Daily Dhamma Drops

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Belief in an Ego is a Bondage linking to Death!

At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said:
Bhikkhus, the uninstructed ordinary person regards form as self, or self as
possessing a form, or form as inside self, or self as inside a frame of form...
This, bhikkhus, is called an uninstructed ordinary person, who is bound by
bondage to form, who is bound by inner and outer bondage, who neither
sees the near shore, nor the far shore, who grows old in bondage, who dies
in bondage, who goes from this world to the next other world in bondage...
Such one regards feeling, perception, mental construction & consciousness
as a self or self as having feeling, perception, construction & consciousness,
or feeling, perception, construction & consciousness as being inside a self,
or a self as hidden inside feeling, perception, construction & consciousness!!!
Such one, Bhikkhus, is called an uninstructed ordinary person who is bound by
bondage, by clinging, by inner chains to feeling, perception, mental construction,
and consciousness... Such one, Bhikkhus, bound by both inner & outer bondage,
who neither sees this near shore, nor the far shore, who grows old in bondage,
who dies in bondage, will pass on in bondage to the next world still in bondage!!!

Bound to Death by mere 'I-Me-Mine' idea...!!!

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22:117 III 165
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nice ego-less day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

I-Me-Mine-Ego-belief is Death Bondage!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Making oneself into a Mighty Friend:

Friendliness means Goodwill
Friendliness means Kindness
Friendliness means Helpfulness
Friendliness means Assistance
Friendliness means Support
Friendliness means Benevolence
Friendliness means Concern
Friendliness means Care
Friendliness means Compassion
Friendliness means Cooperation
Friendliness means Mutual Aid
Friendliness means Mutual Advantage
Friendliness means Symbiosis
Friendliness means Sympathy
Friendliness means Basic Trust

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
A friend who always lends a hand,
a friend both in sorrow and joy,
a friend who offers good counsel,
a friend who sympathizes too.
These are the four kinds of true friends:
one who is wise, having understood,
will always cherish and serve such friends
just as a mother tends her only child.
DN III 188

friendliness.duck.jpg

As a mother even with her life protects her only child,
so let one cultivate immeasurable loving-kindness towards
all living beings.

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Bhikkhus, whatever kinds of worldly merit there are,
all are not worth one sixteenth part of the release of mind by
universal friendliness; in shining, glowing and beaming radiance
the release of mind by infinite & endless friendliness far excels &
even surpasses them all.
Itivuttaka 27
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He who does not strike nor makes
others strike, who robs not nor makes
others rob, sharing love with all that live,
finds enmity with none.
Itivuttaka 22
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Thus he who both day and night
takes delight in harmlessness
sharing love with all that live,
finds enmity with none.
SN I 208
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When one with a mind of love
feels compassion for the entire world --
above, below and across,
unlimited everywhere.
Jataka 37
---

I am a friend of the footless,
I am a friend of the bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed.
May not the footless harm me,
may not the bipeds harm me,
may not those with four feet harm me,
and may not those with many feet harm me.
AN II 72
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Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived on the wood.
No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.
Uplifted by such universal friendliness I enjoyed the forest.
Finding great solace in silent solitude.
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540

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I am a friend and helper to all,
I am sympathetic to all living beings.
I develop a mind full of love
and takes always delight in harmlessness.
I gladden my mind, fill it with joy,
and make it immovable and unshakable.
I develop the divine states of mind
not cultivated by simple men.
Theragatha. 648-9

friendliness.trees.jpg

Have a nice & friendly day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Symbiotic Sympathy blazes and shines!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Real & Absolute, yet not to be Seen, Heard or Sensed!

The Buddha once said about The Signless Nibbana:
There is that, which is unborn, uncreated, unformed & unconstructed!
If, Bhikkhus, there was not this unborn, uncreated, unformed and unconstructed,
no escape from what is born, created, formed & constructed could ever be realized...
But since there indeed exists that, which is utterly unborn, uncreated, unformed and
unconstructed, the escape from this born, created, formed & constructed state can
therefore indeed be realized, explained and made known!

An unconditioned, unborn, & uncreated ultimate Absolute:
That which is born, that which is become,
that which is conditioned, that which is dependent,
that which is co-arisen, that which is created,
that which is unstable, unsafe & prone to decay,
that which is the bridge between birth and death
this seat of disease, with nutriment & birth as its cause,
will all perish...! It is not worth clinging to or rejoice in...
The escape from this is calm, beyond the sphere of logic,
being that which is solid & stable, that which is unborn,
that which is not dependent, but sorrow-free, & stainless,
this realm is the final ceasing of all states involving any pain,
the stilling of all construction, absolute Bliss, ultimate Peace...
Udana – Inspiration: VIII - 3

The Signless Sameness of Nibbana:
There is that state, where there is neither earth, water, fire nor any air,
where there is neither trace of solidity, nor fluidity, nor heat, nor motion,
where there is neither infinity of space, nor consciousness, nor nothingness,
where no subtle state of neither-perception-nor-non-perception remains,
where there is neither any ‘here’, nor any ‘there’ of this or any other world,
where there is neither any sun, nor moon, nor planet, nor any universe at all,
There, Bhikkhus, one cannot designate neither any coming, nor any going,
nor any remaining, nor duration, nor any beginning, & much less any ending...
Neither is there any activity, nor any movement, nor any fixed stability,
nor any ground, basis or source for a conditioning medium whatsoever...
This unity, this singularity - just this sameness– is the End of Suffering.
Udana – Inspiration: VIII - 1

Non-spatial, Non-Temporal, Invariable & Non-Active is Nibbana:
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 & pain & gone all beyond…
Udana – Inspiration: I – 10

Comments:
It seems that there might be 2 kinds of consciousness: Mundane & Supramundane:

1: Sense Consciousness, that always has an object (a form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or an idea)
This is a discrete moment of awareness, that arise & cease momentarily with its object:
Like this: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

2: Signless Consciousness (animitta viññana), which is continuous and may very well
be that which ‘experiences’ the bliss of Nibbana as an unbroken signless sameness.
Like this: ___________________
It has no (sensed or felt) object, except or apart from that stilled same peace in itself…

More on this sublime Blissful State called Nibbana:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Reaching_Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Nibbana_Still.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Uncreated.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2_Nibbanas.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Stilled_One.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Stilling_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Worthy_Arahat.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Nibbana_True_Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/nibbaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm

Nibbâna is an immutable sameness of Absolute Bliss!

Have a nice sameness day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Sweet Signless Sameness...

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

The Feverish Fire of Lust, Hate & Ignorance!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
On this occasion the Blessed One was staying at Gaya's Head, together
with a thousand bhikkhus. There the Blessed One told these bhikkhus this:
Bhikkhus, All this is burning! And what, bhikkhus, is that All that is burning?
The eye, ear, nose, tongue, body & mind is burning. Forms, sounds, smells,
flavours, touches, and mental states are also burning! Any eye, ear, nose,
tongue, body & mental consciousness is also burning! Any eye, ear, nose,
tongue, body & mental contact is also burning! Any feeling arised caused by
eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or mental contact, whether pleasant, painful or
neutral, that too is indeed also burning...
Burning with what? I say: Burning with the fire of lust, hate and confusion,
birth, ageing, death, sadness, weeping, pain, frustration, & with desperation!
Seeing this, bhikkhus, the instructed Noble disciple is disgusted with any eye,
ear, nose, tongue, body & mind, he is disgusted with any form, sound, smell,
flavour, touch, and any mental state, he is disgusted with any eye, ear, nose,
tongue, body & mental consciousness & contact, and with whatever feeling,
whether pleasant, painful or neutral, caused by whatever sensed contact,
with that too is he dismayed, disgusted, sickened, revolted, and horrified!!!
Understanding this, the intelligent Noble disciple is disgusted with this All ...
Being disgusted creates disillusion... Disillusion evaporates clinging and this
relinquishment of all forms of sensing and feeling induces mental release!!!
When detached the mind is unagitated! Being fully imperturbable one attains
Awakening right there & instantly understands: This mind is forever freed !!!
Rebirth is ended, the Noble Life is completed, done is what should be done,
there is no state beyond or surpassing this...
This is what the Blessed One said. Elated, those bhikkhus was pleased with
the Blessed One's speech. While this teaching was being spoken, the minds
of the thousand bhikkhus were released from fermentation by non-clinging...

Consuming...

Comments: The Fire Sermon!
These bhikkhus were all prior fire-worshippers, who in blinded superstition
sacrificed to the fire morning and evening! This fact made Buddha realize:
If I teach them, that the 12 sense-sources are blazing & burning with pain,
they will awaken right there in their seats by relinquishing all clinging...

Fire.ego.Rings2.jpg

Captivated...

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV 19-20
The 6 senses section 35. Thread on Burning: Adittam Sutta (28)
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nice cool day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Being is Burning on Lust, Hate & Ignorance!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

By very Nature - inherently & inevitably - Decaying & Vanishing!

At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said:
Bhikkhus, All is by nature subject to birth... All is by nature subject to ageing...
All is by nature subject to decay & sickness... All is by nature subject to death...
All is by nature subject to trouble... All is by nature subject to corruption...
All is by nature subject to destruction... All is by nature subject to vanishing...
All that is by nature subject to emergence is also by nature subject to ceasing...
And what, bhikkhus, is this All, that is by nature subject to birth, ageing, decay,
sickness, death, trouble, corruption, destruction, vanishing, ever arising & ceasing ?
The Eye ... Forms ... Eye-consciousness ... Eye-contact... Whatever feeling arised
caused by eye-contact, that is by nature subject to ever arising and ceasing...
The Ear ... Sounds ... Auditory-consciousness ... Ear-contact...
The Nose ... Smells ... Olfactory-consciousness ... Nose-contact...
The Tongue ... Tastes ... Gustatory-consciousness ... Tongue-contact...
The Body ... Touches ... Tactile-consciousness ... Body-contact...
The Mind ... Thoughts ... Mental-consciousness ... Mind-contact... & whatever feeling
arised caused any contact, that is by nature subject to ever arising and ceasing...
Understanding this, the intelligent noble disciple becomes disgusted with this All ...
Being thus disgusted produces disillusion... This disillusion induces a mental release!!!
When detached, the mind remains unagitated! Being utterly imperturbable one attains
Awakening right there & instantly understands: This mind is irreversibly freed ...!!!
Repeated rebirth is ended, this Noble Life is completed, done is what should be done,
there is no state ever beyond, after or surpassing this ...

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samahita · December 2008

Friends:

What is the Cause of mental Defilement & Purification?

Venerable Mahali once asked the Buddha:
But, Venerable Sir, what is the causing condition of mental defilement?
By what reason, do beings become mentally defiled & degraded?
If, Mahali, this form, this feeling, this perception, this construction &
this consciousness were exclusively suffering, immersed only in frustration,
soaked solely in trouble & if it were not also sometimes soaked in pleasure,
beings would not become enamoured with it. But since this form, this feeling,
perception, construction & this consciousness is also occasionally pleasurable,
immersed now & then in pleasure, soaked momentarily in delight & it is not
soaked only & always in pain, beings become enamoured & enthralled with it!
By being enamoured with it, they are captivated by it & obsessed with it...
By being captivated by it & obsessed with it, they are defiled & degraded!
This, Mahali, is the causing condition for the mental defilement of beings...
By this reason, do beings become mentally defiled & detrimentally degraded!

Mental Defilement veils the mental ‘light’ by blocking & obscuring it!

But, Venerable Sir, what is the causing condition of mental purification?
By what reason, do beings become mentally purified & released?
If, Mahali, this form, this feeling, this perception, this construction &
this consciousness were exclusively pleasurable, immersed only in pleasure,
soaked solely in satisfaction, and if it were not also quite soaked in suffering,
beings would not become disgusted with it. But because form, feeling, perception,
construction & consciousness is also pain, immersed in distress, soaked in agony,
and it is not soaked only in pleasure, beings are disgusted with it. Being disgusted,
they experience disillusion & through this disillusion, they are mentally purified!
This, Mahali, is the causing condition for the mental purification of beings...
By this reason, do beings become mentally purified & happily released!

Naturally the mind is pure and luminous all around!

More on mental purification:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mental_Purity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ability_Purification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_7_Purifications.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_purpose_of_purification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_stages_of_Purification.htm

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III 69-71
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nicely pure day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

What is the Cause of Mental Purity?]

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

What is Suffering?

At Savatthi. Sitting to one side, the Venerable Radha said to the Blessed One:
Venerable sir, it is said, 'suffering, suffering, What now, venerable sir, is suffering?
Radha, all form is suffering, all feeling is suffering, all perception is suffering,
all intentional mental formation is suffering, and consciousness itself is suffering.
Understanding this, Bhikkhu, a well instructed Noble Disciple experiences disgust
towards any form, disgust towards any feeling, disgust towards any perception,
disgust towards any mental construction, & disgust towards consciousness itself!
Experiencing disgust, he becomes disillusioned! Through this disillusion his mind
is released. When mind is released, one instantly knows: This mind is liberated,
and one understands: Extinguished is rebirth, this Noble Life is all completed,
done is what should be done, there is no state of being beyond this...

Comments:
These 5 clusters of clinging are what denotes both the internal 'individual'
and the 'external' “real” world. However as they continually change, no same
'self'=identity or 'substance'=reality can ever be found neither internally
nor externally... Since always changing they are thus always lost & therefore
are they always ultimately suffering... An inner mental prison of craving for
something inevitably and spontaneously vanishing... A feverish Folly strategy…

More on Suffering = Dukkha
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Source_of_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Origin_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Suffering_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm

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Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22:55 III 185
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nice painless day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

What is Suffering?

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Releasing the Misinterpretation "I Am" launches into Freedom!

The Blessed Buddha once noted:
It is by clinging, friends, that the notion: 'I am' occurs, not without clinging!
And by clinging to what does the notion: 'I am' occur, not without clinging?
It is by clinging to form, to feeling, to perception, to mental constructions, &
to consciousness that the notion: 'I am' occurs, and not without this clinging!
Suppose, friends, a young woman, or a young man, fond of fashion & jewelry,
would examine her own facial image in a mirror or in a bowl filled with pure,
clear, clean water: She would look at it with clinging, not without clinging...
Even and exactly so too, it is by clinging to form, to feeling, to perception,
to mental constructions, to consciousness that the notion: 'I am' occurs, and
not without this subconscious, yet quite detrimental, deep and rigid clinging...
Clinging to what is impermanent, transient and prone to vanish is very painful!
What is changing & painful cannot be 'Mine' nor 'What I Am' nor 'My Self'!
Understanding this the intelligent Noble disciple is disgusted with all forms,
all feelings, all perceptions, all mental constructions, & every consciousness.
Being disgusted creates disillusion. This very disillusion launch mental release!
When released the mind becomes unagitated! By being entirely imperturbable
one attains Awakening right there and then and one instantly understands:
This mind is irreversibly freed! Rebirth is ended, the Noble Life is concluded,
done is what should be done, there is no state of being after or beyond this...

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Detaching Release from all Internal and all External:

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, desire and lust for any form, for any feeling, for any perception,
for any construction & for any consciousness is a corruption of the mind!
Desire and lust for the earth element: All that is Solid...
Desire and lust for the water element: All that is Fluid...
Desire and lust for the fire element: All that is Hot...
Desire and lust for the air element: All that is Moving...
Desire and lust for the space element: All that is three Dimensional &
Desire and lust for the consciousness element: All Awareness itself,
is a corruption of the mind! When a Bhikkhu has overcome & left all
behind these mental corruptions, his mind seeks for inward withdrawal…
A mind prepared & enhanced by such renunciation becomes wieldy, fit,
focused and open for those subtle mental states, that are to be realized
only by direct experience and knowledge...

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya SN 27:9-10 III 234
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nice radical day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Radical Release!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

How to Meet the next Future Buddha Metteyya:

Buddha Metteyya - the Friendly One - will be the last Buddha in this Aeon!
1: One should give gifts (dana),
2: One should observe morality (sila),
3: One should practice meditation (bhavana),
4: One should be firm & determined (dalha),
5: Hoping urgently for meeting him with an agitated mind (ubbigga-manasa),
6: One should be stirred by an acute sense of urgency (samvega),
7: The Observance days (uposatha) should be rigorously kept.
8: Friendliness (metta) should be quite carefully cultivated.
9: Deep Concentration (samadhi) should be regularly trained.
10: Real Understanding should be sought & achieved (panna).
Right conduct can be compared to having sound limbs.
Right understanding can be compared to being able to see.
If one or the other is missing, a person will be unsuccessful.
If both is fully present, the person will be successful.
Meeting Metteyya Buddha opens the Door to the Deathless Nibbāna...

How is The Formal Aspiration to Meet Buddha Ariya Metteyya?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Metteyya/arimet10.htm

The Bodhisatta Metteyya

Sources on the next Buddha Metteyya: The Friendly One!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/me_mu/metteyya.htm
The Coming Buddha, Ariya Metteyya. Sayagyi U Chit Tin:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Metteyya/arimet00.htm
http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/metteya/arimet02.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdfs/Metteyya.pdf
The Anagatavamsa Desana: The Chronicle of the Future:
http://www.amazon.com/Anagatavamsa-Desana-Chronicle-Buddhist-Tradition/dp/812081133X

Have a nice hoping day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

How to meet the next future Buddha Metteyya?

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Completely Comprehending & Leaving the All is the Crucial Core Capability!

At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, without directly knowing & completely comprehending The All, without being
disgusted with it and leaving it all behind, one is incapable of eliminating any suffering...
Without directly knowing & completely comprehending the eye, forms, ear, sounds, nose,
smells, tongue, tastes, body, touches, mind, ideas and all metal states, any consciousness
all forms of contact and whatever kind of feeling arised caused by such sense-contacts,
without becoming disgusted with it, without relinquishing it all, & without letting it all go,
one is incapable of eradicating any suffering irreversibly...
This, friends, is that All, which without directly knowing, without completely comprehending,
without being disgusted by & without leaving, one is incapable of eliminating all suffering...

Comments:
The radical rationality of the Buddha-Dhamma here shines forth, wiping all empty babble away!
Since what is suffering? The five Clusters of Clinging are suffering! Body, Feeling, Perception,
Construction & Consciousness and thus also the 6 senses, their 6 objects, & 6 kinds of consciousnesses,
their 6 kinds of contact and their 6 kinds of feeling are all suffering... Why is all that suffering?
Because all that is inherently impermanent and thus always lost, decaying, & vanishing by itself...

Clinging.t.jpg

Clinging is an intensified Form of Craving...
Craving grows into the Cause of Misery!!!

Further sharp shots @ clinging to sensuality:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Source_of_All.htm

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [17-8]
The 6 senses section 35. Thread on Complete Comprehension: Parijanana Sutta (26)
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nice relinquishing day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Not Clinging!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Any Self-Control starts with Guarding the 6 Sense Doors!!!

The Blessed Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus, by possessing three qualities, one lives full of pleasure & Joy in this very life,
and one also has laid a solid foundation for elimination of the mental fermentations...

What are these three advantageous qualities?
I: One guards the doors of the senses,
II: One is moderate in eating, and
III: One is devoted to wakefulness...

And how, Bhikkhus, does one guard the doors of the senses?
When seeing a form, hearing a sound, smelling a smell, tasting a taste, touching a thing,
or thinking a thought, one does neither get caught up by any of the general features,
nor does one become as if gripped, immersed, fixated or captivated by any particular
detail of this form, sound, smell, taste, touch, idea or mental state...
Since, if one leaves the senses of the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body & mind uncontrolled,
then evil detrimental states such as greed, lust & discontent invades & dominates the mind!
Therefore does one train control of the senses, guarding the senses, holding back the senses,
and one keeps in check these 6 wild-running senses...
Imagine, Bhikkhus, a horse-wagon, which yoked to two full-blooded horses, was standing ready
with whip & goad, on even ground at a crossroads. Any clever tamer of horses could mount it,
and, taking the reins in his left hand & the goad in his right, he could drive away and return
by whatever way he wanted, whenever he wanted, being in complete control of his direction...
Similarly here, the Bhikkhu trains guarding these six senses, trains in controlling them, trains
in taming them, trains in pacifying them. It is in this way, Bhikkhus, that a Bhikkhu possess
the advantageous mental ability to guard & fully control the six sense doors...

The 3 firsts on Basic Self-Control:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Guarding_the_Senses.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Moderate_in_Eating.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Devoted_to_Wakefulness.htm

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [176-7]
Section 35: The 6 Senses. Salayatana. The Horse-Wagon. Rato 239.
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Guarding the Sense Doors!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

The Quantum of Empirical Existence: Discrete States (Dhammã)!
Any being bound for awakening, fixed in destiny, knows & understands:
Mere discrete states alone exist, devoid of any self and of any substance!
These states arise and terminate in accordance with their inherent nature and
the conditions that caused them to emerge.. They do not come from anywhere,
they do not go anywhere, they are not established anywhere!
There is no agency in anything, in any phenomena whatsoever!

Dhamma.steps.jpg

Mere Imprints empty of any self, agency or substance...

The fundamental Axioms on Discrete Dhammã-States, whether mental or material:
A: Dhammã-States bear their particular characteristic essence.
B: These states are effects born and conditioned by their specific causes.
C: They are not fully separable entities, but fully distinguishable qualities.

They come into being not having been, & vanish without trace going nowhere.
E: Dhammã-States are totally still and does not change or vary during time.
F: Apparent change of a quality are rather a series of altered momentary states.
G: Mental and Material states do neither move from nor to different locations.
H: Illusory 'movement' are states, that arises & ceases in adjacent locations.
I: When state A is present, then state B can come into being.
J: When state A is absent, then state B cannot come into being.
K: When state A arises, then state B necessarily also emerges.
L: When state A ceases, then state B necessarily also vanish.
M: Causally conditioned states have thus no power or autonomy over themselves.
N: There are no distinct agency or instrumentality apart from the state itself.
O: Thinking itself thinks. Knowing itself knows. Consciousness itself is aware.
P: There is no function, agent, doer or actor separate from the state itself.
Q: Dhammã-States cannot emerge from or be caused by a state of opposite nature.
R: Dhammã-States cannot ever transfer any essential nature to another state.
S: Not state is solitary. States always emerge as a multiple group of states.
T: All states are positionally inseparable like salt & sugar mixed in the same solution.
U: All states can be distinguished by their different quality, just like unlike flavors.
V: One cannot ever identify an absolute origin or first cause of a chain of Dhammã-States.
W: All states are caused. No state arises randomly by chance, spontaneously, or fortuitously.
X: No state arises from a single cause. All states arise from a multiplicity of causes.
Y: No state has a single effect. All states cause and condition a plurality of effects.
Z: A network matrix of multiple mutually dependent states produce a new network of states.
@: States have no substance & can only be discerned by applying both analysis & synthesis.

A chain of discrete non-identical events.

Related Philosophical issues:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No_Substance_'Out_There'.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Omniscient_Quantum_Mind.htm

Objective States is an always changing network matrix of qualities perceived by mind

Further resources on the 'Atom' of Experienced Existence:
The Theory of Discrete States (Dhammã) for the Beginner:
The Dhammã Theory: The Philosophical Cornerstone of the Abhidhamma
Y. Karunadasa. Wheel 412/413 Buddhist Publication Society http://www.bps.lk/
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=403412

For the Moderate:
Introduction to: A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma. B. Bodhi
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/misc/abhiman.html

For the Advanced:
An introduction to Theravada Abhidhamma. G.D. Sumanapala, Singapore 1998.

The Theory of Discrete States (Dhammã) for the Expert:
Summary of the Topics of Abhidhamma by R. Gethin & R.P. Wijeratne
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=134121

In Time: Multiple causes turn into multiple effects.

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samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Taking Refuge: The Winner move for Blinded Beings!!!

The Venerable Mahamoggallana once told a large group of young devas:
Advantageous indeed is taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma & the Sangha…
Because of taking refuge in the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha some beings here,
at the break-up of the body, right after death, are reborn in a divine destination,
in a heavenly world! There they surpass the other devas in ten respects: In life span,
in divine beauty, in divine happiness, in divine fame, in divine power, and in enjoying
divine forms, sounds, odours, tastes, and touchable objects… Advantageous indeed
is therefore this taking refuge in the 3 Jewels: The Buddha, the Dhamma & the Sangha…

Three_Jewels.big.jpg

The 3 jewels: Buddha, Dhamma & Sangha

Comments:
Good to know for all beings, who do neither know from where they came, nor what
brought them there, and who do neither know, where they are going after death,
nor what causes, will bring them there! There are 31 levels of existence. Take care!

The Dhammacakka: The Wheel of the Law!

For taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha see here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Three_Jewels.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Saddhamma_Sangha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Refuges_and_Precepts.htm

Buddha.fern.jpg

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book IV [256] section 40:10 On Sakka ...
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Taking Refuge is saving Rescue!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

The Effects caused by Action (=Kamma) is delayed as a Sown Seed!

The Blessed Buddha once explained:
Regarding the effects of actions, Ananda, as to the person here who avoids all killing of
any living being, who avoids all stealing of what is not given, who avoids any misconduct in
sensual pleasures, who avoids all false speech, divisive speech, aggressive speech, and all
idle & empty gossip, who is neither envious, nor jealous, is good-willed, and who is of right
view, yet who at the breakup of the body, after death, is reborn in a state of deprivation,
a dreadful destination, in the painful purgatory, or even in the hells: Either earlier - prior
to this - such one also did evil actions to be felt as painful, or later - after this - such one
did evil actions to be felt as pain, or at moment of death such one entered into & maintained
wrong views! Because of one or more of these, right after death, such one is reborn in a bad
state of deprivation, a dreadful destination, in the painful purgatory, or even in the hells.
But since such one also - here & now - has been one who avoids all killing of any living being,
who avoids taking anything what is not given, who avoids all misconduct in sensual pleasures,
who avoids all false speech, divisive speech, aggressive speech, & all idle & empty gossip,
who is neither envious, nor jealous, who is of good will, & who holds right views, such one
will experience the pleasant results of that good behaviour, either here and now, or in the
next rebirth, or in some subsequent later existence...

Comments: Behaviour (kamma) is almost always mixed: Sometimes good, sometimes bad!
The later effects are therefore similarly mixed: Sometimes pleasure, sometimes pain...
Good begets good and dilutes & delays evil. Evil begets evil and dilutes & delays good!

Source:
The Moderate speeches of the Buddha: The great speech on Action. MN 136
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X Full Text:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/majjhima/mn136.html

A figure illustrating the delayed, overlapping & interfering result of mixed kamma:

samahita · December 2008

An interested friend asked:

Question 1: What is the definition of "misconduct in sensual pleasures"?

Answer 1 please See:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Sensual_and_Sexual_Misbehaviour.htm

Question 2: If there is no 'God', or 'First Cause', in the absence of a 'Moral Absolute'
how are we to determine the difference between what is 'right', and what is 'wrong' ?
(if the universe is 'amoral', then all actions are morally equivalent )

Answer 2: Only intentional action can be moral or immoral!
If any intentional action, whether mental, verbal or bodily
is going to induce pain or sorrow in oneself or others or both,
either now, later, or much later, then this is clearly WRONG!

1: Not killing any living being is RIGHT;
2: Not taking, what is not given is RIGHT;
3: Not abusing in sensual pleasures is RIGHT;
4: No false speech or cheating is RIGHT;
5: No divisive or wicked speech is RIGHT;
6: No angry or scolding speech is RIGHT;
7: Not empty hearsay gossip is RIGHT;
8: Non-covetousness, non-jealousy & non-envy is RIGHT;
9: No ill will & genuine good-will is RIGHT;
10: Right view is all RIGHT.

On the absolute distinction between what is right=advantageous & wrong=detrimental see furthermore:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Motivation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Clever_Action.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Advantageous.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Disadvantageous.htm

All inanimate things as the universe, trees, oceans, houses etc. are neutral (=amoral) without any moral quality.

Question 3: If we are situated in the present between of an infinite number of past and future kammic effects,
then are we not all 'doomed' to fulfil our predetermined destiny?

Answer 3: There is no ‘fixed’ future destiny:
No since we all still retain a relative amount of Free Will…!!!
If we have done past bad and now chose to do some good, our future will change to the better.
If we have done past good and now chose to do some evil, our future will change to the worse.
This shows that there is no absolutely predetermined destiny, as the future is continuously changing!
The Future is modified here & now! Whenever an intention is formed a future moment is created or changed
Therefore is there no ‘doom’, but an ever open option to make progress…

bronze.blue.buddha.jpg

Have a nice day, a merry Christmas & a happy new-year !

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Fixed Destiny vs. Free Will & the Moral Option...

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Blown around in the Mental Space by Emotional Storms!!!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, even as many winds blow turbulent in the sky, from all the directions of east,
west, south, & north, both dusty and dustless winds, both cold & hot winds, both mild &
forceful winds, even so do also all the many various feelings arise in this body:
Both pleasant, painful and neither-painful-nor-pleasant neutral feelings
perpetually emerge and perturb the mind...

Just as many diverse winds,
Storms here and there across the sky,
So in this very body:
The many types of feelings arise,
Both pleasant, and painful ones,
And those neither painful nor pleasant.
Yet when a determined Bhikkhu does not
neglect aware and clear comprehension;
Then such intelligent one fully understands
Feelings and all their complex aspects...
All provoked & arised from sense Contact!
Instantly vanishing, when this Contact ceases!
Having fully understood feelings, he is all freed
of all mental fermentation, even in this very life...
Remaining in this state, at the body's breakup,
Such Mind-Master cannot ever be imagined...

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [219]
section 36: On Feeling: Vedana. The Sky: Akasam. 12.
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All Emotional Storms Converge on Feeling!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

All is Empty of any Self, Ego, I, Me, & Identical 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
arised 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
arised 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, feeling arised
from smelled contact, the tongue, all flavours, all gustatory consciousness,
tongue-contact, all feeling arised by tasting, the body, all forms of touch,
all tactile consciousness, body-contact, all feelings arised 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 & ideas are empty of any self.
Mental consciousness is empty of any self. Mental-contact is empty of self.
Whatever feeling arised 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...

empty.ego.jpg

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.
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EGO Empty!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Some Fine Facts:

Only he is bright, who shines by himself!
What is good, is really ... Good!!!
What is excellent, is really ... Excellent!!!
What is perfect, is really ... Quite Perfect!!!
A rose is a rose is a rose ;-)
Just that!

Canal makers direct the water.
Arrow makers straighten the shafts.
Carpenters plane the planks of wood.
The Clever Nobles train their Mind...
Dhammapada 80

Those who meditate regularly;
Those who endure enthusiastically;
Those who exert much right effort;
These wise ones attain Nibbana:
The supreme Peace, the sublime Bliss!
Dhammapada 23

Health is the greatest gain!
Contentment is the highest treasure!
Certainty is the foremost helper!
Nibbana is the highest happiness...
Dhammapada 204

Absolute Freedom…

Have a nice tranquil day!

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Fabulous Fine Facts!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

What Stops all Sadness and Frustration?

Where does all mental melancholy and blue depression cease without a trace remaining?
When, with the fading away & stilling of all directed thought & any sustained thinking,
one enters and remains in the second jhana absorption of assured unification of mind,
merged with pleasure and joy, born of this well anchored & fixed concentration: It is
right there that all mental frustration and sadness cease without a trace remaining...
Therefore do beings reborn at the radiant divinity level, never feel any mental sorrow,
misery or sadness, since they are continuously absorbed in this 2nd jhana concentration...
Thus they move their body of beaming light joyously around at the speed of a thought!!!
They are literally feeding on this pure Joy! Enraptured & exalted by swift ecstatic bliss!

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book V 213-4
The Abilities section 48. Thread on The Irregular Order: Uppatika 40
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How2Stop the Moody-Blue Melancholy?

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Mental Hindrances lead only to Neglect & Ruin:

The Blessed Buddha once said:
One whose mind is dominated by uncontrolled greed, lust, desire, envy or jealously
will do, what should not be done, and neglect what should be done! As a consequence
of that, his good reputation is lost and his contentment and happiness falls into ruin.
Exactly and even so with anyone whose mind is overwhelmed by grumbling evil-will...
or overcome, slowed down & stagnated by the hindrance of lethargy & laziness...
or agitated, scattered, and worried by the hindrance of restlessness & regret...
or perplexed, confused and bewildered by the hindrance of doubt & uncertainty...
Such one will do what should not be done, while neglecting what should be done. As a
result of that, his good name & status is lost & he is ruined by depressed frustration.
But if any Noble Disciple has seen these five as contaminated pollutions of the mind,
then he will gradually overcome & eliminate them. When doing so, he becomes known
as one of deep understanding, of great knowledge, clear-sighted, endowed with wisdom.
This lack of mental hindrance is indeed exactly, what is called endowment with wisdom!

There are these five Mental Hindrances:
1: Sense-Desire & Lust,
2: Anger and hate,
3: Lethargy & Laziness,
4: Restlessness & Regret,
5: Doubt & Uncertainty.

Hindrance.cramped.jpg

The Hindrances Blocks any Way!

& Makes any Future Barren!

Source (edited extract):
The Numerical Sayings of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya.
The Book of Fours 61: Four deeds of Merit... [II: 67]

Have a nice Unhindered day!

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Unhindered Freedom!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Wearing away the 3 Roots of Evil stops all Suffering!

There are, friends, these three kinds of fading away, that are directly
observable, obviously evident, inviting each & every one to come and see
for themselves, practical, to be personally experienced by any clever one!
What three?
Someone here is & greedy & lustful, and caused by this very greedy lust,
he comes to harm himself, to harm others, & to harm both himself & others...
When this greedy lust later is discarded, then does he neither come to harm
himself, nor to harm others, nor to harm both himself & others anymore ...
This fading away, caused by wearing away of desire, is directly observable,
immediate, inviting each & every one to come & see for themselves, practical,
freeing, releasing, and to be personally experienced by any intelligence!!!
Furthermore:
Someone here is full of hate & aggression, and caused by this rage of anger,
he comes to harm himself, to harm others, and to harm both himself & others...
When this angry hatred later is eliminated, then does he neither come to harm
himself, nor to harm others, nor to harm both himself & others anymore ...
This fading away, caused by wearing away of ill-will, is directly observable,
apparent, inviting each & every one to come & see for themselves, smoothing,
soft, sweet, and to be personally experienced by any intelligence!!!
Finally:
Someone here is deluded, blinded & confused, and caused by this very ignorance,
he comes to harm himself, to harm others, and to harm both himself & others...
When this lack of understanding later is cleared up, then does he neither come
to harm himself, nor to harm others, nor to harm both himself & others anymore ...
This fading away, caused by wearing away of obscuration, is easily observable,
actual, inviting each & every one to come & see for themselves, all advantageous,
awakening, opening, and to be personally experienced by any intelligence!!!
These, friends, are the three kinds of fading away, that are directly observable,
immediately accessible, inviting each & every one to come and see for themselves,
practical, applicable, reachable, & personally experiencable by any intelligence...

There are 3 Root Causes of all Evil:
Greed!
Hate!
Ignorance!

Greed + dilutions:
Lust
Desire
Thirst
Craving
Yearning
Longing
Wishing
Hoping
Liking
Attraction
Tendency

Hate + dilutions:
Anger
Aversion
Irritation
Indignation
Resentment
Opposition
Contrariety
Impatience
Intolerance
Stubbornness
Rigidity

Ignorance + dilutions:
Confusion
Bewilderment
Perplexity
Uncertainty
Doubt
Scepticism
Hesitancy
Indecision
Oblivion
Stupefaction
Obscurity

These wrong mental roots blend in innumerable ways:
3root.blend.JPG

Blending Evils: Examples of Root Mixtures:
Mixed Greed and Hate becomes => envy or jealousy...
Mixed Ignorance and Greed becomes => search, urge & frustration...
Mixed Ignorance and Hate becomes => extremism, fanatism & terrorism...

More on these 3 Root Causes (Mula):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/muula.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cut_Craving.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Origin_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Disadvantageous.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Anger_and_Irritation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Proximate_Causes_of_the_Root_Defilements.htm

Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [330-40]
Section 42: On The 6 Senses. Rasiya: 12.
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What are the 3 Root Causes of all Evil?

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Evaporating the 3 Root Causes!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as behaviour;
The deed develops into habit;
Habit hardens into character...
So watch the thought and its ways with care!
Let it spring from infinite friendliness
Born out of kindness for all beings. ;-)

Ignorance leads to ego,
Ego leads selfishness,
Selfishness leads to aversion,
Aversion leads to anger,
Anger leads to hatred,
Hatred leads to Suffering…

empty.ego2.jpg

The creator of man was greed,
For countless lives this was his drive.
With Ignorance at its helm, it grows!
No end for it until he knows...

Have a nice watching day!

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Watch the Manifestation!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

How can one ever Succeed, when Never having Started?

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, those who have neglected to begin this Noble 8-fold Way
have failed to develop the Noble Method, which destroys Suffering!
While those who having indeed begun this Noble 8-fold Way, have
indeed also initiated the Noble Method, which destroys all Suffering!
And what, Bhikkhus, is this Noble 8-fold Way? It is simply this:

Right View (samma-ditthi)
Right Motivation (samma-sankappa)
Right Speech (samma-vaca)
Right Action (samma-kammanta)
Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva)
Right Effort (samma-vayama)
Right Awareness (samma-sati)
Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)

Bhikkhus, those who have failed even to start on this Noble 8-fold Way,
have failed to cultivate that Noble Method, which destroys all Suffering!
While those, who have really started on this Noble 8-fold Way, have
indeed also made the first move capable of destroying all Suffering!

Noble.Way.jpg

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Beyond all Doubt, Perplexity and Confusion!

The Blessed Buddha once said: There are 5 primary mental Abilities:

The ability of Faith (saddha)
The ability of Energy (viriya)
The ability of Awareness (sati)
The ability of Concentration (samadhi)
The ability of Understanding (pañña)

All these fine abilities culminate in the Deathless Destination,
which is their final goal, home, purpose, and resulting effect...
When having seen, known, understood, directly experienced,
fully realized and touched this through wisdom, then one is
quite beyond all doubt, uncertainty, perplexity and confusion!

ability.eye.JPG

The ability to See forms is similar to the ability to Understand ideas!

More on the 5 prime mental Abilities (indriya):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Five_Abilities_Summary.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_the_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fruits_of_the_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Finding_the_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Final_Abilities.htm

A human brain neuron receiving and transmitting signals.

Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book V [221]
Section 48: On The 6 Abilities. The Eastern Gatehouse: 44.
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Being Beyond Doubt!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Which Six Things leads to Final Knowledge?

The Blessed Buddha once pointed out:
1: Considering the Transience of all Constructions, leads to final knowledge...
2: Contemplating the Pain within all passing states, leads to final knowledge...
3: Comprehending the Impersonality of all phenomena, leads to final knowledge...
4: Considering the advantage of Withdrawal by Detachment, leads to final knowledge...
5: Contemplating the Fading Away of Greed by fine Disillusion, leads to final knowledge...
6: Comprehending the Freedom, Bliss & Peace of Stilled Ceasing, leads to final knowledge...

One endowed with Final Knowledge (Añña) knows:
Rebirth has ceased, completed is this Noble life, done is what had to be done,
there is no state of being higher, beyond or after this...

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V 345], section 55:3
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The Final State...

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

What is the Three Steps to Freedom, Peace & Happiness?

If Awareness by Breathing is frequently trained & repeatedly refined over a period,
the Four Foundations of Awareness are gradually completed & entirely perfected...

If the Four Foundations of Awareness are frequently trained and repeatedly refined,
the Seven Links to Awakening are gradually completed & finally entirely perfected...

If the Seven Links to Awakening are quite frequently trained & repeatedly refined,
then Release by Knowing is gradually completed and finally entirely perfected...
Only this release induced by understanding - itself - is the End of Suffering...

Understanding Frees!

Details are found in the Meditation Manual given below:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Freed_by_Knowing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Manual/Meditation.Manual.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Awareness_by_Breathing.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Links_to_Awakening.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm

Understanding Sees!

Source:
The Middle Length Sayings of the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya. Sutta 118 AnapanaSati.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/majjhima/mn118.html

Have a nicely released day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Final Tools!

samahita · December 2008

Friends:

Some 4-fold Characterizations of Personalities!

There are these 4 types of Human Personality:

1: One possessed by Greed, Desire, and Lust...
2: One possessed by Hate, Anger, and Aversion...
3: One possessed by Confusion, Doubt & Ignorance...
4: One possessed by Pride, Conceit, and Arrogance...

1: One who having learned little, yet does not act upon it...
2: One who having learned little, does indeed act upon it...
3: One who having learned much, yet does not act upon it...
4: One who having learned much, does indeed act upon it...

1: One drifting along with the stream, driven by craving...
2: One going against the stream of ordinary convention...
3: One remaining stuck in the middle of deep stagnation...
4: One who having reached the far shore dwells in fruition...

1: One who attains calm, but not insight...
2: One who attains insight, but not calm...
3: One who attains neither calm, nor insight...
4: One who attains both calm and insight...

More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Persons_similar_to_Trees.htm

Source:
The 4th Abhi-Dhamma Book: The Personality Concept: Puggala-Paññatti. 25-27
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130096

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Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

The 4 Personalities!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

How are these four persons who are quite comparable to Trees?

There are these four kinds of trees:
One itself rotten & weak, but surrounded by strong hardwood ones...
One itself of strong hardwood, but surrounded by rotten & weak ones...
One itself rotten & weak, and also surrounded by rotten & weak ones...
One itself of strong hardwood, and also surrounded by strong hardwood ones...

schiele.four-trees.jpg

Schiele: Four Trees

There are four types of persons similar to these four classes of trees:
A person himself rotten & weak, but yet surrounded by the strong & good!
A person himself strong & good, but yet surrounded by the rotten & weak!
A person himself rotten & weak, and also surrounded by the rotten & weak!
A person himself strong & good, and also surrounded by the strong & good!

How is the one himself is rotten & weak, but yet surrounded by the strong & good?
Here one is immoral, and wicked, while his friends are moral men of lovely nature...
Thus is a person, who himself is rotten & weak, surrounded by the strong & good,
just in the same way as a rotten & weak tree is surrounded by strong & good ones...

How is a person who himself is strong & good, yet surrounded by the rotten & weak?
Here one is moral, of lovely nature, but he has friends, who are immoral, & wicked...
Thus is a person, who is strong & good surrounded by the rotten & weak, just in the
same way as a strong & good tree, is surrounded by many rotten & weak ones...

How is a person who is rotten & weak, and also surrounded by the rotten & weak?
Here one is immoral, wicked & evil, who has friends who are immoral, wicked & evil!
Thus is a person, who is rotten & weak, and also surrounded by those rotten & weak,
just in the same way as a rotten & weak tree, is surrounded by rotten & weak ones...

Finally: How is a person who is strong & good surrounded by the strong & good?
Here one is moral of lovely nature, who has similar moral friends of lovely nature...
Thus is a person, who is strong & good surrounded by the strong & good, just in the
same way as a strong & good tree, is surrounded by strong & good hardcore ones...

These are the four persons comparable to trees existing in this world...

Comment:
Discrimination of good & bad groups is a signature sign of Genuine Understanding!

Source:
The 4th Higher Science Abhidhamma Book: The Personality Concept: Puggala-Paññatti.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130096

monet.4.trees.jpg

Monet: Four Trees

More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Types.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Four_Personalities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ideal_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Persons_similar_to_Trees.htm

Have a nice discriminating day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

The Four Trees!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Who and How are the 7 kinds of Noble Persons?

The Blessed Buddha once explained:
Monks, there are seven types of noble persons existing in the world. What seven?

1: The one freed both ways (ubhato-bhaga-vimutta),
2: The one freed by understanding (pañña-vimutta).
3: The body-witness (kaya-sakkhi),
4: The one having won view & vision (ditthippatta),
5: The one freed by faith (saddhavimutta),
6: The striver after Dhamma (dhammanusari),
7: The striver after faith (saddhanusari).

And how, monks, is the person freed Both Ways?
As to this, monks, some person is abiding, having directly experienced with both body and
mind those peaceful mental releases, which are formless, & having seen by understanding
all his mental fermentations are utterly eliminated. He is freed both ways and has done
what should be done. He can therefore never become negligent ever again…

And how, monks, is the person freed by Understanding?
As to this, monks, some person is abiding, without having directly experienced with both body
& mind those peaceful mental releases, which are formless, yet having seen by understanding
all his mental fermentations are utterly destroyed. He is freed by understanding and has done
what should be done. He can therefore never become negligent ever again…

And how monks, is the person who is a Body-Witness?
As to this, monks, some person is abiding, without having directly experienced with both body
& mind those peaceful mental releases, which are formless, yet having seen by understanding
only some of his mental fermentations are fully annihilated. He is a body-witness & he has still
something to do. If he trains hard, lives remote with good friends, and balances his abilities,
then he may realise here & now, by his own super-knowledge, that matchless goal of the Noble
Life for which young men of good family go forth into homelessness, entering into & remaining
in it, he might dwell in the bliss of that sublime fruit.

And how monks, is the person who has Won View & Vision?
As to this, monks, some person is abiding, without having directly experienced with both body
and mind those peaceful mental releases, which are formless, and having seen by understanding
only some of his mental fermentations are utterly eradicated. However, those things explained
by the Tathagata are fully understood and fully practised by him. He has won view & vision, but
has still something to do. If he trains hard … then he might come to dwell in the sublime fruit.

And how monks, is the person who is Freed by Faith?
As to this, monks, some person is abiding, without having directly experienced with both body
and mind those peaceful mental releases, which are formless, and having seen by understanding
only some of his mental fermentations are utterly eradicated. But his faith in the Tathagata is
settled, fixed, genuine, & established. This, monks, is called a person, who is Freed by Faith, but
he has still something to do. If he trains hard … then he might come to dwell in the sublime fruit.

And how monks, is the person who is Striving for Dhamma?
As to this, monks, some person is abiding, without having directly experienced with both body
and mind those peaceful mental releases, which are formless, and although having seen some by
understanding his mental fermentations are not yet utterly destroyed! Furthermore: All those
things explained by the Tathagata are still only moderately approved of and practiced by him…
However, he possesses the ability of faith, energy, awareness, concentration, & understanding.
This, monks, is called the person, who is striving for Dhamma, but he has still something to do.
If he trains hard … then he might come to dwell in the sublime fruit.

And how monks, is the person who is Striving after Faith?
As to this, monks, some person is abiding, without having directly experienced with both body
and mind those peaceful mental releases, which are formless, and although having seen some by
understanding his mental fermentations are not yet utterly destroyed, but he has enough faith
in the Tathagata, enough affection for the Buddha to develop the ability of faith, energy,
awareness, concentration, & understanding. This, monks, is called the person, who is striving
out of Faith, but he has still something to do. If he trains hard … then he might come to dwell
in the supreme fruit in the future.

I, monks, do not say that the attainment of profound knowledge suddenly comes straightaway!
Rather; gaining final knowledge is achieved gradually by study, training, praxis, & steady progress...

Source: Majjhima Nikaya 70: May this Way by our one-pointed effort become swift!

Have a nice Noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

The 7 Noble Persons!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

There are only these Nine Superior and Noble Persons!

The perfectly self-awakened Buddha... (SammaSamBuddho)
The solitary self-awakened Buddha... (Paccekasambuddho)
The one released both ways... (Ubhatobhagavimutto)
The one released by understanding... (Paññavimutto)
The body-witness of direct experience... (Kayasakkhi)
The view-winner of true comprehension... (Ditthipattto)
The one released by faith... (Saddhavimutto)
The one guided by Dhamma... (Dhammanusari)
The one guided by faith... (Saddhanusari)

1: What sort of person is an perfectly self-awakened Buddha?
Here a certain person who, in regard to teachings he has not heard of
before, himself thoroughly understands the 4 noble truths and attains
the omniscience thereof as well as complete mastery over the fruitions!
This sort of person is said to be a perfectly self-awakened Buddha...

2: What sort of person is a solitary self-awakened Buddha?
Here a certain person who, in regard to teachings he has not heard of
before, himself thoroughly understands the 4 noble truths, but attains
neither the omniscience, nor the mastery over the fruitions thereof...
This sort of person is said to be a solitary self-awakened Buddha...

3: What sort of person is released in both ways?
Here a certain person himself experiencing directly & touches bodily
the eight stages of liberation, and furthermore by comprehending them
by understanding, his mental fermentations are completely eliminated.
This sort of person is said to be one released in both ways...

4: What sort of person is released by understanding?
Here a certain person without experiencing the eight stages of liberation,
but having perceived them through understanding, his mental fermentations
are completely eliminated. Such one is one released by understanding...

5: What sort of person is a body-witness of direct experience?
Here a certain person himself experiences the eight stages of liberation,
and yet having perceived them also through understanding, only some of
his mental fermentations are completely eliminated. This sort of person is
said to be a body-witness of direct experience...

6: What sort of person is one, who has won view?
Here a certain person truly understands, that this is suffering, that such is
the cause of suffering, that such is the ceasing of suffering, and that such
is the Way leading to the ceasing of suffering. The teachings explained by
the Thus-come-thus-gone One, are comprehended by him and also practised!
Yet having comprehended them, only some of his mental fermentations are
eliminated. Such person is a Noble view-winner of straight comprehension...

7: What sort of person is released by Faith?
Here a certain person truly understands that this is suffering, that such is
the cause of suffering, that such is the ceasing of suffering, and that such
is the Way leading to the ceasing of suffering. The teachings explained by
the Thus-come-thus-gone One, are comprehended by him and also practised!
Yet having comprehended them, only some of his mental fermentations are
completely eliminated, though not in the same way, nor to the same degree as
the view-winner. This sort of person is said to be one released by faith.

8: What sort of person is one guided by Dhamma?
The ability of understanding of a person, who is about to realize the fruition
stage of a stream-attainer develops quite much, when he cultivates the noble way,
which brings with it understanding and is initiated by understanding...
This sort of person is said to be one guided by Dhamma. Such a person striving
after the fruition stage of stream-attaining is one guided by Dhamma, while
the same person established in the fruition is one who has won view.

9: What sort of person is one guided by Faith?
The ability of Faith of one about to realize the fruition stage of stream-attaining
develops to a large extent. He cultivates the noble way, which brings with it faith
and is initiated by faith. This sort of person is said to be one guided by faith.
Such a person striving after the fruit of stream-attaining is one guided by faith,
while the same person established in the fruition is released by faith.

Source:
The 4th Higher Science = Abhidhamma Book: The Personality Concept: Puggala-Paññatti.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130096

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Which 7 Knowledges makes a Person Ideal?

1: Knower of the Dhamma, Principles, and Causes (Dhammaññuta):
The ideal monastic person knows the speeches, the sayings, the stories, & the poems of the Buddha.
He furthermore knows all the inspirations, question/answer sessions & commentarial explanations.
The ideal lay person knows the right principles of lay life, & what is rational & advantageous to do.
He knows and understands the duties & responsibilities of his own & other posts & occupations.

2: Knower of the Goals, Objectives, and Meanings (Atthaññuta):
The ideal monastic person fully knows the complete meaning of this and that speech and text.
The ideal lay person knows the aim of his duty, or occupation & the real purpose of life: Happiness!

3: Knower of Oneself (Mattaññuta):
The ideal monastic person knows how far he remembers the texts, & how deep he reaches in meditation.
He is aware of how far his moral purity, his faith, energy, awareness, concentration, & understanding is.
The ideal lay person knows his exact status, level, strength, knowledge, ability, & degree of morality.
He then acts accordingly and does what is needed to improve and reach greater & higher maturity.

4: Knower of Moderation (Attaññuta):
The ideal monastic person knows moderation in using any alms food, robes, lodgings, and medicines.
The ideal lay person knows moderation in consumption, spending, speech, work, rest, & recreation.

5: Knower of Right Occasion (Kalaññuta):
The ideal monastic person knows the right time for study, meditation, practical work, & solitude.
The ideal lay person knows the proper and punctual occasion for any dealing with other people.

6: Knower of Groups (Parisaññuta):
The ideal monastic person knows any group of Nobles, priests, recluses, and householders and how
one ideally should approach, sit, speak, & behave in any such group for the greatest mutual advantage.
The ideal lay person knows individual differences, temperaments, abilities, & virtues of other people.
He knows this community have these rules & regulations; culture & tradition; they have these needs.

7: Knower of Persons (Puggalaññuta):
The ideal monastic person knows those who wish to see Nobles, hear true Dhamma, & pay attention.
He knows those who are aware, testing, learning, & who acts accordingly. He knows those who do not.
The ideal lay person knows whether particular other people should be associated with, what can be
learned from them, & how they should be related to, employed, praised, criticized, advised, & taught.

Source: AN IV 113.

More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Types.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Four_Personalities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ideal_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Persons_similar_to_Trees.htm

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Friendship is the Greatest!
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The Ideal Person!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

The Division of Human Types:

1. What sort of person is one released occasionally?
Here a person goes on experiencing the eight stages of deliverance*
from time to time, and having seen & understood them through insight,
only some of his mental impurities (kilesas) are completely destroyed.
Such a person is said to be released occasionally.
* The 4 lower jhanas + 4 formless jhanas

2. What sort of person is one released not only occasionally?
Here a person goes on experiencing the eight stages of deliverance
though not only from time to time, and having seen & known them
through insight, all his mental impurities are completely destroyed.
Such a person is said to be released not only occasionally.

3. What sort of person is one of perturbable nature?
Here a person obtains the 4 lower jhanas & also the 4 formless jhanas,
but he does not obtain them with the certainty he desires, nor without
difficulty, nor without travail. Neither does he enter, nor emerge from them
where-ever he wants, nor when-ever he wants, nor as long as he wish to.
There remains the possibility that neglect overcoming him should perturb
those attainments. Such a person is said to be of perturbable nature.

4. What sort of person is one of imperturbable nature?
Here a person obtains the 4 lower jhanas & also the 4 formless jhanas,
and he does indeed obtain them with the certainty he desires, without any
difficulty, effortless. He enters into, remains in, and emerges from them
where-ever he desires, when-ever he desires, and as long as he desires.
There remains no possibility that neglect should overcome him & perturb
those attainments. Such a person is said to be of imperturbable nature.

5. What sort of person is one of imperfect nature?
Here a person obtains the 4 lower jhanas & also the 4 formless jhanas,
but he does not obtain them with the certainty he desires, nor without
difficulty, nor without travail. Neither does he enter, nor emerge from them
where-ever he desires, nor when-ever he desires, nor as long as he desires.
There remains the possibility that neglect overcoming him should perturb
those attainments. Such a person is said to be of imperfect nature.

6. What sort of person is one of faultless nature?
Here a person obtains the 4 lower jhanas & also the 4 formless jhanas,
and he does indeed obtain them with the certainty he desires, without any
difficulty, effortless. He enters into, remains in, and emerges from them
where-ever he desires, when-ever he desires, and as long as he desires.
There remains no possibility that neglect should overcome him & perturb
those attainments, causing him to give up his attainments. Such a person is
said to be of faultless nature.

7. What sort of person is he, who is made competent by intention?
Here a person obtains the 4 lower jhanas & also the 4 formless jhanas,
but he does not obtain them with the certainty he desires, nor without
difficulty, nor without travail. Neither does he enter, nor emerge from them
where-ever he desires, nor when-ever he desires, nor as long as he desires.
If he follows this up by intending not to fall away, he does not fall away,
if he does not so deliberately intend, he does indeed fall away from them.
Such a person is said to be a person, who is made competent by intention.

8. What sort of person is he, who is made competent by guarding?
Here a person obtains the 4 lower jhanas & also the 4 formless jhanas,
but he does not obtain them with the certainty he desires, nor without
difficulty, nor without travail. Neither does he enter, nor emerge from them
where-ever he desires, nor when-ever he desires, nor as long as he desires.
If he is watchful and guards them, he does not fall away from those states.
If he is neither watchful, nor guards them, he does fall away from them.
Such a person is said to be a person, who is made competent by guarding.

9. What sort of person is said to be an ordinary person (puthujjana)?
The person whose first three obstructing fetters # have not yet been eliminated,
and who is not going to do anything to put these away, such a person is said to be
an ordinary person = puthujjana.
Comment #:
Fetter 1: Personality-belief (sakkaya-ditthi)
Fetter 2: Sceptical doubt (vicikiccha)
Fetter 3: Clinging to mere rules and ritual (Silabbata-Paramasa; s. upadana)
10. What sort of person is one become of the Noble family?
The person, who is endowed with those conditions immediately after
entering the Noble State, is said now to be one of the Noble family.

11 and 12. What sort of person is one dominated by fear?
The seven kinds of learners (sekha) and those ordinary persons,
who observe the 5 precepts are restrained by fear.
The fearless Arahats are not controlled by fear.

13. What sort of person is incapable of progress?
The persons, who are covered with the veil of kamma, covered with a disguise of
evil passions, covered with the shrouded membrane of the consequences thereof,
who are devoid of faith, wanting, greedy, who are foolish, stupid, incapable of
walking the Way recognized to be the true path in regard to things that are good:
These persons are said to be incapable of progress.

14. What sort of person is capable of progress?
The persons who are neither covered with the veil of kamma, nor covered with
disguise of evil passions, nor covered with shade of the consequences thereof,
who have faith, who wish good, who are wise & capable of walking the sole Way,
which is the true path, in regard to things that are good, true & advantageous:
These persons are said to be capable of progress.

15 and 16. What sort of person is one with determined destiny?
The five types of persons going to hell* and those who hold wrong views **
are persons with a determined destiny. The eight types of Noble persons
are persons with a determined destiny. The remaining persons are with an
so far undetermined destiny.

Comments:
* They have either:
Killed Mother or Father.
Killed an Arahat.
Caused a Split in Sangha.
Injured a SammaSamBuddha by causing him to bleed.

** Having Wrong View they claim:
There is nothing given, nothing offered, nothing sacrificed, no fruit nor any
ripening of neither good, nor evil actions, no this world, no world beyond,
no need to service mother, or father, no spontaneously reborn beings, no good
and virtuous monks and brahmins, who have themselves realized this by direct
knowledge and explain this world and the other worlds beyond this one.

17 and 18. What sort of person is a path-walker?
The four persons, who possess the path are path-walkers.
The four persons, who possess the fruition stage are
established in the fruition of the path.

19. What sort of person is he who is 'equal-headed'?
The person in whose mental impurities (kilesas) cease
right at the moment of death. Such a person is said to
be one, who is 'equal-headed'.

20: What sort of person is one for whom an aeon endures?
Should such a person strive for the fruition of stream-entrance, and should
it then be the time for the imploding conflagration of the existing universe,
then this universe will not burn up before this person realises the Noble state:
This person is said to be one for whom an aeon endures.
All persons who possess the path (magga) are such.

21 and 22. What sort of person is a Noble?
The eight types of Noble persons are the Noble.
The remaining persons are not Noble.

23-25. What sort of person is a learner (sekha)?
The four persons, who possess the path and the three persons, who possess
the fruition are learners. Arahats are not learners, but learned (asekha).
The remaining most common persons are neither learners, nor non-learners...

26. What sort of person is a master of threefold knowledges?
A person having three knowledges is a person endowed with the threefold lore:
tevijja = possessed of three vijjas: namely:
Pubbe-nivasananam = knowledge of previous incarnations,
Dibba-cakkhunapam = knowledge of divine deva-sight,
Arahantaphalanapam = knowledge of Arahatship.

27. What sort of person is a possessor of the six superknowledges (abhinna)?
A person having these is a person endowed with six superknowledges, which
are the 6 supra-normal powers of thought and will:
1: Various magical powers,
2: Deva-ear,
3: Knowing the thoughts of others,
4: Remembering previous incarnations,
5: Deva-sight, clairvoyance,
6: Knowledge of how to eliminate the 3 mental fermentations = 3 Asava:
1: Kamasava: The mental fermentation of sense-desire,
2: Bhavasava: The mental fermentation of always longing after new being,
3: Avijjasava: The mental fermentation of ignorance of the Four Noble Truths.

28. What sort of person is a Perfectly Enlightened One (Samma-SamBuddha)?
Here a certain person, who by himself thoroughly understands the sublime truths
regarding the doctrines not heard of before, and he attains omniscience therein,
as well as perfect mastery over all possible abilities. This sort of person is said
to be a Perfectly Enlightened One = Samma-SamBuddha.

29. What sort of person is enlightened alone & privately (Pacceka Buddha)?
Here a certain person, who by himself thoroughly understands the sublime truths
regarding the doctrines not heard of before, but attains neither omniscience nor
perfect mastery over all possible abilities. This sort of person is said to be
one enlightened solitarily = Pacceka Buddha.

30. What sort of person is released in both ways (ubhato-bhaga-vimutta)?
Here a person obtains the 4 lower jhanas & also the 4 formless jhanas,
and having seen & understood them through insight, all of his mental
impurities (kilesas) are completely destroyed. This sort of person is
said to be released in both ways = ubhato-bhaga-vimutta.

31. What sort of person is released by way of insight (pañña-vimutti)?
Here a person does not obtain the 4 lower jhanas , nor the 4 formless jhanas,
but having seen & understood phenomena through insight, all of his mental
impurities (kilesas) are completely destroyed. This sort of person is said
to be released by insight = pañña-vimutti.

32. What sort of person is an eye-witness (kaya-sakkhi)?
Here a person obtains the 4 lower jhanas & also the 4 formless jhanas,
and having seen & understood them through insight, some of his mental
impurities (kilesas) are completely destroyed. This sort of person is said
to be an eye-witness = kaya-sakkhi.

33. What sort of person is one, who has won vision?
Here a man truly understands that this is suffering, that this is the cause of
suffering, that this is the ceasing of suffering, and that this is the way leading
to the ceasing of suffering. The doctrines promulgated by the Tathagata are
perceived by him through insight, as well as practised; and having seen phenomena
through insight, some of his mental impurities are completely eliminated.
This sort of person is said to be one, who has won vision.

34. What sort of person is released by faith?
Here a man truly understands that this is suffering, that this is the cause of
suffering, that this is the ceasing of suffering, and that this is the way leading
to the ceasing of suffering. The doctrines promulgated by the Tathagata are
perceived by him through insight as well as practised, and having understood
them through insight, some of his mental impurities are completely destroyed,
though not in the same deeper way, as in the case of one who has won vision.
This sort of person is said to be one released by faith.

35. What sort of person is a Dhamma-Follower?
The ability of insight of a person going to realise the fruit of stream-entrance
develops to a large extent; he cultivates the Noble Path carrying with it insight,
Such a person practising for the fruition of a stream-attainer is a Dhamma-Follower,
while the same person established in the fruition, is one who has won vision.

36. What sort of person is a Faith-Follower?
The ability of faith of a person going to realise the fruit of stream-entrance
develops to a large extent. He cultivates the Noble Path carrying with it faith,
which is initiated by faith - this sort of person is said to be one Faith-Follower.
Such a person striving after the fruition stage of stream-attaining is a faith-
follower; while the same person established in the fruition is released by faith.

37. What sort of person is one, who is re-born only 7 times more at most?
Here a person, having completely destroyed the first three fetters, becomes
a stream-attainer; he is no more prone to fall into lower rebirth than as human,
but is destined to succeed to enlightenment after transmigrating seven times
at most among devas and men. Such a person is said to be one not undergoing
re-birth more than seven times.

38. What sort of person is he, who transmigrates among good families?
Here a person, having completely destroyed the first three fetters, becomes
a stream-attainer; he is no more liable to fall into lower rebirth than as a human,
but is destined to succeed to enlightenment; he transmigrates two or three
times among good families and then makes an end of suffering. Such a person
is said to be one, who migrates from good family to good family.

39. What sort of person is single seeded?
Here a person, having completely destroyed the first three fetters, becomes
a stream-attainer; he is no more liable to fall into lower rebirth than as a human,
but is destined to succeed to enlightenment. Having returned only once more to
the state of human existence makes an end of suffering. Such a person is said to
be single-seeded.

40. What sort of person is a once-returner (Sakadagami)?
Here a person, having completely destroyed the first three fetters, and
having furthermore weakened greed, hatred and confusion, he becomes a
once-returner, who by coming back once only to this human world, will make
a final end to all suffering. Such a person is said to be a once-returner.

41. What sort of person is a non-returner (Anagami)?
Here a person, having completely destroyed the first five fetters causing
re-birth in the lower worlds, becomes a being of spontaneous divine re-birth;
attaining the final release at that same level, he is not liable to return from
that high deity state. Such a man is said to be a non-returner = Anagami.

42. What person is one, who reaches release before half-time (antara-parinibbayi)?
Here a person, having completely destroyed the first five fetters causing re-birth
in the lower worlds, becomes a being of spontaneous divine re-birth; attaining the
final release at that same level, he is not liable to return from that high deity state.
Either immediately after his coming there or before reaching the middle life length,
he produces the Noble Path and puts away the remaining 5 higher fetters. Such a
person is said to be one, who reaches release before half-time = antara-parinibbayi.

43. What sort of person is one who crosses the half-time (upahacca-parinibbayi)?
Here a person, having completely destroyed the first five fetters causing
re-birth in the lower worlds, becomes a being of spontaneous divine re-birth;
attaining the final release at that same level, he is not liable to return from
that high deity state. After crossing the middle of the life span, he brings forth
the Noble Path and thus puts away the 5 higher fetters. Such a person is said
to be one, who crosses the half-time = upahacca-parinibbayi.

44. What sort of person reaches Nibbana without effort (asankhara-parinibbayi)?
Here a person, having completely destroyed the first five fetters causing
re-birth in the lower worlds, becomes a being of spontaneous divine re-birth;
attaining the final release at that same level, he is not liable to return from
that high deity state. He spontaneously brings forth the Noble Way & puts away
the 5 higher fetters. He reaches Nibbana without effort = asankhara-parinibbayi.

45. What person one who reaches Nibbana with effort (sasankhara-parinibbayi)?
Here a person, having completely destroyed the first five fetters causing
re-birth in the lower worlds, becomes a being of spontaneous divine re-birth;
attaining the final release at that same level, he is not liable to return from
that high deity state. By persistent effort he produces the Noble Path and puts
away the 5 higher fetters. Such a person is called one, who reaches Nibbana with
some effort = sasankhara-parinibbayi.

46. What person is an upstream Akanittha-Traveller (uddhamsota-akanittha-gami)?
Here a person, having completely destroyed the first five fetters causing
re-birth in the lower worlds, becomes a being of spontaneous divine re-birth;
attaining the final release at that same level, he is not liable to return from
that high deity state. Having deceased from Aviha (the can-not-fall-back-gods) he
goes to Atappa (at-ease gods), having died there at the Atappa deva level he goes
to Sudassa (good-looking gods), having deceased from Sudassa he goes to Sudassi
(clear-sighted gods), having deceased from Sudassi he goes to Akanittha (senior gods).
In the Akanittha abode he brings forth the Noble Path & puts away the 5 higher fetters.
Such a person is an upstream Akanittha-Traveller = uddhamsota-akanittha-gami.

47. Who is a stream-attainer and who is one striving for the fruition stage?
Any person, who works for putting away the first three fetters is one working
for realisation of the fruition stage of a stream-attainer, while the person whose
three first fetters already have been put away is said to be a stream-attainer.

48. Who is a once-returner & who is striving for once-return fruition?
Any person, who is working for the destruction of sense-desire and ill-will
is striving for once-return fruition, while the person whose sense-desire &
ill-will already has been reduced much, is said to be a once-returner.

49. Who is a non-returner (Anagami) and works for non-return fruition?
Any person, who is working for the traceless elimination of sense-desire and
ill-will is still striving for realisation of the fruition stage of a non-returner.
The person whose sense-desire & ill-will has been entirely eradicated without
any remaining traces left back, is said to be a non-returner.

50. Who is an Arahat, and who is one striving of the Arahat fruition stage?
A person working for putting away attachment to form and the formless,
to pride, arrogance, and ignorance without any residuum is one working for
the fruition stage of Arahatship. The person whose attachment to form and
the formless, and whose pride, conceit and ignorance already has been entirely
eradicated, is said to be an Arahat.

Here ends the designation of grouping beings by One.

The various kinds of Physical Frames are obvious, since they are visible!

The various kinds of Mental Types are not trivial, since they are invisible!

More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Types.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Four_Personalities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ideal_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Persons_similar_to_Trees.htm

Source:
Abhidhamma Pitaka, Puggala Paññatti. Excerpted from the PTS
appreciated translation by Bimala Charan Law 1924.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130096

Have a nice day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

The 50 Human Types!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

The Benefits of Giving and Dedication of the Merits:

The Buddha once spoke on Ghosts (Petas),
who walk through walls & who need our help:

Outside the walls they stand and wait,
And at the junctions and road-forks,
Returning to their prior homes, urging!
They wait beside the posts of gates.
But when a rich feast is set out with food &
drink of every kind, remember the fact that
few humans do recall: These pellucid ghosts
was created from their past own acts.
So they who are compassionate, who
have a heart to give to their relatives
such drink and food as may be pure
And good and fitting at these times:
Then let this food be for the ghost relatives;
May the ghost relatives have some happiness.!
These ghosts of the departed of my family
Foregathered and assembled there
Will eagerly their blessing give
For plentiful rich food and drink:
So may our relatives live long,
Owing to whom we have this gain,
For honour to us has thus been done,
No giver ever lacked the sweet fruit.
In the dimension of these Ghosts,
There is never any ploughing there,
Nor any cattle-herding found,
Nor merchandizing just the same,
Nor bartering for coin of gold:
The ghosts of the departed family,
Live there on anything given only here;
As water showered on the hill,
Flows down to reach the hollow vale,
So giving given here can serve
The ghosts of your departed family.
As river-beds, when full can bear
The water down to fill the sea,
So giving given here can serve the
ghosts of the departed family there.
He gave to me, he worked for me,
He was my family, friend, & intimate!
Give gifts, then, for departed ones,
Recalling what they used to do.
No weeping, nor yet sorrowing,
Nor any kind of mourning, helps the
Departed Ones, whose family remain
Unhelpful to them acting thus silly.
But when this offering is given and
Well placed in the Sangha Community
For them, then it can serve them long
In future and at once as well.
The True Dhamma for relatives has here been shown,
And how high honour to departed ones is done,
And how the Bhikkhus can be given strength as well,
And how great merit can be stored away by you.

Therefore: Dedicate the merit of any gift to your hungry Ghost Family!
They suffer a lot, wailing in despair, but in vain, repenting their evil deeds.

Source: Minor Readings and the Illustrator VII
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130231

More on Ghost being!
From the Canonical Tipitaka: Minor Anthologies Vol 4, Vimanavatthu & Petavatthu
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130738
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hungry_Ghost_Rebirth.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/pu/peta_vatthu.htm

Have a nicely generous day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

The Buddha on Hungry Ghost being!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?

Durutu Poya day is the full-moon of January. This holy day celebrates
the first visit of the Buddha to Sri Lanka. The Buddha visited the very
place, where the present magnificent Mahiyangana Stupa was built to
enshrine the Buddha's hair relics and the collar bone. For Details see:
http://www.buddhanet.net/sacred-island/mahiyangana.html and
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/mahiyangana.htm

Mahiyangana Stupa

On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days:
Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges and undertakes the
Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean
bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first
three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor.
Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines
in a loud, calm & steady voice:

As long as this life lasts:
I hereby take refuge in the Buddha.
I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma.
I hereby take refuge in the Sangha.
I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time.
I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.
I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!

I accept to respect & undertake these 5 training rules:
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Dishonesty.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs.
As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...

Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's
own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much
better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in & to
this world! So is the start towards Nibbana: the Deathless Element!
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Ease, to Happiness,
initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and
fulfilled by training of Meditation...

Today indeed is Pooya or uposatha or observance day, where any lay
Buddhist normally keeps even the Eight Precepts from sunrise until the
next dawn... If any wish an official recognition by the Bhikkhu-Sangha,
they may simply forward the lines starting with "I hereby ..." signed with
name, date, town, & country to me or join here. A public list of this new
quite rapidly growing global Saddhamma-Sangha is set up here!

The New Noble Community of Buddha's Disciples: Saddhamma Sangha:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Saddhamma_Sangha.htm

Can quite advantageously be Joined Here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm

May your journey hereby be light, swift, and sweet. Never give up !!
Bhikkhu Samahita: what.buddha.said@gmail.com

For Details on The Origin of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html

Have a nice observance day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Duruthu Poya Day!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

The Good Friend can show the Way to Eternal Bliss!!!

At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha once said on beautiful friendship (Kalyanamittata):
Bhikkhus, as dawn is the initiator and messenger of the rising sun, exactly & even
so too, Bhikkhus, is Good Friendship the forerunner and originator for the arising
of the Noble Eightfold Way, since when a Bhikkhu has a good friend, it is to be
expected that he will develop, cultivate & complete this Noble Eightfold Way...
And how does a Bhikkhu develop, cultivate & perfect this Noble Eightfold Way...
A Bhikkhu first develops Right View, thereafter he develops Right Motivation,
Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Awareness, and
finally Right Concentration, which all are based upon seclusion, disillusion, calming,
stilling, ceasing, and which culminates in complete mental release....
It is in this way, friends, that a Bhikkhu, who has a good & mentally beautiful friend
develops, cultivates & consummates this supreme Noble Eightfold Way!

With good will for the entire cosmos,
cultivate a boundless & infinite mind,
Above, below, across & all around,
unobstructed, freed of anger & hate.
Sutta Nipata I, 8

The friend who is a helpmate,
The friend both in happiness and woe,
The friend, who gives good counsel,
The friend, who sympathizes too!
These four as friends the wise behold
and cherish with deep devotion,
as does a mother her own child.
Digha Nikaya 31

Who is hospitable, and friendly,
Tolerant, generous and unselfish,
A guide, an instructor, a leader,
Such a one to honour may attain.
Digha Nikaya 31

One is not wise just because one speaks much.
He who is peaceful, friendly & fearless
is really the wise.
Dhammapada 258

If you find a wise and clever friend,
who leads a good and pure life,
you should, overcoming all obstacles,
keep his company joyously & aware.
Dhammapada 328

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book V [30]
45: The Way. Magga. Good & Beautiful Friendship. Kalyanamittata 244.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

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Have a nice day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Advantageous is Beautiful Friendship!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Any Advantageous Mental State Improves the Future!

Train yourself in doing good
that lasts and brings happiness.
Cultivate generosity, the life of peace,
and a mind of boundless love.
Itivuttaka 16

Generosity, kind words,
doing a good turn for others,
and treating all people alike:
these bonds of sympathy are to the world
what the axle is to the wagon wheel.
Anguttara Nikaya II, 32

Good are friends, when the need arises;
Good is contentment with just what one has;
Good is merit done, when life is at an end,
and good is the elimination of all Suffering!
Dhammapada 331

Come on! Do Good! Good Gets Better!

In this world, good it is to serve one's mother,
Good is it to serve one's father,
Good is it to serve the monks, and
Good it is to serve the holy pure ones.
Dhammapada 332

Good is pure moral virtue until life's end,
Good is fine Faith, that is unwavering,
Good is the acquisition of understanding, and
Good is the avoidance of all evil wrong-doing.
Dhammapada 333

To avoid all evil,
to cultivate only good,
and to purify one's mind
this is the teaching of all the Buddhas!
Dhammapada 183

Yes We Can!

The good relinquish attachment to everything.
The wise do not prattle with yearning for pleasures.
The clever show neither elation, nor depression,
when touched either by happiness, or by sorrow...
Dhammapada 83

With good-will for the entire cosmos,
Cultivate a limitless & infinite kindness:
Above, below, across and all around,
unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
Sutta Nipata I, 8

Let all guard themselves against irritability in thought;
Let every one be controlled in mind,
Leaving mental misery & misconduct,
Let every one practice good behaviour in any thought.
Dhammapada 233

Seeding Good, Sprouts in Good!

Let any being guard himself against irritability in speech;
Let every one be controlled in speech.
Leaving all verbal misconduct,
Let every one practice good behaviour in all speech.
Dhammapada 232

Overcome the angry by kindness;
Overcome the wicked by goodness;
Overcome the miser by generosity;
Overcome the liar by truth.
Dhammapada 223

Consort only with the good,
Come together only with the good.
To learn the Teaching of the Noble ones,
Gives an understanding nowhere else found!
Samyutta Nikaya I, 17

Same are all being, just different! ;-)

Neither mother, nor father, nor
any other family or friend can do
greater good for oneself, than a
well trained & well directed mind!
Dhammapada 43

Think not lightly of good, saying, "It will not return to me."
Since: Drop by drop is the water pot filled with rain!
Likewise, the wise one, gathering it little by little,
fills himself with advantageous good...
Dhammapada 122

Have a Good day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Doing Good = Better Future!
Doing Bad = Painful Future!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Any Appearance of Pleasure and Pain emerges from Sense-Contact!!!

The Blessed Buddha once pointed out this quite evident, yet delicate truth:
Bhikkhus, when there are hands, picking up and putting down appears as consequence...
When there are feet, coming and going appears as consequence...
When there are limbs, bending and stretching appears as consequence...
When there is a belly, hunger and thirst appears as consequence...!!!
Similarly with these 6 sense-organs, Bhikkhus:
When there is an eye, internal pleasure & pain appears arised from that eye-contact...
When there is an ear, internal pleasure & pain appears arised from that ear-contact...
When there is a nose, internal pleasure & pain appears arised from that nose-contact...
When there is a tongue, internal pleasure & pain appears arised from that tongue-contact...
When there is a body, internal pleasure & pain appears arised from that body-contact...
When there is a mind, internal pleasure & pain appears arised from that mental-contact...
However, Bhikkhus:
When there are no hands, picking up and putting down, does never appear...
When there are no feet, coming and going, does never ever appear...
When there are no limbs, bending and stretching, does never appear...
When there is no belly, hunger and thirst, does never ever appear...!!!
Exactly so with these 6 sense-organs, Bhikkhus:
When there is no eye, internal pleasure & pain can never arise from that absence...
When there is no ear, internal pleasure & pain can never arise from that absence...
When there is no nose, internal pleasure & pain can never arise from that absence...
When there is no tongue, internal pleasure & pain can never arise from that absence...
When there is no body, internal pleasure & pain can never arise from that absence...
When there is no mind, internal pleasure & pain can never arise from that absence...

Consequently:
Any sense pleasure & pain is then all absent! This is the end of all Suffering! Nibbana!
Nibbana is therefore the supreme Bliss!

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Prince Siddhattha Gotama suddenly realizes the folly vanity of sense pleasure!

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The sense receptors, which makes neural signals.

Pleasure and pain is just electrical blips in the brain jelly!

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [171-2]
Section 35: The 6 Senses. Salayatana. The Simile on Hands & Feet. Hatthapadupama 236.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nice noting the senses day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Sensing and Consequences!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Happiness of the Flesh, Not of this World & even Beyond!!!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
And what, Bhikkhus, are then this simple happiness of the flesh?
There are these five strings of sense-pleasure. What five?
Visible forms experiencable by the eye ...
Hearable sounds experiencable by the ear ...
Smellable smells experiencable by the nose ...
Tastable tastes experiencable by the tongue ...
Touchable objects experiencable by the body ...
They are all attractive, captivating, desirable, irresistible, lovely, agreeable,
tempting, pleasing, sensually enticing, seductive, alluring, and tantalizing...!!!
These are the five strings of sense-pleasure. The happiness, that arises from
these five strings of sense-pleasure: This is simply the happiness of the flesh …

Joys of the Flesch!

And what, Bhikkhus, is then the happiness, that is not of this world?
Having eliminated the 5 mental hindrances, mental defects that obstruct understanding,
quite secluded from sensual desires, protected from any detrimental mental state,
one enters & dwells in the 1st Jhana; full of Joy & pleasure born of solitude, joined with
directed & sustained thought. Again, friends, with the stilling of directed & sustained thought,
one enters & dwells in the 2nd Jhana, calmed assurance & unification of mind with Joy &
pleasure, now born of concentration, devoid of any thought! Again, friends, with the fading
away of joy, the friend dwells in equanimity, aware & clearly comprehending, still feeling
pleasure in the body, one enters upon & remains in the 3rd Jhana, regarding which the Noble
Ones declare: 'In aware Equanimity one dwells in Happiness!'. This is the happiness,
that is not of this world! A Joy not of the Flesh!

Jhana: Joy not of this World! Joy not of the Flesh!

What, Bhikkhus, is the happiness beyond that happiness, which is not of this world?
When a bhikkhu, whose mental fermentations are eliminated, reviews his mind
liberated from lust, freed from hatred, and released from confusion, there arises
a transcendental happiness. This is called happiness quite beyond that happiness,
that is not of this world... Yeah!

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [235-7]
section 36:11 On Feeling: Vedana. Joys beyond this world ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a joyous flesch-free day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Joys beyond the Flesch!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Which things can enable an Entering into the Stream?

The Blessed Buddha once explained how to Enter the Stream to Nibbana:
Bhikkhus & friends, these 4 states, when developed & made much of leads
to the realization of the fruit of Stream-entry (sotapatti-phala)!
Which four?

1: Meeting, visiting and waiting on Great Men...
2: Hearing and studying the true Dhamma idea...
3: Practice in accordance with this genuine Dhamma...
4: Rational and careful Attention to cause & effect...

These 4 states, when developed & made much of leads to the fruition of
Once-returning (anagami-phala) or further to Non-return (sakadagami-phala).
These 4 states, when developed & made much of leads finally to the fruition
of Arahat-ship, Awakening, Enlightenment (arahatta-phala)!
Bhikkhus & friends, these 4 states, when developed & made much of leads directly to
the reaching, attaining & realizing of genuine and liberating Understanding;

To the state of Awakening of Understanding;
To the state of Wealth of Understanding;
To the state of Great Understanding;
To the state of Open Understanding;
To the state of Wide Understanding;
To the state of Profound Understanding;
To the state of Deep Understanding;
To the state of Unequalled Understanding;
To the state of Universal Understanding;
To the state of Extensive Understanding;
To the state of Quick Understanding;
To the state of Instant Understanding;
To the state of Light Understanding;
To the state of Laughing Understanding;
To the state of Acute Understanding;
To the state of Penetrative Understanding…

What four?
1: Meeting, visiting and waiting on great men...
2: Hearing and reading the true idea of the Dhamma...
3: Practice in accordance with this genuine Dhamma...
4: Careful & rational Attention to cause & effect...

Source: The Path of Discrimination XXI The canonical Patisambhidamagga [ii 189]
The Essay on Great Understanding. By Venerable Sariputta.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=133494

Have a nice entry day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Entering the Stream Supreme!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Mind and Matter: Only a Momentary Arising & Ceasing!

As arising occurs the mind notices it, therefore do the emerged object and the mind coincide!
As ceasing occurs the mind also notices it, and thus the object and the mind coincide!
In all perception, at each event of noting, there is always this twin pair, the object & the mind,
which knows the object. These two elements of the object and the knowing mind always arise
in pairs, and apart from these 2, there does not exist any other thing in the form of a 'person',
an 'observer', an 'experiencer', nor any 'Ego', 'Subject', or any 'Self'! No identity is present!
This reality of impersonality will be intuitively realized in due course. The fact that materiality
and mentality are two distinct phenomena, will be clearly perceived during the time of noting
"arising, arising & ceasing, ceasing" at all times. The two elements of materiality and mentality
are linked up in pairs and their arising coincides, that is, the process of materiality arises all
together with the process of mentality, which knows it. The process of materiality when ceasing,
fades away together with the process of mentality, which experiences it. It is the same for
lifting, moving and placing the foot or hand: Physical or material processes arises & ceases,
starting and ending, together within the same mental processes, which induce & know them.
This subtle knowledge is called the discriminating knowledge of mentality-materiality.
It is a preliminary stage on the long path of insight knowledge. It is important to have this
preliminary stage understood in an accurate way! Continuing the praxis of reflecting & noting
for some time, there will be considerable progress in the quality & alertness of both Awareness
and Concentration. It will then be detectable that on every occasion of noting, each process of
mentality & materiality, arises & passes away, exactly at that very moment! It all ends instantly,
right there & then. While walking: It is not the same foot, that is put down, as that one lifted...
The lifted foot ended right there and then. The foot put down arised there right after that!
However, uninstructed people often believes that forms, the body & the mind remains the same,
in a permanent stable state, throughout life, so the same body of childhood has grown up into
adulthood, and that the same young mind has grown up into maturity, and finally that both this
continuously changing body & this always changing mind are one & the same person at all times...
In reality, this is not so. Nothing is permanent! Everything comes into a temporary existence for
a moment & then passes instantly away! Nothing can remain even for the blink of an eye...
Changes are taking place very swiftly & will be clearly perceived & recognized after due training.
While carrying on the contemplation by noting: "arising arising, ceasing ceasing", one will perceive
that these processes arise & fade away one after another in ultra quick succession. On perceiving
that everything passes away at the very point of noting it, the yogi knows directly & sees directly,
that nothing is permanent! This knowledge regarding the impermanent nature of all phenomena is
knowledge of impermanence! The yogi then knows that this ever-changing state of things, is very
distressing and is not to be desired. It can never be kept. Not something pleasant or pleasing.
Neither something agreeable nor satisfying. This is reflective realistic knowledge of Suffering!
On suffering many painful feelings, this body and mind complex is recognized as a mere cluster
of sole suffering. This is also the reflective knowledge of suffering. It is then observed, that
these elements of impersonal materiality & mentality, whether internal or external, never follow
one's wish to be satisfied, but arise & cease according to their very own inherent given nature,
outer circumstances and conditioning. While being engaged in the act of noting these processes,
the yogi understands, that these processes are not controllable and that they are neither any
'person', a 'me', an 'I', an 'Ego', nor a 'living entity', nor something 'Mine', nor any 'My Self'.
This is reaching the reflective knowledge of no-self. When a yogi has completely developed the
knowledge of impermanence, suffering & no-self, he will realize the state called Nibbana...
From time immemorial, Buddhas, Arahats and The Noble Ariyas have realized this Nibbana by
this very same method of insight: Seeing any body as merely a changing form, noting any feeling
as merely a transient reaction, knowing any mentality to be just a passing mood, and by realizing
that any phenomena simply is a momentary mental state! This, only this, in itself, is the highway
leading to Nibbana ...!!!

The Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw, Burma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahasi_Sayadaw

The Momentary Energy of Thought = Selective Choice!
Local Order! => Local Entropy fall compensated by a
Universal Entropy increase! This induces a variation in
the a priori probability distribution for all future events!
This is the 'physical' reason of moral kammic efficacy!
Like putting a nail in a dice! All future throws are biased.

Vipassana Insight in Detail by Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/wheels/wheel370.html
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/mahasit1.pdf
http://www.acharia.org/downloads/Satipatthana_Vipassana.pdf
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/misc/progress.html
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/mahasi/wheel298.html

Otto Rapp: Decay of both Mind and Matter!

Have a nice noticing day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Momentarily: Mind Matters!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Direct Experience of Understanding, & Development of the Noble 8-fold Way:

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, friends, should be fully understood by direct experience?
The Five Clusters of Clinging. What five?
The cluster of clinging to form...
The cluster of clinging to feeling...
The cluster of clinging to perception...
The cluster of clinging to construction...
The cluster of clinging to consciousness...
These are the five things, which should be fully understood by direct experience!

And what, friends, are the 2 things, which should be overcome & left by direct experience?
Ignorance and Craving for new Becoming...
These are the two things, which should be overcome & left behind by direct experience!

And what, friends, are the 2 things, which should be realized by direct experience?
Complete Understanding and Absolute Freedom...
These are the two things, which should be realized by direct experience!

And what, friends, are the two things, which should be developed by direct experience?
Calm and Insight...
These are the two things, which should be developed by direct experience.

And how does a Bhikkhu indeed do so? Here, friends, the Bhikkhu develops:
Right View, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
Right Motivation, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
Right Speech, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
Right Action, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
Right Livelihood, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
Right Effort, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
Right Awareness, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
Right Concentration, which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release.
It is in this way that a Bhikkhu comes to fully understand all that, which should be understood;
comes to overcome, abandon & leave behind all, which should be left behind; comes to realize by
direct experience all, that is realizable, & finally comes to develop all, which should be developed…

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:52-3] section 45: The Way. 160: The Guest-House ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

More on Calm and Insight and Direct Experience:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Insight.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/4_Realizations.htm

Have a nice escaping day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Escape through Direct Experience!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Control makes any Individual Behave like an excellent Master!!!

Buddha once asked: How, Bhikkhus and friends, is there full mental control?
When seeing a form with the eye, one becomes neither attracted by any pleasing form,
nor repelled by any displeasing form! When having heard a sound with the ear, one
becomes neither entranced by any charming sound, nor opposed by any horrid sound!
Having sniffed a smell with the nose, one becomes neither fascinated by any lovely smell,
nor held off by any detestable smell! Having tasted a flavour with the tongue, one becomes
neither captivated by any likeable taste, nor rejected by unlikable taste! When having felt
a touch with the body, one becomes neither allured by any pleasant touch, nor repelled by
any unpleasant touch! When having experienced whatever mental state with the mind,
one becomes neither obsessed by any agreeable mental phenomenon, nor rebuffed by
any disagreeable mental phenomenon whatsoever...
Thus does one live on, while having established Awareness of the Body, yet abiding within
an unlimited & infinite mind... Thus does a focused one come to understand, through direct
experience, that release of mind, that mental release through understanding, wherein alls
those evil disadvantageous mental states irreversibly cease without any remaining trace...
It is in exactly this way, that there is full mental control!

Comments:
The infinite mind, counteracting hate & anger, is a mind made limitless by the praxis of the
4 sublime & divine dwellings (brahma-vihara), also called the 4 infinite states (appamañña),
which are:

Infinite Friendliness (Metta),
Endless Pity (Karuna),
Mutual Sympathy & Joy (Mudita), and
Imperturbable Equanimity (Upekkha).

For Awareness of the Body, which counteracts greed, lust & desire; see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Meditation_On_the_Body_Kayagata-Sati.htm
Having counteracted both greed & lust, which pulls in the mind attracting it to objects,
and having counteracted both hate & anger, which push mind repulsing it from objects,
mind may stay stilled and ballanced in the middle, untouched and in control...

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [189-]
35: 6 Senses. Salayatana. States that entail Suffering. Dukkha-Dhamma 244.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nice controlled day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Complete Mental Control = Neither Attracted nor Repelled!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Overwhelmed, fooled & deceived by simple Sensing!

The Buddha once explained the false conception of EGO like this:
Touched by contact, while blinded by ignorance, the unlearned and
untrained ordinary person conceives this false & fatal assumption:
'By my eye, ear, nose, tongue and body I clearly sense this & that!
Therefore "I am"! I perceive this & that: Therefore "Do I Exist"!
I feel this & that: Therefore "These feelings are me and all mine"!
I experience this & that: Therefore "These experiences 'I' have".

Then he proliferates this self-deception even further by breeding:
"I am this eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind!" right here & now.
"I always was & have been this eye, ear, nose, tongue, body & mind!"
"In the future, I will be this eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind!"
"I am this form, feeling, perception, construction, & consciousness!"
"I was this form, feeling, perception, construction, & consciousness!"
"I will be form, feeling, perception, construction, & consciousness!"
Thereby consolidating the false & constructed notion of a stable Ego!

Finally he externalizes this non-existent entity 'Me' by comparing it:
"I am equal to this and that...", and "I am better, than this and that...",
"I am worse, than this and that...", thereby creating first egoism, then
pride and arrogance, and moreover detrimental feeling of inferiority...

Clinging to this hypothetical 'I'-idea, which he mistakes for real, he
becomes desperate, when whatever it is, he identifies with, changes,
decays, becomes otherwise, fades away and finally disappears...
He is terrified by the thought: "It is 'I' & 'Me' who changes, decays,
becomes otherwise, fades away and finally disappears..." So big is the
power of this unnoticed idea, that it produces fear, anxiety & horror!!!

There arises no such great panic, when one understands it as it really is:
The six inputs by the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind are not 'mine',
this is not what 'I am', this neither is nor belongs to 'my' or any other self!
This form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness is not mine,
this is not what I am, this neither is nor belongs to my or any other self!
All these are just passing, momentary, induced and selfless mental states!

The Buddha once noted: Every being loves themselves most!

Narcissus & sister stares in the pond captivated by: 'My glorious Ego!'

More on Narcissism, Egoism, Identification, & Personality View (Sakkaya Ditthi):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/I-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Input_'I'-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/First_I-dentification_then_Enmity.htm

An Ego tragicomically unreal, which is void and empty like a Doll!

Have a nice selfless day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Narcissistic Input Identification!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Little & short pleasure, but Loong & Painful Tribulation!

Pleasures obtained by contact at the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mind
all fade away and vanish instantly, when their contact ceases! They are all:
Like a drop of honey on the edge of a razor blade: Short joy, but much pain!
Like a show seen in a flash of lightening: Momentary & exceedingly brief!
Like a drink made thin & tasteless: Dissatisfying, frustrating & disappointing!
Like food all rotten inside or poisoned: Afflicting and causing problems later!
Like a baited hook: First juicy, later torturing & tormenting and finally Fatal!
Like an inner prison: Encaging, punishing, bonding, addicting and making mad!
Like sleeping in an enemy's village: Dangerous, hazardous, treacherous, & risky!
Like a burning hollow tree: Agitated inside, feverish, frantic, violently painful!
Like a chain of dry naked bare bones: Not healing any hunger, without nutrition!
Like many days of drinking only salt water: Worsening any thirst & dehydrating!
Please note the ceasing of sensation, whenever sensing & remember this danger!
This is the primary hindrance to break, the first flood to cross: Sense-Desire!

Another Addiction!

Blissful is being without passions in this world,
Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desires!
Udana II, 1

Have a nice passionless day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Just a Flash of Delight => Another Addiction!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

The Good & Beautiful Friend (Kalyanamitta):

The friend, who is a helpmate,
The friend in both happiness and woe,
The friend, who gives good counsel,
The friend, who sympathizes too --
These four as friends the wise behold
and cherish devotedly as does
a mother her own child.
Digha Nikaya 31

Who is hospitable, and friendly,
Tolerant, generous and unselfish,
A guide, an instructor, a leader,
Such a one to honour may attain.
Digha Nikaya 31

One is not intelligent just
because one speaks much!
He who is peaceable,
friendly & fearless,
is called wise.
Dhammapada 258

If you find a wise and clever friend
who leads a good and pure noble life,
you should, overcoming all obstacles,
keep his company joyously and aware!
Dhammapada 328

Good Friendship is Universal!

Have a nice friendly day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Beautiful is Good Friendship = Kalyanamittatta!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Only Relinquishment Wins True Freedom!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, I will teach you the state of relinquishment... Pay attention & listen...
And what, bhikkhus, is the state of overcoming all by leaving behind all???
The eye, form, visual-consciousness, eye-contact, feeling raised from seeing,
pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant, is to be relinquished & left.
The ear, sound, hearing-consciousness, ear-contact, feeling raised from hearing,
whether painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant, are all to be relinquished & left.
The nose, smell, smelling-consciousness, nose-contact, feeling raised from smelling,
pleasant, painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant, all that also should be let go of.
The tongue, any flavour, tasting-consciousness, tongue-contact, feeling raised
from tongue-contact, pleasant, painful or neutral, that too is to be left behind.
The body, touch, tactile-consciousness, body-contact, any feeling arised from
body-contact, whether pleasant, painful or neutral, should also be relinquished.
The mind, any mental state & phenomenon, mental-consciousness, mental-contact,
and whatever feeling arises with mental-contact as origin, whether pleasant, painful
or neither-painful-nor-pleasant, that indeed also is to be relinquished & left behind...
This, bhikkhus, is the radically released state of overcoming by leaving behind all...

Back-pack-burden of heavy dependencies all exploded!

Comments:
Logically can only relinquishment of all burdens & dependencies gain true freedom!
Only true freedom means absence of fear from any event and from any corner...
Only freedom from fear and anxiety can ever open up for ease, peace and bliss!

More on systematic relinquishment:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Free_from_Fear.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Leaving_All_Behind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Not_Resisting_Anything.htm

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Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV 15-6
The Salayatana section 35. Thread on Leaving: Pahana Sutta (23)
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Only Relinquishment can ever gain Full Freedom!
Have a nice relinquishing day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Radical Release!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

The Clusters of Clinging are Quite Unsubstantial!

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The Buddha once said about the fleeting aspects of reality:
Form is like a lump of foam, Feeling is like a water bubble,
Perception is like a mirage, Constructions like a hollow tree,
And consciousness like an illusion! Just a coreless appearance!
However one may reflect over it, and carefully investigate it.
When one views it cautiously: It appears but empty and void!
Pointing at this body The One of Broad Wisdom has taught that
if only three things are lacking, one will have to leave this fragile
frame, ditched all behind: If metabolism, heat and consciousness
depart from this physical body, then it lies there, cast away again:
Unconscious food for others... This illusion, beguiler of vain fools.
It is similar to a serial killer... Neither a substance, nor any safety.
Any bhikkhu with his enthusiasm aroused should look upon these
5 clusters of clinging in exactly this ultra-realistic way: Disgusted,
both day & night! Ever aware, calmly and clearly comprehending!!!
He should eliminate all the mental chains, thereby making his own
island! And thereby become his own protector, refuge, lamp & light!
Let him train as with his head ablaze with fire yearning only for the
everlasting deathless state!

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Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III 142-3
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 Full Text:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn22-095.html

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Have a nice detached day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Like Foam and Bubbles!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

Mind is the Maker and the Creator!

The blessed Buddha once said:
Mind precedes & initiates all phenomena:
Mind is their chief, mind is their maker...
When one speaks or performs an action
with a mind, that is internally all pure,
then happiness & pleasure follows,
like a shadow that never departs...
Dhammapada 1

Difficult to detect and very subtle,
mind can seize & take up any object,
so let any wise being guard the mind,
for a guarded mind brings happiness...
Dhammapada 36

Neither mother, nor father, nor any other
family member can do greater good both
for oneself and for others as well, than
the well directed & controlled mind...
Dhammapada 43

What is Mind?
Mind is an ever repeating cycle sequence of:
Contact1 => Feeling => Perception => Intention => Attention =>
New Contact2 => new Feeling2 => new Perception2 => etc.
Stilling this cycle produces Peace & Bliss!
This serene Tranquillity is called Nibbana!

samahita · January 2009

Friends:

'I am Better' & other false conceits arise from Attachment!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, when what exists, by clinging to what, by holding badly on to what,
do such thoughts occur: 'I am superior' or 'I am equal to' or 'I am inferior'?
Venerable Sir, our understanding are rooted in the Blessed One, guided by
the Blessed One, is initiated by the Blessed One. It would indeed be good if
the Blessed One would explain the meaning of this subtle question in detail.
Having heard this from the Buddha, the bhikkhus will remember & preserve it!
When there is the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body & the mind,
bhikkhus, by clinging to, by adhering to eye, ear, nose, tongue, body & the mind,
these thoughts occur: 'I am superior' and 'I am equal to' and 'I am inferior'!
What do you think, bhikkhus, is the eye permanent or impermanent?
Impermanent, Venerable Sir...
Is the ear permanent or impermanent? Impermanent, Venerable Sir...
Is the nose permanent or impermanent? Impermanent, Venerable Sir...
Is the tongue permanent or impermanent? Impermanent, Venerable Sir...
Is the body permanent or impermanent? Impermanent, Venerable Sir...
Is the mind permanent or impermanent? Impermanent, Venerable Sir...
But without clinging to what is impermanent, suffering, & subject to change,
could these thoughts occur: 'I am superior' or 'I am equal' or 'I am inferior???
No, Venerable Sir...
Understanding this, the intelligent noble disciple is disgusted with the eye, the
ear, the nose, the tongue, the body & the mind... Disgust produces disillusion...
This disillusion induces by detachment a mental release!!!
When detached the mind is unagitated! Being entirely imperturbable one attains
Awakening right there & instantly understands: This mind is eternally freed...!!!
Rebirth is ended, this Noble Life is concluded, done is what should be done,
there is no state beyond or exceeding this...

The blessed Buddha once said:
Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desire.
Blissful is dwelling in complete harmlessness.
Blissful is solitude for one content & learned.
But highest is the bliss of uprooting the conceit 'I am'!
Udana – Inspiration: II – 1

More on this deepest self-deception: The conceit that "I Am!" (Asmi-mana):
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/II/No_Panic_Here.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Uprooting_Egoism.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Pain_Itself.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/II/Non-'I'-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Input_'I'-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Selfless_and_Harmless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Clinging_to_the_notion_I_Am.htm

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV 88
The 6 senses section 35. Thread on 'I Am Superior': Seyyo Sutta (108)
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

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Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

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