! The cause of patience is understanding how things really are.. The effect of patience is calm tranquility despite presence of intensely stirring provocation.. Patience of the will produces forgiving forbearance! Patience of the intellect produces faith, confidence and certainty! Patience of the body produces resolute and tenacious endurance! Internal tolerance of states within oneself is patient endurance... External tolerance of other beings is forbearance and forgiveness...
He who patiently protects himself, protects also all other beings! He who patiently protects all other beings, protects also himself!
Not from speaking much is one called clever. The patient one is free from anger and free from fear, only such steady persisting one, is rightly called clever... Dhammapada 258
Patient tolerance is the highest praxis... Nibbana is the supreme Bliss! So say all the Buddhas. Dhammapada 184
The innocent one, who has done nothing wrong, Who endures abuse, flogging and even imprisonment, Such one, armed with stamina, the great force of tolerance, Such stoic one, who self-possessed can accept, I call a Holy One! Dhammapada 399
One should follow those who are determined, tolerant, and enduring, intelligent, wise, diligent, clever, good-willed and evidently Noble. One shall stick to them as the moon remains in its regular orbit. Dhammapada 208
Friends, even if bandits were to cut you up, savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, you should not get angry, but do my bidding: Remain pervading them and all others with a friendly Awareness imbued with an all-embracing good-will, kind, rich, expansive, and immeasurable! Free from hostility, free from any ill will. Always remembering this very Simile of the Saw is indeed how you should train yourselves. Majjhima Nikaya 21
The five ways of removing irritating annoyance: Bhikkhus, there are these five ways of removing annoyance, by which any irritation can be entirely removed by a Bhikkhu, when it arises in him. What are these five ways? 1: Friendliness can be maintained towards an irritating person or state.. 2: Understanding can be undertaken towards an irritating person or state.. 3: On-looking Equanimity can be kept towards an irritating person or state.. 4: One can forget and ignore the irritating person, mental or physical state.. 5: Ownership of Kamma of the irritating person can be reflected upon thus: This good person is owner of his actions, inherit the result his actions, is indeed born of his actions and only he is responsible for his actions be they good or bad. This too is how annoyance with the irksome can be instantly removed. These are the five ways of removing annoyance, and by which any irritation can be entirely removed in a friend, exactly when it arises... Anguttara Nikaya V 161
Buddha to his son Rahula: Develop an Imperturbable Mind like the elements: Rahula, develop a mind like earth, then contacts of arisen like and dislike will not obsess your mind! Rahula, on the earth is dumped both the pure and the impure: excreta, urine, saliva, pus, blood, but the earth does not detest any of those... Even and exactly so make your mind stable like the earth! Rahula, develop a mind like water, then contacts of arisen pleasure and pain will not seize your mind. Rahula with water both the pure and the impure are cleaned... Washed away with water are excreta, urine, saliva, pus, and blood, yet the water does not despise any of that! Even so make the mind fluid and adaptable like the water! Rahula, develop a mind like fire, then the contacts of any arisen attraction or aversion will neither consume, nor hang on to your mind! Rahula, fire burns both the pure and the impure, burns excreta, urine, saliva, pus, and blood, yet the fire does not loathe any of that.. In the same manner refine the mind into a tool like an all consuming and purifying fire! Rahula, develop a mind similar to space, then contacts of arisen delight and frustration does neither take hold of, nor remain in your mind. Space does not settle anywhere! Similarly make the mind unsettled and unestablished like open space. When you expand mind like space, contacts of delight and frustration will neither be able to dominate, nor obsess your mind... Majjhima Nikaya 62
The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus & friends: There is one contemplation which when often practised and developed leads to the complete turning away from the world, to detachment, to stilling, to ceasing, to Peace, to final penetrating knowledge, to Enlightenment, and thus to Nibbana... Any Noble Disciple who by progress have understood the Dhamma dwells frequently in this state. Which is that one contemplation? It is reflecting over the qualities of the Noble Sangha like this: "Perfectly training is this Noble Sangha community of the Buddha's Noble Disciples. Training the right way, the true way, the good way, the direct way! Therefore do these eight kinds of individuals, these four Noble pairs, deserve both gifts, self-sacrifice, offerings, much hospitality and reverential salutation with joined palms, since this Noble Sangha community of the Buddha's Noble disciples, is indeed an unsurpassable & forever unsurpassed field of merit, in this world, for this world, to honour, support, uphold, respect and protect..." Source: AN 1:16.3 + 6:10
Higher Education just of Another Kind - details inside...
The Blessed Buddha once said: What, Bhikkhus, is the ability of Energy? Here, Bhikkhus, the Noble Disciple lives with energy aroused for the elimination of disadvantageous mental states and for gaining a firm foundation in advantageous states. He is determined, resolute in all his efforts, not evading any good opportunity to train advantageous mental states. This is called the ability of Energy. Source: Samyutta Nikaya V 48
Without Energy, there is neither advantageous action, nor effort! Without any advantageous action, there is neither any good result! No cause gives no effect! Therefore: Raise and stir up yourself!
Comments
Sweet is Verbal, Bodily and Mental Silence!
[color=#800000]The Blessed Buddha once said:
Kayamunim vacamunim,
manomunimanasavam,
munim moneyyasampannam.
Ahu ninhatapapakam.
Silent in body, silent in speech,
silent in mind, without agitation,
blessed with silence is the sage.
Such One is truly washed of evil.
Itivuttaka 3.67
SILENCED
If silent as a broken bell,
such one is close to Nibbana,
and far away from arrogance.
Dhammapada 134
More on this sweetly silenced Tranquillity (Passaddhi):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Calm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Forest_Bliss.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Silenced.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Tranquillity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm
Sweet is Muni Silence: Agitation never helps!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Muni_Silence.htm
All is by Nature inherently & inevitably Decaying & Vanishing!
At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said:
Bhikkhus, All is by nature subject to birth... All is by nature subject to ageing...
All is by nature subject to decay & sickness... All is by nature subject to death...
All is by nature subject to trouble... All is by nature subject to corruption...
All is by nature subject to destruction... All is by nature subject to vanishing...
All that is by nature subject to emergence, is also by nature subject to ceasing...
And what, Bhikkhus, is this All, that is by nature subject to birth, ageing, decay,
sickness, death, trouble, corruption, destruction, vanishing, ever arising & ceasing ?
The Eye ... Forms ... Eye-consciousness ... Eye-contact... Whatever feeling arised
caused by eye-contact, that is by nature subject to ever arising and ceasing...
The Ear ... Sounds ... Auditory-consciousness ... Ear-contact...
The Nose ... Smells ... Olfactory-consciousness ... Nose-contact...
The Tongue ... Tastes ... Gustatory-consciousness ... Tongue-contact...
The Body ... Touches ... Tactile-consciousness ... Body-contact...
The Mind ... Thoughts ... Mental-consciousness ... Mind-contact... & whatever feeling
arised caused any contact, that is by nature subject to ever arising and ceasing...
Understanding this, the intelligent noble disciple becomes disgusted with this All ...
Being thus disgusted produces disillusion... This disillusion induces a mental release!
When detached, the mind remains unagitated! Being utterly imperturbable one attains
Awakening right there & then instantly understands: This mind is irreversibly freed!
Repeated rebirth is ended, this Noble Life is completed, done is what should be done,
there is no state beyond, ever after or even surpassing 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/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV 27-28
The 6 senses section 35. Thread on Birth: Jati Sutta (33-4)
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Decay is inevitable...
All is by Nature inherently impermanent!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/By_Nature.htm
What is the Cause of Defilement & Purification?
Venerable Mahali once asked the Buddha:
But, Venerable Sir, what is the causing condition of mental defilement?
By what reason, do beings become mentally defiled and degraded?
The Buddha then explained:
If, Mahali, this form, this feeling, this perception, this construction and
this consciousness were exclusively suffering, immersed only in frustration,
soaked solely in trouble and if it were not also sometimes soaked in pleasure,
beings would not become enamoured with it. But since this form, this feeling,
perception, construction & this consciousness is also occasionally pleasurable,
immersed now and then in pleasure, soaked momentarily in delight & it is not
soaked only & always in pain, beings become enamoured & enthralled with it!
By being enamoured with it, they are captivated by it and obsessed with it...
By being captivated by it and obsessed with it, they are defiled & degraded!
This, Mahali, is the causing condition for the mental defilement of beings...
By this reason, do beings become mentally defiled & detrimentally degraded!
Mental Defilement veils the light of the mind by obscuring it!
But, Venerable Sir, what is the causing condition of mental purification?
By what reason, do beings become mentally purified & released?
The Buddha then explained:
If, Mahali, this form, this feeling, this perception, this construction &
this consciousness were exclusively pleasurable, immersed only in pleasure,
soaked solely in satisfaction, and if it were not also quite soaked in suffering,
beings would not become disgusted with it. But because form, feeling, perception,
construction & consciousness is also pain, immersed in distress, soaked in agony,
and it is not soaked only in pleasure, beings are disgusted with it. Being disgusted,
they experience disillusion and through this disillusion, they are mentally purified!
This, Mahali, is the causing condition for the mental purification of beings...
By this reason, do beings become mentally purified and happily released!
More on mental purification:
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/II/The_purpose_of_purification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_stages_of_Purification.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta NikayaIII 69-71
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Buddha said: Naturally the mind is pure and luminous all around!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.8-10.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_mind
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
What Causes Purity?
Pleasure vs. Pain causes Defilement vs. Purity...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause.of.defilement.and.purification.htm
Some 4-fold Characterizations of Personalities!
There are these 4 types of Human Personality:
1: One possessed by Greed, Desire, and Lust...
2: One possessed by Hate, Anger, and Aversion...
3: One possessed by Confusion, Doubt & Ignorance...
4: One possessed by Pride, Conceit, and Arrogance...
1: One who has learned little, but who does not act upon it...
2: One who has learned little, who does indeed act upon it...
3: One who has learned much, but who does not act upon it...
4: One who has learned much, who does indeed act upon it...
1: One drifting along with the stream, driven by craving...
2: One going against the stream of ordinary convention...
3: One remaining stuck in the middle of deep stagnation...
4: One who has reached the far shore and now dwells in fruition...
1: One who attains calm, but not insight...
2: One who attains insight, but not calm...
3: One who attains neither calm, nor insight...
4: One who attains both calm and insight...
More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Types.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Four_Personalities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ideal_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Persons_similar_to_Trees.htm
Source:
The 4th Abhi-Dhamma Book: The Personality Concept: Puggala-Paññatti. 25-27
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130096
4 Human Types...
The 4 Personalities!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Four_Personalities.htm
There are these 9 Superior and Noble Persons!
1: The perfectly self-awakened Buddha... (Sammasambuddho)
2: The solitary self-awakened Buddha... (Paccekasambuddho )
3: The one released both ways... (Ubhatobhagavimutto)
4: The one released by understanding... (Paññavimutto)
5: The body-witness of direct experience... (Kayasakkhi)
6: The view-winner of straight comprehension... (Ditthipattto)
7: The one released by faith... (Saddhavimutto)
8: The one guided by Dhamma... (Dhammanusari)
9: The one guided by faith... (Saddhanusari)
More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Types.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Four_Personalities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ideal_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Persons_similar_to_Trees.htm
Source:
The 4th Abhi-Dhamma Book: The Personality Concept: Puggala-Paññatti.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130096
The 9 Supreme Persons!
Those, who has done, what should be done...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm
Non-Agitation through detached Release:
The Blessed Buddha once said:
How, friends, is there non-agitation through detached release?
Regarding this, friends, the educated normal person, who is a friend of a Noble
One and who is clever and well trained in his Dhamma, or who is a friend of a
Great Man and is clever and well trained in his Dhamma, avoids regarding form
as self, he avoids regarding self as having form, he avoids regarding form as
inside any self, or any self as inside any form! Then inevitably his body form
changes and decays. When this change and decay of his material form occurs,
his mind does not become occupied or obsessed with this change of just a form.
Therefore does no agitated mental state, arised from worry over this changed
merely physical body form, remain obsessing his mind ...
Because his mind is not obsessed, then he is neither frightened, nor distressed,
nor anxious, and by this detached non-clinging his inner agitation is all stilled!
He does not regard feeling as self ... perception as self ... mental constructions
as self ... consciousness as self, nor the self as possessing consciousness, nor as
consciousness as being inside any self, nor any the self as being 'inside' any
consciousness ... When his consciousness momentarily changes and alters, then
his mind does not become engaged with this fast change of consciousness.
Therefore does no agitated mental state, born of concern over this changed
consciousness, remain obsessing his mind! Because his mind is neither obsessed,
nor upset, nor troubled, nor uneasy with this or any other change whatsoever,
then this aloof and detached non-clinging still, calm and evaporate all his prior
agitations! It is exactly in this way, friends, that there is non-agitation caused
by non-clinging.
Comment:
If the 5 clusters of Clinging are no EGO, how can there ever be lost anything
from such vacuum void! ;-) hihi:
More about this freeing selfless anti-ego impersonality = No-self = Anatta:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
You can come as you like , but you pay as you go...!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya XXII (7); [III 16-9]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 An Ocean of Dhamma!
On The 5 clusters of Clinging:
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
Cool Calm!
When not Agitated...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cool_Calm.htm
Equanimity of the Mind, Serenity & Beyond!
The Blessed Buddha once explained:
And what, Bhikkhus, is then this simple indifference of the flesh?
There are these five strings of sense-pleasure. What five?
Visible forms experienceable by the eye ...
Hearable sounds experienceable by the ear ...
Smellable odours experienceable by the nose ...
Tastable flavours experienceable by the tongue ...
Touchable objects experienceable by the body ...
That all are attractive, captivating, desirable, irresistible, lovely, charming,
tempting, pleasing, sensually enticing, seductive, alluring, and tantalizing!
These are the 5 strings of sense-pleasure. The indifference that arises
from these 5 strings of sense-pleasure when bored, is simply indifference
of the flesh...
And what, Bhikkhus, is the equanimity, which is not of this world?
With the leaving behind of both pleasure and pain, & with the prior fading
away of both joy & sorrow, one enters & dwells in the 4th jhana absorption,
which is an entirely stilled mental state of utter awareness, purified by
the equanimity of neither-pain-nor-pleasure. This is called the equanimity,
which is not of this world!
Finally, what is serenity beyond the equanimity, which is not of this world?
When a bhikkhu, whose mental fermentations are eliminated, reviews his
calmed mind, which is liberated from all lust, freed from all hatred, and
released from uncertainty, then there arises a transcendental serenity...
This is the serenity beyond that equanimity, which is not of this world!
More one the fine mental state of Equanimity (Upekkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_is_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Divorced_Freedom.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Serene_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Empty_Equanimity.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Exquisite_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/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/upekkhaa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unshakable_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/tatra_majjhattataa.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [235-7]
section 36:11 On Feeling: Vedana. Joys beyond this world ...
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Tranquillity is a prerequisite for Happiness!
Serene is Equanimity!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Serene_Equanimity_and_Beyond.htm
Detaching Release from all Internal & External:
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, desire and lust for any form, for any feeling, for any perception,
for any construction & for any consciousness is a corruption of the mind!
Desire and lust for the earth element: All that is Solid...
Desire and lust for the water element: All that is Fluid...
Desire and lust for the fire element: All that is Hot...
Desire and lust for the air element: All that is Moving...
Desire and lust for the space element: All that is 3-Dimensional and
Desire and lust for the consciousness element: All sense awareness itself,
is a corruption of the mind! When a Bhikkhu has overcome and left all
behind these mental corruptions, his mind seeks for inward withdrawal…
A mind prepared and enhanced by such renunciation becomes wieldy, fit,
focused and open for those subtle mental states, that are to be realized
only by direct experience and assured knowledge...
On the 5 clusters of clinging and the 4 elements:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Solidity.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya SN 27:9-10 III 234
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Radical Release!
Give up all this fooling around...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Clusters_and_Elements.htm
Completely Comprehending and Leaving All!
At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, without directly knowing and completely comprehending The All,
without being disgusted with it and leaving it all behind, one is incapable of
irreversibly eliminating any suffering...
Without directly knowing & completely comprehending the eye, forms, ear,
sounds, nose, smells, tongue, tastes, body, touches, mind, ideas and all metal
states, any consciousness all forms of contact and whatever kind of feeling
arised caused by such sense-contacts, without becoming disgusted with it,
without relinquishing it all, and without letting it all go, one is incapable of
eradicating any suffering irreversibly...
This, friends, is that All, which without directly knowing, without completely
comprehending, without being disgusted by and without leaving, one remains
incapable of eliminating all suffering...
Comments:
The radical rationality of the Buddha-Dhamma here shines forth, wiping all
empty babble away! Since what is suffering? The five Clusters of Clinging
are suffering! Body, Feeling, Perception, Construction & Consciousness and
thus also the 6 senses, their 6 objects, and the 6 kinds of consciousnesses,
their 6 kinds of contact, and their 6 kinds of feeling are all suffering...
Why is all that suffering? Because all that is inherently impermanent and
thus always lost, decaying, and vanishing by itself right where it arised...
Clinging is an intense form of Craving. Craving is the Cause of Suffering!
Further sharp shots @ clinging to sensuality:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Source_of_All.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [17-8]
The 6 senses 35. Thread on Complete Comprehension: Parijanana Sutta (26)
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Not Clinging!
Relinquishing all eliminates Suffering...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Complete_Comprehension.htm
Contentment is the most supreme Treasure!
The Blessed Buddha often noted contentment as the highest treasure:
There is the case where a Bhikkhu is quite content with whatever old robe,
quite content with whatever old almsfood, quite content with whatever hut,
and quite content with whatever bitter medicine for curing sickness.
This Dhamma is for one who is content, not for one who is discontent!
Thus was it said. And with reference to exactly this salient contentment
with whatever little one has, was this simple, serene modesty well spoken...
AN VIII 30
Contentment with whatever little one has!
And how is a Bhikkhu content?
Just as a bird, wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden,
even so is he content with a single set of robes to protect his body and
begged almsfood to pacify his hunger. Wherever he goes, he takes only
these few simple necessities as robes, belt, bowl and razor along with him.
This is how a Bhikkhu is content...
DN 2
There is the case where a Bhikkhu is content with whatever old robe at all,
with whatever old almsfood at all, with whatever old hut at all. He speaks in
praise of being content with any old requisite at all. He does not, for the sake
of any requisite, do anything unsuitable or inappropriate. When not getting any
requisites, he is not troubled. When getting requisites, he just uses it without
being attached to it. He is not obsessed, blameless, and seeing the drawbacks
and dangers of possessions, he realizes the escape from them. He does not,
on account of his contentment with any old requisite at all, exalt himself or
disparage others. Thus is he modest, clever, energetic, alert, & acutely aware!
This, Bhikkhus, is called a Bhikkhu standing quite firm in the ancient, original
lineage of the Noble Ones... AN IV 28
Good are friends, when need arises.
Good is contentment with just what one has.
Good is merit done well, when life is at the end.
Good is the elimination of all Suffering!
Dhammapada 331
Solitude is happiness for one who is content,
who has heard the Dhamma and clearly understands.
Harmlessness is happiness in all worlds!
Harmlessness towards all breathing beings.
Udana 10
Therefore be capable, upright, and straight,
easy to instruct, gentle, and not proud,
content and easy to support with little,
with few duties, living simple and light,
with peaceful abilities, mastering all,
modest, and with no greed for support.
Do not do even a minor thing that the
wise and noble would later criticize.
Sutta Nipata I, 8
More on Contentment (santutthi), which is caused by rejoicing mutual joy:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Content.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoicing_Bliss_is_Mudita.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Cause_of_Contentment.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/ariya_vamsa.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Contentment is the Highest Treasure!!
Cool Calm Comfort...
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Contentment.htm
Some Fine Facts:
Only he is bright, who shines by himself!
What is good, is really ... Good!
What is excellent, is really ... Excellent!
What is perfect, is really ... absolutely Perfect!
A rose is a rose is a rose. ;-) And just that.
Canal makers direct the water.
Arrow makers straighten the shafts.
Carpenters plane the planks of wood.
The Clever Nobles train their Mind...
Dhammapada 80
Those who meditate regularly;
Those who endure enthusiastically;
Those who exert much right effort;
These wise ones attain Nibbana:
The supreme Peace, the sublime Bliss.
Dhammapada 23
Health is the greatest gain!
Contentment is the finest treasure!
Certainty is the foremost helper!
Nibbana is the highest Happiness...
Dhammapada 204
The Sublime Supreme Exists!
Some Fabulously Fine Facts!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Encouraging_Arousal.htm
Karunã: The Great Good Helper!
Karuna is feeling the pain of other beings, either partially or completely;
Possible translations:
1: Pity not from above: “I am better”, but as if in the other being’s shoes…
2: Compassion is OK, but that is difficult to reach up to for many beings…
3: Fellow feeling, sympathy, empathy, understanding are all OK, but somewhat
missing these essential points:
A: It is an inability to see and accept other being’s suffering and distress!
B: It is a deep desire to make others feel free, glad, happy and peaceful!
C: It is extended to and pervaded over many beings simultaneously…
The proximate cause of Karuna = pity is noticing other being’s helplessness .
The immediate effect of Karuna = pity is evaporation of all evil cruelty!
Pity (Karuna) is one of the four divine and infinite dwellings (Brahmavihara):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Endless_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Karuna_is_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Wrong.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Great_Compassion.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Compassionate_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Space_Compassion.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/brahma_vihaara.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Cruelty_and_Revengefulness.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Seeing other being's Helplessness...
Great Compassion!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Karuna_is_Pity.htm
Mind is the Maker and the Creator!
The blessed Buddha once said:
Mind precedes and initiates all phenomena!
Mind is their chief, mind is their maker...
When one speaks or performs an action
with a mind, that is internally all pure,
then happiness and pleasure follows,
like a shadow that never departs...
Dhammapada 1
Difficult to detect and very subtle,
mind can seize and take up any object,
so let any wise being guard the mind,
for a guarded mind brings happiness...
Dhammapada 36
Neither mother, nor father, nor any other
family member can do greater good, both
for oneself and for others as well, than
the well directed & well controlled mind...
Dhammapada 43
What is Mind?
Mind is an ever repeating cycle sequence of:
Contact1 => Feeling1 + Perception1 => Intention1 => Attention1 redirected =>
New Contact2 => Feeling2 + Perception2 => Intention2 => Attention2 => etc.
Stilling this cycle produces Peace and Bliss! This serene Tranquillity is called:
Nibbana!
More on the Magnificent Luminous Mind:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/In_Control.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-Control.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mind_Reading.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Luminous_is_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_&_Bright.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Core_Duality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Magnificent_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Focusing_on_Mentality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Omniscient_Quantum_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Immersing_the_Body_in_the_Mind.htm
Mind is the Maker!
Magnificent & Luminous is Mind!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Magnificent_Mind.htm
Direct Experience of Development of the Noble 8-fold Way:
The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, friends, should be fully understood by direct experience?
The Five Clusters of Clinging. What five?
The cluster of clinging to form...
The cluster of clinging to feeling...
The cluster of clinging to perception...
The cluster of clinging to construction...
The cluster of clinging to consciousness...
These are the 5 things, which should be understood by direct experience!
What are the 2 things, which should be overcome & left by direct experience?
Ignorance and Craving for new Becoming... These are the 2 things, which should
be overcome, relinquished and left all behind by direct experience!
And what are the 2 things, which should be realized by direct experience?
Complete Understanding and Absolute Freedom...
These are the two things, which should be realized by direct experience!
And what are the 2 things, which should be developed by direct experience?
Calm and Insight...
These are the two things, which should be developed by direct experience.
And how does a Bhikkhu indeed do so? Here, friends, the Bhikkhu develops:
Right View, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release.
Right Motivation, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release.
Right Speech, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release.
Right Action, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release.
Right Livelihood, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release.
Right Effort, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release.
Right Awareness, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release.
Right Concentration, based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release.
It is in this way that a Bhikkhu comes to fully understand all that, which should be
understood; comes to overcome, and leave behind all, which should be left behind;
comes to realize by direct experience all states that is realizable, & finally comes
to develop all the mental states, which should be developed…
More on Calm and Insight and Direct Experience:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Direct_Experience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Insight.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/4_Realizations.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:52-3] section 45: The Way. 160: The Guest-House ...
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Escape is Possible!
Freedom comes through Direct Experience!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Escape.htm
How to be Real Buddhist through Observance?
Unduwap Poya is this Fullmoon of December celebrating 2 events:
1: The arrival of Arahat Nun Theri Sanghamitta, sister of Arahat Mahinda, daughter
of emperor Asoka from India in the 3rd century B.C. establishing the Order of Nuns.
2: The arrival at Anuradhapura of a sapling of the sacred Bodhi-tree at Buddhagaya,
brought to Sri Lanka by Arahat Theri Sanghamitta.
Arahat Theri Sanghamitta arrives w. tree.
This day is designated Sanghamitta Day. Nowadays Dasasil Matas;
ten-precept nuns, take an active part in making these celebrations.
Arahat Theri Sanghamitta
Details on the Arahat Nun Theri Sanghamitta and the MahaBodhi:
See: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/sa/sanghamitta_theri.htm
and the Tree http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhirukka.htm
The over 2000 years old Bodhi Tree in Ceylon.
On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days:
Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges & undertakes the
Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with
clean bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and
bows first three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head
touch the floor. Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites
these memorized lines in a loud, calm & steady voice:
As long as this life lasts:
I hereby take refuge in the Buddha.
I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma.
I hereby take refuge in the Sangha.
I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time.
I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.
I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!
I accept to respect & undertake these 5 training rules:
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Dishonesty.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs.
As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...
Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's
own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much
better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in/to
this world! So is the start towards Nibbana: the Deathless Element!
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Ease, to Happiness,
initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and
fulfilled by training of Meditation...
Today indeed is Pooya or Uposatha / observance day, where any lay
Buddhist normally keeps even the Eight Precepts from sunrise until
the next dawn... If any wish a recognition by the Bhikkhu-Sangha,
they may simply forward the lines starting with "I hereby ..." signed
with name, date, town & country to me or join here. A public list of
this new quite rapidly growing global Saddhamma-Sangha is set up
here!
The Modern Community of Buddha's Disciples: Saddhamma Sangha:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Saddhamma_Sangha.htm
Can quite advantageously be Joined Here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm
May your journey hereby be light, swift and sweet. Never give up !!
Bhikkhu Samahita: bhikkhu.samahita@what-buddha-said.net
For Details on The Origin of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
Have a nice observance day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Lay Buddhists keep the Poya days clean!
On this unduwap Poya day did Arahat Theri Sanghamitta arrive!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Unduwap_Poya_Day.htm
Harmlessness & Tolerance Protects all Beings!
The Blessed Buddha was a great friend of tolerance & harmlessness:
I am a friend of the footless,
I am a friend of the bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed.
May not the footless harm me,
may not the bipeds harm me,
may not those with four feet harm me,
and may not those with many feet harm me.
A. II, 72
Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the wood.
No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.
Uplifted by such universal friendliness I enjoyed the forest.
Finding great solace in sweet silent solitude.
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540
I am a friend and helper to all,
I am sympathetic to all living beings.
I develop a mind full of love and
delights always in harmlessness.
I gladden my mind, fill it with joy,
makes it immovable and unshakable.
I develop the divine states of mind
not cultivated by simple men.
Theragatha. 648-9
Thus he who both day and night
takes delight in harmlessness
sharing love with all that live,
finds enmity with none.
SN I 208
He who does not strike nor makes
others strike, who robs not nor makes
others rob, sharing love with all that lives,
finds enmity with none.
Itivuttaka 22
As a mother even with her life protects
her only son, so let one cultivate infinite,
yeah universal, friendliness towards
all sentient, living & breathing beings.
When one with a mind of true affection
feels compassion for this entire world,
above, below and across,
unlimited everywhere.
The one who has left violence,
who never harm any being,
who never kill nor causes to kill,
such one, mild, is a Holy Noble One.
Dhammapada 405
The one who is friendly among the hostile,
who is harmless among the violent,
who is detached among the greedy,
such one is a Holy Noble One.
Dhammapada 406
He is not Noble who injures living beings.
He is called Noble because he is
gentle & kind towards all living beings.
Dhammapada 270
Tolerance is the highest training.
Patience is the best praxis.
So all Buddhas say.
Dhammapada 184
Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
[color=#BF0040]Khuddakapatha 9
Solitude is happiness for one who is content,
who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees.
Cordial non-violence is happiness in this world
harmlessness towards all living beings.
Udana 10
How to become harmless:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Buddha_on_Noble_Frienship.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Blessing_all_Beings_by_Bliss.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Patient_is_Tolerance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Bon_Benevolence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Friendliness_Frees.htm
Happy & Holy is the Harmless :-)
Harmlessness is the Best Protection!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Harmlessness_and_Tolerance.htm
The Advantageous & the Detrimental!
There are these two kinds of Desire:
1: Advantageous Desire for unbinding, for release, for peace, for Nibbana...
Why is this form of desire advantageous ?
Because it leads towards ultimate safety, freedom, and lasting Happiness!
2: The Detrimental Desire for forms, for body, for feelings, for perceptions,
for mental constructions, for sensing, & for the various types of consciousness.
Why is this form of desire detrimental?
Because it leads to repeated births, ageing, decaying, sickness & repeated death!
Because it leads to sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, misery & desperate despair.
I tell you, because such desire leads to Suffering...
These are the two kinds of Desire!
There are these two kinds of Disgust:
1: The Advantageous Disgust towards forms, towards body, towards feelings,
towards perceptions, towards mental constructions, towards sensing, towards the
manifold and various types of consciousness, towards all internal and all external ...
Why is this form of disgust advantageous ?
Because it leads towards ultimate safety, freedom, and lasting Happiness!
2: The Detrimental Disgust towards friends on the Noble life, towards morality,
towards meditation, towards understanding, towards right view, towards right
motivation, towards right speech, towards right behaviour, towards right livelihood,
towards right effort, and towards right concentration...
Why is this form of disgust detrimental?
Because it leads to repeated births, ageing, decaying, sickness & repeated death!
Because it leads to sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, misery & desperate despair.
I tell you, because such desire leads to Suffering...
These are the two kinds of Disgust!
Comments:
The autopilot monkey-mind runs with any desire, even if it is catastrophic...
This same folly also runs away from any disgust, even if it is advantageous!
More on this dual Desire (Chanda):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Desire_as_Way_to_Force.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Obstructing_Corruption.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Desireless_is_Deathless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Two_kinds_of_Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Colourful_but_Muddy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/chanda.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Charcoal_Pit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Desire_&_Lust.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Just_a_Flash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
The 2 Blind Drivers...
Desire and disgust can be both advantageous and detrimental!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Two_kinds_of_Desire.htm
Ignorance is the Root of Suffering!
At Varanasi in the Deer Park at Isipatana, they once asked Sariputta:
Ignorance, ignorance, it is said, what now, friend, is this ignorance,
and in what way is one immersed in such ignorance?
Here, friend, the uninstructed ordinary person does not understand
as it really is: The arising, the ceasing, the satisfaction, the danger,
nor the escape, nor the way leading to escape, neither in the case of
form, nor of in the case of feeling, nor of in the case of perception,
nor of in the case of mental construction, nor of in the case of this
consciousness. This, friends, is called ignorance, and in this way is
one indeed still immersed in the fatal blindness of ignorance...
More on Ignorance (Avijja):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/avijjaa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Because_of_Not_Knowing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Causes_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Whenever_and_Wherever.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Because_of_Not_Examining.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Indifference_Creates_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_the_Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22:131+5 III 174-6
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What is Ignorance?
Ignorance is the Root of Suffering!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Ignorance.htm
Phenomena are Causes, Effects, or Neither:
Which are the mental states, that are causes?
Good and bad states, belonging to the worlds of sense desire, to the planes of
fine material form, to the formless realms, and to the supra-mundane states:
That is the cluster of feelings, perceptions, mental constructions and the
cluster of the manifold and variable kinds of consciousness...
These are the phenomena, which cause results!
Comment: Present mental states conditions and influences future events!
Which are the mental states, that are effects?
The results of good and bad mental states, which make effects in the worlds
of sense desire, in the planes of fine material form, in the formless realms,
and in the supra-mundane states: That is the cluster of feelings, perceptions,
mental constructions & the cluster of the various types of consciousness...
These are the phenomena, which are results!
Comment: Mental states are often seeded by and results of past events!
Which are the states, that neither are results nor cause results?
Those mental states governing action, which are neither good, nor bad!,
nor the results of other prior action, and moreover all form, and finally
the unconditioned element of Nibbana... These are the three phenomena,
which neither are results themselves, nor cause any other future effects!
Comment: Material form, Nibbana & inoperative neutral (Kiriya) actions
of the Arahats causes no future effects to arise anywhere at any time...
About the cause and effect of intentional states:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Neutral.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Creating_Future.htm
Source: The 1st canonical Abhidhamma Book: Dhammasanghani: pp 991-993
The Classification of States. The Enumeration of Ultimate Realities.
Tr. by U Kyaw Khine. 1999. Sri Satguru Publications. Delhi.
All Intentions have Resulting Effects!
Phenomena are Causes, Effects, or Neither...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Resultants.htm
Any Intention is creating moments of Future!
Any moment of intentional mental activity creates and conditions the future!
Any moment of intentional verbal activity creates and conditions the future!
Any moment of intentional bodily activity creates and conditions the future!
If the intention behind this thinking, speaking or doing is mixed with either
greed, hate, or ignorance or diluted derivatives thereof, this future will
inevitably be mixed with resultant states of mental and physical pain…
If the intention behind this thinking, speaking & doing is mixed with either
non-greed, non-hate, or non-ignorance or dilutions thereof, this future
will inevitably be mixed with resultant states of mental and physical pleasure…
If the intention behind this thinking, speaking & doing is mixed neither with
greed nor with non-greed, neither with hate nor with non-hate,& neither
with ignorance nor with non-ignorance, this future will inevitably be mixed
with resultant states of neither pain nor pleasure = neutral indifference…
Not intending any stills formation of becoming and is not creating any future!
Therefore: Be Aware! Watch the intention! Is it mixed with exactly what?
Intention is literally seeding and producing moments of your future!
No other Creator is found! Silencing intention creates Peace!
About the cause and effect of intentional states:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_is_intention.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Neutral.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Resultants.htm
Have a nice noting colour of the intention day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Intentions Create the Future!
Any intending changes the probabilities for future events...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Creating_Future.htm
Kamma is Intention behind a mental, verbal or bodily action:
Kamma is intention to push and act and not the later resulting effects!
Buddha emphasized the core Law of Kamma: Moral Efficacy of any Action!
He said: Kamma should be known and understood:
The cause by which kamma comes into play should be known.
The diversity in kamma should be known.
The result of kamma should be known.
The ending of kamma should be known.
The way of practice for the ending of kamma should be known.
Thus it has been said. In reference to what was it said?
Intention, I tell you, is kamma.
Intending, one makes kamma by way of body, speech, and mind.
And what is the cause by which kamma comes into play?
Contact is the cause by which kamma comes into play.
And what is the diversity in kamma?
There is kamma to be experienced in hell,
kamma to be experienced in the realm of the various animals,
kamma to be experienced in the realm of the hungry ghosts,
kamma to be experienced in this human world,
kamma to be experienced in the world of the divine devas.
This is called the diversity in kamma.
By intending something one plants an egg of future hatching resultants!
And what is the result of kamma?
The result of kamma is of three sorts, I tell you:
that which arises right here and now, or later in this very lifetime,
and that which arises in later lives. This is called the result of kamma.
And what is the ending of kamma?
The ending of contact thereby also ends kamma.
And what is the way of practice for the ending of kamma?
Just this Noble eightfold path:
right view,
right motivation,
right speech,
right action,
right livelihood,
right effort,
right mindfulness,
right concentration
This is the way of praxis leading to the end of kamma.
Now when a disciple of the Noble Ones comprehends kamma in this way,
the cause, the diversity, the result, the end, and the way of practice
leading to the ending of kamma in this way, then he sees the fulfilment
of the Noble life as the end of kamma.
Kamma should be known.
The cause by which kamma comes into play...
The diversity in kamma...
The result of kamma...
The ending of kamma...
The way of practice for the ending of kamma should be known.
Thus it has been said, and in reference to this was it said.
Reference: AN VI.63
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Reflecting on all one's actions:
Intention has in future entangled physical effects outside the individual!
The Buddha to his son:
How do you consider this, Rahula: What is a mirror for?
Rahula: For reflection, Sir.
The Buddha: In the same way, Rahula, bodily acts, verbal acts, and mental
acts are to be done with constant reflection. Whenever you want to do a
bodily act, then you should reflect: This bodily act I want to do, would it
lead to misery to myself, to the misery of others, or to both?
Is it a detrimental bodily act, with painful consequences, painful results?
If, on reflection, you come to know that it would lead to your own misery,
to the misery of others, or to both, and it would be an harming bodily act
with painful consequences, painful results, then any bodily act whatsoever
of that sort is absolutely unacceptable for you to do! But if on reflection
you know that it would not cause misery. That it would be an advantageous
bodily action with happy consequences, & pleasant results, then any bodily
act of that sort is proper for you to do.
Any intention produces a ladder into the future upon which one climbs!
While you are doing a bodily act, you should reflect: This bodily act I am
doing now does it lead to self-misery, to the misery of others, or to both?
Is it an detrimental bodily act, with painful consequences, painful results?
If, on reflection, you come to know that it is leading to self-misery, or to
the misery of others, or to both, then you should instantly stop doing it!
But if on reflection you know that it is not disadvantageous to anybody,
then you may continue with it.
Having done a bodily act, you should again reflect .... If, on reflection,
you come to know that it led to self-misery, to the misery of others, or to
both; that it was an detrimental bodily act with painful consequences,
painful results, then you should confess it, reveal it, and lay it open to the
teacher or to a knowledgeable friend in the holy life. Having confessed it,
you should exercise restraint and self-control in the future.
But if on reflection you know that it did not lead to misery, that it was a
advantageous bodily action with happy consequences, happy results, then
you should stay mentally elated and joyful, training day & night in all the
advantageous mental qualities.
...[similarly for verbal and mental acts]...
Intention is a choice, which reduces entropy, thus rolling out the future!
Rahula, all past bhikkhus and recluses who purified their bodily, verbal, &
mental acts, did it through repeated reflection on their bodily, verbal, and
mental acts in exactly this way. All the future bhikkhus and recluses & all
the bhikkhus and recluses who at present purify their bodily, verbal, and
mental acts, do it by repeated reflection on their bodily, verbal, & mental
acts in exactly this way. Therefore, Rahula, you should train yourself:
I will purify my bodily acts by repeated reflection.
I will purify my verbal acts by repeated reflection.
I will purify my mental acts by repeated reflection.
Thus should you train yourself!
reference MN 61
For details on the mechanics of Kamma = Intentional Action see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_dilutes_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_short_&_long_life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_&_Sickness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Low_or_High_Birth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Wealth_or_Poverty.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Beauty_&_Ugliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Power_or_Disrespect.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil_Kamma_enhances_other_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_enhances_other_Good_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Stupidity_or_Intelligence.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Intention is the Kamma!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Kamma_is_intention.htm
Unselfish Joy! How to Rejoice in Others Success:
By seeing that:
If only happy at one's own success, such egoistic Joy is rare and limited!
If happy at others success also, the Joy is more frequent & even infinite!
By observing that:
It starts with basic sympathy, develops into acceptance, genuine approval,
& appreciation. It culminates in rejoicing altruistic sympathy by directing
mind to initiation, much cultivation & boundless expansion of Mutual Joy!
By knowing that:
Mutual Joy is the proximate cause of sweet, fully satisfied contentment!
Lack of mutual joy is therefore the proximate cause of discontentment!
Mutual Joy instantly eliminates acidic jealousy, grudge and green envy!
Mutual Joy is an infinite, truly divine, elevating and sublime mental state!
Mutual Joy is 1 of the 4 mental states of the Brahma-devas (Brahmavihara)
The Blessed Buddha pointed out:
If it were impossible to cultivate this Good , I would not tell you to do so!
Buddhaghosa:
See how this worthy being is very Happy!
How fine! How excellent! How sweet!
Let there be Happiness. Let there be open Freedom.
Let there be Peace. Let there be Bliss from cultivating this.
Let there be Understanding of this mental state of Mutual Joy!
Cultivation of Mutual Joy is the specific medicine against Envy & Jealousy:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Rejoicing_Joy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Infinitely_Joyous_Consciousness.htm
Mudita: The Buddha's Teaching on Unselfish Joy: BPS Wheel Publication No. 170
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel170.html
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Mutual Joy Rejoices in Other's Success...
Mutually Rejoicing Bliss!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoicing_Bliss_is_Mudita.htm
The Essential Foundation of Mental Purity!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these Four Foundations of Awareness. What four?
When a Bhikkhu keenly contemplates:
1: Any Body just as a transient Form...
2: Any Feeling just as a passing Sensation...
3: Any Mind just as a momentary Mood...
4: Any Phenomena just as a flickering Mental State...
while always acutely aware & clearly comprehending, he thereby removes
any urge, envy, jealousy, frustration and discontent rooted in this world...
[color=#800000]These are the Four Foundations of Awareness...
Details On 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
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sati_Summary.htm
[color=#BF0040]Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 173-4] 47 The Foundations of Awareness: 24 Simple..
Awareness is Essential...
A Crucial Foundation!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Crucial_Foundation.htm
The Effect caused by Action is delayed as a Sown Seed!
The Blessed Buddha once explained:
Regarding the effects of actions, Ananda, as to the person here who avoids
all killing of any living being, who avoids all stealing of what is not given, who
avoids any misconduct in sensual pleasures, who avoids all false speech, divisive
speech, aggressive speech, and all idle & empty gossip, who is neither envious,
nor jealous, is good-willed, and who is of right view, yet who at the breakup of
the body, right after death, is reborn in a state of deprivation, a dreadful
destination, in the painful purgatory, or even in one of the hells: Either earlier,
prior to this, such one also did evil actions to be felt as painful, or later, after
this - such one did evil actions to be felt as pain, or at moment of death such
one entered into & maintained wrong views! Because of one or more of these,
right after death, such one is reborn in a bad state of deprivation, a dreadful
destination, in the painful purgatory, or even in the hells.
But since such one also - here & now - has been one who avoids all killing of any
living being, who avoids taking anything what is not given, who avoids all wrong
misconduct in sensual pleasures, who avoids all false speech, divisive speech,
aggressive speech, & all idle & empty gossip, who is neither envious, nor jealous,
who is of good will, & who holds right views, such one will experience the pleasant
results of that good behaviour, either here and now, or in the next rebirth, or
in some subsequent later existence...
Comments:
Behaviour (kamma) is almost always mixed: Sometimes good, sometimes bad!
The later effects are therefore also mixed: Sometimes pleasure, often pain...
Good begets good & dilutes+delays evil. Evil begets evil & dilutes+delays good!
An illustration of the delayed, overlapping & interfering result of mixed kamma:
For details on the mechanics of Kamma = Intentional Action see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_is_intention.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Intention_is_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Unintentional_Action.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Kamma_and_Fruit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Kamma_is_improvable.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Inevitable_Consequences.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_dilutes_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_short_&_long_life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_&_Sickness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Low_or_High_Birth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Wealth_or_Poverty.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Beauty_&_Ugliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Effect_of_kammic_Action_is_Delayed.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Power_or_Disrespect.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil_Kamma_enhances_other_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_enhances_other_Good_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Stupidity_or_Intelligence.htm
Source:
The Moderate speeches of the Buddha: The great speech on Action. MN 136
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X Full Text:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.136.nymo.html
Mixed cause => Mixed Effect!
Variable are Delayed Effects of Mixed Kamma!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Effect_of_kammic_Action_is_Delayed.htm
What Stops all Sadness & Frustration?
Where does all mental melancholy and blue depression cease without a trace?
When, with the fading away & stilling of all directed thought & any sustained
thinking, one enters and remains in the second jhana absorption of assured
unification of mind, merged with pleasure and joy, born of this well anchored
& fixed concentration: It is right there that all mental frustration & sadness
cease without a trace remaining...
Therefore do beings reborn at the radiant deva level, never feel any mental
sorrow, misery or sadness, since they are continuously absorbed in this subtle
2nd jhana concentration... Thus they move their body of beaming light joyously
around at the speed of a thought! They are literally feeding on this pure Joy!
Continuously enveloped in enraptured and exalted ecstatic bliss!
On how to attain the Jhana absorptions:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Details_of_the_Jhana_Absorptions.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Requisites_for_Jhana_Absorption.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Concentration_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Concentration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Concentration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Concentration_Samadhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/jhaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Jhana_Absorption.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Samma-Samadhi.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book V 213-4
The Abilities section 48. Thread on The Irregular Order: Uppatika 40
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
What Stops all Sadness?
How2Stop the Moody-Blue Melancholy?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Sadness_and_Frustration.htm
Infinite is All-Embracing Kindness!
The Blessed Buddha once said: Embrace the Cosmos!
Bhikkhus and Friends: There are these four infinite & divine mental states:
The Bhikkhu pervades all beings with all-embracing friendliness ...
The Bhikkhu encompass all beings with universal and endless pity ...
The Bhikkhu permeates all beings with infinite and mutual joy ...
The Bhikkhu suffuses all beings with unlimited equanimity ...
First in one direction, then the second, then the third, and to the fourth,
above, below, all around, in every location, uniting himself with all beings,
he pervades the entire universe with an all-embracing pure friendliness,
with all-embracing compassion and pity, with all-embracing mutual and
altruistic joy, with an all-embracing imperturbable equanimity, using a
refined mind, which is made great, vast, profound, infinite, immeasurable,
released from all hate, anger, irritation, opposition and stubbornness...
Source: DN33
Because of hate, overwhelmed and obsessed by hate, one lives by doing evil
deeds, speaking evil words, and thinking evil thoughts... While doing this one
neither really understands one's own welfare, nor the welfare of others,
nor the welfare of both... If, however, this hate is overcome and subdued,
then one lives while doing good deeds, speaking kind words, and thinking
advantageous thoughts... Therefore while doing this good one really knows
what is for one's own present & future welfare, for the welfare of others,
and to the welfare of both oneself and all other beings...
Source: AN 3:55
More on these 4 Infinite and Divine States (Appamañña Brahma-Vihara):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/brahma_vihaara.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Buddha_on_Noble_Frienship.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Selfless_Friendship_is_Sweetest.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/All_Embracing_Kindness.htm
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/iti/iti.1.024-027.irel.html
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nanamoli/wheel007.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoicing_Bliss_is_Mudita.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_Friendliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/United_in_Harmony.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Good_Friend.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Goodwill_Encore.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_&_Bright.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Friendliness_Frees.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kalyanamitta.htm
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=404214
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm
Hug the Cosmos!
Infinite is All-Embracing Kindness!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/All-Embracing_Kindness.htm
The Clusters of Clinging are Unsubstantial!
The Buddha once said about the fleeting aspects of reality:
Form is like a lump of foam, feeling is like a water bubble, perception is like
a mirage, constructions like a hollow tree, and consciousness like an illusion!
Just a coreless appearance! However one may reflect over it, and carefully
investigate it. When one views it cautiously: It appears but empty and void!
Pointing at this body The One of Broad Wisdom has taught that if only three
things are lacking, one will have to leave this fragile frame, ditched all behind:
If metabolism, heat and consciousness depart from this physical body, then it
lies there, cast away again: Unconscious food for others.. This illusion, beguiler
of vain fools. It is similar to a serial killer. Neither a substance, nor any safety.
A Bhikkhu with aroused enthusiasm looks upon these 5 clusters of clinging in
exactly this ultra-realistic way: Disgusted, both day & night! Ever aware, calmly
& clearly comprehending! He should eliminate all mental chains, thereby making
his own island! Thereby becoming his own protector, refuge, lamp and light!
Let him train as with his head ablaze with fire yearning only for the everlasting
deathless state!
More on these 5 Clusters of Clinging (Khandha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Like_Foam.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Burning_Five.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/khandha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III 142-3
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 Full Text:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn22-095.html
Like Foam!
Reality contains neither an 'ego', nor a 'substance'...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Like_Foam.htm
Attaining 1 of the 4 Noble Fruits is Sublime!
Insight culminates in the moment of attaining the recluses sublime fruit:
A state tranquillizing all distress, its beauty from the Deathless draws...
Its calm from lack of fuzzy worldliness. Truly a sweet and clarified bliss!
It is a fountainhead, whose honey-sweet ambrosia emulates the deathless.
Any being refining understanding, will experience this pure peerless bliss,
which is the taste the noble fruit produces, right here in this very life!
The flavour of the Noble fruit is Happiness, a blessing of fulfilled insight!
Vism 702
There are 4 types of increasingly Noble individuals (Ariya-Puggala):
1: The Stream-winner (Sotapanna),
2: The Once-Returner (Sakadagami),
3: The Non-Returner (Anagami),
4: The Awakened Holy One (Arahat).
More on mental Fruition (Phala):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/phala.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Rewarding_Fruitions.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Seven_Able_Benefits.htm
Have a nice day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The Noble Fruit!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_Noble_Fruit.htm
The 4 Steps to Stream-Entry to Nibbâna...
The Blessed Buddha once explained:
Here, householder, the Noble Disciple possesses confirmed confidence and
conviction in the Buddha in exactly his way: Worthy, honourable & perfectly
self-Enlightened is the Buddha! Consummated in knowledge and behaviour,
all transcended, expert in all dimensions, knower of all worlds, unsurpassable
trainer of those who can be tamed, teacher & guide of both gods & humans,
blessed, exalted, awakened & enlightened is the Buddha!
He possesses confirmed confidence in the Dhamma in exactly this way:
Perfectly formulated is this Buddha-Dhamma, visible right here and now,
immediately effective, timeless, inviting each and everyone to come and see
for themselves, inspect, examine and verify. Leading each and everyone
through progress towards perfection. Directly observable, experiencable
and realizable by each intelligence...
He also possesses confirmed confidence in the Noble Sangha in this way:
Perfectly training is this Noble Sangha community of the Buddha's disciples:
Training the right way, the true way, the good way, the direct way!
Therefore do these eight kinds of individuals, the four Noble pairs, deserve
both gifts, self-sacrifice, offerings, hospitality & reverential salutation with
joined palms, since this Noble Sangha community of the Buddha's disciples,
is an unsurpassable & forever unsurpassed Field of Merit, in this world, for
this world, to honour, protect, respect and support ...
He possesses the Pure Morality esteemed by the Noble ones:
Unbroken, untorn, unspotted, unmottled, freeing, praised by the wise,
natural, leading to mental concentration, to absorption...
These are the 4 factors of Stream-Entry that a Noble Disciple possess!
The 4 steps to Stream-entry (sotapannassa angani) are therefore obtaining:
1: Unshakable faith in the fact of the perfect Enlightenment of the Buddha.
2: Unshakable faith in the perfect correctness of the true Dhamma.
3: Unshakable faith in the Noble part of the Sangha (monastic+lay).
4: Purified and perfectly unspotted Morality (Sila).
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sotaapannassa_an.htm
Canonical references: SN. LV.1; DN. 33; SN. XLVII.8
Not to confuse with the 4 helpers to Stream-entry (sotapattiyanga):
1: Companionship with great men,
2: Hearing the True Dhamma Law,
3: Wise reflection on Cause and Effect,
4: Living in conformity with the Dhamma.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sotaapattiyanga.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Helpers_to_Stream_Entry.htm
Canonical references: SN. LV.5; DN.33
More on the Noble Stream-Entry:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Doors.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Enter.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Stream-Enterer.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stream_Entrance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fruits_of_the_Noble_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Links_to_Stream_Entry.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/ariya_puggala.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Helpers_to_Stream_Entry.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Entering_the_Stream_Supreme.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book II [69]
section 12:41 The five Fears ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
The Stream Supreme...
The 4 Steps to Stream-Entry!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Doors.htm
What is the Cause of Contentment (Santutthi?)
The blessed Buddha once said:
Contentment is the highest Treasure!
Dhammapada 204
Please imagine a state, where one always is Content…
If always content, what would, one need, urge for or want? Nothing!
What is the cause of contentment?
Mutual joy with others success is the proximate cause of contentment...
Lack of Mutual joy is therefore the cause of discontentment…
A: When did you last rejoice happily in someone else’s success?
B: When did you last enjoy the calm peace of satisfied contentment?
State-A causes state-B. Therefore: Non-state-A causes non-state-B...!
Mutual joy can be trained! Result => Calm Content!
How? Please see here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Contentment.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Content.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoicing_Bliss_is_Mudita.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Infinitely_Joyous_Consciousness.htm
Enjoy Elevated Rejoice! It cures!
When providing the cause, one gains the effect…
What Causes Contentment?
How2 Get Calm Contentment?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Cause_of_Contentment.htm
Cause Entails Effect: Be mindful in all you do!
There are some fundamental tenets. One is the universal regime of cause
and effect. The second is the idea of interdependence of all phenomena.
The third is in understanding that there is a certain dependence in origination
itself, that is that which originates, changes, disappears and disintegrates.
This idea is inbuilt in origination. The 4th is the impermanence of conditioned
things and absence of inherent existence of the cognizer and the cognized.
The fifth is the suffering that follows from mistaken perceptions in the
permanence of reality. In our social as well as individual lives, we have to
encounter suffering caused by false apprehensions of reality and happiness.
Buddhism does not believe in mortifying the flesh; it does not believe in ignoring
the demands of life, or the potential for expanding knowledge about the universe;
it does not deny that knowledge can help to reduce suffering or improve
conditions of living. It has therefore no distaste for science or technology.
On the contrary, it believes that skillful use of science and technology can
improve the quality of our lives. But since technology involves the choice of
goals, nature of the goals, as well as the motivation that prompts the choice
and pursuit of goals become very important. If they ignore or violate any of
the beliefs that listed above, they are bound to increase individual and social
suffering, and not welfare. Hence what we believe will contribute to our pleasure
sometimes could turn out to be the cause of aggravated suffering.
To the Buddhist, ethics and morality are not extraneous to the realm of cause and
effect. They are not commandments of one who is the creator, and who functions
above the realm of cause and effect. Nor have their observance to be induced by
a system of reward and punishment.
The belief that actions take place in the realm of cause and effect has turned
Buddhism away from the need to look for an external source of authority or
reward and punishment administered by an external authority. Actions have
their inescapable consequences as they are guided by the law of cause & effect.
Thus my motivations and actions will have their effects on me and the social and
even natural environment in which I live. I cannot overlook this effect, and
therefore, the responsibility to see that my conduct to what creates a conducive
effect on me as well as my social and natural environment.
Advances in science and technology are not based on an analysis of motives,
or the impact and chain-reactions that these are likely to cause on the psyche
and environment. The negative consequences of this absence of mindfulness have
now been brought to our attention. What do we do?
Persist in the mindless pursuit of individual power and material possessions,
unconcerned with its consequences -- in other words running the risk of a
suicide of the species?
The answer lies within us, within our minds. To a believer in Buddha Dharma it is
this mindfulness which is the basis on which to choose the path that leads to
freedom and fulfillment. Among the most powerful enemies of mindfulness are
desire, greed and the ego, the desire to promote one's ego at the cost of others
or society or the environment. The answer that Buddha Dhamma clearly gives is
mindfulness even to protect mindfulness itself, and the ethics and morality that
mindfulness makes imperative in a world governed by cause and effect.
by Lama Doboom Tulku, Times of India, Dec 21, 2011
Causes, good as bad, inevitably spread as effects, like rings in water!
More on Causality:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Boundn_to_be.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Proximate_Causes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Proximate_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dependent_Causation.htm
Cause and Effect....
Mental Causation inevitably entails Resultants!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Cause_and_Effect.htm
Regarding all Phenomena with aloof Equanimity!
When one has understood constructions by seeing the three characteristics in
them and their voidness, then one can leave both terror & delight by becoming
indifferent and neutral to all states, taking them neither to be 'I' nor 'mine'!
One becomes like a man who has recently divorced his wife: The man who were
married to a lovely, gorgeous, & charming wife & so deeply in love with her as to
be unable to bear separation from her for a moment. He would be disturbed &
displeased to see her standing, talking & laughing with another man, and would
be very unhappy, but later, when he had found out that woman's faults, and he
had divorced her, he would no more take her as 'mine'; and thereafter, even
though he saw her doing whatever it might be, with whomsoever it might be,
he would neither be disturbed, nor displeased, but only neutral & indifferent!
So too with the meditating disciple who wants to get free from all phenomena,
he recognizes all constructions as impermanent, and void of pleasure and self,
thus seeing that nothing is possible to take as 'I' or 'mine', he abandons both
terror and delight, and becomes indifferent & neutral towards all phenomena...
Vism 656
Divorced from Possessiveness, Egoism, Clinging and Frustration!
More On Equanimity (Upekkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Serene_Equanimity_and_Beyond.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unshakable_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Equanimity_Upekkha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Empty_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Serene_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_is_Equanimity.htm
Equanimity describes the unattached awareness of one's experience as a result
of perceiving the impermanence of momentary reality. It is a peace of mind and
dwelling in even calmness that cannot be shaken by any grade of both fortunate
and unfortunate circumstance. It is a concept promoted by several religions...!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equanimity
Have a nice divorced day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Serene Ease...
Aloof is Equanimity!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Divorced_Freedom.htm
The 5 Impurities block the Lucidity of Mind:
The Blessed Buddha once said:
There are five impurities of gold impaired by which it becomes neither pliant
nor wieldy, it lacks radiance, is weak & easily broken and cannot be formed...
What are these five impurities? They are: Iron, copper, tin, lead and silver.
But if the gold has been purified from these five impurities, then it will indeed
be pliant and wieldy, radiant and firm, and can be formed well. Whatever kind
of jewellery one wishes to make from it, be it a diadem, earrings, a necklace or
a golden chain, it will easily serve that purpose well.
Similarly, there are five impurities of the mind impaired by which the mind is
neither pliant nor wieldy, it lacks radiant lucidity and stability, and cannot
concentrate well upon the eradication of the mental fermentations (asava).
What are these five impurities? They are:
1: Sense-Desire,
2: Evil-Will,
3: Lethargy and Laziness,
4: Restlessness and Regret,
5: Doubt and Uncertainty...
But if the mind is freed of these five mental hindrances, then it will be plastic,
flexible, and wieldy, will be of radiant lucidity and firm calm stability, and will
concentrate well upon the elimination of the mental fermentations. Whatever
supra-human state realizable by these higher mental abilities one may pursue,
one will in each case be able to directly experience it, as an eye-witness...
Buddha said: The mind is naturally radiant, but veiled by mental hindrance!
More on these 5 Mental Hindrances (Nivaranas):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Mental_Hindrances.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Feeding_the_Hindrances.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Starving_the_Hindrances.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_5_Become_10.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Canal.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Naturally_Radiant.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suitable_Substitution.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4c.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Colourful_but_Muddy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Anger_and_Irritation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Lethargy_and_Laziness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Restlessness_and_Regret.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Doubt_and_Uncertainty.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Causes_of_Ignorance.htm
Comments:
The 4 mental fermentations are wrong, false & hidden assumptions associated with:
1: Sense-desire (kamasava). Ex: "Sensing is only & always pleasant. Pain exists not!"
2: Desiring becoming into new existence (bhavasava): Ex: "All life is good, Death exists not!"
3: Wrong views (ditthasava): Ex: "I am better, know better & what I think is thus never wrong!"
4: Ignorance (avijjasava): Ex: "Suffering, craving, ending craving & the Noble Way exists not!"
For Details on the 3 Mental Fermentations (asava) please see:
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/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Freed_from_Fermentation.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Numerical Sayings of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya.
The Book of Fives 23: Four deeds of Merit... [III: 16-7]
The Mind is Naturally Radiant!
But veiled by alien mental hindrances!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Naturally_Radiant.htm
What are the Causes of Lack of Vision & Wisdom?
A prince named fearless once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, what is the conditioning cause for lack of vision & wisdom?
Prince, when mind is obsessed, overwhelmed, & dominated by sense-desire,
or when mind is beset by evil-will, plagued, enraged & conquered by anger,
or when mind is retarded, dimmed, detained & diluted by lethargic laziness,
or when mind is agitated, troubled & tyrannized by restlessness & regret,
or when mind is perplexed, confused & bewildered by doubt & uncertainty,
and one does not understand any safe escape from any of these present
mental hindrances, at that moment, one can neither see, nor understand
anything of what is advantageous, neither for oneself, nor for others,
nor both for oneself & others! These mental hindrances are therefore
the conditioning causes for lack of vision and wisdom! It is in exactly
this way, that ignorance arises from a cause, and not without a cause...
What is this Dhamma explanation called, Sir?
These are called the mental hindrances, prince.
Surely and unquestionably they are mental hindrances. Blessed One!
One overcome by even a single mental hindrance would not know and see
things as they really are, not to speak of one overcome by all these
5 mental hindrances...
More on these 5 Mental Hindrances (Nivaranas):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Mental_Hindrances.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Feeding_the_Hindrances.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Starving_the_Hindrances.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Colourful_but_Muddy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Anger_and_Irritation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Lethargy_and_Laziness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Restlessness_and_Regret.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Doubt_and_Uncertainty.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:127] section 46: The Links. 56: To Abhaya...
What causes ignorance?
The 5 mental hindrances causes ignorance!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Causes_of_Ignorance.htm
Doing Good gets pleasure. Doing evil gets Pain!
Doing evil, bad or wrong actions, returns in resultant pain, while doing good,
right and kind actions echoes back as pleasure. Usually there is a long delay
between action and resultant karmic effect. Though in rare & strong cases
the effect returns immediately. This 'behavioural echo' may be designated:
Instant karma. Some illustrative examples are given below:
Folly parents made him do this.
Cat does not resist since it knows and likes the boy. Therefore it stays dry!
Kamma in action!
This cat also likes the boy, but teaches him a lesson about not to let own anger
drip on others... Kamma in action!
This foolish woman is using a far too large gun: A Desert Eagle using .50
Action Express bullets, which can kill an elephant or rhino in one shot,
but has a forceful recoil. Her intention with the gun is motivated by hate.
She experiences that! Kamma in action!
This cat has killed too many mice, being greedy and eaten far too much,
gotten fat, and thus totally misses an otherwise easy jump. Kamma in action!
This guy was a human thief in his prior life.
Note how he also now approaches slowly, looks around, and retires quickly.
He knows what he is doing from earlier, since seagulls cannot be trained!
Next rebirth destination for him: Stealing insect or lower. Kamma in action!
This boy does good and gets fun!
This boy also does good and also gets fun!
More on the mechanics of Kamma = Intentional Action (Sanskrit=Karma):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_dilutes_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_short_&_long_life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_&_Sickness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Low_or_High_Birth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Wealth_or_Poverty.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Beauty_&_Ugliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Power_or_Disrespect.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil_Kamma_enhances_other_Evil_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Action_enhances_other_Good_Kamma.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Stupidity_or_Intelligence.htm
Instant Karma!
Doing Good gets pleasure. Doing evil gets Pain!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Instant_Karma.htm
Only Momentary Causes & Effects passes by...
Life, person, pleasure, pain, just these join in a conscious moment that flicks by.
Even gods, that live for 84.000 aeons, are not the same even for 2 such moments!
Ceased aggregates of those dead & alive are all alike, gone for never to return...
And those states and accumulations that break up meanwhile, and in any future,
have no traits different from those ceased before. All states are equally brief!
No world is born if consciousness is not produced! When consciousness is present,
then the world appears as living! When consciousness dissolves, the world is dead!
This is the highest sense, this concept of ever blinking re-becoming, can justify...
No store of broken states exist anywhere, & no future stock of states to come!
Those phenomena that are momentarily born balance like seeds on a needle point.
Fall and breakup of all states is surely foredoomed, even at their fleeting birth...
Those present states decay now, unmingled with those past states, just gone by.
They come from nowhere, break up, & back to nowhere they inevitably then go...
Reality flash in & then flash out, as a lightning in the sky... Not ever to be kept!!!
Even for a single moment! Vism 625, Nd I 42
Momentary states flashes in and then immediately flashes out!
More on this transience and Impermanence (Anicca):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Rise_and_Fall.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Noting_the_Breakup.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
Have a nice passing day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Flash in, splash out...
Momentary are all states, whether physical or mental!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Flash_In_Flash_Out.htm
What can enable an Entering into the Stream?
The Blessed Buddha once explained how to Enter the Stream to Nibbana:
Bhikkhus & friends, these 4 states, when developed & made much of leads
to the realization of the fruit of Stream-entry (sotapatti-phala)!
Which four?
1: Meeting, visiting and waiting on Great Men...
2: Hearing and studying the true Dhamma Doctrine...
3: Practice in accordance with this genuine Dhamma...
4: Rational and careful Attention to cause and effect...
These 4 states, when developed & made much of leads to the fruition of
Once-returning (sakadagami-phala) or further to Non-return (anagami-phala).
These 4 states, when developed & made much of leads finally to the fruition
of Arahat-ship, the Awakening that is Enlightenment (arahatta-phala)!
Bhikkhus these 4 states, when developed & made much of leads directly to
the reaching, attaining & realizing of genuine and liberating Understanding;
To the state of Awakening of Understanding;
To the state of Wealth of Understanding;
To the state of Great Understanding;
To the state of Open Understanding;
To the state of Wide Understanding;
To the state of Profound Understanding;
To the state of Deep Understanding;
To the state of Unequalled Understanding;
To the state of Universal Understanding;
To the state of Extensive Understanding;
To the state of Quick Understanding;
To the state of Instant Understanding;
To the state of Light Understanding;
To the state of Laughing Understanding;
To the state of Acute Understanding;
To the state of Penetrative Understanding!
To the state of Ultimate and Absolute Understanding!
What four?
1: Meeting, visiting and waiting on great men...
2: Hearing and reading the true Doctrine of the Dhamma...
3: Practice in accordance with this genuine & righteous Dhamma Law...
4: Careful and rational Attention to what is cause and what is effect...
More on gaining a surely safe future: Stream-Entry:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fine_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_6_Keys.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Doors.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Internal_Bath.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Divine_Tracks.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Enter.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Stream-Enterer.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Faith_Summary.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stream_Entrance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stream-Entry_Tools.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Assured_Destination.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Impossible_Alteration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fruits_of_the_Noble_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Links_to_Stream_Entry.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Friends_and_Colleagues.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/ariya_puggala.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Helpers_to_Stream_Entry.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Entering_the_Stream_Supreme.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_4_Steps_to_Stream-Entry.htm
Source: The Path of Discrimination XXI The canonical Patisambhidamagga [ii 189]
The Essay on Great Understanding. By Venerable Sariputta.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=133494
Entering the Stream Supreme!
What makes one enter the stream to Nibbana?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Helpers_to_Stream_Entry.htm
How to eliminate & leave behind Wrong View?
Once a certain Bhikkhu approached the Blessed One and asked him:
Venerable Sir, how should one know & see, for leaving any wrong view,
for eliminating any belief in an ego, for overcoming all 'self'-making?
Bhikkhu, when one knows and sees any eye, form, eye-consciousness,
eye-contact, & feeling arised caused by eye-contact as impermanent,
when one sees this is not mine, that wrong view, that belief in an ego,
that making up of a self, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned...
Bhikkhu, when one knows & sees any ear, sound, ear-consciousness,
ear-contact, & any feeling arised caused by ear-contact as transient,
when one sees this is not "I", that wrong view, that belief in an ego,
that making up of a self, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned...
Bhikkhu, when one knows & sees any nose, smell, nose-consciousness,
nose-contact, & any feeling arised caused by nose-contact as temporary,
when one sees this is not me, that wrong view, that belief in an ego,
that making up of a self, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned...
Bhikkhu, when one knows & sees any tongue, taste, tongue-consciousness,
tongue-contact, & feeling arised caused by tongue-contact as short-lived,
when one sees this is not mine, that wrong view, that belief in an ego,
that making up of a self, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned...
Bhikkhu, when one knows & sees any body, touch, body-consciousness,
body-contact, & feeling arised caused by body-contact as ephemeral,
when one sees this is not my self, that wrong view, that belief in an ego,
that making up of a self, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned...
Bhikkhu, when one knows & sees any mind, thought, mind-consciousness,
mental-contact, & feeling arised caused by mind-contact as momentary,
when one sees this is not 'my self', that wrong view, that belief in an ego,
that making up of a soul, is overcome, eliminated and all abandoned...
More about Wrong View (Miccha Ditthi):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Not_Involved.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Without_Views.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/ditthi.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [147-148]
Section 35: On The 6 Senses. The Overcoming of Wrong View!: 165-167.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Wicked is Wrong View...
Mistaking Opinion for Knowledge is more than Fatal!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Leaving_Wrong_View.htm
Anger, Irritation, and Stubborn Contrariety!
Evil and ill-will is the mental hindrance, which is resisting against and
opposing phenomena. It can be quite violent when manifesting as quarrels,
conflict, hate, hostility and war. Aversion instantly destroys all harmony
and peace and thus any potential for happiness. It can only be cured by
meditation on the four infinitely divine states (Brahma-viharas).
First priority: Noticing evil Ill-Will arise -in itself- makes it fade away:
The Buddha said: When ill-will is present in him then he understands:
"There is ill-will in me now" and when ill-will is absent, he also notices:
"There is no ill-will in me now". He understands how unarisen ill-will arises.
He understands how to leave behind any arisen ill-will, and he understands
how left ill-will will not ever arise again in the future. MN 10
What is the feeding cause that makes ill-will arise?
There are displeasing and repulsive features and aspects of any object,
frequently giving irrational & unwise attention to them, this is the feeding
cause of the arising of unarisen ill-will, and the feeding cause of the very
increase and expansion of ill-will that already has arisen. SN 46:51
The 3 paranoid thoughts that induces resentment:
1: He or she has done, is doing or will in the future do me some wrong!
2: He or she has done, is doing or will do those I like some wrong!
3: He or she has done, is doing or will do those I dislike some good!
What is the starving cause that makes ill-will cease?
There is the release of mind through Universal Good-Will and Friendliness,
frequently giving rational and wise attention to this is the starving cause
of the non-arising of unarisen ill-will, and the starving cause of decrease
and shrinking of ill-will that already has arisen. SN 46:51
Which medicine cures ill-will, so that it does not re-arise ever again?
One should cultivate the meditation on Universal Friendliness (Metta)!
For the meditation on universal friendliness gradually evaporates ill-will.
One should cultivate the meditation on All-embracing Pity (Karuna)!
Meditation on embracing pity, makes cruel harming violence fade away.
One should cultivate the meditation on Sympathetic Mutual Joy (Mudita)!
Meditation on mutual joy eliminates discontent, green envy and jealousy.
One should cultivate the meditation on composed Equanimity (Upekkha)!
Meditation on imperturbable equanimity can make anger & aversion cease.
MN 62
Some advantageous reflections to return to:
Remember the Simile of the Saw... The Blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, even if bandits were to cut you up, savagely, limb by limb, with a
two-handled saw, you should not be angry with them but do my bidding:
Remain pervading them with a friendly mentality imbued only with an all
embracing good will, kind, rich, expansive, and immeasurable. Free from
hostility, free from ill will. Always remembering this Simile of the Saw
is indeed how you should train yourselves... MN 21
Being OWNER of ANGER is Pain: Know that everyone is the owner of the
consequences of all their actions (Kamma), whether good or bad...
The 11 advantages won by cultivating Universal Friendliness (Metta):
1: One sleeps happy!
2: One wakes happy!
3: One dreams no evil dreams!
4: One is liked and loved by all human beings!
5: One is liked and loved by all non-human beings too!
6: One is guarded and protected by the divine devas!
7: One cannot be harmed by fire, poison or weapons!
8: One swiftly attains the concentration of absorption!
9: Ones appearance becomes serene, calm and composed!
10: One dies without confusion, bewilderment or panic!
11: One reappears after death on the Brahma level if gone no higher!
AN V342
More on Anger, Irritation & Stubbornness as dilutions of Hate (Dosa):
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Break_Anger.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Slaying_Anger.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No_Revenge.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Appeasing_Anger.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Subduing_Irritation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Anger_and_Irritation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Ill_Will.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Elimination_of_Anger.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Anger_and_Irritation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Cruelty_and_Revengefulness.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
[color=#FF0000]Alleviating Anger!
Joys neither of this world, nor even Beyond!!!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
And what, Bhikkhus, is the Joy not of this world? Aloof and above any lust,
quite secluded from any sense desire, protected from any disadvantageous
mental state, one enters & dwells in the 1st jhana mental absorption; full of
joy & pleasure born of solitude, joined with directed & sustained thought...
With the stilling of directed & sustained thought, one later enters & dwells
in the 2nd jhana of calmed assurance & unification of mind devoid of any
thought & thinking, joined with joy & pleasure now born of concentration!
These are called the joys not of this world!
And what, Bhikkhus, is the joy beyond that joy, which is not of this world?
When a bhikkhu, whose mental fermentations are eliminated, reviews his
mind liberated from lust, freed from hatred, and released from confusion,
there arises a transcendental joy. This is called Joy quite beyond that joy,
that is not of this world...
More on quite rapturous Joy (piti) here hihihi ;-):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Joy_Piti.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Rejoicing_Joy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Joy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Alert_Elevated_Joy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Super-Human_Delight.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Super-Human_Delight.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Joys_Beyond_This_World.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Joys_of_the_Flesch_and_Beyond.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Happiness_of_the_Flesh_and_Beyond.htm
Regarding Joys of this World: Balance - Sara Tavares seems infectious!
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [235-7]
section 36:11 On Feeling: Vedana. Joys beyond this world ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Joys beyond this World!
Have a nice, noble, and joyous day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net
There is a Supra-Human kind of Delight!
Joys beyond this World!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Joys_Beyond_This_World.htm
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How can one ever Succeed, when Never having Started?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, those who have neglected to begin this Noble 8-fold Way,
have failed to develop the Noble Method, which destroys Suffering!
While those who having indeed begun this Noble 8-fold Way, have
indeed also initiated the Noble Method, which destroys all Suffering!
And what, Bhikkhus, is this Noble 8-fold Way? It is simply this:
1: Right View (samma-ditthi)
2: Right Motivation (samma-sankappa)
3: Right Speech (samma-vaca)
4: Right Action (samma-kammanta)
5: Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva)
6: Right Effort (samma-vayama)
7: Right Awareness (samma-sati)
8: Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)
Bhikkhus, those who have failed even to start on this Noble 8-fold Way,
have failed to cultivate that Noble Method, which destroys all Suffering!
While those, who have really started on this Noble 8-fold Way, have
indeed also made the first move capable of destroying all Suffering!
Walking the Noble 8-fold Way!
Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/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/III/Golden_Middle_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:23-4] section 45:33 Failed ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Setting out on the Way!
The Noble 8-fold Way ends in the Deathless Nibbãna!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Failed_by_Neglect.htm
How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?
Durutu Poya day is the full-moon of January. This holy day celebrates
the first visit of the Buddha to Sri Lanka. The Buddha visited the very
place, where the present magnificent Mahiyangana Stupa was built to
enshrine the Buddha's hair relics and the collar bone. For Details see:
http://www.buddhanet.net/sacred-island/mahiyangana.html and
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/mahiyangana.htm
Mahiyangana Stupa
On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days:
Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges and undertakes the
Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean
bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first
three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor.
Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines
in a loud, calm & steady voice:
As long as this life lasts:
I hereby take refuge in the Buddha.
I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma.
I hereby take refuge in the Sangha.
I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time.
I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.
I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!
I accept to respect & undertake these 5 training rules:
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Dishonesty.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs.
As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...
Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's
own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much
better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in & to
this world! So is the start towards Nibbana: the Deathless Element!
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Ease, to Happiness,
initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and
fulfilled by training of Meditation...
Today indeed is Pooya or uposatha or observance day, where any lay
Buddhist normally keeps even the Eight Precepts from sunrise until the
next dawn... If any wish an official recognition by the Bhikkhu-Sangha,
they may simply forward the lines starting with "I hereby ..." signed with
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For Details on The Origin of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html
Have a nice observance day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
How to be a Real Buddhist by Observance?
Today is Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Durutu_Poya_Day.htm
Not Knowing Nature & Cause of things causes Speculation to arise:
Once the wanderer Vacchagotta approached the Blessed One & greeted him.
Having concluded their compliments, he sat down & asked the Blessed Buddha:
Master Gotama, what is the cause, condition & reason why all these various
speculative views arise in the world:
This Universe is eternal, or This Universe is not eternal. &;
This Universe is finite, or This Universe is infinite. &;
Vitality & the body are the same, or vitality is one thing, the body is another. &;
A Tathagata exists after death, or a Tathagata does not exist after death.
Or; The Tathagata both exists and does not exist after death. Or;
The Tathagata does neither exist, nor does not exist after death?
The Blessed Buddha then replied:
It is, Vaccha, because of neither knowing form, nor the cause of emergence of
form (rupa), nor the cause of the ceasing of form, nor the Way to cease form,
that those various speculative views, such as: "This Universe is eternal etc..."
arise in the world...!!! This ignorance, this not seeing, this not understanding,
Vaccha, is the cause, & reason, why those various speculative views keep arising
in this world...!!!
More on Ignorance (Avijja):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/avijjaa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Because_of_Not_Knowing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Causes_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Whenever_and_Wherever.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Because_of_Not_Examining.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Indifference_Creates_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_the_Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book III 257-8
The Vacchagotta section 33. Thread on Not Knowing: Aññana Sutta (1)
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
When Not Knowing...
Not Knowing Causes Speculation!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Because_of_Not_Knowing.htm
Reality is Moments of Mentality & Materiality!
Nama-Rupa = Name-and-Form, Naming-and-Forming!
The mind is that, which knows the object! The object is that, which is known!
These two processes always arise and cease together simultaneously...
Neither inside, within, nor apart from, outside these two is any observer agent,
person, I, Me, or other assumed entity as a hidden variable, ever involved!
The mind is immaterial, formless and invisible. The object may be designated
or named 'material', 'physical', 'formed' and even 'visible' only and exactly
to the extent and in so far as it is experienceable by the mind!
No same, constant, lasting 'real', 'actual' or 'substantial substance' has ever
existed 'out there' independently or separable from the mind, that right then
momentarily perceived and thereby apprehended, displayed, manifested and
designated it! This core dual pair of mentality (nama) and materiality (rupa),
is thus one united yet dual continuum, like the two ends of the same stick!
They do never emerge, nor do they ever exist, nor can they ever be observed
separately, in and of themselves, but they can only arise in mutual dependence,
like two thin creepers can only arise & stand up if intertwined with each other.
Mentality & materiality thus arise and cease simultaneously in each moment!
They are thus the most basic, fundamental and primary pair on the bottom of
the dynamic ever-changing process of any being in any existence...
What is called 'matter' is delimited, defined, characterized, conceptualized,
compartmentalized and even named by mind! Therefore can matter never be
separated from mind, like if one tries to break the dual-ended stick in order
to separate the ends, then one always gets two sticks, still each with 2 ends!
Therefore one unambiguously always ends up with observing a pair-wise new
event of mentality & materiality! The basic founding, yet often unnoticed,
unspoken and maybe even sometimes actively denied assumption underlying
all Western science that: The naked, inert, objective observation is possible!
'Matter can be observed and analyzed objectively, independently of mind!'
is therefore utterly false, futile and even somewhat childish... No observation
can ever be independent of mind! Why not? What is observing IS the mind!
The naive physicist who postulates: 'Independently of Mind, "I!" will observe,
describe and evaluate matter!' extending out of his range of understanding,
thus speaks folly false and is thereby later ultimately enforced to introduce
'mysti-phystical' entities as 'hidden variables' into his explanations, in order
to reach completeness, coherence and internal consistence...
He seems to be in complete oblivion of the dry fact, that even before one even
thinks of, even speaks of, or experiment with any 'matter', mind have indeed
been long and hard at work! The basic hidden, yet always present, factor in
any observation, is naturally mind itself!
However, this factor is not so hidden, that it cannot be observed & analyzed
and that even without any laboratory or even a single 'instrument' apart from
a pillow to sit on!
Everyone, without even a single exception, who sits down with closed eyes, will
instantly be overwhelmed by a veritable storm of mentally created distractions:
This is the Mind! This is mental activity knocking your door... Undeniably real!
When this dynamic self-sustaining duality of mentality-materiality, this self-
sustaining perpetum mobile, cease to evolve, consciousness thereby ceases to
establish itself on an object! This - only this, in and of itself - is the very final
End of all Suffering...
On this Mind-&-Matter Duality, Mentality-Materiality, Naming & Forming:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Name_and_Form.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_Siamese_Twins.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/No_Being_No_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/naama_ruupa.htm
More on the Mind:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/In_Control.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-Control.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_&_Bright.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Magnificent_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Mentality and Materiality is Naming and Forming!
Nâma-Rûpa = The Core Duality!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Core_Duality.htm
Mutual Joy cures all vicious Envy and Jealousy!
The dear companion can be the proximate cause for Mutual Joy, where one
rejoices in another being's success... One thus rejoicing in others fortune
is called a 'boon companion', for he is constantly glad: He laughs first and
speaks afterward! So he should be the first to be pervaded with gladness.
Or on seeing a dear person being happy, cheerful and glad, mutual joy can
be aroused thus: 'See this being is indeed glad! How good, how excellent!'
Just as one would be glad at seeing a dear and beloved person very happy,
exactly so does one pervade all other beings in all directions with mutual joy...
Rejoicing mutual joy can also be aroused by remembering others happiness
in the past and recollecting the elated joy aspect in this way: 'In the past he
had great wealth, a great following and he was always glad'. Or mutual joy
can be aroused by apprehending the future glad aspect of his in this way:
'In the future he will again enjoy similar success and will go about in gold
palanquins, on the backs of elephants or on horseback'. Having thus aroused
mutual joy regarding a dear person, one can then direct the very same feeling
successively towards a neutral one, and gradually towards any hostile person.
Vbh 274, Vism I 316
Comments:
Mutual joy causes Contentment! No mutual joy thus means Discontentment!
Therefore: If being generally dissatisfied, then be happy over others gains.
Secondly: Mutual joy causes all envy & jealousy to evaporate into equanimity!
Mutual Joy (Mudita), which cures all envy and jealousy, is a divine state!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoicing_Bliss_is_Mudita.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Infinitely_Joyous_Consciousness.htm
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Rejoicing Joy!
Mutual Joy Causes Contentment! :-)
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Rejoicing_Joy.htm
What Right View gives Certainty of Rightness?
Seeing the 5 Clusters of Clinging: form, feeling, perception, mental construction,
and consciousness collectively as impermanent, as painful, as a disease, a boil,
a dart, a calamity, an affliction, as alien, as disintegrating, as a plague, a terror,
a menace, a disaster, as fickle, as perishable, as not lasting, as transient, as no
protection, no shelter, no refuge, as empty, as vain, void, as not-self, as a danger,
as subject to change, as having no core, as the root of calamity, as murderous,
as due to be annihilated, as subject to fermentation, as constructed of parts,
as Mara's bait, as subject to birth, subject to ageing, subject to illness, subject
to death, subject to sorrow, subject to lamentation, subject to despair, subject
to defilement. By seeing that the 5 clusters of clinging are impermanent, one thus
acquires a fondness, an inclination, a preference that conforms with the Dhamma.
By seeing that ceasing of the 5 clusters of clinging is the very immutable Nibbana,
one enters into the certainty of rightness. This is therefore perfectly right view!
Ps II 238, Vism 611
Clusters of thoughts and mental states as clinging, can be like Bees!
More on these 5 Clusters of Clinging (Khanda):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Origin.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Like_Foam.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acquisition_of_Fuel.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Burden_and_Prison.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breaking_the_Bonds.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/khandha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Things_that_can_be_clung_to.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
Physical aggregates can have many forms, yet mental even more so!
Have a nice detached day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Certainty of Rightness...
Patience is the 6th Perfection:
The characteristic of patience is acceptance, its function is to endure,
and its manifestation is non-opposing tolerance! The cause of patience
is understanding how things really are.. The effect of patience is calm
tranquility despite presence of intensely stirring provocation..
Patience of the will produces forgiving forbearance!
Patience of the intellect produces faith, confidence and certainty!
Patience of the body produces resolute and tenacious endurance!
Internal tolerance of states within oneself is patient endurance...
External tolerance of other beings is forbearance and forgiveness...
He who patiently protects himself, protects also all other beings!
He who patiently protects all other beings, protects also himself!
Not from speaking much is one called clever.
The patient one is free from anger and free from fear,
only such steady persisting one, is rightly called clever...
Dhammapada 258
Patient tolerance is the highest praxis...
Nibbana is the supreme Bliss!
So say all the Buddhas.
Dhammapada 184
The innocent one, who has done nothing wrong,
Who endures abuse, flogging and even imprisonment,
Such one, armed with stamina, the great force of tolerance,
Such stoic one, who self-possessed can accept, I call a Holy One!
Dhammapada 399
One should follow those who are determined, tolerant, and enduring,
intelligent, wise, diligent, clever, good-willed and evidently Noble.
One shall stick to them as the moon remains in its regular orbit.
Dhammapada 208
Friends, even if bandits were to cut you up, savagely, limb by limb,
with a two-handled saw, you should not get angry, but do my bidding:
Remain pervading them and all others with a friendly Awareness imbued
with an all-embracing good-will, kind, rich, expansive, and immeasurable!
Free from hostility, free from any ill will. Always remembering this very
Simile of the Saw is indeed how you should train yourselves.
Majjhima Nikaya 21
The five ways of removing irritating annoyance:
Bhikkhus, there are these five ways of removing annoyance, by which any
irritation can be entirely removed by a Bhikkhu, when it arises in him.
What are these five ways?
1: Friendliness can be maintained towards an irritating person or state..
2: Understanding can be undertaken towards an irritating person or state..
3: On-looking Equanimity can be kept towards an irritating person or state..
4: One can forget and ignore the irritating person, mental or physical state..
5: Ownership of Kamma of the irritating person can be reflected upon thus:
This good person is owner of his actions, inherit the result his actions, is
indeed born of his actions and only he is responsible for his actions be they
good or bad. This too is how annoyance with the irksome can be instantly
removed. These are the five ways of removing annoyance, and by which any
irritation can be entirely removed in a friend, exactly when it arises...
Anguttara Nikaya V 161
Buddha to his son Rahula: Develop an Imperturbable Mind like the elements:
Rahula, develop a mind like earth, then contacts of arisen like and dislike
will not obsess your mind! Rahula, on the earth is dumped both the pure and
the impure: excreta, urine, saliva, pus, blood, but the earth does not detest
any of those... Even and exactly so make your mind stable like the earth!
Rahula, develop a mind like water, then contacts of arisen pleasure and pain
will not seize your mind. Rahula with water both the pure and the impure
are cleaned... Washed away with water are excreta, urine, saliva, pus, and
blood, yet the water does not despise any of that! Even so make the mind
fluid and adaptable like the water!
Rahula, develop a mind like fire, then the contacts of any arisen attraction
or aversion will neither consume, nor hang on to your mind! Rahula, fire burns
both the pure and the impure, burns excreta, urine, saliva, pus, and blood,
yet the fire does not loathe any of that.. In the same manner refine the mind
into a tool like an all consuming and purifying fire!
Rahula, develop a mind similar to space, then contacts of arisen delight and
frustration does neither take hold of, nor remain in your mind. Space does
not settle anywhere! Similarly make the mind unsettled and unestablished
like open space. When you expand mind like space, contacts of delight and
frustration will neither be able to dominate, nor obsess your mind...
Majjhima Nikaya 62
More on the 10 mental perfections (paramis):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ten_Perfections.htm
Have a nice, noble & patient day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Very Advantageous is Patience, Tolerance & Endurance!
Patience is the Highest Praxis!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Patient_is_Tolerance.htm
The Ten Contemplations is Daily Routine!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus & friends: There is one contemplation which when often
practised and developed leads to the complete turning away from
the world, to detachment, to stilling, to ceasing, to Peace, to final
penetrating knowledge, to Enlightenment, and thus to Nibbana...
Any Noble Disciple who by progress have understood the Dhamma
dwells frequently in this state. Which is that one contemplation?
It is reflecting over the qualities of the Noble Sangha like this:
"Perfectly training is this Noble Sangha community of the Buddha's
Noble Disciples. Training the right way, the true way, the good way,
the direct way! Therefore do these eight kinds of individuals, these
four Noble pairs, deserve both gifts, self-sacrifice, offerings, much
hospitality and reverential salutation with joined palms, since this
Noble Sangha community of the Buddha's Noble disciples, is indeed
an unsurpassable & forever unsurpassed field of merit, in this world,
for this world, to honour, support, uphold, respect and protect..."
Source: AN 1:16.3 + 6:10
Higher Education just of Another Kind - details inside...
More on the Three Jewels (Ti-Ratana) and Nobility (Ariya):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Three_Jewels.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sangha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/ti_ratana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/ariya_puggala.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm
Remembering this Sangha Community of Disciples:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangha
http://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=Sangha
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Lay_Faith.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Divine_Refuge.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Three_Jewels.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Saddhamma_Sangha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sangha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Refuges_and_Precepts.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sangha_Contemplation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/ti_sarana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fullmoon_Observance_Day.htm
The Noble Community....
Contemplating the Qualities of the Sangha!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sangha_Contemplation.htm
What is the Definition of Energy?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, Bhikkhus, is the ability of Energy? Here, Bhikkhus, the Noble Disciple lives
with energy aroused for the elimination of disadvantageous mental states and for
gaining a firm foundation in advantageous states. He is determined, resolute in all
his efforts, not evading any good opportunity to train advantageous mental states.
This is called the ability of Energy. Source: Samyutta Nikaya V 48
Without Energy, there is neither advantageous action, nor effort!
Without any advantageous action, there is neither any good result!
No cause gives no effect! Therefore: Raise and stir up yourself!
For details on the Enthusiastic Ability of Energy see:
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
Get Going Good!
Energy is the Main Motor...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Definition_of_Energy.htm