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Having cultivated the Noble 8-fold Way, a being might enter the stream, which leads to Nibbana! The Stream-Enterer (Sotapanna) is entirely freed from rebirth as Animal, Hungry Ghost, Angry Demon & Burning Hell Being! Such Noble One (Ariya) will be enlightened within maximally 7 rebirths... The Stream-Enterer has eliminated all egoism, belief in a 'person' or 'self', eradicated all 'I-making' & 'Mine-making', abolished all sceptical doubt in the perfect Self-Enlightenment of the Buddha, & removed silly superstitious belief in any benefit of empowerments and empty rituals. Such Noble have by direct momentary experience touched and tasted the deathless Nibbana and is forever hereafter independent of any Dhamma-teacher... Having cultured the Noble 8-fold Way even further, a being might attain the state of a Once-Returner (Sakadagami) , who is reborn only once as human or lower god (deva) and then awakens in that next life! Such Noble has further reduced sense-desire and aversion... Having yet further refined the Noble 8-fold Way, a being might attain the state of a Non-Returner(Anagami) , who is reborn in the higher fine material worlds - The Pure Abodes - where they live for many universal cycles & there attain Nibbana without ever returning to the human or lower divine worlds... Such Noble has furthermore entirely eliminated sense-desire and aversion! Having fully perfected the Noble 8-fold Way one awakens as an Arahat , who is enlightened in this very life, by elimination of all remaining mental defects such as desire for fine form and formlessness, the subtle conceit that 'I am', latent tendency to restlessness and all ignorance. Such Noble One enters at the moment of death the freedom, bliss & peace of Nibbana without trace of clinging left...
The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, imagine a fisherman, who have thrown a baited hook into a deep lake, and then an yearning fish, hungry for food, would swallow it at first sight... That fish, having swallowed the fisherman's hook, would indeed meet with much pain, disaster and tragedy, since the fisherman would do with it as he wishes... So too, Bhikkhus, there are these six hooks in the world for the pain, disaster and tragedy of beings, for the slaughter of living beings: Forms experienceable by the eye, sounds experiencable by the ear, smells experienceable by the nose, tastes experienceable by the tongue, touches experienceable by the body, & mental states experienceable by the mind, that all are seductive, gorgeous, alluring, agreeable, pleasing, enticing, tempting and tantalizing. If a bhikkhu search for delight in them, welcomes them, and thus remains clinging to them, he is called a Bhikkhu, who has swallowed Mara's hook!!! He has met with pain, disaster & tragedy, & the Evil One can do with him, as he wishes. However, one who does neither hunt for delight in them, nor does he welcome them, nor does he remain clinging to them, such is a Bhikkhu, who has resisted Mara's hook, who has broken, destroyed, and defeated this Hook! He he will neither gather nor meet any pain, disaster nor tragedy, and this Evil One cannot do with him, as he wishes... He has gained true self-control and integrity!
No Substance exists 'out there', nor any Subject 'in here'!
The Blessed Buddha once said: In the seen is merely the process of seeing... In the heard is merely the process of hearing... In the sensed is merely the process of sensing... In the thought is merely the process of thinking... So knowing, you will not be connected 'with that'... So disconnected you will not be absorbed 'into that'... So neither 'with that', nor 'within that' you are not 'by that' sensation! When there is no 'You' inferred or conjectured by that very sensation, then 'You' are neither 'here', 'there', 'both', 'beyond', nor 'in between'.
On realizing the importance of this incident the Blessed One exclaimed: Where neither solidity, fluidity, heat nor motion find any footing, there no sun, moon nor star ever shines. There is neither any light, yet nor is there any darkness! When the Noble, through stilling of all construction, through quieting of all mental formation, directly experiences this, then is he freed from both form & formlessness, then is he released from both pleasure and pain ...
Comments: There is no-one 'who' senses, nor is there any 'substance' that is sensed, even though the process of sensing occurs! Seeing is just a selfless event of contact between the eye, the object & visual consciousness. Neither is any 'person', nor any 'observer' involved nor inferred just by this seeing! No subject or 'I' is thereby created, just because there is an object, or just because there occurs the impersonal, automatic process of sensing... Sensing itself, thus neither create any object, nor any subject, just as a camera - though making an image - neither creates the object, nor does the camera create the photographer! Thus can neither any 'substance', nor 'reality out there' per se be ascribed to neither object, nor subject: Just because there is a picture, one cannot by that in itself infer or even ascribe any existence to neither the object, nor the picture-maker! Both may actually be artificial, or of past existence and not real anymore ... The fact that there is an image projected, does not per se imply, in or by itself, that any-one actually is 'looking in' or 'is behind' the camera … 'By that' perception no 'perceiver' is thereby instrumentally present or created... So the 'personal entity' we assume, suppose, deduce, expect & believe to enjoy our experience, is merely a mental construct, a habitual idea, a concept, & not a reality... The passive impersonal process of sensing, perceiving and experiencing cannot thereby be 'instrumental' for neither creating, nor inferring any 'being in existence'. The fact of this enigmatic yet fundamental 'selflessness' is far the most essential core of the unique Buddha-Dhamma... Outmost important to grasp, yet subtle, counterintuitive and thereby difficult & somewhat 'nasty' to comprehend. Please keep on trying, since this central Anatta doctrine is the opener, releaser & freer of any mind. No-one is 'inside' the conditions that arise, cease & pass by! Being hopelessly in love with an imagined idea of 'I=EGO' & 'World=Real' is both fatal, tragic and sardonically comic... Hehehe ;-)
It is a great pity with all those thinking like this: Pleasure is the only good; by that they fall! Terror is a necessary way; by that they fall! Sensuality is innocent; by that they fall! Violence is allowable; by that they fall! Money makes happiness; by that they fall! Power is progress; by that they fall! Falsehood is acceptable; by that they fall! Stealing gives wealth; by that they fall! Conceit can conceal; by that they fall! Science knows all; by that they fall! Killing can be good; by that they fall! Hunting is only fun; by that they fall! Adultery is mature; by that they fall! Paedophilia is harmless; by that they fall! Drugs are fantastic; by that they fall! Booze is medicine; by that they fall! Giving does not help; by that they fall! After death is nothing!; by that they fall! The Hells do not exist; by that they fall! Intentional Action has no effect; by that they fall! I am the better than...; by that they fall! I know better ...; by that they fall! Making merit cannot elevate; by that they fall!
It is a great pity with all those poor beings: who are veiled by wrong view; by that they fall! who are fooled by own opinion; by that they fall! who are gripped by greed and lust; by that they fall! who are stirred by hate and anger; by that they fall! who are clinging to all worldly things; by that they fall! who are confused by not knowing; by that they fall! who prostitute themselves; by that they fall! who cheat and deceives; by that they fall! who pretend what is not; by that they fall! who hide what is actual fact; by that they fall! who destroy beings or things; by that they fall! who pollute the milieu and society; by that they fall! who deliberately do evil willing it; by that they fall! who fail their duties and obligations; by that they fall! who miss the obvious opportunities; by that they fall! It is a great pity with all those blinded by ignorance, bound and dragged by craving, while pushed by aversion: By that they surely fall into states of pain, agony and despair! As if gripped by the arms of two strong men and hurled into a big fire...
The Buddha said: May all creatures, all breathing things, all beings everyone without exception, experience joy & good fortune only. May they not fall into any harm! Anguttara Nikaya II, 72
Let no one deceive another or despise anyone anywhere, or through anger or irritation wish for another to suffer! Sutta Nipata I, 8
For one who deliberately & aware Fully develops Universal Friendliness Fading away of clinging is realized, All chains are worn down & broken! Itivuttaka 27
The Blessed Buddha Gotama once said: The purpose of morality is control of behaviour. The purpose of controlled behaviour is absence of regrets. The purpose of absence of regrets is joy. The purpose of joy is satisfaction. The purpose of satisfaction is calm. The purpose of calm is happiness. The purpose of happiness is concentration. The purpose of concentration is understanding. The purpose of understanding is disillusion. The purpose of disillusion is detachment. The purpose of detachment is mental release. The purpose of mental release is Nibbana, Final Freedom without any remnants of clinging...
Friendship IS the Greatest! If glad-2-get Early Buddhism e-mails click join Google Group here: http://What-Buddha-Said.net Have a nice, noble and easy day! Bhikkhu Samahita :-) _/\_
Consciousness is recognized as probably the most hard problem of today's science. It cannot be reduced to swirling atoms or neuronal blips or even ever seen in any micro-scope or scanning. It exposes a problematic and maybe even embarrassing epistemological gap straddling between physics, neuro-physiology and philosophy. Consciousness seems to be contained by the brain, but not produced by the brain, just as the beer is contained in the bottle, but not produced by the bottle... Consciousness holds the key to understanding the nature of core phenomena like reality versus dreams.
At Savatthi. Seated to the side, a certain bhikkhu asked the Blessed One: Is there, Venerable Sir, any form, or any feeling, or any perception, or any mental construction, or any consciousness, that is permanent, stable, eternal, not a changing state, that will remain the same, just like eternity itself ? Then the Blessed One took up a tiny bit of soil on his fingernail and said to that bhikkhu: Bhikkhu, there is not even this much form, feeling, perception, construction, or consciousness, that is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject to change, that will remain the same, just like eternity itself...! If there was this much form, feeling, perception, construction, or consciousness, that was permanent, stable, eternal, and not changing, this living of the Noble Life for the utterly complete elimination of all suffering, could not be made known... But because there is not even this much form, nor feeling, nor any perception, nor mental construction, nor consciousness that is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject to change, this living of the Noble Life for the complete elimination of all suffering can indeed be made known...
VANISHING Impermanent, Momentary are all phenomena existing. Whoever fully perceives this with Insight straightaway develops immunity to suffering. This is a way to freedom. Dhammapada 227
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!
One should be grateful towards one's Parents! Why so? They have worked hard and very long raising one into being!
One should be grateful towards one's Teachers! Why so? They do much to make one learn and understand the good...
One should be grateful towards one's Friends! Why so? They have shown one an open kindness and much goodwill!
One should be grateful towards one's Spouse! Why so? They have loyally accompanied one along a long way...
What is the future kammic effect of gratitude or ungratefulness? The one who is grateful will receive gifts and favours ever again! The one who is ungrateful will never again receive gifts or favours ! Thankfulness wisely invested thus pays back quite a lot!
It has aspects both of serene calm (Samatha) & incisive insight (Vipassana). It is extraordinarily advantageous to train this unique breathing technique. Can recommend this booklet about standard Breathing Meditation very much: Mindfulness of Breathing. Classic Anapanasati meditation manual of the root Pali texts translated by Bhikkhu Ñanamoli. BPS. 1998. http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/anapanasati.pdf
The ideal is when Calm and Insight goes hand in hand, as if yoked together!
The Buddha on the Universality of Friendliness: I am a friend of all bipeds; I am a friend of those with four feet, I am a friend of the many-footed, I am a friend of those with no feet! Anguttara Nikaya 4.67
As I am, so are others... As others are, so am I... Having thus identified self and others, Never Harm anyone, nor have any being abused. Sutta Nipata 3.710
Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the jungle. No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone. Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the forest. Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude… Suvanna-sama Jataka 540
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart & mind: Beaming above, below, & all around, unobstructed, without trace of hostility. Sutta Nipata I, 8
Train yourself in doing good that lasts and brings happiness. Cultivate generosity, the life of peace, and a mind of infinite universal love. Itivuttaka 22
Venerable Sariputta once explained: 1: The experience of deep disgust. 2: The experience of death approaching. 3: The experience of disliking whatever food. 4: The experience of dispassion with the entire world. 5: The experience of the inevitable impermanence. 6: The experience of frustration inherent in decay. 7: The experience of the impersonality of existence. 8: The experience of letting go and leaving all behind. 9: The experience of disinterested, & detached disillusion. 10: The experience of calming, stilling, ceasing, and ending.
These 10 perceptions are real, true, exactly so and not otherwise, perfectly realized, comprehended and formulated by the Buddha! They cool all craving, relinquish all clinging, and still all urge... They are therefore to be remembered, recited and reflected over repeatedly.. When made arise, they release mind into Bliss and Peace!
There are five Mental Abilities: 1: Faith, 2: Energy, 3: Awareness, 4: Concentration & 5: Understanding. There are five Rules of Training: 1: No Killing, 2: No Stealing, 3: No Lying, 4: No Sexual Abuse, 5; No Alcohol or Drugs.
There are five Clusters of Clinging to: 1: Form, 2: Feeling, 3: Perception, 4: Construction & 5: Consciousness. There are five Mental Hindrances: 1: Sense-Desire, 2: Anger, 3: Lethargy & Laziness, 4: Regret & Restlessness 5: Doubt & Uncertainty.
There are five Destinations right after Death: 1: Hell, 2: Animal Womb, 3: Hungry Ghost, 4: Human Being or 5: Deity.
All the egoism is born right when assuming the impersonal and transient phenomena, such as body, feeling, perception, mental construction, and consciousness to be "I-Me-Mine", thereby conceiving the idea: "I am"! At once hereafter one falls desperately in love with this hypothetical ego, exalts, gratifies and even worships it, as the most dear possession of all... Pride is born right here! By comparing this non-existent entity: "My Personal Identity" with external equally conceived perceptions, one erroneously concludes: "I am better than ..." There arrogance is born... Or one concludes equally erroneously: "I am worse than or equal to ..." When there is pride, there is bound to be wounded pride! Because of that "I-Me"-construing, ego-love and self-overestimation, one cannot respect what should be respected. Feeling threatened by any realistic evaluation of this adored "Ego", all potential "critics" or "competitors" are violently repressed... By clinging to this cherished idea of "Myself", harming, hate, ill-will, and violence thereby come into being. Even wars are initiated by immature & infantile imagination of "Own Greatness" or "National Lead"! Thus more than fatal is verily this cramped conceit: "I Am this and that"! Serene Joy is however connected with open, and detached impersonality. If there is no "I", no "Me", what then to be proud of, or violently defend?
As the blessed Buddha said: Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desire. More blissful is dwelling in complete harmlessness. Even more blissful is solitude for one content and learned. But highest is the bliss of uprooting this deepest conceit: "I am"! Udana – Inspiration: II – 1
Frequent reflection on the impermanent and transient flux of all internal and external phenomena, leads towards this counter-intuitive, yet crucial comprehension of the fact of No-Self=Anatta. Absolutely freeing is that...
Sabbe Dhamma Anatta ... All States are Selfless!!!
Friends, how does one cut the 5 minor mental chains of: 1: Identity, ego and personality belief. 2: Skeptical doubt in Buddha's Awakening. 3: Superstitious clinging to rule and ritual. 4: Greed, desire, lust and attraction. 5: Hate, anger, irritation and aversion.
The Blessed Buddha once explained: In whatever situation or mental state one enters, whether high or low, whether fine or foul, whether subtle or gross, whether far or near, one knows, notes, reflects upon & remembers the facts exactly like this: 'Whatsoever herein is form, feeling, perception, mental construction, & bare consciousness, all this is impermanent, transient, passing, unstable, decaying, and vanishing; all this is miserable, painful, ill, a thorn, a tumor, a disaster, a torture, and a burning pit; all this is remote, alien, impersonal, ownerless, void of stable substance and keepable entity, completely empty of any self-ego-me-I-mine-identity-or-any-personality...' One thereby re-directs mind away from those unsafe phenomena and turns it towards the freedom of the Deathless Dimension: Nibbâna just like this: 'But this is peace, the supreme stilling of all construction, relinquishing of all acquisitions, the sublime release of all clinging, the calming of all craving, disgust, disillusion, ceasing of all noise, perception and sensation, Nibbâna...' Firmly established in this safe mode of reflection, one either eliminates the mental fermentations completely and thus attains Nibbâna - here and now - in this very life, or if not that, then one is reborn spontaneously in the pure abodes, the pure lands, the pure realms, the pure spheres, of fine material, where one clears the 5 lower fetters - the 5 minor mental chains - & attains Nibbâna from there, without ever returning to this world from that level...
PS: The 'Pure Land' (SukhaVati) Buddhism of today may thus have begun from what the Buddha early & originally called 'The Pure Abodes' (SuddhaVasa): http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/loka.html#rupa
The Mind sent Outside is the Cause of Suffering. The Effect of the Mind sent Outside is Suffering. The Mind seeing the Mind is the Path: The Noble Way! The Effect of Mind seeing Mind, is the End of Suffering.
No matter how much one thinks, one will not know directly! Only when one stops thinking, will one know directly... Yet, one still depends on thinking, so as to know...!!! When mind is all quiet, one will come to know directly. Whatever one really knows, it is from watching one's own mind!
Knowing is the ground state of the empty mind, which is bright, pure, quiet, calm, not fabricating, not searching, not urging, and neither possessed, nor attracted by anything at all...
He does, yet he doesn't: Do you still have anger? Yes, but I don't pick it up!
The Less the better: Stop Thinking, and Stop Urging! The Poorer one is, the more Happiness one enjoys...
Thai King Bhumibol presents a gift to Venerable Dun Atulo Thera.
The Blessed Buddha once said: And how, Bhikkhus, is release of mind by serene equanimity (Upekkha) achieved? What does this liberation have as its destination, what is its culmination, what is its sweet fruit, and what is the ultimate goal of mental release by universally neutral & imperturbable equanimity? Here, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading first the entire frontal quadrant, with a mind imbued with infinite equanimity, so the second quadrant, the 3rd quadrant, and the 4th quadrant. As above, so below, across, and everywhere, & as to all beings also to himself, he dwells pervading the entire universe with a mind saturated with unlimited equanimity, immense, exalted, measureless, without hostility, without any enmity, without any ill will! Thus prepared and expanded, he then develops:
1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with limitless equanimity. 2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such equanimity. 3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with infinite equanimity. 4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with absolute equanimity. 5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with serene equanimity. 6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with equanimity. 7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with endless equanimity. Based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in any unrepulsive & tempting, then he can dwell experiencing repulsiveness therein. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in any disgusting & repulsive, then he dwells experiencing pleasing beauty in whatever disgusting! If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in what is both unrepulsive & repulsive, he dwells experiencing repulsive disgust in it. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in what is both unrepulsive & repulsive, he experiences only unrepulsive beauty by it! If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive and the unrepulsive, may I dwell in equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending, then he dwells in equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending! Or else, completely transcending the realm of infinitude of consciousness, only aware that there is nothing, he enters & dwells in the sphere of the void, empty & vacuous nothingness.. I tell you Bhikkhus for a wise Bhikkhu here, who has not yet penetrated to an even more superior mental release, the mental release by imperturbable equanimity has the subtle sphere of the nothingness as its final culmination !
Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness... Have a nice & noble day!
At Savatthi the Buddha once said: Friends, any who seeks delight in form seeks delight in suffering. I tell you, anyone seeking delight in suffering, is not freed from suffering. Anyone who seeks delight in feeling, or seeks delight in perception, or seeks delight in mental constructions, or seeks delight in consciousness, indeed thereby also seeks delight in suffering... One who seeks delight in suffering cannot be liberated from suffering...! Anyone who does not seek any delight, neither in form, nor in feeling, nor in perception, nor in mental constructions, nor in consciousness, does not seek delight in any suffering! Anyone who does not seek any delight in any form of suffering, is therefore and thereby released from all suffering...!
"Garden of Earthly Delight" by Hieronymus Bosch. (1450-1516)
Comments: Delight is a mixed state of craving camouflaged by the joy of satisfaction. However, in the end, all craving will create suffering either sooner or later. Seeking delight is therefore - ultimately speaking - creating suffering... All beings in the sense-world (kama-loka) are devoured by their own delight... http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Devoured_by_Delight.htm
1: The Latent Tendency to Sense-Desire. 2: The Latent Tendency to Aversion and Anger. 3: The Latent Tendency to Skeptical Doubt. 4: The Latent Tendency to Speculative Views. 5: The Latent Tendency to the Conceit "I am". 6: The Latent Tendency to Craving for Becoming. 7: The Latent Tendency to Blind Ignorance.
These are inherently deeply imbedded and hidden in the core of the mind, where these subtle tendencies ever again exert their harmful influence over our thoughts, speech & behaviour. Biased by such corrupt inclinations, any intention to act will only produce detrimental and painful future results... The only tool capable of overcoming and extracting them is indeed this quite Noble 8-fold Way: The Ariya Atthangika Magga: :
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)
The Latent Tendencies are the Hidden Driver of Mind! Local minima are Samsara. Global minimum is Nibbana!
A deity once asked the Buddha: What is good, even when one is old? What is good, when established? What is a human's most precious treasure? What is hard for thieves to steal?
The blessed Buddha answered: Morality is good, even when one is old! Faith is good, when established! Understanding is human's most precious treasure! Merit is hard for thieves to steal!
Sitting alone, in silence, each early morning, with closed eyes one wishes: May I radiate and meet only infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! May I and all the various beings on the 31 levels of existence develop and find only the genuine good of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! May I and all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material and the formless plane develop and encounter this fine infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! May I and all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left and below as above develop and experience high infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! May I and all beings in this city, country and universe always be fully aware and deeply mindful of this infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! May I and all beings in this city, country and universe examine all details and subtle aspects of this sublime infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! May I and all beings in this city, country and universe put enthusiastic effort into their praxis of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! May I and all beings in this city, country and universe find enraptured joy and jubilant gladness in this infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! May I and all beings in this city, country and universe cultivate the tranquillity of quiet, silent and all stilled infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! May I and all beings in this city, country and universe attain concentrated and absorbed one-pointedness of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! May I and all beings in this city, country and universe dwell in undisturbable and imperturbable balance of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill! Yeah! (Print this out, dwell in each state until deep, use ~ 25-45 minutes.
Comment: Universal Friendliness is the 1st endless state (Appamañña) This gradually reduces all hate, anger, irritation, resentment, opposition, stubbornness, mental rigidity, and unhappiness related with these states. Release of Mind by Universal Friendliness (Metta-Ceto-Vimutti) is >16 times more worth, than any merit won by whatever worldly gift or gain... Joining with the 7 links to Awakening will later cause formless jhana...
The blessed Buddha said regarding ontology: What is it, Bhikkhus, that the wise & clever in the world agree upon as not existing, of which I too say that it does not exist? Form that is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject to change: This the wise & clever in the world agree upon as not existing, and I too say, that it does not exist. So also Feelings... Perceptions ... Mental Constructions ... and a Consciousness, that should be permanent, stable, eternal, and not subject to change: This the wise & clever in the world agree upon as not existing, and I too say, that it does not exist... That, bhikkhus, is what the wise & clever in the world agree upon as not existing, of which I too say, that it does not exist. And what is it, bhikkhus, that the wise & clever in the world agree upon as existing, of which I too say that it exists? Form that is impermanent, painful, and subject to change: this the wise and clever in the world agree upon as existing, and I too say, that it exists! Transient Feelings ... Perceptions ... Mental Constructions, & a Consciousness, that is momentary, suffering, and ever subject to change: this the wise & clever in the world agree upon as existing, & I too say that it exists! That, bhikkhus is what the wise & clever in this world agree upon as existing, of which I too say that it exists...
The Dynamics of interdependent re-becoming into being.
No existence is Static - the same over time - unchanging.... If it were static we would live in a deep-freezer with no movement at all... All existence is Dynamic - never the same- transient and ever hanging! All existence is therefore a Re-Becoming Anew - a momentary rebirth... Again and Again and again and again... Everything breaks up!
Everything breaks up, falls apart, and soon vanishes!
Self-Pity! The man was much worried over having no shoes, until he met the other guy without legs...!
[size=150]Pure Politics![/size] The humanitarian needs an oppressed proletariat.. The professional saving angel lives of suffering... The meek only shines, when abused by the angry!
Cinderella Syndrome... They made a party inviting Charity as a guest of honour! However, she had only rags of humility to wear, and was dismissed, when she came bare footed to the entrance! Nobody ever noticed that she was not there...
Source of Inspiration: A Thinkers Notebook. Ñanamoli Thera 1950.
Ñanamoli Thera(1905-1960) at the island hermitage.
The Blessed Buddha once explained: There is eye-sensitivity, visual forms, & visual consciousness. The meeting of these three elements, is eye Contact... There is ear-sensitivity, audible sounds, & auditory consciousness. The encounter of these three elements, is ear Contact... There is nose-sensitivity, smellable odours, & olfactory consciousness. The occurrence of these three elements, is nose Contact... There is tongue-sensitivity, tastable flavors, & gustatory consciousness. The happening of these three elements, is tongue Contact... There is body-sensitivity, sensible touches, & tactile consciousness. The coming together of these three elements, is body Contact... There is mental-sensitivity, mental states, & mental consciousness. The coincidence of these three elements, is mental Contact...
Friends, it is in dependence on the diversity of these elements, that there arises the multiplicity of perceptions; & in dependence on the multiplicity of perceptions, that there arises the variety of intentions; & in dependence on the variety of intentions, that there arises the diverseness of contacts; & in dependence on the diverseness of contacts, that there arises the array of feelings; & in dependence on the array of feelings, that there arises the mishmash of desires; & in dependence on the mishmash of desires, that there arises the manifold of fevers; & in dependence on the manifold of fevers, that there arises the abundance of searches; & in dependence on the abundance of searches, that there arises multifarious enthralling urges...
How so? Regarding e.g. form; in dependence on intention for form, there arises contact with form; in dependence on contact with form, there arises feeling born of contact with form; in dependence on feeling born of contact with form, there arises desire for form; in dependence on desire for form, there arises fever for form; in dependence on fever for form, there arises the search for form; in dependence on the search for form, there arises the need of form... Such is the emergence of this manifold hunt, urge & wanting!
Obvious examples: Porn, food, money, drugs, booze, fame and entertainment! Intention=>Contact=>Feeling=>Desire=>Fever=>Search=>Urge=>Need=>Pain! Every second of our lives this bombardment of sensuality creates suffering!
1: The greatest enemy in life is: The Ego... 2: The greatest deceit in life is: This is Mine... 3: The greatest failure in life is: Narcissism... 4: The greatest acid in life is: Envy & Jealousy... 5: The greatest error in life is to lose Self-control... 6: The greatest crime in life is betrayal of Parents... 7: The greatest deplorable in life is pathetic Self-pity... 8: The greatest success in life is correcting own failure... 9: The greatest bankruptcy in life is lewd immoral conduct... 10: The greatest wealth in life is health and understanding... 11: The greatest debts in life is clinging and lack of purity... 12: The greatest gift in life is Patience, Tolerance & Forgiveness... 13: The greatest shortcoming in life is lack of present Awareness! 14: The greatest soothing relief in life is Generosity & kind Charity!
Purification by knowledge & vision of the way comes by 8 understandings: 1: Understanding the momentary rise and fall of all states whatsoever. 2: Understanding the unavoidable dissolution of all phenomena whatsoever. 3: Understanding that appearance is terror, since it always entails suffering. 4: Understanding the danger inherent in clinging to things bound to vanish. 5: Understanding disillusion and dispassion as good signs of reduced greed. 6: Understanding of the deep desire for deliverance from the rebirth round. 7: Understanding of contemplating reflexion as a crucial tool for release. 8: Understanding of equanimity regarding all formations and constructions. Vism 639
1: No killing or harming is Advantageous. 2: No stealing or cheating is Advantageous. 3: No adultery or abuse is Advantageous. 4: No false speech is Advantageous. 5: No divisive speech is Advantageous. 6: No angry speech is Advantageous. 7: No empty gossip is Advantageous. 8: No jealousy or envy is Advantageous. 9: No angry ill will is Advantageous. 10: No wrong view is Advantageous!
Comments: Resisting and abstaining from, and avoiding doing something wrong, is actually actively doing something very good! Such good action is quite advantageous, since it results in the sweet fruit of a pleasant future!
Yes! The Blessed Buddha once instructed his son Rahula in this way: Having left behind desire for the five streams of simple sensual pleasure, captivating forms, satisfying the mind, having gone forth from the house in faith, put an end to suffering! Cultivate Noble friends, an isolated lodging, which is remote, secluded, silent, & with little traffic. Be moderate in eating! Do never crave neither for fine robes or foods, nor requisites, or lodging! Do not ever return to the worldly life again. Be fully controlled regarding the monastic discipline and the 5 sense abilities. Be completely & constantly aware of the body as a frame of bones, skin, and flesh. By disgusted with all in this world. Avoid beautiful objects, which provokes lust. Make mind one-pointed, concentrated, absorbed, well focused on non-attractiveness. Develop the signless mind. Cast out latent tendency to the conceit: "I am"! Then by the full understanding of self-deception you will wander and dwell stilled, in perfect peace... Sn 337-342
The Blessed Buddha once insisted: The nature of Ageing and Death has to be Understood. The Cause of Ageing and Death has to be Understood. The End of Ageing and Death has to be Understood. The Way to End Ageing and Death has to be Understood.
The nature of Birth has to be Understood. The Cause of Birth has to be Understood. The End of Birth has to be Understood. The Way to End Birth has to be Understood.
The nature of Clinging has to be Understood. The Cause of Clinging has to be Understood. The End of Clinging has to be Understood. The Way to End Clinging has to be Understood.
The nature of Craving has to be Understood. The Cause of Craving has to be Understood. The End of Craving has to be Understood. The Way to End Craving has to be Understood.
The nature of Feeling has to be Understood. The Cause of Feeling has to be Understood. The End of Feeling has to be Understood. The Way to End Feeling has to be Understood.
The nature of Contact has to be Understood. The Cause of Contact has to be Understood. The End of Contact has to be Understood. The Way to End Contact has to be Understood.
The nature of the 6 Senses has to be Understood. The Cause of the 6 Senses has to be Understood. The End of the 6 Senses has to be Understood. The Way to End the 6 Senses has to be Understood.
The nature of Name-and-Form has to be Understood. The Cause of Name-and-Form has to be Understood. The End of Name-and-Form has to be Understood. The Way to End Name-and-Form has to be Understood.
The nature of Consciousness has to be Understood. The Cause of Consciousness has to be Understood. The End of Consciousness has to be Understood. The Way to End Consciousness has to be Understood.
The nature of Mental Construction has to be Understood. The Cause of Mental Construction has to be Understood. The End of Mental Construction has to be Understood. The Way to End Mental Construction has to be Understood.
The nature of Ignorance has to be Understood. The Cause of Ignorance has to be Understood. The End of Ignorance has to be Understood. The Way to End Ignorance has to be Understood.
The Blessed Buddha once said: And how, Bhikkhus, is the mental release by universal pity achieved? What does this liberation have as its destination, what is its culmination, what is its sweet fruit, and what is the goal of release by universal pity? Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading the frontal quadrant with a mind imbued with infinite pity, so the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter. As above, so below, across, and everywhere! To all beings and to himself, he dwells pervading the entire universe with a mind saturated with unlimited pity, immense, exalted, vast, measureless, without hostility, without enmity, without any trace of ill will! Thus prepared & expanded he then develops: 1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with this limitless pity. 2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such vast pity. 3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with this infinite pity. 4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with this absolute pity. 5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with this spacious pity. 6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with this great pity. 7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with this endless pity. While based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in the unrepulsive and tempting, then he can dwell experiencing the repulsive therein. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in the disgusting and repulsive, then he dwells experiencing pleasing beauty in whatever is disgusting! If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in what is both unrepulsive and repulsive, he dwells experiencing repulsive disgust in it. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in what is both unrepulsive and repulsive, he experiences only excessive beauty in it! If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive and the unrepulsive, may I dwell in equanimity, just aware & clearly comprehending, then he dwells in this equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending. Or else, by completely transcending of all experience of form, fully stilling any perception of all sense-reaction, non attending to any experience of diversity, only aware that space is infinite, he enters and dwells in the infinitude of space... I tell you Bhikkhus, for a wise Bhikkhu here, who has not yet penetrated to an even more superior mental release, this release of mind by infinite pity has the sublime sphere of the infinitude of space as its culmination!
Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness...
I am the owner of my actions (kamma), inheritor of my actions, born of my actions, created by my actions, and have my own actions as my judge! Whatever I do, good or evil, I will feel the resulting effects of that ... Source: AN V 57
Intention, Bhikkhus, is what I call action=kamma, for through intention one initiates these actions through the door of the body, speech or mind. There is kamma (intentional action), Bhikkhus, that ripens in hell.... There is kamma that ripens in the animal world.. There is kamma that ripens in the world of humans.... There is kamma that ripens in the divine world.... Threefold, however, is this ripening fruit of kamma: ripening during here in this life, or ripening in the next rebirth life, or ripening in even later rebirths ... Source: AN VI 63
The 10 advantageous courses of action (=Good Kamma): The 3 bodily actions: Avoidance of killing, stealing, and abusive sexuality. The 4 verbal actions: Avoidance of lying, slandering, angry & empty speech. The 3 mental actions: Doing Withdrawal, Good-will, and Right Views. Source: MN 9
Greed, Bhikkhus, is a condition for the arising of kamma. Hate is a condition for the arising of kamma. Confusion is a condition for the arising of kamma. Source: AN III 109
One who kills & harms goes either to hell or will be short-lived elsewhere. One who torments others will be afflicted with disease or disability. The angry one will look ugly, the envious one will be without influence. The stingy one will be poor, the stubborn will be placed low and stupid. The lazy will be without knowledge, understanding and certainty. In the contrary case, one will be reborn in heaven or reborn as man. One will be long-lived, beautiful, influential, highborn and intelligent! Source: MN 135
There are 10 meritorious actions leading to human or divine rebirth: 1: Giving. 2: Morality. 3: Meditation. 4: Reverence by paying respect to monks and elders. 5: Performing services to others. 6: Transference of merits to others. 7: Rejoicing in others' merit. 8: Learning this true Dhamma. 9: Teaching this true Dhamma. 10: Correcting one's wrong views.
To the extent that there are beings, past, and future, dying & re-arising, all beings are the owners of their actions, inheritor to their actions, are born of their actions, created by their action, conditioned by their actions, related to their actions, and are dependent on the effect of past actions. Whatever they do, for good or for evil, from that will they feel the result... Source: AN V 57
Buddha once explained existence as a chain of dependent emergence: Some recluses & priests declare these excessively speculative views: 'Everything Exists'; which is the one extreme (Sarvastavadin Eternalism). Other recluses & priests declare a just as hypothetical opposite extreme view: 'Everything does Not Exist' (Sunyatavadin Annihilationism). Avoiding both these extremes the Well-Gone-Beyond Buddha teaches this Dhamma from the Middle:
When this is present, that also exists. When this emerges, that also arises. When this is absent, that neither exists. When this ceases, that also vanishes.
From ignorance arises mental construction. From mental construction arises consciousness. From consciousness arises naming-&-forming. From name-&-form arises the six senses. From the six senses arises contact. From contact arises feeling. From feeling arises craving. From craving arises clinging. From clinging arises becoming. From becoming arises birth. From birth arises ageing, decay, sickness & death. From ageing, decay & death arises Suffering! This is the origin of this entire mass of Pain... When ignorance ceases, mental construction stops. When mental construction ceases, consciousness stops. When consciousness ceases, naming-&-forming stops. When name-&-form ceases, the six senses stops. When the six senses ceases, contact stops. When contact ceases, feeling stops. When feeling ceases, craving stops. When craving ceases, clinging stops. When clinging ceases, becoming stops. When becoming ceases, birth stops. When birth ceases, ageing, decay, & death stops... When ageing, decay & death ceases, Suffering stops! This is the Disappearance of this entire mass of Pain... This - only this supremely stilled silence - is Nibbana!
Existence is thus: Neither a static substance out there, nor a mental illusion in here, But a chain of dependent states arising and ceasing momentarily...
Once the Venerable Ananda approached the Blessed One and asked him: Venerable Sir, it is said: Empty is the world, empty is the world... In what way, Venerable Sir, is it, that this world is Empty? It is, Ananda, because it is empty of a self, and of what belongs to a self, that it is said, the world is empty... And what is it, which is empty of any self, and of what belongs to a self? The eye, all forms, visual consciousness, eye-contact and all the feelings arisen caused by eye-contact, are empty of any self, and empty of what belongs to a self... The ear, all sounds, auditory consciousness, ear-contact, and all feelings arisen caused by ear-contact, are empty of any self, and empty of what belongs to a self... The nose, all smells, olfactory consciousness, nose-contact, all feeling arisen from olfactory contact, the tongue, all flavours, all gustatory consciousness, tongue-contact, all feeling arisen by tasting, the body, all forms of touch, all tactile consciousness, all body-contact, all feelings arisen caused by body contact, that too is empty of any self, and of what belongs to any self... The mind is empty of any self. All thoughts and ideas are empty of any self. Mental consciousness is empty of any self. Mental-contact is empty of self. Whatever feeling arisen caused by any mental-contact, that too is empty of any self, and of what belongs to any self... It is, Ananda, because all this is empty of any self, & of what belongs to any even assumed made-up concept of self, that it is said: Empty is this world...
An inflated void is any concept of "I", "Me", "Mine" & "Self"
The Ego Tunnel - Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger TED video:
The 5 Criteria for Evaluation of Right Concentration:
After emerging from the deepest state so far attained one reviews it thus: 1: This absorption is Happy now, and results in future happiness too... 2: This absorption is Noble, and unrivaled by anything in this world... 3: This absorption is not reached by inferior, or unworthy persons... 4: This absorption is entered upon & emerged from while fully aware... 5: This absorption is perfectly Calm, Stilled, Unified, and neither fabricated, nor suppressible, nor reversible, nor deniable...
Adopting a particular View, Generates a particular Future!
The Buddha often emphasized that any view leads to a specific future being: When one regards one's own views and opinions as the best, seeing all other views as inferior, that very tenacious attitude, the experts know as a knot! A Bhikkhu should thus not depend upon anything seen, heard or thought of.. Neither should he form any views based on his knowledge, virtuous conduct, or vows. He should not think of himself as neither equal, nor inferior, nor as superior to anything or anybody. Having relinquished what had been taken up, and not taking anything new up again, not depending even upon knowledge, not a member of any faction, he does not believe in any view at all... They do neither form or adopt any views, nor do they prefer or select any opinion, nor do they cling to any particular dogma. Gone to the far shore, such a one does not come back again! For him who has no desire for renewed existence neither here nor beyond, for him there are no form of being whatever, that he would propel into through having decided among the particular views... Sutta-Nipata 796-803 Edited excerpt.
MAKER OF CATASTROPHES Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or one hater might do to another blinded by hate, the mind wrongly directed by false or evil view, may do to oneself, yet even far much worse!!! Dhammapada 42
WRONG VIEW Seeing wrong, where there is no wrong, while ignoring the wrong, when it really is there, such false views lead to a painful future state... Dhammapada 318
HAPPY VIEW Knowing the wrong as wrong, and the right to be right, such correct view brings one to a happy future state. Dhammapada 319
The Buddha encouraged relinquishing possessions thereby ending suffering: Those who are greedy and needy for cherished things cannot ever end grief, sorrow, and miserliness. Seeking security the recluse therefore relinquishes all possessions and wanders forth into homelessness. Dwelling withdrawn and remote, secluded in senses, he finds it agreeable not show himself anywhere! Not dependent upon anything, the sage finds nothing pleasant or unpleasant. Neither possessiveness, nor lamentation, nor what is seen or heard or thought clings to his mind, just as water cannot ever cling to a lotus-leaf... Sutta-Nipata 809-812 Edited excerpt.
The disciple Bhadravudha once asked the Blessed Buddha: How can one release all clinging? By dispelling all craving, thereby all clinging is also released, because craving causes clinging! Thus do absence of craving result in absence of clinging said the Blessed One. Bhadravudha, where-ever above, below, across, and also in between: Whatever beings grasp and cling to in the world, by that very thing is they followed to death... Attaching to anything, means attaching to death! Therefore, knowing this, seeing people clinging even in panic to the realm of death, any aware & alert Bhikkhu would neither grasp, nor cling to anything in the entire world. Seeing all those people, who habitually are very attached to many worldly things and thus clinging to death's realm, he stills all craving. By stilling all craving, all clinging is relinquished. No wanting means no clutch! Sutta-Nipata 1101-04 Edited excerpt.
Comment: While dwelling detached the later ordained Bhadravudha became an arahat!
Without desires, cravings or doubts one is Silenced!
The venerable Todeyya once asked the Blessed Buddha: One who has cooled all sense desire, cut all craving, and overcome all doubts, is there any higher release for him? In whom no sensual pleasures dwell, Todeyya, said the Blessed One, and for whom no craving exists, and who has crossed over all doubts, for such one is there no other higher release... Todeyya then further asked: Is he without longings, or is he hoping? Does he possess final understanding, or is he still seeking understanding? Please explain this to me, Sakyan with universal vision, so that I may recognise a true sage. He is without longings, he is not hoping for anything. He do indeed possess complete understanding, he is not searching for anything. In this very way, Todeyya, recognise the sage, he possesses nothing, he is neither attached to any form of sense pleasure, nor to any form of existence. He is all silenced! Sutta-Nipata 1088-91 Edited excerpt.
Comment: While dwelling on these answers the venerable Todeyya became an arahat!
The Awakened Arahats just looks upon all in equanimity as if from above...
The brahmin Magandiya asked the Buddha about how to find inner peace who answered: Mental purity is neither caused by particular views, nor by learning, nor by knowledge, nor even by perfect morality. Neither by absence of right view, missing learning, lack of knowledge, or tainted morality, not by that either! Discarding all these oppositions, detached, calmed, independent, one stops longing for any form of existence... Whoever thinks himself equal, superior, or inferior, he will dispute on that account! But the imperturbable one does not enter any self-deceit! Since for such one, there is no I-Me-Self or Ego how much less can there then ever be any equal, inferior or superior I-Me-Self! Leaving home, wandering homeless, not making acquaintances in any village, free from desire for sensual pleasures, showing no preferences, such sage will never engage in any controversy. One who really knows does not become proud because of any particular view, learning, thought, or experience, for he is not tied to, influenced by, or led by any of these momentary illusions.. He is completely released through his understanding. But those who cling to certain experiences and particular views wander about causing controversy! Sutta-Nipata 839-842-844-846-847 Edited excerpt.
Commentary: This true speech made Magandiya and his wife never-returners (Anagamins).
At Savatthi The Buddha once said: All form is transient, all feeling is transient, all perception is transient, all mental constructions are transient, all consciousness is transient... This transience is suffering! What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self should be seen as it really is with correct understanding in this very way: 'All this is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self!'... When one sees and understands this thus, as it really is with correct and penetrating understanding, then one maintains no views on what is past. When one maintains no more views regarding the past, then one neither maintains any views about the future. When one has relinquished all views about the future, then one is not being possessed by stubborn clinging... Having no trace of immovable clinging left, the mind becomes disillusioned regarding all form, all feeling, all perception, all mental constructions, and all consciousness. By that it is released from the 3 mental fermentations through detached non-clinging... By being released, the mind is all silenced! By being thus stilled, the mind becomes content... Being content, it is not agitated anymore... Being thus unagitated, one indeed attains Nibbana! Right there and then, one instantly understands: Ended is this process of rebirth, this Noble Life has been lived, done is all what had to be done, there is no state beyond this...
A deity once asked the Buddha: What is good, when one is old? What is good, when established? What is a human's finest treasure? What is hard for robbers to steal? The blessed Buddha answered: Morality is good, even when one is old! Conviction is good, when firmly established! Understanding is any human's finest treasure! Merit well done is impossible for robbers to steal!
The blessed Buddha once explained: Bhikkhus, the concentration won by Awareness by Breathing, when developed and frequently cultivated, is of great fruit and results in a big advantage... And how, Bhikkhus, is concentration by Awareness by Breathing developed and cultivated so that it is of great fruit and advantage? Bhikkhus, when one have gone to the forest, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut, there one sits down cross-legged, having straightened one's body and back, and set up awareness around the nostrils, then just plainly aware of that breathing itself one breathes in, & just solely aware of only that breath in itself, one breathes out... Breathing in long, one knows, notes and understands: I inhale long! Breathing out long, one knows, notes and understands: I exhale long! ... ... ... (steps 2-15) ... ... ... One trains thus: Contemplating relinquishment, I will breathe in! One trains thus: Contemplating relinquishment, I will breathe out! Therefore, if such friend feels a pleasant feeling, then he understands through his prior training in breathing meditation: It is impermanent; it should neither be clung to nor delighted in... If he feels a painful feeling, then he indeed also understands: It is impermanent; it should neither be clung to nor engaged in... If he feels a neutral feeling there and then he also understands: It is impermanent; it should neither be clung to nor involved in... Whether he feels a pleasant feeling, or a painful feeling, or a neutral feeling, he feels it as if detached from it, and as something remote, and alien... If he feels a feeling terminating with the body, then he understands: If feel a feeling terminating at the same time as this body... If he feels a feeling terminating with life, then he understands: I feel a feeling terminating at the same time as this life... He then understands: With the break-up of this frame of a body, following the exhaustion of life, all that is felt, and all sensed, not being delighted in, will turn cold right there and then... Just as, bhikkhus, an oil lamp burns in dependence on the oil and the wick, and with the exhaustion of the oil and the wick the flame ceases to burn through lack of fuel, exactly so too, Bhikkhus, when such a Bhikkhu feels a feeling terminating with the body or with life... Then he understands: With the break-up of this fragile frame of a body, following the exhaustion of life, all that is felt, all that is sensed, by not being delighted in, by not being clung to, will cool down & cease right there & then!
What is Dependent Co-origination? The condensed ultra-cut answer is: When this is present, that too is in existence. When this arises, that too emerges.
In Detail: The condition of Ignorance causes Mental Construction to arise. The condition of Mental Construction causes Consciousness to arise. The condition of Consciousness causes Name-&-Form to arise. The condition of Name-&-Form causes The 6 Senses to arise. The condition of The 6 Senses causes Contact to arise. The condition of Contact causes Feeling to arise. The condition of Feeling causes Craving to arise. The condition of Craving causes Clinging to arise. The condition of Clinging causes Becoming to arise. The condition of Becoming causes Birth to arise. The condition of Birth causes Ageing, Decay & Death to arise. The condition of Ageing, Decay & Death causes Pain to arise... Such is the arising of this entire immense mass of Suffering!!! This is called the Wrong Way ...
This is Dependent Co-origination! A chain of conditioned effects, that each causes new events to occur!
What is Dependent Co-Cessation? Cut short: When this cause is absent, that effect too is non-existent. When this condition ceases, that phenomenon too fades away.
In quite profound Detail: The fading away of Ignorance causes Mental Construction to cease. The fading away of Mental Construction causes Consciousness to cease. The fading away of Consciousness causes Name-&-Form to cease. The fading away of Name-&-Form causes The 6 Senses to cease. The fading away of The 6 Senses causes Contact to cease. The fading away of Contact causes Feeling to cease. The fading away of Feeling causes Craving to cease. The fading away of Craving causes Clinging to cease. The fading away of Clinging causes Becoming to cease. The fading away of Becoming causes Birth to cease. The fading away of Birth causes Ageing, Decay & Death to cease. The fading away of Ageing, Decay & Death causes Pain to cease... Such is the Complete Ceasing of this entire immense mass of Suffering!
This is called the Right Way ... It is much deeper, than it initially appears! This is Dependent Co-Cessation! Breaking the Chain of detrimental Events!
The Grace of Goodwill: A Meditation on Friendliness (Metta): May my mind be filled with the thought of Kind Friendliness & open Amity. May the minds of my good teachers be filled with the thought of Friendliness. May the minds of my parents and dear ones be filled with the thought of Friendliness. May the minds of all unfriendly persons be filled with the thought of Friendliness. May the minds of all living beings be filled with the thought of Friendliness. May the minds of all strangers be filled with the thought of Friendliness. May we be free from fear, tension, anxiety, worry, and restlessness. May our hearts become soft. May our words be pleasing to others. May we be generous. May we be gentle. May we be relaxed. May we be happy and peaceful. May we be healthy. May we be a source of pure peace and happiness.
May the minds of everyone in this room be free from greed, anger, hatred, jealousy, and fear. May the peace and tranquillity of tender Friendliness pervade their entire bodies and minds. May they have good fortune. May they be prosperous. May they have really good friends May the minds of everyone in this building, in this street, in this city, in this nation on this continent, on this planet & in this universe be free from greed, anger, & doubt. May these thoughts of Friendliness embrace them, charge them and envelope them. May every cell, every drop of blood, every atom, be charged with kind amity. May the peace & tranquillity of goodwill pervade their entire bodies & minds. May they be happy-hearted. May they be free from worries and troubles. May all beings in all directions throughout this multiverse be happy. May they be filled with Friendliness, abundant, exalted, & infinite! May they be free from enmity affliction, and anxiety. May they live happily.
May all beings in all directions, all around the universe be happy. May they have good fortune. May they be prosperous. May they be famous. May they have good friends. May they be reborn in a happy destination. May they be reborn in the heavens. May all beings Awaken swiftly! May they become thus Happy!
Good is Gentle Well-Wishing for all Sentient beings!
The Buddha on the Universality of Friendliness: Sabbe satta bhavantu sukhitatta. May all beings become thus Happy!
I am a friend of all bipeds; I am a friend of those with four feet, I am a friend of the many-footed, I am a friend of those with no feet! Anguttara Nikaya 4.67
One thinks: 'May these beings be free from animosity, free from oppression, free from trouble, and may they look after themselves with ease! Anguttara Nikaya 5
The absence of hate, hating, hatred, the absence of anger, and any malignity, and the presence of love, friendly kindness, gentle disposition, tender care, forbearance, genuine considerateness; seeking the general good for all, compassion this is the very root of good behaviour. Dhammasangani
As I am, so are others... As others are, so am I... Having thus identified self and others, Never Harm anyone, nor have any being abused. Sutta Nipata 3.710
Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the jungle. No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone. Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the forest. Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude… Suvanna-sama Jataka 540
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart & mind: Beaming above, below, & all around, unobstructed, without trace of hostility. Sutta Nipata I, 8
Hurricane/Tzunami preparedness
Train yourself in doing good that lasts and brings happiness. Cultivate generosity, the life of peace, and a mind of infinite universal love. Itivuttaka 22
The Buddha once explained how to wander appropriately in this world: Having rooted out omens, symbols, tokens, dreams and signs, such bhikkhu, will wander properly in this world. Having dispelled his passion for sensual pleasures, both human and divine. Having gone beyond all renewed becoming. Having understood the Dhamma doctrine, he would wander properly in this world. Having put slander, anger and meanness behind him, and with both compliance and opposition completely relinquished, he wanders worthy here. Having abandoned both the pleasant and the unpleasant, not clinging, not dependent upon anything, completely released from all the mental confines, one will wander rightly in this world. Having dispelled all passion and desire for attachments and acquisitions void of essence, independent, not to be led by others, he would wander properly in the world. Not opposing anyone or anything neither mentally, verbally or physically, longing for the state of quenching, neither wounding, nor binding others, without thorns or doubts, one can wander smoothly in this world. Knowing that only harmlessness is suitable for himself, with the roots of hate, greed & ignorance rooted out, being without any inclination, latent tendency or mental fermentation, he would wander properly in this world. Convinced, learned, seeing this 1 way, not following any faction among the groups, sects, or families, quite wise, having eliminated both favouritism and aversion, victoriously purified, far famed, mastering all mental phenomena, gone to the far shore, without lust, skilled in ceasing all activity, he will wander silenced, all quiet in this world. Discerning events both past and future, entirely released from all sensing, knowing the state of peace, self-controlled, having razed all accumulation, he would wander perfectly in any world... Sn 360-375
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How does the Noble 8-fold Way makes one Noble?
Having cultivated the Noble 8-fold Way, a being might enter the stream,
which leads to Nibbana! The Stream-Enterer (Sotapanna) is entirely freed
from rebirth as Animal, Hungry Ghost, Angry Demon & Burning Hell Being!
Such Noble One (Ariya) will be enlightened within maximally 7 rebirths...
The Stream-Enterer has eliminated all egoism, belief in a 'person' or 'self',
eradicated all 'I-making' & 'Mine-making', abolished all sceptical doubt in
the perfect Self-Enlightenment of the Buddha, & removed silly superstitious
belief in any benefit of empowerments and empty rituals. Such Noble have
by direct momentary experience touched and tasted the deathless Nibbana
and is forever hereafter independent of any Dhamma-teacher...
Having cultured the Noble 8-fold Way even further, a being might attain the
state of a Once-Returner (Sakadagami) , who is reborn only once as human or
lower god (deva) and then awakens in that next life! Such Noble has further
reduced sense-desire and aversion...
Having yet further refined the Noble 8-fold Way, a being might attain the
state of a Non-Returner (Anagami) , who is reborn in the higher fine material
worlds - The Pure Abodes - where they live for many universal cycles & there
attain Nibbana without ever returning to the human or lower divine worlds...
Such Noble has furthermore entirely eliminated sense-desire and aversion!
Having fully perfected the Noble 8-fold Way one awakens as an Arahat , who
is enlightened in this very life, by elimination of all remaining mental defects
such as desire for fine form and formlessness, the subtle conceit that 'I am',
latent tendency to restlessness and all ignorance. Such Noble One enters at
the moment of death the freedom, bliss & peace of Nibbana without trace of
clinging left...
Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/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
The fine Fruits of the Noble Way!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fruits_of_the_Noble_Way.htm
The Hook of Sense-Addiction gathers Fear!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, imagine a fisherman, who have thrown a baited hook into a deep lake,
and then an yearning fish, hungry for food, would swallow it at first sight...
That fish, having swallowed the fisherman's hook, would indeed meet with much
pain, disaster and tragedy, since the fisherman would do with it as he wishes...
So too, Bhikkhus, there are these six hooks in the world for the pain, disaster and
tragedy of beings, for the slaughter of living beings: Forms experienceable by the
eye, sounds experiencable by the ear, smells experienceable by the nose, tastes
experienceable by the tongue, touches experienceable by the body, & mental states
experienceable by the mind, that all are seductive, gorgeous, alluring, agreeable,
pleasing, enticing, tempting and tantalizing. If a bhikkhu search for delight in them,
welcomes them, and thus remains clinging to them, he is called a Bhikkhu, who has
swallowed Mara's hook!!! He has met with pain, disaster & tragedy, & the Evil One
can do with him, as he wishes. However, one who does neither hunt for delight in them,
nor does he welcome them, nor does he remain clinging to them, such is a Bhikkhu,
who has resisted Mara's hook, who has broken, destroyed, and defeated this Hook!
He he will neither gather nor meet any pain, disaster nor tragedy, and this Evil One
cannot do with him, as he wishes... He has gained true self-control and integrity!
The inevitable boomerang retribution of urge for Sense Pleasure (Hedonism):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Charcoal_Pit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Colourful_but_Muddy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm
Blissful is being without passions in this world,
Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desires!
Udana II, 1
Source (extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [157-8]
Section 35 Salayatana: On The 6 Senses. The Fisherman Simile: Balisiko 230.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Have a nice unhooked day!
Hooked on Hedonism!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fishermans_Hook.htm
No Substance exists 'out there', nor any Subject 'in here'!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
In the seen is merely the process of seeing...
In the heard is merely the process of hearing...
In the sensed is merely the process of sensing...
In the thought is merely the process of thinking...
So knowing, you will not be connected 'with that'...
So disconnected you will not be absorbed 'into that'...
So neither 'with that', nor 'within that' you are not 'by that' sensation!
When there is no 'You' inferred or conjectured by that very sensation,
then 'You' are neither 'here', 'there', 'both', 'beyond', nor 'in between'.
On realizing the importance of this incident the Blessed One exclaimed:
Where neither solidity, fluidity, heat nor motion find any footing,
there no sun, moon nor star ever shines. There is neither any light,
yet nor is there any darkness! When the Noble, through stilling of
all construction, through quieting of all mental formation, directly
experiences this, then is he freed from both form & formlessness,
then is he released from both pleasure and pain ...
Comments:
There is no-one 'who' senses, nor is there any 'substance' that is sensed,
even though the process of sensing occurs! Seeing is just a selfless event
of contact between the eye, the object & visual consciousness. Neither is
any 'person', nor any 'observer' involved nor inferred just by this seeing!
No subject or 'I' is thereby created, just because there is an object, or
just because there occurs the impersonal, automatic process of sensing...
Sensing itself, thus neither create any object, nor any subject, just as a
camera - though making an image - neither creates the object, nor does
the camera create the photographer! Thus can neither any 'substance',
nor 'reality out there' per se be ascribed to neither object, nor subject:
Just because there is a picture, one cannot by that in itself infer or even
ascribe any existence to neither the object, nor the picture-maker! Both
may actually be artificial, or of past existence and not real anymore ...
The fact that there is an image projected, does not per se imply, in or by
itself, that any-one actually is 'looking in' or 'is behind' the camera …
'By that' perception no 'perceiver' is thereby instrumentally present or
created... So the 'personal entity' we assume, suppose, deduce, expect &
believe to enjoy our experience, is merely a mental construct, a habitual
idea, a concept, & not a reality... The passive impersonal process of sensing,
perceiving and experiencing cannot thereby be 'instrumental' for neither
creating, nor inferring any 'being in existence'. The fact of this enigmatic
yet fundamental 'selflessness' is far the most essential core of the unique
Buddha-Dhamma... Outmost important to grasp, yet subtle, counterintuitive
and thereby difficult & somewhat 'nasty' to comprehend. Please keep on
trying, since this central Anatta doctrine is the opener, releaser & freer
of any mind. No-one is 'inside' the conditions that arise, cease & pass by!
Being hopelessly in love with an imagined idea of 'I=EGO' & 'World=Real'
is both fatal, tragic and sardonically comic... Hehehe ;-)
Source: The Udana – Inspirations by the Buddha: I - 10
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=404214
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/khuddaka/udana/index.html
More on No-Self (Anatta) = ego-susbstance-lessness, no entity/identity:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Neither_Agent_nor_Actor.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/No-Agent_but_Dependence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Selfless_and_Harmless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Anatta_Doctrine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No_Agent_is_Inside.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/No_Being_No_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Deed_without_Doer.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Divorced_Freedom.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Self-less_Anatta.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
No External Substance is independent of the internal Mind!
No Substance exists 'Out There'!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/No_Substance_'Out_There'.htm
Feel Pity for all those Falling Beings:
It is a great pity with all those thinking like this:
Pleasure is the only good; by that they fall!
Terror is a necessary way; by that they fall!
Sensuality is innocent; by that they fall!
Violence is allowable; by that they fall!
Money makes happiness; by that they fall!
Power is progress; by that they fall!
Falsehood is acceptable; by that they fall!
Stealing gives wealth; by that they fall!
Conceit can conceal; by that they fall!
Science knows all; by that they fall!
Killing can be good; by that they fall!
Hunting is only fun; by that they fall!
Adultery is mature; by that they fall!
Paedophilia is harmless; by that they fall!
Drugs are fantastic; by that they fall!
Booze is medicine; by that they fall!
Giving does not help; by that they fall!
After death is nothing!; by that they fall!
The Hells do not exist; by that they fall!
Intentional Action has no effect; by that they fall!
I am the better than...; by that they fall!
I know better ...; by that they fall!
Making merit cannot elevate; by that they fall!
It is a great pity with all those poor beings:
who are veiled by wrong view; by that they fall!
who are fooled by own opinion; by that they fall!
who are gripped by greed and lust; by that they fall!
who are stirred by hate and anger; by that they fall!
who are clinging to all worldly things; by that they fall!
who are confused by not knowing; by that they fall!
who prostitute themselves; by that they fall!
who cheat and deceives; by that they fall!
who pretend what is not; by that they fall!
who hide what is actual fact; by that they fall!
who destroy beings or things; by that they fall!
who pollute the milieu and society; by that they fall!
who deliberately do evil willing it; by that they fall!
who fail their duties and obligations; by that they fall!
who miss the obvious opportunities; by that they fall!
It is a great pity with all those blinded by ignorance,
bound and dragged by craving, while pushed by aversion:
By that they surely fall into states of pain, agony and despair!
As if gripped by the arms of two strong men and hurled into a big fire...
More on this caring Great Compassion (maha-karuna)!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Endless_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Karuna_is_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Compassionate_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Space_Compassion.htm
Have a nice, noble & compassionate day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Feel Infinite Pity for all those Falling beings!
Great Compassion!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Great_Compassion.htm
Universal Friendliness (Mettâ) Outshines All!
The Buddha said:
May all creatures, all breathing things,
all beings everyone without exception,
experience joy & good fortune only.
May they not fall into any harm!
Anguttara Nikaya II, 72
Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer!
Sutta Nipata I, 8
For one who deliberately & aware
Fully develops Universal Friendliness
Fading away of clinging is realized,
All chains are worn down & broken!
Itivuttaka 27
More Metta:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Friendliness_Frees.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/One_BIG_Family.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Good_Friend.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_Friendliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Selfless_Friendship_is_Sweetest.htm
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita, Ceylon
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/What_Buddha_Said
Friendliness Outshines All !
Good-Will Encore!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Goodwill_Encore.htm
The Supreme Goal Ahead:
The Blessed Buddha Gotama once said:
The purpose of morality is control of behaviour.
The purpose of controlled behaviour is absence of regrets.
The purpose of absence of regrets is joy.
The purpose of joy is satisfaction.
The purpose of satisfaction is calm.
The purpose of calm is happiness.
The purpose of happiness is concentration.
The purpose of concentration is understanding.
The purpose of understanding is disillusion.
The purpose of disillusion is detachment.
The purpose of detachment is mental release.
The purpose of mental release is Nibbana,
Final Freedom without any remnants of clinging...
More on this uncreated state - Nibbana (Sanskrit = Nirvana):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Reaching_Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2_Nibbanas.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Proximate_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Nibbana_or_non-return.htm
Final Freedom!
Nibbana is the highest Bliss.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm
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Have a nice, noble and easy day!
Bhikkhu Samahita :-) _/\_
The Hard Problem of Consciousness!
ViDeo:
Consciousness is recognized as probably the most hard problem of today's science.
It cannot be reduced to swirling atoms or neuronal blips or even ever seen in any
micro-scope or scanning. It exposes a problematic and maybe even embarrassing
epistemological gap straddling between physics, neuro-physiology and philosophy.
Consciousness seems to be contained by the brain, but not produced by the brain,
just as the beer is contained in the bottle, but not produced by the bottle...
Consciousness holds the key to understanding the nature of core phenomena like
reality versus dreams.
Consciousness (viññana) from an Early Buddhist Perspective:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/What_is_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vinnaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Selfless_Camera.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Dependent_on_Contact.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Consciousness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Momentary_Consciousness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Observation_induces_the_Object.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_passes_on_by_Rebirth-Linking.htm
The Buddha on Meditation and Higher States of Consciousness:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Wheels/wh189.pdf
Links and online papers on Consciousness:
http://consc.net/online/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
TIME: The Mystery of Consciousness:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580394,00.html
Is consciousness a wave form or an emergent property of the brain?
Is it up in the sky, or hidden inside the labyrinth? ;-)
What makes beings Aware?
The Hard Problem of Consciousness!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Consciousness.htm
Not even as much as a Fingernail of Dust Lasts!
At Savatthi. Seated to the side, a certain bhikkhu asked the Blessed One:
Is there, Venerable Sir, any form, or any feeling, or any perception, or any
mental construction, or any consciousness, that is permanent, stable, eternal,
not a changing state, that will remain the same, just like eternity itself ?
Then the Blessed One took up a tiny bit of soil on his fingernail and said to
that bhikkhu: Bhikkhu, there is not even this much form, feeling, perception,
construction, or consciousness, that is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject
to change, that will remain the same, just like eternity itself...! If there was
this much form, feeling, perception, construction, or consciousness, that was
permanent, stable, eternal, and not changing, this living of the Noble Life for
the utterly complete elimination of all suffering, could not be made known...
But because there is not even this much form, nor feeling, nor any perception,
nor mental construction, nor consciousness that is permanent, stable, eternal,
not subject to change, this living of the Noble Life for the complete elimination
of all suffering can indeed be made known...
More on the Universal Fact of Impermanence:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm
VANISHING
Impermanent, Momentary are all phenomena existing.
Whoever fully perceives this with Insight straightaway
develops immunity to suffering. This is a way to freedom.
Dhammapada 227
Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya XXII (97); [III 147-9]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 An Ocean of Dhamma Teaching!
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/index.html#Khandha On Clusters!
Transience purifies...
Experiencing the Break-Up!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fingernail_of_Soil.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
Appropriate Appreciation is Gratitude!
One should be grateful towards one's Parents! Why so?
They have worked hard and very long raising one into being!
One should be grateful towards one's Teachers! Why so?
They do much to make one learn and understand the good...
One should be grateful towards one's Friends! Why so?
They have shown one an open kindness and much goodwill!
One should be grateful towards one's Spouse! Why so?
They have loyally accompanied one along a long way...
What is the future kammic effect of gratitude or ungratefulness?
The one who is grateful will receive gifts and favours ever again!
The one who is ungrateful will never again receive gifts or favours !
Thankfulness wisely invested thus pays back quite a lot!
Therefore: Always Say Thanx!
Thanx for Your Attention! ;-)
On Contentment and Rejoicing Appreciation:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Contentment.htm
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
Have a nice gracious day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Gracious is Gratitude!
Appreciation Echoes Back... :-)
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Appropriate_Appreciation.htm
All Buddhas Awakened by Breath Meditation!
It has aspects both of serene calm (Samatha) & incisive insight (Vipassana).
It is extraordinarily advantageous to train this unique breathing technique.
Can recommend this booklet about standard Breathing Meditation very much:
Mindfulness of Breathing. Classic Anapanasati meditation manual of the root
Pali texts translated by Bhikkhu Ñanamoli. BPS. 1998.
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/anapanasati.pdf
The ideal is when Calm and Insight goes hand in hand, as if yoked together!
More on this both simple yet quite profound Breathing Meditation:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_I.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_II.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_IV.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_III.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Awareness_by_Breathing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_the_Breath.htm
More on Insight (Vipassana):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Insight.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In_this_very_Life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_18_Principal_Insights.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breathing_Calm_and_Insight.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Mental Calm induces incisive Insight...
Calm and Insight!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breathing_Calm_and_Insight.htm
We should be Good to our fine Friends here!
The Buddha on the Universality of Friendliness:
I am a friend of all bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed,
I am a friend of those with no feet!
Anguttara Nikaya 4.67
As I am, so are others... As others are, so am I...
Having thus identified self and others,
Never Harm anyone, nor have any being abused.
Sutta Nipata 3.710
Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the jungle.
No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.
Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the forest.
Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude…
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart & mind:
Beaming above, below, & all around, unobstructed, without trace of hostility.
Sutta Nipata I, 8
Train yourself in doing good
that lasts and brings happiness.
Cultivate generosity, the life of peace,
and a mind of infinite universal love.
Itivuttaka 22
More on Friendliness (Metta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Hey_Friend.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Mothers_Love.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kalyanamitta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unique_Unity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Loving-Kindness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_Kindness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Across_Borders.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Friendliness_Frees.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Goodness_Galore.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Cosmic_Goodness.htm
Our Fine Friends!
We are not alone here...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Our_Friends.htm
The Ten Mental Liberators Frees!
Venerable Sariputta once explained:
1: The experience of deep disgust.
2: The experience of death approaching.
3: The experience of disliking whatever food.
4: The experience of dispassion with the entire world.
5: The experience of the inevitable impermanence.
6: The experience of frustration inherent in decay.
7: The experience of the impersonality of existence.
8: The experience of letting go and leaving all behind.
9: The experience of disinterested, & detached disillusion.
10: The experience of calming, stilling, ceasing, and ending.
These 10 perceptions are real, true, exactly so and not otherwise,
perfectly realized, comprehended and formulated by the Buddha!
They cool all craving, relinquish all clinging, and still all urge...
They are therefore to be remembered, recited and reflected over
repeatedly.. When made arise, they release mind into Bliss and Peace!
More on Liberation (Vimokkha) via directed Perception (Sañña):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Liberation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_10_Experiences.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Danger.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Disgust.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Ceasing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Elimination.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Egolessness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Creation_versus_Liberation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Fading_Away.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Disappointment.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm
Source: The Exhaustive Speeches of the Buddha. Digha Nikaya 34
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html
Liberating Rescue!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Saving_Rescue.htm
Five x Five Crucial Core Buddhist Categories:
There are five Mental Abilities:
1: Faith, 2: Energy, 3: Awareness, 4: Concentration & 5: Understanding.
There are five Rules of Training:
1: No Killing, 2: No Stealing, 3: No Lying, 4: No Sexual Abuse, 5; No Alcohol or Drugs.
There are five Clusters of Clinging to:
1: Form, 2: Feeling, 3: Perception, 4: Construction & 5: Consciousness.
There are five Mental Hindrances:
1: Sense-Desire, 2: Anger, 3: Lethargy & Laziness, 4: Regret & Restlessness 5: Doubt & Uncertainty.
There are five Destinations right after Death:
1: Hell, 2: Animal Womb, 3: Hungry Ghost, 4: Human Being or 5: Deity.
Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by the Buddha. Digha Nikaya 33
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html
More on these core concepts enabling comprehension:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Five_Abilities_Summary.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Refuges_and_Precepts.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Mental_Hindrances.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Five_Destinations.htm
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Five x Five!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/5-times-5.htm
The Catastrophic Conceit "I Am":
All the egoism is born right when assuming the impersonal and transient
phenomena, such as body, feeling, perception, mental construction, and
consciousness to be "I-Me-Mine", thereby conceiving the idea: "I am"!
At once hereafter one falls desperately in love with this hypothetical
ego, exalts, gratifies and even worships it, as the most dear possession
of all... Pride is born right here! By comparing this non-existent entity:
"My Personal Identity" with external equally conceived perceptions, one
erroneously concludes: "I am better than ..." There arrogance is born...
Or one concludes equally erroneously: "I am worse than or equal to ..."
When there is pride, there is bound to be wounded pride! Because of that
"I-Me"-construing, ego-love and self-overestimation, one cannot respect
what should be respected. Feeling threatened by any realistic evaluation
of this adored "Ego", all potential "critics" or "competitors" are violently
repressed... By clinging to this cherished idea of "Myself", harming, hate,
ill-will, and violence thereby come into being. Even wars are initiated by
immature & infantile imagination of "Own Greatness" or "National Lead"!
Thus more than fatal is verily this cramped conceit: "I Am this and that"!
Serene Joy is however connected with open, and detached impersonality.
If there is no "I", no "Me", what then to be proud of, or violently defend?
As the blessed Buddha said:
Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desire.
More blissful is dwelling in complete harmlessness.
Even more blissful is solitude for one content and learned.
But highest is the bliss of uprooting this deepest conceit: "I am"!
Udana – Inspiration: II – 1
Frequent reflection on the impermanent and transient flux of all internal
and external phenomena, leads towards this counter-intuitive, yet crucial
comprehension of the fact of No-Self=Anatta. Absolutely freeing is that...
Sabbe Dhamma Anatta ...
All States are Selfless!!!
More on Anti-Egoism: Be as humble as a doormat:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/I-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No_Agent_is_Inside.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Solo_Self-Deception.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Reference.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Selfless_and_Harmless.htm
Have a nice, noble and humble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The Prison of Pride!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
How to Cut the 5 Minor Mental Chains?
Friends, how does one cut the 5 minor mental chains of:
1: Identity, ego and personality belief.
2: Skeptical doubt in Buddha's Awakening.
3: Superstitious clinging to rule and ritual.
4: Greed, desire, lust and attraction.
5: Hate, anger, irritation and aversion.
The Blessed Buddha once explained:
In whatever situation or mental state one enters, whether high or low,
whether fine or foul, whether subtle or gross, whether far or near,
one knows, notes, reflects upon & remembers the facts exactly like this:
'Whatsoever herein is form, feeling, perception, mental construction, &
bare consciousness, all this is impermanent, transient, passing, unstable,
decaying, and vanishing; all this is miserable, painful, ill, a thorn, a tumor,
a disaster, a torture, and a burning pit; all this is remote, alien, impersonal,
ownerless, void of stable substance and keepable entity, completely empty
of any self-ego-me-I-mine-identity-or-any-personality...'
One thereby re-directs mind away from those unsafe phenomena and turns
it towards the freedom of the Deathless Dimension: Nibbâna just like this:
'But this is peace, the supreme stilling of all construction, relinquishing of
all acquisitions, the sublime release of all clinging, the calming of all craving,
disgust, disillusion, ceasing of all noise, perception and sensation, Nibbâna...'
Firmly established in this safe mode of reflection, one either eliminates the
mental fermentations completely and thus attains Nibbâna - here and now -
in this very life, or if not that, then one is reborn spontaneously in the pure
abodes, the pure lands, the pure realms, the pure spheres, of fine material,
where one clears the 5 lower fetters - the 5 minor mental chains - & attains
Nibbâna from there, without ever returning to this world from that level...
The Moderated Speeches by the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya 64 [I 435-7]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/majjhima/index.html
PS: The 'Pure Land' (SukhaVati) Buddhism of today may thus have begun from
what the Buddha early & originally called 'The Pure Abodes' (SuddhaVasa):
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/loka.html#rupa
How to Cut these 2 sets of Five Mental Chains or Fetters (Samyojana) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Lower_Chains.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Higher_Chains.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/samyojana.htm
Cutting 5 minor mental Chains!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Nibbana_or_non-return.htm
Thai Hard Core Oak: Venerable Luang Pu!
The Mind sent Outside is the Cause of Suffering.
The Effect of the Mind sent Outside is Suffering.
The Mind seeing the Mind is the Path: The Noble Way!
The Effect of Mind seeing Mind, is the End of Suffering.
No matter how much one thinks, one will not know directly!
Only when one stops thinking, will one know directly...
Yet, one still depends on thinking, so as to know...!!!
When mind is all quiet, one will come to know directly.
Whatever one really knows, it is from watching one's own mind!
Knowing is the ground state of the empty mind, which is bright,
pure, quiet, calm, not fabricating, not searching, not urging,
and neither possessed, nor attracted by anything at all...
He does, yet he doesn't:
Do you still have anger?
Yes, but I don't pick it up!
The Less the better:
Stop Thinking, and Stop Urging!
The Poorer one is, the more
Happiness one enjoys...
Thai King Bhumibol presents a gift to Venerable Dun Atulo Thera.
On the Four Noble Truths (Ariya-Sacca):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Actually_So.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Indeed_True.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Four_but_One.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_16_Aspects.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Focused_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Clustered_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Absolute_Certainty.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sacca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ultimate_Fact.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Simple_yet_Complex.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Concentrated_Truth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Perfectly_Enlightened.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_4_Truths_Meaning.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Indispensable_Necessity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_Cease_Suffering.htm
Source: Gifts He Left Behind: The Dhamma Legacy of Ajaan Dune Atulo:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/dune/giftsheleft.html
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/Gifts_He_Left_Behind_Ajaan_Dune_Atulo.pdf
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The Mind sent Outside is the Cause of Suffering!
Solid Siam!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/solid_siam.htm
How is Release by Equanimity Achieved?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
And how, Bhikkhus, is release of mind by serene equanimity (Upekkha)
achieved? What does this liberation have as its destination, what is
its culmination, what is its sweet fruit, and what is the ultimate goal
of mental release by universally neutral & imperturbable equanimity?
Here, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading first the entire frontal quadrant,
with a mind imbued with infinite equanimity, so the second quadrant,
the 3rd quadrant, and the 4th quadrant. As above, so below, across,
and everywhere, & as to all beings also to himself, he dwells pervading
the entire universe with a mind saturated with unlimited equanimity,
immense, exalted, measureless, without hostility, without any enmity,
without any ill will! Thus prepared and expanded, he then develops:
1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with limitless equanimity.
2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such equanimity.
3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with infinite equanimity.
4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with absolute equanimity.
5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with serene equanimity.
6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with equanimity.
7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with endless equanimity.
Based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
If he then wishes:
May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in any unrepulsive & tempting,
then he can dwell experiencing repulsiveness therein. If he wishes:
May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in any disgusting & repulsive,
then he dwells experiencing pleasing beauty in whatever disgusting!
If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in what is both
unrepulsive & repulsive, he dwells experiencing repulsive disgust in it.
If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in what is both
unrepulsive & repulsive, he experiences only unrepulsive beauty by it!
If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive and the unrepulsive, may I
dwell in equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending, then he
dwells in equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending! Or else,
completely transcending the realm of infinitude of consciousness,
only aware that there is nothing, he enters & dwells in the sphere of
the void, empty & vacuous nothingness.. I tell you Bhikkhus for a wise
Bhikkhu here, who has not yet penetrated to an even more superior
mental release, the mental release by imperturbable equanimity has
the subtle sphere of the nothingness as its final culmination !
More on this serene mental state of Equanimity (Upekkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_is_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/High_and_Alert.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/drops/II/Serene_Equanimity_and_Beyond.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/tatra_majjhattataa.htm
Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness...
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Imperturbability induces Peace...
Serene is Equanimity!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Empty_Equanimity.htm
Seeking Delight inherently Creates Craving!
At Savatthi the Buddha once said: Friends, any who seeks delight in form
seeks delight in suffering. I tell you, anyone seeking delight in suffering,
is not freed from suffering. Anyone who seeks delight in feeling, or seeks
delight in perception, or seeks delight in mental constructions, or seeks
delight in consciousness, indeed thereby also seeks delight in suffering...
One who seeks delight in suffering cannot be liberated from suffering...!
Anyone who does not seek any delight, neither in form, nor in feeling, nor
in perception, nor in mental constructions, nor in consciousness, does not
seek delight in any suffering! Anyone who does not seek any delight in any
form of suffering, is therefore and thereby released from all suffering...!
"Garden of Earthly Delight" by Hieronymus Bosch. (1450-1516)
Comments:
Delight is a mixed state of craving camouflaged by the joy of satisfaction.
However, in the end, all craving will create suffering either sooner or later.
Seeking delight is therefore - ultimately speaking - creating suffering...
All beings in the sense-world (kama-loka) are devoured by their own delight...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Devoured_by_Delight.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22(29) [III 31]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest !
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Seeking Delight!
Devoured by Delight!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Seeking_Delight.htm
The Seven Latent Tendencies (Anusaya):
1: The Latent Tendency to Sense-Desire.
2: The Latent Tendency to Aversion and Anger.
3: The Latent Tendency to Skeptical Doubt.
4: The Latent Tendency to Speculative Views.
5: The Latent Tendency to the Conceit "I am".
6: The Latent Tendency to Craving for Becoming.
7: The Latent Tendency to Blind Ignorance.
These are inherently deeply imbedded and hidden in the core of the mind,
where these subtle tendencies ever again exert their harmful influence
over our thoughts, speech & behaviour. Biased by such corrupt inclinations,
any intention to act will only produce detrimental and painful future results...
The only tool capable of overcoming and extracting them is indeed this quite
Noble 8-fold Way: The Ariya Atthangika Magga: :
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)
The Latent Tendencies are the Hidden Driver of Mind!
Local minima are Samsara. Global minimum is Nibbana!
More on the Latent Tendencies (Anusaya):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Latent_Feeling.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anusaya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_7_Latent_Tendencies.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Bodily_and_Mental_Feeling.htm
The Latent Tendencies are like mental Strange Attractors!
These confine the mind into habitual cyclical behaviour...
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The 7 Latent Tendencies...
Strange Hidden Mental Attractors!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Latent_Tendencies.htm
The Fourfold Advantage:
A deity once asked the Buddha:
What is good, even when one is old?
What is good, when established?
What is a human's most precious treasure?
What is hard for thieves to steal?
The blessed Buddha answered:
Morality is good, even when one is old!
Faith is good, when established!
Understanding is human's most precious treasure!
Merit is hard for thieves to steal!
More on these 4 Basics:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Mighty_is_Morality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Faith_Summary.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Understanding_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Advantageous.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya I 36
The Common Core of all Good!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Good.htm
How to train and expand Universal Friendliness!
Sitting alone, in silence, each early morning, with closed eyes one wishes:
May I radiate and meet only infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all the various beings on the 31 levels of existence develop and find
only the genuine good of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material and the formless plane
develop and encounter this fine infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left and below as
above develop and experience high infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe always be fully aware
and deeply mindful of this infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe examine all details and
subtle aspects of this sublime infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe put enthusiastic effort
into their praxis of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe find enraptured joy and
jubilant gladness in this infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe cultivate the tranquillity
of quiet, silent and all stilled infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe attain concentrated and
absorbed one-pointedness of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe dwell in undisturbable
and imperturbable balance of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
Yeah! (Print this out, dwell in each state until deep, use ~ 25-45 minutes.
Comment: Universal Friendliness is the 1st endless state (Appamañña)
This gradually reduces all hate, anger, irritation, resentment, opposition,
stubbornness, mental rigidity, and unhappiness related with these states.
Release of Mind by Universal Friendliness (Metta-Ceto-Vimutti) is >16
times more worth, than any merit won by whatever worldly gift or gain...
Joining with the 7 links to Awakening will later cause formless jhana...
More on fine Friendliness (Metta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unsurpassable_Radiance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/All-Embracing_Kindness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Symbiotic_Sympathy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The-Effective_Saw.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_11_Advantages.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Evaporated_Enemy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Genuine_Goodwill.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Blazing_Goodwill.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Cosmic_Goodness.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Unbounded_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Loving-Kindness.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Goodness_Galore.htm
Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct
http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said
Genuine is Goodwill :-)
Universal is Friendliness!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Universal_Friendliness.htm
What is it that Exists & what does Not Exist?
The blessed Buddha said regarding ontology:
What is it, Bhikkhus, that the wise & clever in the world agree upon as not
existing, of which I too say that it does not exist? Form that is permanent,
stable, eternal, not subject to change: This the wise & clever in the world
agree upon as not existing, and I too say, that it does not exist. So also
Feelings... Perceptions ... Mental Constructions ... and a Consciousness,
that should be permanent, stable, eternal, and not subject to change: This
the wise & clever in the world agree upon as not existing, and I too say,
that it does not exist... That, bhikkhus, is what the wise & clever in the world
agree upon as not existing, of which I too say, that it does not exist.
And what is it, bhikkhus, that the wise & clever in the world agree upon as
existing, of which I too say that it exists? Form that is impermanent, painful,
and subject to change: this the wise and clever in the world agree upon as
existing, and I too say, that it exists! Transient Feelings ... Perceptions ...
Mental Constructions, & a Consciousness, that is momentary, suffering, and
ever subject to change: this the wise & clever in the world agree upon as
existing, & I too say that it exists! That, bhikkhus is what the wise & clever
in this world agree upon as existing, of which I too say that it exists...
The Dynamics of interdependent re-becoming into being.
No existence is Static - the same over time - unchanging....
If it were static we would live in a deep-freezer with no movement at all...
All existence is Dynamic - never the same- transient and ever hanging!
All existence is therefore a Re-Becoming Anew - a momentary rebirth...
Again and Again and again and again... Everything breaks up!
Everything breaks up, falls apart, and soon vanishes!
More on Buddhist Ontology: What exists & how does it exist?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Discrete_States.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Profound_Causality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Advanced_Right_View.htm
Existence is Transient, Flickering, already passed, & never returning!
Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya XXII (94); [III 139]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 An Ocean of Dhamma Teaching!
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/index.html#Khandha On Clusters!
What is it that Exists?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_Exists.htm
Self-Pity!
The man was much worried over having no shoes,
until he met the other guy without legs...!
[size=150]Pure Politics! [/size]
The humanitarian needs an oppressed proletariat..
The professional saving angel lives of suffering...
The meek only shines, when abused by the angry!
Cinderella Syndrome...
They made a party inviting Charity as a guest of honour!
However, she had only rags of humility to wear, and was
dismissed, when she came bare footed to the entrance!
Nobody ever noticed that she was not there...
Source of Inspiration:
A Thinkers Notebook. Ñanamoli Thera 1950.
Ñanamoli Thera(1905-1960) at the island hermitage.
Have a nice thoughtful day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Some Kicks!
Self-pity is a pathetic form of narcissism!
Such old stale mental dust needs weeding out...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Some_Kicks.htm
The Diversity of Contacts prompts Urge & Search:
The Blessed Buddha once explained:
There is eye-sensitivity, visual forms, & visual consciousness.
The meeting of these three elements, is eye Contact...
There is ear-sensitivity, audible sounds, & auditory consciousness.
The encounter of these three elements, is ear Contact...
There is nose-sensitivity, smellable odours, & olfactory consciousness.
The occurrence of these three elements, is nose Contact...
There is tongue-sensitivity, tastable flavors, & gustatory consciousness.
The happening of these three elements, is tongue Contact...
There is body-sensitivity, sensible touches, & tactile consciousness.
The coming together of these three elements, is body Contact...
There is mental-sensitivity, mental states, & mental consciousness.
The coincidence of these three elements, is mental Contact...
Friends, it is in dependence on the diversity of these elements, that there
arises the multiplicity of perceptions; & in dependence on the multiplicity of
perceptions, that there arises the variety of intentions; & in dependence
on the variety of intentions, that there arises the diverseness of contacts; &
in dependence on the diverseness of contacts, that there arises the array
of feelings; & in dependence on the array of feelings, that there arises
the mishmash of desires; & in dependence on the mishmash of desires, that
there arises the manifold of fevers; & in dependence on the manifold of
fevers, that there arises the abundance of searches; & in dependence on the
abundance of searches, that there arises multifarious enthralling urges...
How so? Regarding e.g. form; in dependence on intention for form, there
arises contact with form; in dependence on contact with form, there arises
feeling born of contact with form; in dependence on feeling born of contact
with form, there arises desire for form; in dependence on desire for form,
there arises fever for form; in dependence on fever for form, there arises
the search for form; in dependence on the search for form, there arises the
need of form... Such is the emergence of this manifold hunt, urge & wanting!
Obvious examples: Porn, food, money, drugs, booze, fame and entertainment!
Intention=>Contact=>Feeling=>Desire=>Fever=>Search=>Urge=>Need=>Pain!
Every second of our lives this bombardment of sensuality creates suffering!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings on the Elements. Dhatu-Samyutta Nikaya XIV
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
What is Contact?
The Diversity of Contacts prompts Urge & Search!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Diversity_of_Contacts.htm
The Fourteen Fine Facts of all Life:
1: The greatest enemy in life is: The Ego...
2: The greatest deceit in life is: This is Mine...
3: The greatest failure in life is: Narcissism...
4: The greatest acid in life is: Envy & Jealousy...
5: The greatest error in life is to lose Self-control...
6: The greatest crime in life is betrayal of Parents...
7: The greatest deplorable in life is pathetic Self-pity...
8: The greatest success in life is correcting own failure...
9: The greatest bankruptcy in life is lewd immoral conduct...
10: The greatest wealth in life is health and understanding...
11: The greatest debts in life is clinging and lack of purity...
12: The greatest gift in life is Patience, Tolerance & Forgiveness...
13: The greatest shortcoming in life is lack of present Awareness!
14: The greatest soothing relief in life is Generosity & kind Charity!
Some more deeper digging Details here:
1: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Egoless.htm
2: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Anatta_Doctrine.htm
3: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
4: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Envy_and_Jealousy.htm
5: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-Control.htm
6: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Buddhist_Life_Standards_Law_3.htm
7: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Endless_Pity.htm
8: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_Buddhist_Praxis.htm
9: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Mighty_is_Morality.htm
10: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Understanding_is_the_Chief.htm
11: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
12: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Patient_is_Tolerance.htm
13: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm
14: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Openhanded_Generosity.htm
Fourteen Fine Facts:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fourteen_Teachings_of_the_Buddha.htm
Purification by Knowing and Seeing the Way!
Purification by knowledge & vision of the way comes by 8 understandings:
1: Understanding the momentary rise and fall of all states whatsoever.
2: Understanding the unavoidable dissolution of all phenomena whatsoever.
3: Understanding that appearance is terror, since it always entails suffering.
4: Understanding the danger inherent in clinging to things bound to vanish.
5: Understanding disillusion and dispassion as good signs of reduced greed.
6: Understanding of the deep desire for deliverance from the rebirth round.
7: Understanding of contemplating reflexion as a crucial tool for release.
8: Understanding of equanimity regarding all formations and constructions.
Vism 639
More on this highest ability to Understand (Pañña):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Freed_by_Knowing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Chief_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Right_Understanding.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Understanding_is_the_Chief.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Supreme_Understanding.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Revealing_Understanding.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Seven_invisible_Diamonds.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Understanding_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Outstanding_Understanding.htm
Have a nice understanding day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The 8 Understandings...
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_8_Understandings.htm
What are the 10 Advantageous Anti-Actions?
1: No killing or harming is Advantageous.
2: No stealing or cheating is Advantageous.
3: No adultery or abuse is Advantageous.
4: No false speech is Advantageous.
5: No divisive speech is Advantageous.
6: No angry speech is Advantageous.
7: No empty gossip is Advantageous.
8: No jealousy or envy is Advantageous.
9: No angry ill will is Advantageous.
10: No wrong view is Advantageous!
Comments:
Resisting and abstaining from, and avoiding doing something wrong, is
actually actively doing something very good! Such good action is quite
advantageous, since it results in the sweet fruit of a pleasant future!
More on what is Advantageous (Kusala):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Advantageous2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/kusala.htm
Have a nice, noble and advantageous day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Advantageous Anti-Actions!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_is_Clever_Action.htm
Can the Dhamma Teaching be given in short?
Yes! The Blessed Buddha once instructed his son Rahula in this way:
Having left behind desire for the five streams of simple sensual pleasure,
captivating forms, satisfying the mind, having gone forth from the house in
faith, put an end to suffering! Cultivate Noble friends, an isolated lodging,
which is remote, secluded, silent, & with little traffic. Be moderate in eating!
Do never crave neither for fine robes or foods, nor requisites, or lodging!
Do not ever return to the worldly life again. Be fully controlled regarding
the monastic discipline and the 5 sense abilities. Be completely & constantly
aware of the body as a frame of bones, skin, and flesh. By disgusted with
all in this world. Avoid beautiful objects, which provokes lust. Make mind
one-pointed, concentrated, absorbed, well focused on non-attractiveness.
Develop the signless mind. Cast out latent tendency to the conceit: "I am"!
Then by the full understanding of self-deception you will wander and dwell
stilled, in perfect peace... Sn 337-342
More on the Buddha's son Rahula, who was the most intent on the training:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/r/raahula.htm
He awakened in Andhavana forest, when hearing the Cula Rahulovada Sutta:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.147.than.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
To my Son!
What has to be Understood?
The Blessed Buddha once insisted:
The nature of Ageing and Death has to be Understood.
The Cause of Ageing and Death has to be Understood.
The End of Ageing and Death has to be Understood.
The Way to End Ageing and Death has to be Understood.
The nature of Birth has to be Understood.
The Cause of Birth has to be Understood.
The End of Birth has to be Understood.
The Way to End Birth has to be Understood.
The nature of Clinging has to be Understood.
The Cause of Clinging has to be Understood.
The End of Clinging has to be Understood.
The Way to End Clinging has to be Understood.
The nature of Craving has to be Understood.
The Cause of Craving has to be Understood.
The End of Craving has to be Understood.
The Way to End Craving has to be Understood.
The nature of Feeling has to be Understood.
The Cause of Feeling has to be Understood.
The End of Feeling has to be Understood.
The Way to End Feeling has to be Understood.
The nature of Contact has to be Understood.
The Cause of Contact has to be Understood.
The End of Contact has to be Understood.
The Way to End Contact has to be Understood.
The nature of the 6 Senses has to be Understood.
The Cause of the 6 Senses has to be Understood.
The End of the 6 Senses has to be Understood.
The Way to End the 6 Senses has to be Understood.
The nature of Name-and-Form has to be Understood.
The Cause of Name-and-Form has to be Understood.
The End of Name-and-Form has to be Understood.
The Way to End Name-and-Form has to be Understood.
The nature of Consciousness has to be Understood.
The Cause of Consciousness has to be Understood.
The End of Consciousness has to be Understood.
The Way to End Consciousness has to be Understood.
The nature of Mental Construction has to be Understood.
The Cause of Mental Construction has to be Understood.
The End of Mental Construction has to be Understood.
The Way to End Mental Construction has to be Understood.
The nature of Ignorance has to be Understood.
The Cause of Ignorance has to be Understood.
The End of Ignorance has to be Understood.
The Way to End Ignorance has to be Understood.
These have to be Understood...
Answers here! More on Dependent Origination:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Collapsible_Co-Cessation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Causes_of_Emergence.htm
Source: The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya II 16
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
The Crucial Necessity!
Having cleaned and polished the mind like a mirror one will understand!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Crucial_Necessity.htm
How is Release by Infinite Pity Achieved?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
And how, Bhikkhus, is the mental release by universal pity achieved?
What does this liberation have as its destination, what is its culmination,
what is its sweet fruit, and what is the goal of release by universal pity?
Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading the frontal quadrant with a
mind imbued with infinite pity, so the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter. As above,
so below, across, and everywhere! To all beings and to himself, he dwells
pervading the entire universe with a mind saturated with unlimited pity,
immense, exalted, vast, measureless, without hostility, without enmity,
without any trace of ill will! Thus prepared & expanded he then develops:
1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with this limitless pity.
2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such vast pity.
3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with this infinite pity.
4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with this absolute pity.
5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with this spacious pity.
6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with this great pity.
7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with this endless pity.
While based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release.
If he then wishes:
May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in the unrepulsive and tempting,
then he can dwell experiencing the repulsive therein. If he wishes:
May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in the disgusting and repulsive,
then he dwells experiencing pleasing beauty in whatever is disgusting!
If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in what is both
unrepulsive and repulsive, he dwells experiencing repulsive disgust in it.
If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in what is both
unrepulsive and repulsive, he experiences only excessive beauty in it!
If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive and the unrepulsive, may I dwell
in equanimity, just aware & clearly comprehending, then he dwells in this
equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending. Or else, by completely
transcending of all experience of form, fully stilling any perception of all
sense-reaction, non attending to any experience of diversity, only aware
that space is infinite, he enters and dwells in the infinitude of space...
I tell you Bhikkhus, for a wise Bhikkhu here, who has not yet penetrated
to an even more superior mental release, this release of mind by infinite
pity has the sublime sphere of the infinitude of space as its culmination!
On this infinite Pity (maha-karuna):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Endless_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Karuna_is_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Compassionate_Pity.htm
On these 7 Links to Awakening (Sambojjhanga):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Sun.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Peak.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Clothes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Rare_Emergence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sequential_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Vast_Penetration.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Fruits.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Unsurpassable_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/When_7_becomes_14.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7_Links_to_Awakening.htm
Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness...
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Pity can open a mental infinitude of space!
Infinite Pity!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Space_Compassion.htm
The Buddha on Kamma (Intentional Action):
I am the owner of my actions (kamma), inheritor of my actions, born of
my actions, created by my actions, and have my own actions as my judge!
Whatever I do, good or evil, I will feel the resulting effects of that ...
Source: AN V 57
Intention, Bhikkhus, is what I call action=kamma, for through intention one
initiates these actions through the door of the body, speech or mind.
There is kamma (intentional action), Bhikkhus, that ripens in hell....
There is kamma that ripens in the animal world..
There is kamma that ripens in the world of humans....
There is kamma that ripens in the divine world....
Threefold, however, is this ripening fruit of kamma:
ripening during here in this life, or
ripening in the next rebirth life,
or ripening in even later rebirths ...
Source: AN VI 63
The 10 advantageous courses of action (=Good Kamma):
The 3 bodily actions: Avoidance of killing, stealing, and abusive sexuality.
The 4 verbal actions: Avoidance of lying, slandering, angry & empty speech.
The 3 mental actions: Doing Withdrawal, Good-will, and Right Views.
Source: MN 9
Greed, Bhikkhus, is a condition for the arising of kamma.
Hate is a condition for the arising of kamma.
Confusion is a condition for the arising of kamma.
Source: AN III 109
One who kills & harms goes either to hell or will be short-lived elsewhere.
One who torments others will be afflicted with disease or disability.
The angry one will look ugly, the envious one will be without influence.
The stingy one will be poor, the stubborn will be placed low and stupid.
The lazy will be without knowledge, understanding and certainty.
In the contrary case, one will be reborn in heaven or reborn as man.
One will be long-lived, beautiful, influential, highborn and intelligent!
Source: MN 135
There are 10 meritorious actions leading to human or divine rebirth:
1: Giving.
2: Morality.
3: Meditation.
4: Reverence by paying respect to monks and elders.
5: Performing services to others.
6: Transference of merits to others.
7: Rejoicing in others' merit.
8: Learning this true Dhamma.
9: Teaching this true Dhamma.
10: Correcting one's wrong views.
To the extent that there are beings, past, and future, dying & re-arising,
all beings are the owners of their actions, inheritor to their actions, are
born of their actions, created by their action, conditioned by their actions,
related to their actions, and are dependent on the effect of past actions.
Whatever they do, for good or for evil, from that will they feel the result...
Source: AN V 57
For details on the mechanics of Kamma (=Karma) = Intentional Action see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_is_intention.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
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The Intention is the Kamma!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
Profound & Wisely Ballanced Ontology:
Buddha once explained existence as a chain of dependent emergence:
Some recluses & priests declare these excessively speculative views:
'Everything Exists'; which is the one extreme (Sarvastavadin Eternalism).
Other recluses & priests declare a just as hypothetical opposite extreme
view: 'Everything does Not Exist' (Sunyatavadin Annihilationism).
Avoiding both these extremes the Well-Gone-Beyond Buddha teaches
this Dhamma from the Middle:
When this is present, that also exists.
When this emerges, that also arises.
When this is absent, that neither exists.
When this ceases, that also vanishes.
From ignorance arises mental construction.
From mental construction arises consciousness.
From consciousness arises naming-&-forming.
From name-&-form arises the six senses.
From the six senses arises contact.
From contact arises feeling.
From feeling arises craving.
From craving arises clinging.
From clinging arises becoming.
From becoming arises birth.
From birth arises ageing, decay, sickness & death.
From ageing, decay & death arises Suffering!
This is the origin of this entire mass of Pain...
When ignorance ceases, mental construction stops.
When mental construction ceases, consciousness stops.
When consciousness ceases, naming-&-forming stops.
When name-&-form ceases, the six senses stops.
When the six senses ceases, contact stops.
When contact ceases, feeling stops.
When feeling ceases, craving stops.
When craving ceases, clinging stops.
When clinging ceases, becoming stops.
When becoming ceases, birth stops.
When birth ceases, ageing, decay, & death stops...
When ageing, decay & death ceases, Suffering stops!
This is the Disappearance of this entire mass of Pain...
This - only this supremely stilled silence - is Nibbana!
Everything has a Cause: More on Co-Dependent Co-Arising (paticca-samuppada):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Collapsible_Co-Cessation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Causes_of_Emergence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/paticca_samuppaada.htm
More on Buddhist Ontology: What exists & how does it exist?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_Exists.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Advanced_Right_View.htm
Existence is thus:
Neither a static substance out there, nor a mental illusion in here,
But a chain of dependent states arising and ceasing momentarily...
Wise Ontology...
Everything has a Cause!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm
All is Empty of any Self, Ego, I, Me, & Identity!
Once the Venerable Ananda approached the Blessed One and asked him:
Venerable Sir, it is said: Empty is the world, empty is the world...
In what way, Venerable Sir, is it, that this world is Empty?
It is, Ananda, because it is empty of a self, and of what belongs to a self,
that it is said, the world is empty...
And what is it, which is empty of any self, and of what belongs to a self?
The eye, all forms, visual consciousness, eye-contact and all the feelings
arisen caused by eye-contact, are empty of any self, and empty of what
belongs to a self...
The ear, all sounds, auditory consciousness, ear-contact, and all feelings
arisen caused by ear-contact, are empty of any self, and empty of what
belongs to a self...
The nose, all smells, olfactory consciousness, nose-contact, all feeling arisen
from olfactory contact, the tongue, all flavours, all gustatory consciousness,
tongue-contact, all feeling arisen by tasting, the body, all forms of touch,
all tactile consciousness, all body-contact, all feelings arisen caused by body
contact, that too is empty of any self, and of what belongs to any self...
The mind is empty of any self. All thoughts and ideas are empty of any self.
Mental consciousness is empty of any self. Mental-contact is empty of self.
Whatever feeling arisen caused by any mental-contact, that too is empty
of any self, and of what belongs to any self...
It is, Ananda, because all this is empty of any self, & of what belongs to any
even assumed made-up concept of self, that it is said: Empty is this world...
An inflated void is any concept of "I", "Me", "Mine" & "Self"
The Ego Tunnel - Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger TED video:
More on the ultra-light Selfless Anti-Egoism Anatta = No-Self:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Empty_of_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Egoless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Double_Problem.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sandcastles.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Ego-Projection.htm
Though outwardly different, are all beings internally empty of any same self!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [54]
Section 35: On The 6 Senses. Empty is the World: 85.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Empty of What?
Empty of ego, core, self, soul and substance!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Empty_of_What.htm
The 5 Criteria for Evaluation of Right Concentration:
After emerging from the deepest state so far attained one reviews it thus:
1: This absorption is Happy now, and results in future happiness too...
2: This absorption is Noble, and unrivaled by anything in this world...
3: This absorption is not reached by inferior, or unworthy persons...
4: This absorption is entered upon & emerged from while fully aware...
5: This absorption is perfectly Calm, Stilled, Unified, and neither
fabricated, nor suppressible, nor reversible, nor deniable...
Meditation Manuals here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdfs/anapanasati.pdf
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdfs/Main_Meditation_Manual.pdf
Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by the Buddha. Digha Nikaya 34
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html
Samma-Samadhi!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Samma-Samadhi.htm
Fine Feed-Forward Mirror Effects!
Making others happy, makes oneself happy!
Making others unhappy, makes oneself unhappy!
When happy, one easily becomes concentrated...
When unhappy, one easily becomes distracted...
When concentrated, one sees and knows it, as it really is!
When unconcentrated, one can neither see, nor know reality!
Seeing and knowing reality makes exact navigation possible!
Neither seeing, nor knowing reality makes navigation impossible!
Exact navigation enables perfectly right behaviour...
Erroneous navigation disables perfectly right behaviour...
When acting only right, one makes no mistakes!
When acting only wrong, one makes many mistakes!
Making mistakes is painful, both now and later...
Making no mistakes is Happiness, both now and later...
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Happy_Habit.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Samana-Sukha.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/May_All_Be_Happy.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_Laymans_Happiness.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Harmless_Happy_and_Holy.htm
Have a Happy day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Happy Knowing!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Happy.htm
Adopting a particular View, Generates a particular Future!
The Buddha often emphasized that any view leads to a specific future being:
When one regards one's own views and opinions as the best, seeing all other
views as inferior, that very tenacious attitude, the experts know as a knot!
A Bhikkhu should thus not depend upon anything seen, heard or thought of..
Neither should he form any views based on his knowledge, virtuous conduct,
or vows. He should not think of himself as neither equal, nor inferior, nor as
superior to anything or anybody. Having relinquished what had been taken up,
and not taking anything new up again, not depending even upon knowledge,
not a member of any faction, he does not believe in any view at all... They do
neither form or adopt any views, nor do they prefer or select any opinion,
nor do they cling to any particular dogma. Gone to the far shore, such a one
does not come back again! For him who has no desire for renewed existence
neither here nor beyond, for him there are no form of being whatever, that
he would propel into through having decided among the particular views...
Sutta-Nipata 796-803 Edited excerpt.
MAKER OF CATASTROPHES
Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy,
or one hater might do to another blinded by hate,
the mind wrongly directed by false or evil view,
may do to oneself, yet even far much worse!!!
Dhammapada 42
WRONG VIEW
Seeing wrong, where there is no wrong,
while ignoring the wrong, when it really is there,
such false views lead to a painful future state...
Dhammapada 318
HAPPY VIEW
Knowing the wrong as wrong,
and the right to be right,
such correct view brings one to
a happy future state.
Dhammapada 319
More on Views (Ditthi)
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Straight_View.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_View.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Advanced_Right_View.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Without Views!
Adopting a particular View, Generates a particular Future!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Without_Views.htm
Clinging to Possessions always entails Misery!
The Buddha encouraged relinquishing possessions thereby ending suffering:
Those who are greedy and needy for cherished things cannot ever end grief,
sorrow, and miserliness. Seeking security the recluse therefore relinquishes
all possessions and wanders forth into homelessness. Dwelling withdrawn and
remote, secluded in senses, he finds it agreeable not show himself anywhere!
Not dependent upon anything, the sage finds nothing pleasant or unpleasant.
Neither possessiveness, nor lamentation, nor what is seen or heard or thought
clings to his mind, just as water cannot ever cling to a lotus-leaf...
Sutta-Nipata 809-812 Edited excerpt.
More on Clinging (Upadana) which is an intensified quite painful form of craving:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cool_Calm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Shaking_off_Evil.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Terror_of_Being.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/upaadaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_kinds_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Clinging_to_the_notion_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
No Possessions = No Problems!
Without Possessions!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Without_Possessions.htm
Without Clinging one is Liberated!
The disciple Bhadravudha once asked the Blessed Buddha:
How can one release all clinging?
By dispelling all craving, thereby all clinging is also released, because craving
causes clinging! Thus do absence of craving result in absence of clinging said
the Blessed One. Bhadravudha, where-ever above, below, across, and also in
between: Whatever beings grasp and cling to in the world, by that very thing
is they followed to death... Attaching to anything, means attaching to death!
Therefore, knowing this, seeing people clinging even in panic to the realm of
death, any aware & alert Bhikkhu would neither grasp, nor cling to anything
in the entire world. Seeing all those people, who habitually are very attached
to many worldly things and thus clinging to death's realm, he stills all craving.
By stilling all craving, all clinging is relinquished. No wanting means no clutch!
Sutta-Nipata 1101-04 Edited excerpt.
Comment:
While dwelling detached the later ordained Bhadravudha became an arahat!
More on this catastrophic Clinging (Upadana):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cool_Calm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Shaking_off_Evil.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Terror_of_Being.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/upaadaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_kinds_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Clinging_to_the_notion_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Without Clinging!
Without Clinging one is Liberated!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Without_Clinging.htm
Without desires, cravings or doubts one is Silenced!
The venerable Todeyya once asked the Blessed Buddha:
One who has cooled all sense desire, cut all craving, and overcome all doubts,
is there any higher release for him?
In whom no sensual pleasures dwell, Todeyya, said the Blessed One, and for
whom no craving exists, and who has crossed over all doubts, for such one is
there no other higher release... Todeyya then further asked:
Is he without longings, or is he hoping? Does he possess final understanding,
or is he still seeking understanding? Please explain this to me, Sakyan with
universal vision, so that I may recognise a true sage.
He is without longings, he is not hoping for anything. He do indeed possess
complete understanding, he is not searching for anything. In this very way,
Todeyya, recognise the sage, he possesses nothing, he is neither attached to
any form of sense pleasure, nor to any form of existence. He is all silenced!
Sutta-Nipata 1088-91 Edited excerpt.
Comment:
While dwelling on these answers the venerable Todeyya became an arahat!
The Awakened Arahats just looks upon all in equanimity as if from above...
More on these Worthy and Awakened Arahats:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_Sage.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Arahat_Qualities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Gentle_and_Controlled.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Worthy_Arahat.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_among_Gods_and_Men.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Withdrawn_and_Accomplished.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Without Doubts!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Without_Doubts.htm
Avoiding all Controversies induces inner Peace!
The brahmin Magandiya asked the Buddha about how to find inner peace who answered:
Mental purity is neither caused by particular views, nor by learning, nor by
knowledge, nor even by perfect morality. Neither by absence of right view,
missing learning, lack of knowledge, or tainted morality, not by that either!
Discarding all these oppositions, detached, calmed, independent, one stops
longing for any form of existence... Whoever thinks himself equal, superior,
or inferior, he will dispute on that account! But the imperturbable one does
not enter any self-deceit! Since for such one, there is no I-Me-Self or Ego
how much less can there then ever be any equal, inferior or superior I-Me-Self!
Leaving home, wandering homeless, not making acquaintances in any village,
free from desire for sensual pleasures, showing no preferences, such sage
will never engage in any controversy. One who really knows does not become
proud because of any particular view, learning, thought, or experience, for
he is not tied to, influenced by, or led by any of these momentary illusions..
He is completely released through his understanding. But those who cling to
certain experiences and particular views wander about causing controversy!
Sutta-Nipata 839-842-844-846-847 Edited excerpt.
Commentary:
This true speech made Magandiya and his wife never-returners (Anagamins).
More on selfless impersonality, ego-lessness, the No-Self fact (Anatta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/I-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Ego-Projection.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Egoless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Self-less_Anatta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Uprooting_Egoism.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Anatta_Doctrine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Invisible_Impersonlatity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Egolessness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Neither_Agent_nor_Actor.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Without Controversy!
Not defending anything...
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Without_Controversy.htm
Released by Disengaged Non-identification!
At Savatthi The Buddha once said:
All form is transient, all feeling is transient, all perception is transient,
all mental constructions are transient, all consciousness is transient...
This transience is suffering! What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self
should be seen as it really is with correct understanding in this very way:
'All this is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self!'...
When one sees and understands this thus, as it really is with correct and
penetrating understanding, then one maintains no views on what is past.
When one maintains no more views regarding the past, then one neither
maintains any views about the future. When one has relinquished all views
about the future, then one is not being possessed by stubborn clinging...
Having no trace of immovable clinging left, the mind becomes disillusioned
regarding all form, all feeling, all perception, all mental constructions, and
all consciousness. By that it is released from the 3 mental fermentations
through detached non-clinging... By being released, the mind is all silenced!
By being thus stilled, the mind becomes content... Being content, it is not
agitated anymore... Being thus unagitated, one indeed attains Nibbana!
Right there and then, one instantly understands: Ended is this process of
rebirth, this Noble Life has been lived, done is all what had to be done,
there is no state beyond this...
More on this nicely ballanced Equanimity (Upekkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_is_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Serene_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Exquisite_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Empty_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Equanimity_Upekkha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unshakable_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Serene_Equanimity_and_Beyond.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/tatra_majjhattataa.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III 55-58
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Have a nice, noble & serene day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Tranquillity ballances out the extreme states...
Not Agitated…
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm
The Fourfold Prime Advantage:
A deity once asked the Buddha:
What is good, when one is old?
What is good, when established?
What is a human's finest treasure?
What is hard for robbers to steal?
The blessed Buddha answered:
Morality is good, even when one is old!
Conviction is good, when firmly established!
Understanding is any human's finest treasure!
Merit well done is impossible for robbers to steal!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya I [39-40]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Have a nice, noble & advantageous day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
The 4-Fold Advantage!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prime_Benefits.htm
How can one experience Ceasing of all Pain?
The blessed Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus, the concentration won by Awareness by Breathing, when developed
and frequently cultivated, is of great fruit and results in a big advantage...
And how, Bhikkhus, is concentration by Awareness by Breathing developed and
cultivated so that it is of great fruit and advantage?
Bhikkhus, when one have gone to the forest, or to the root of a tree, or to an
empty hut, there one sits down cross-legged, having straightened one's body
and back, and set up awareness around the nostrils, then just plainly aware of
that breathing itself one breathes in, & just solely aware of only that breath
in itself, one breathes out...
Breathing in long, one knows, notes and understands: I inhale long!
Breathing out long, one knows, notes and understands: I exhale long!
... ... ... (steps 2-15) ... ... ...
One trains thus: Contemplating relinquishment, I will breathe in!
One trains thus: Contemplating relinquishment, I will breathe out!
Therefore, if such friend feels a pleasant feeling, then he understands through
his prior training in breathing meditation:
It is impermanent; it should neither be clung to nor delighted in...
If he feels a painful feeling, then he indeed also understands:
It is impermanent; it should neither be clung to nor engaged in...
If he feels a neutral feeling there and then he also understands:
It is impermanent; it should neither be clung to nor involved in...
Whether he feels a pleasant feeling, or a painful feeling, or a neutral feeling,
he feels it as if detached from it, and as something remote, and alien...
If he feels a feeling terminating with the body, then he understands:
If feel a feeling terminating at the same time as this body...
If he feels a feeling terminating with life, then he understands:
I feel a feeling terminating at the same time as this life...
He then understands: With the break-up of this frame of a body, following
the exhaustion of life, all that is felt, and all sensed, not being delighted in,
will turn cold right there and then... Just as, bhikkhus, an oil lamp burns in
dependence on the oil and the wick, and with the exhaustion of the oil and the
wick the flame ceases to burn through lack of fuel, exactly so too, Bhikkhus,
when such a Bhikkhu feels a feeling terminating with the body or with life...
Then he understands: With the break-up of this fragile frame of a body,
following the exhaustion of life, all that is felt, all that is sensed, by not being
delighted in, by not being clung to, will cool down & cease right there & then!
This sublime (Anapana-sati) technique is used by all Buddhas at Awakening:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_I.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/anapanasati.pdf
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_II.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/1_Producing_4.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_III.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Four_Fulfilling_Seven.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Magnificent_Meditation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_the_Breath.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Awareness_by_Breathing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anapana_sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breathing_Calm_and_Insight.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Peaceful_and_Sublime_on_the_Spot.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unique_Thing_Awareness_by_Breathing.htm
On the formless (arupa) Jhanas and Ceasing: Nirodha-samapatti:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/9_Stillings.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/jhaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/nirodha_samaapatti.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:319-20]
section 54: Anapanasamyutta. Thread 8: The simile of the Lamp!
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Mental Silencing also ends Pain!
Stilling by Breathing!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_IV.htm
What Causes this Conditioned Emergence?
What is Dependent Co-origination? The condensed ultra-cut answer is:
When this is present, that too is in existence.
When this arises, that too emerges.
In Detail:
The condition of Ignorance causes Mental Construction to arise.
The condition of Mental Construction causes Consciousness to arise.
The condition of Consciousness causes Name-&-Form to arise.
The condition of Name-&-Form causes The 6 Senses to arise.
The condition of The 6 Senses causes Contact to arise.
The condition of Contact causes Feeling to arise.
The condition of Feeling causes Craving to arise.
The condition of Craving causes Clinging to arise.
The condition of Clinging causes Becoming to arise.
The condition of Becoming causes Birth to arise.
The condition of Birth causes Ageing, Decay & Death to arise.
The condition of Ageing, Decay & Death causes Pain to arise...
Such is the arising of this entire immense mass of Suffering!!!
This is called the Wrong Way ...
This is Dependent Co-origination!
A chain of conditioned effects, that each causes new events to occur!
Everything has a Cause: Conditioned Origination & Cessation:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Collapsible_Co-Cessation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Causes_of_Emergence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Assured_&_Ascertained_Awakening.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings on Causation. Nidana Samyutta Nikaya XII
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Caused by What?
Conditioned is Emergence!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm
What Causes the Conditioned End of Suffering?
What is Dependent Co-Cessation? Cut short:
When this cause is absent, that effect too is non-existent.
When this condition ceases, that phenomenon too fades away.
In quite profound Detail:
The fading away of Ignorance causes Mental Construction to cease.
The fading away of Mental Construction causes Consciousness to cease.
The fading away of Consciousness causes Name-&-Form to cease.
The fading away of Name-&-Form causes The 6 Senses to cease.
The fading away of The 6 Senses causes Contact to cease.
The fading away of Contact causes Feeling to cease.
The fading away of Feeling causes Craving to cease.
The fading away of Craving causes Clinging to cease.
The fading away of Clinging causes Becoming to cease.
The fading away of Becoming causes Birth to cease.
The fading away of Birth causes Ageing, Decay & Death to cease.
The fading away of Ageing, Decay & Death causes Pain to cease...
Such is the Complete Ceasing of this entire immense mass of Suffering!
This is called the Right Way ... It is much deeper, than it initially appears!
This is Dependent Co-Cessation! Breaking the Chain of detrimental Events!
Everything has a Cause: Conditioned Origination & Cessation, Cause & Effect:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Causes_of_Emergence.htm
Source:
Grouped Sayings on Causation. Nidana Samyutta Nikaya XII
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
What Ceases Suffering?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Collapsible_Co-Cessation.htm
How to Beam & Extend Amity Universally:
The Grace of Goodwill: A Meditation on Friendliness (Metta):
May my mind be filled with the thought of Kind Friendliness & open Amity.
May the minds of my good teachers be filled with the thought of Friendliness.
May the minds of my parents and dear ones be filled with the thought of Friendliness.
May the minds of all unfriendly persons be filled with the thought of Friendliness.
May the minds of all living beings be filled with the thought of Friendliness.
May the minds of all strangers be filled with the thought of Friendliness.
May we be free from fear, tension, anxiety, worry, and restlessness.
May our hearts become soft. May our words be pleasing to others.
May we be generous. May we be gentle. May we be relaxed.
May we be happy and peaceful. May we be healthy.
May we be a source of pure peace and happiness.
May the minds of everyone in this room be free from greed, anger, hatred, jealousy, and fear.
May the peace and tranquillity of tender Friendliness pervade their entire bodies and minds.
May they have good fortune. May they be prosperous. May they have really good friends
May the minds of everyone in this building, in this street, in this city, in this nation on
this continent, on this planet & in this universe be free from greed, anger, & doubt.
May these thoughts of Friendliness embrace them, charge them and envelope them.
May every cell, every drop of blood, every atom, be charged with kind amity.
May the peace & tranquillity of goodwill pervade their entire bodies & minds.
May they be happy-hearted. May they be free from worries and troubles.
May all beings in all directions throughout this multiverse be happy.
May they be filled with Friendliness, abundant, exalted, & infinite!
May they be free from enmity affliction, and anxiety.
May they live happily.
May all beings in all directions, all around the universe be happy.
May they have good fortune. May they be prosperous.
May they be famous. May they have good friends.
May they be reborn in a happy destination.
May they be reborn in the heavens.
May all beings Awaken swiftly!
May they become thus Happy!
Inspired by 2 really good friends.
More on this shining, radiating through all & everywhere beaming Friendliness:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Infinite_Friendliness.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Friendliness Frees :-)
The Grace of Goodwill!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/The_Grace_of_Goodwill.htm
Good is Gentle Well-Wishing for all Sentient beings!
The Buddha on the Universality of Friendliness:
Sabbe satta bhavantu sukhitatta.
May all beings become thus Happy!
I am a friend of all bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed,
I am a friend of those with no feet!
Anguttara Nikaya 4.67
One thinks: 'May these beings be free from animosity,
free from oppression, free from trouble, and may they
look after themselves with ease! Anguttara Nikaya 5
The absence of hate, hating, hatred, the absence of anger, and any malignity,
and the presence of love, friendly kindness, gentle disposition, tender care,
forbearance, genuine considerateness; seeking the general good for all,
compassion this is the very root of good behaviour. Dhammasangani
As I am, so are others... As others are, so am I...
Having thus identified self and others,
Never Harm anyone, nor have any being abused.
Sutta Nipata 3.710
Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the jungle.
No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.
Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the forest.
Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude…
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540
With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart & mind:
Beaming above, below, & all around, unobstructed, without trace of hostility.
Sutta Nipata I, 8
Hurricane/Tzunami preparedness
Train yourself in doing good
that lasts and brings happiness.
Cultivate generosity, the life of peace,
and a mind of infinite universal love.
Itivuttaka 22
More on Friendliness (Metta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/All-Embracing_Kindness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unsurpassable_Radiance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Advantageous_is_Friendship.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Infinite_and_Divine_Classic.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Buddha_on_Noble_Frienship.htm
May all beings be Happy!
Good is Gentle Well-Wishing for all Sentient Beings!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/May_all_Beings_Be_Happy.htm
How to go in order to reach the End!
The Buddha once explained how to wander appropriately in this world:
Having rooted out omens, symbols, tokens, dreams and signs, such bhikkhu,
will wander properly in this world. Having dispelled his passion for sensual
pleasures, both human and divine. Having gone beyond all renewed becoming.
Having understood the Dhamma doctrine, he would wander properly in this
world. Having put slander, anger and meanness behind him, and with both
compliance and opposition completely relinquished, he wanders worthy here.
Having abandoned both the pleasant and the unpleasant, not clinging, not
dependent upon anything, completely released from all the mental confines,
one will wander rightly in this world. Having dispelled all passion and desire
for attachments and acquisitions void of essence, independent, not to be
led by others, he would wander properly in the world. Not opposing anyone
or anything neither mentally, verbally or physically, longing for the state of
quenching, neither wounding, nor binding others, without thorns or doubts,
one can wander smoothly in this world. Knowing that only harmlessness is
suitable for himself, with the roots of hate, greed & ignorance rooted out,
being without any inclination, latent tendency or mental fermentation, he
would wander properly in this world. Convinced, learned, seeing this 1 way,
not following any faction among the groups, sects, or families, quite wise,
having eliminated both favouritism and aversion, victoriously purified, far
famed, mastering all mental phenomena, gone to the far shore, without lust,
skilled in ceasing all activity, he will wander silenced, all quiet in this world.
Discerning events both past and future, entirely released from all sensing,
knowing the state of peace, self-controlled, having razed all accumulation,
he would wander perfectly in any world... Sn 360-375
More one these Worthy and Noble Arahats all gone beyond even the end:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Arahat_Qualities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Worthy_Arahat.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Humble_and_amenable.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_among_Gods_and_Men.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Intelligent_and_Energetice.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Withdrawn_and_Accomplished.htm
Have a nice & noble day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
Worthy Wandering...
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Worthy_Wandering.htm