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| Subject: Sweet Serene Calm! Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:14 pm | |
| Friends:Imperturbable Calm!The Blessed Buddha once said:Knowing that the other person is angry, The one who remains aware and calm acts in and for his own best interest, and for the other's interest, too! Samyutta Nikaya I, 162 Exalted in mind, just open and clearly aware, the recluse trained in the ways of the sages: One who is such, calmed and ever mindful, He has no sorrows! Udana IV, 7Calm is his mind. Calm is his speech. Calm is his action. So is the tranquillity; So is the equanimity; of one freed by the insight of right understanding... Dhammapada 96 More on this sweetly silenced Tranquillity (Passaddhi):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Forest_Bliss.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Tranquillity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm Have a nice calm Sunday! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Sweet Serene Calm! | |
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| Subject: 4 x Ultra-Awareness! Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:52 am | |
| Friends:How to reach the Certainty of Final Knowledge?The Blessed Buddha once said:Bhikkhus, there are these 4 Foundations of Awareness. What four? The ever calmly self reminding awareness of: 1: Body is just a mass of disgusting impurities... 2: Feelings are only a repeating emotional noise... 3: Mind is simply a conditioned set of weird moods... 4: Phenomena are mentally baked & faked appearances...While always acutely alert and clearly comprehending, thereby removing all lust, desire, envy, jealousy, frustration, & any kind of discontent rooted in this world... When, Bhikkhus, these 4 Foundations of Awareness have been developed, trained & well established, one of two fruits may be expected: Either Final Knowledge in this very life, or if there is residual clinging, the exalted state of Non-Return...! Details On Four Foundations of Awareness (Sati): http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm Awareness is Always Advantageous! The 4 Great Frames of Reference!Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 181] 47. Foundations of Awareness: 36 Final Knowledge.. Have a nice acutely ultra aware day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net 4 x Ultra-Awareness! | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: Alert or Agitated? Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:31 am | |
| Friends:What to Train when the Mind is High and Alert?The Blessed Buddha once explained:On any occasion, Bhikkhus, when mind is excited and high, then it is time for training the Tranquillity Link to Awakening, the Concentration Link to Awakening, and the Equanimity Link to Awakening. Why is it so? Because when the mind is excited and high, Bhikkhus, then it is easy to calm it down with exactly those mental states... Imagine, Bhikkhus, a man wants to extinguish a great fire. If he throws wet grass, wet cow-dung, wet timber into it, sprays it with water, and scatters soil over it, would he be able to extinguish that great bonfire? Yes, Venerable Sir. Even so here, Bhikkhus, on any occasion when the mind is excited and high, then it is convenient to train & develop the Tranquillity Link to Awakening, the Concentration Link to Awakening, & the Equanimity Link to Awakening. Why is it so? Because when the mind is excited and high, Bhikkhus, then it is easy to calm it down & still it with the qualities of exactly those states! Awareness, however, Bhikkhus, I tell you, is always useful & good to train! On the training of these condensing mental abilities:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Concentration_Samadhi.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Equanimity_Upekkha.htm Sources (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 114-5] 46: Links. 53: Fire.... Have a nicely composed day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Alert or Agitated? | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: The One & Only Way! Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:25 pm | |
| Friends:What is the One & Only Way to Purification of Being?Just after enlightenment the Blessed Buddha stayed under a great Banyan tree at Uruvela on the bank of the river Neranjara. There he reflected: There is this single, one and only direct way for the purification of beings, for the relief from all sorrow & grief, for the fading away of all pain and frustration, for achieving the right method, for the realization of Nibbana, that is, these Four Foundations of Awareness. What four? When a Bhikkhu lives & dwells, aware & clearly comprehending, while always contemplating & reflecting upon: 1: The Body merely as a disgusting & fragile accumulation.. 2: The Feelings just as instantly passing conditioned reactions.. 3: The Mind only as a set of recurring, banal & habituated Moods.. 4: Phenomena only as mentally manifested artificial Appearances.. The 4 Great Frames of Reference...He thereby removes any lust, urge, envy & frustration rooted in this world.. This is indeed verily the one & only direct way for the purification of beings, for the relief from all sorrow & grief, for the fading away of all pain and frustration, for achieving the right method, for the realization of Nibbana, that is, these Four Foundations of Awareness... Then the Brahma Samapatti, knowing this, instantly appeared before the Blessed One & having arranged his upper robe over one shoulder, he raised his joined palms towards the Blessed One, and said to him: So is it! Blessed One. So be it! Well-Gone One. Venerable sir, this is the one & only direct way for purification of beings... The Great Seer of the Silencing of all Becoming, Compassionate, understands this unique 1 Way: By which they all in the past crossed the flood, By which they all cross now in the present, and By which they all will cross ever in any future... Comment: The 'Flood' (Ogha) here means:The Flood of sense-desire (kama-ogha)The Flood of wanting to become (bhava-ogha)The Flood of wrong views (dittha-ogha)The Flood of ignorance (avijja-ogha) Details on the 4 Foundations of Awareness (Sati): http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Sati_Studies.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Causes_of_sati.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sati_Summary.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sati_in_Solitude.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear_Comprehension.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Noble_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/One_and_only_Way.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Analysis.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sati_a_la_Anuruddha.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Careful_and_Rational_Attention.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Clear_and_Aware_Comprehension.htm Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 167-8] 47 The Foundations of Awareness: 18 Brahma... Have a nice aware & clearly comprehendingday! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The One & Only Way! | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: What is Wrong? Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:38 pm | |
| Friends:What is Wrong? The Mind or the World?Is the world wrong? No the world is just as it is: Always a changing misery! Are all the other people wrong? No there is just greed, hate and ignorance... Is the society wrong? No, the kammic cause and effect is perfectly just & fair! Is you yourself wrong? No, since there are just passing mental & material states... What then is Wrong?The aversive mind opposing and rejecting some reals, while accepting others is wrong! This stubbornly defying mind defends a rigid stand & fight against any present reality... Why is this resisting combat mind wrong? Because however much it clashes with both the internal and external faults, it cannot ever cure them... Rather they grow stronger! Opposition simply does not help anything at all! Rather it aggravates the problems... What then is the specific cure for such opposing, antagonistic, bothered & irritated mind?Daily Meditation on Universal Friendliness softens up this tense & exasperated mind:http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/All_Embracing_Kindness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Infinite_Friendliness.htm Cultivation of Boundless Pity equips the mind with tolerance, patience & forbearance:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Space_Compassion.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Endless_Pity.htm Rejoicing in Mutual Joy elevates, exalts, and satisfies this frustrated & irked mind:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Infinitely_Joyous_Consciousness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm Remaining unperturbed in well ballanced Equanimity enables first stability, then peace: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unshakable_Equanimity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_is_Equanimity.htm Why do all the Buddhas always smile? They simply accept it all, just as it really is!Have a nice accepting day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Opposition Doesn't Help! | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: The 7 Sets! Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:38 pm | |
| Friends: What are the 7 Sets, which produces Enlightenment?Before the Blessed Buddha Gotama (563-483 BC) was the good Buddha Kassapa, and before him were the Buddhas: Konagamana & Kakusandha all in this universal eon! Before them were there Buddhas: Vessabhu, Sikhi, Vipassi, Phussa, and Tissa, Siddhattha, Dhammadassi, Atthadassi, Piyadassi, Sujata, and Sumedha, Padumuttara, Narada, Paduma, Anomadassi, Sobhita, Revata, and Sumana, Mangala, Kondañña, Dipankara, Saranankara, Medhankara & Tanhankara! Even before them were an endless number of Buddhas, who all explained these Seven Sets of Qualities Producing Enlightenment! What Seven? 1: The Four Foundations of Awareness 2: The Four Best Efforts 3: The Four Ways to Force 4: The Five mental Abilities 5: The Five mental Powers 6: The 7 Links to Awakening 7: The Noble 8-fold WayAll Buddhas in the future beginning with Metteyya will also explain these! Those who stay here and pays attention will learn each single set of ability to an extent he/she will not easily forget.. Thus is lasting progress ensured!!! When the mirror is polished, then it produces an entirely perfect reflection of the original supreme absolute...Therefore: Hang on here! Never Give Up! May all sentient beings awaken into the ultimate peace, freedom & happiness! Yeah!The next Future BuddhaBodhisatta Ajita MetteyyaMore on these 37 requisites for Enlightenment (bodhipakkhiya-dhamma):http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/wings/index.html http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/wings.pdf Have a nice & shiny day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The 7 Sets! | |
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| Subject: What to do when Tempted? Sat Apr 18, 2009 2:19 pm | |
| Friends:How to Cool the Slavery of Desire and Lust? At Savatthi, the Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, when the perception of a human skeleton or a worm-infested, bleeding or pus festering corpse, or a livid bluish black & rotting corpse, or a cut up, gnawed and hacked corpse, or a bloated, inflated & swollen corpse, is developed and cultivated, then it is of great fruit and benefit! It leads to great good, it leads to great security from bondage, it leads to a great sense of urgency, it leads to living in fearless ease & comfort! How, Bhikkhus, is the perception of a skeleton developed & cultivated so that it is of great fruit and benefit? Here, the Bhikkhu systematically develops the: Awareness Link to Awakening, joined with the experience of a skeleton. Investigation of states Link to Awakening, while examining a cadaver. Energy Link to Awakening, perceiving a worm-infested & rotting corpse. Joy Link to Awakening, while laughing over a gnawed & hacked corpse! Tranquillity Link to Awakening, accompanied by seeing a livid corpse... Concentration Link to Awakening, focused on a bloated & swollen corpse. Equanimity Link to Awakening, indifferent even near a hacked carcass... Which is based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & maturing in release... It is in this way that the perception of a skeleton or a disgusting corpse is developed & cultivated, so that it is of great advantage, and benefit... Bhikkhus, when the perception of a skeleton is developed and cultivated in this way fused & enhanced with the seven Links to Awakening, one of two fruits is to be expected: either final knowledge in this very life or, if there is a remaining residue of clinging, the state of non-returning... Comments:Meditating on disgusting signs is the only thing that can quell greed & lust! For inspiration regarding such corpse-meditation see the corpse pics at: http://picasaweb.google.com/bhikkhu0/AsubhaDisgust?authkey=87KkpQSf1MM# Should only be viewed by adults : Strong Warning!!! This particular meditation on disgusting signs is especially well suited for:Those characterized by greed, lust and desire as the dominant defilement: Homosexual gays and lesbians, Pedophiles, Overweight Eaters, Porn-maniacs, Bulimics, any compulsive mental disorder, anxiety, angst, worry, obsessions, Phobias, and everybody in general overwhelmed by their yearning desires! Whenever desire arises one can quell it by remembering a disgusting sign! For details on Meditation on the Body as a mere form (KayagataSati):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Meditation_On_the_Body_Kayagata-Sati.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_9_Corpse_Meditations.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Evil-smelling_body.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_32_Parts.htm This eliminates fear of loosing body. Not afraid of loosing body means no fear even of Death! When not afraid of Death, then one does not fear anything at all in this world! Then one is relaxed by the gladness of ease! When Death comes, one says: Come on in! Have a cup of tea before we go? Source (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:129-32] section 46: The Links. 57-61: The Skeleton... What to do when Tempted? | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: The Absent Agent! Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:42 pm | |
| Friends:There is No Self, or Actor, but just Activities: Question:If there is neither any "I", nor Ego, nor separate identity, nor self , nor soul, WHAT then thinks, reflects upon, & comes to understanding? What is it that knows? What reflects?The impersonal process of reflection itself reflects... There need be no 'wonderer' for the reflection activity to occur! What understands?The event, state and condition of understanding itself understands...! There need not to be any one, who understands for understanding to emerge... What knows?The distinct impersonal phenomenon of knowledge itself knows... There need not to be any 'knower' for the state of knowledge to occur! The Blessed Buddha Said:Sabbe Dhamma Anatta! All states are Impersonal!There is no Agent, neither behind, nor within, nor without any Appearance... This realization leads to the exquisite void mental release!!! (Suññata-vimokkha)! Please let me out of this prison of assumed personality! It is neither 'I', 'Me', 'Mine', nor 'Belonging to Me', nor 'What I Am'...! Atta = Self; Anatta = No-Self!Anatta: There is no separate or core self. What appears separate, solid & enduring, turns out to be changeable and "composite." What we experience as 'identity' turns out to be a changing constellation of varying momentary influences and activities... Which all are selfless, ownerless, egoless, & soulless passing momentary mental states! & Paradoxically: Never the Same... If what we assume to be 'self' is never the 'same' is this assumed 'self' then not the 'same', but always changed into something 'other'! How can something 'other-than-the-same-self' ever be a real identical 'self'??? IMPERSONALITY!Identical 'Identity' is not found inside, but is just an external labelled badge! A designed designation splashed on...More on this enigmatic selflessness:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm Have a nice egoless day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The Absent Agent! | |
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| Subject: Smoky, deceptive, and illusive is the Ego... Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:14 pm | |
| Friends:The smoky, deceptive & illusive Ego:The idea or concept of 'Self' inherently assumes that a 'Same Constant Self': 'Self' is the 'Same' from one moment to the next. Belief in ‘self’ therefore assumes that something is: ‘identical’ and there thus defines a core ‘identity’... This is a hidden unseen form of Eternalism to believe that something remains the 'Same' and 'Identical' from one moment to the next! This inherently hidden Eternalism, the 'personalists=egoists=puggalavadins' often both overlook &/or deny! Universal Impermanence: However, the invariably observable & undeniable fact is:Nothing whatsoever remains the same from one moment to the next moment: Form changes, whether own or other; Feeling changes, whether internal or external; Perception changes, whether experienced by eye, ear, nose, mouth, body or mind; Mental Construction changes, whether it is intention, planning, wanting or wishing; Consciousness changes, whether visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile or mental; In short all name-&-form, whether internal or external changes momentarily… There exists thus NOTHING unchanging whatsoever!Neither within nor apart from The 5 clusters of clinging, Neither within nor apart from the duality: Name-&-Form, that ever could possibly qualify as an unchanging, same, constant & identical self… Since both the 5 clusters of clinging and Name-&-Form notify ALL phenomena, internal as external, there cannot truly be said to exist any self anywhere at all… Ego-Adornment = Self-Aggrandizement is rooted in the deep desire to exist:The ‘self’, ‘ego’, ‘I’, ‘me’ we cherish so much and love so deeply thus appears to ‘exist’ only in the conventional sense as an ‘idea’, as a mental construction: A ‘concept’… This central notion nevertheless is the core of all ‘egoism’ and possess therefore the power to drag beings into repeated birth, death, possessiveness, conflict & war… Nothing is thus more Dangerous than the idea of a ‘Self’… A master serial killer!!! The EGO-concept - though immaterial, false and unreal - is the very core of evil... Self as linguistic invention... A pointer without any reference; pointing nowhere! It is pragmatically practical in daily life to operate with notions of ‘I’, ‘Me’, ‘You’, ‘They’ etc. as if these existed as lasting entities, yet this is only a FEATURE of the conventional structure of LANGUAGE & not a part of the factual & actual REALITY! In the ultimate & absolute sense, however, there exist only ever-changing discrete states of mentality and materiality, arising and ceasing every moment… Just a blinking flux…As ephemeral as smoke… Or stroboscopic light… Ceasing in the same moment as it arised! Right there & then! There is No Agent, but there is Activity:There is really the event of action, but no real actor; No one who acts! The occasion of feeling exists, but no feeler exists; No one who feels! The input of perception occurs, but there is no perceiver; No one who perceives! The experienced phenomena IS, but no experiencer is; No one who experiences! http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Who_or_what_is_the_Agent.htm The Automatic Egoless Camera: There is a camera filming, but no one who is 'behind' the camera... There is a film projected up upon a screen, but no one who is 'inside' the cinema... http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Selfless_Camera.htm The invisible prison = EGO!Those who are afraid of Nibbana, since it seems the be a loss of ‘Self’may be relieved by understanding that one cannot loose something that never was there, that never really existed in the first place…Nibbana is real and exists, but no self enters it… The Noble path is real and liberating, but no self completes it… If one does not wish to die – again and again – one must penetrate, comprehend and relinquish this false conceptualization of ‘Self=Me=I’ ... Purging the Ego-Concept! This No-self = Anatta Doctrine:It is the core doctrine of Buddhism & the door to stream-entry! It is particular to Buddhas and never revealed by any other! It is liberating beyond any measure and imagination! Keep digging. There is nothing down or in here! One has to see that for ‘one-self’! Hehehe… ;-) The Blessed Buddha once said:Blissful is solitude for one who is content, learned & who see the True Dhamma. Blissful is harmlessness towards all beings without exception. Blissful is freedom from any sensual urge whatsoever. Yet, the supreme bliss, is the elimination of the abysmal conceit “I am”!’ Udana – Inspiration: II – 1 Self-Aggrandizing puffed up Ego-Assuming!See: The Conventional Concept: A Person = puggala:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/puggala.htm Ego is an essence-empty inflatable void! About No-Self = Anatta in general:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Not_Yours.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Ego-Projection.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sandcastles.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Double_Problem.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Empty_of_What.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Uprooting_Egoism.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Reference.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Leaving_Wrong_View.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/II/Cause_of_Identity_View.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Clinging_to_the_notion_I_Am.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/First_I-dentification_then_Enmity.htm Have a nice selfless day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The smoky, deceptive, and illusive Ego... | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: Sweet is Muni Silence! Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:30 pm | |
| Friends:Sweet is Verbal, Bodily and Mental Silence!The Blessed Buddha once said:Kayamunim vacamunim, manomunimanasavam, munim moneyyasampannam. Ahu ninhatapapakam.Silent in body, silent in speech, silent in mind, without agitation, blessed with silence is the sage. Such One is truly washed of evil.Itivuttaka 3.67SILENCEDIf silent as a broken bell, such one is close to Nibbana, and far away from arrogance. Dhammapada 134More on this sweetly silenced Tranquillity (Passaddhi):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Calm.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Forest_Bliss.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Silenced.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Tranquillity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm Sweet is Muni Silence: Agitation never helps! | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: The 10 future Buddhas! Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:37 pm | |
| Friends:What is known about the next 10 Future Buddhas?The next one is the last in this Universe! His name is Metteyya – The Friendly One!see: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/me_mu/metteyya.htm and indeed http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Metteyya/arimet00.htm and http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/How-2-Meet_Buddha_Metteyya.htm The Bodhisatta (Lit: Being who will Awaken) Metteyya in Tusita Heaven.Then follows a Universal Cycle (=Aeon=kappa=kalpa) empty of Buddhas! In that aeon humans will act like animals or worse. Incest & cannibalism will be the rule of the day. Terror, wars, torture & agony! So make effort NOW! Then in the next eon 2 Buddhas will emerge: First Rama and later DhammarajaBuddha Dhammaraja was king Pasenadi of Kosala at Gotama Buddha’s time. http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/pa/pasenadi.htm Then in the next eon 1 Buddha Abhibhu will appear. He is now a king of devas. (4th from right above w. halo)Then will come another empty eon. Then will come an eon with 2 Buddhas: Dighasoni and Canki.http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/c/cankii.htm They will be called: Buddha Narada and Buddha Ramsimuni. Then will come an eon with 2 Buddhas: Subha and Todeyya.They will be called: Buddha Devadeva and Buddha Narasiha Then will come another empty eon. Then will come an eon with 2 Buddhas: Tissa and Sumangala.Buddha Tissa was the elephant Nalagiri at Gotamas time. (see the 2 elephants left above) http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/n/naalaagiri.htm Buddha Sumangala was the elephant Parileyya at Gotamas time. (see the 2 elephants top below) http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/pa/parileyya.htm Source: Details on the 10 future Buddhas:Dasabodhisattuppattikatha (English & Pali) The Birth Stories of the Ten Bodhisattas. Ed. & Tr. Ven. H. Saddhatissa. Sacred Books of the Buddhists Vol. XXIX. Pali Text Society. http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130894 See also the explanation of the future:Anagatavamsa Desana. The sermon of the Chronicle to be. Tr. Udaya Meddegama; Ed. John Clifford Holt. 1993 Buddhist Tradition Series. Vol. 21. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi. Have a nice day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The 10 future Buddhas! | |
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| Subject: The Power of Presence! Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:34 pm | |
| Friends:What is the Mental Ability of Awareness (Sati)?The Blessed Buddha once said:Bhikkhus, there are these five mental abilities (indriya). What five? 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)But what is the mental ability of Awareness (Sati)?That which is Awareness, constant attention, recollection, mental presence, mindfulness, remembering, bearing in mind, alertness, watchful consciousness, non-neglect, non-oblivious, non-forgetfulness, non-carelessness, and non-superficiality. This is called the ability of Awareness, the Power of Awareness, Right Awareness, and the Awareness link to Awakening! But what is the Awareness link to Awakening?Herein a Bhikkhu is mindful, furnished with excellent Awareness, recollection, he remembers, remembers constantly, what has long been done & long been said concerning release even very long ago. This is called the Awareness link to Awakening... There is Awareness of internal states and there is Awareness of external states. Both Awareness of internal states & Awareness of external states is an Awareness link to Awakening leading to full knowledge, Enlightenment, & to complete emancipating release! The Power of Presence!Source: The Book of Analysis: Vibhanga 124 + 228http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130304 On the illuminating presence of Awareness:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Sati_Studies.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Causes_of_sati.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sati_Summary.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sati_in_Solitude.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear_Comprehension.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Noble_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/One_and_only_Way.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Analysis.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sati_a_la_Anuruddha.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Careful_and_Rational_Attention.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Clear_and_Aware_Comprehension.htm Have a nice present day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The Power of Presence! | |
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| Subject: The 4 Formless Fruits! Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:07 am | |
| Friends:Establishing the 4 Foundations of Awareness!Buddha once asked: What, friends, are the Four Foundations of Awareness?1: Body as foul frame:While always acutely alert & clearly comprehending, thus removing any lust, urge, envy, frustration & discontent rooted in this world, the intelligent Bhikkhu keeps contemplating & regarding any & all Body as an alien frame of filthy & foul form... As something bound to emerge, decay and vanish... Neither as mine, nor belonging to me, nor as 'what I am', nor as a manifested representation of 'myself'! Neither as lasting, stable safety! Nor as pleasant beauty and pride! 2: Feeling as annoying reaction:The intelligent Bhikkhu keeps contemplating & regarding any & all Feeling as a remote ever recurring reactivity... As something bound to arise, decay & fade away! Not as mine, felt by me, nor belonging to me, nor as what 'I am', nor as something felt by my very self! Neither as lasting, stable & safe! Nor as ever pleasure & only bliss! 3: Mind as passing moods:The intelligent Bhikkhu keeps contemplating & regarding any & all Mind as a habituated set of bizarre mentalities of a weird nature, that appears, dwindles, flutters & flickers... Neither as something that 'I am', nor as a part of 'me', nor making up my ego or my self! Neither as lasting, stable or same! Not as fascinating! Not as soul! 4: Phenomena as momentary appearances:The intelligent Bhikkhu keeps contemplating & regarding any & all Phenomena as mentally constructed appearances of momentary manifestation always ending right where they arised. Not as mine, belonging to me or any self! Not as something lasting, stable or real! Not as existent, enduring, substantial, material, absolute or authentic! This is the fourfold Foundation of Awareness...!!! This - only this - is the sole way to the purification of beings!!! Why is it actually so? It is an indispensable support for a presence, that has to stand near! It has to be made manifest, to be of service as a guarding activity! It has to be established, as a continuous dominance of comprehension! It is essential & absolutely necessary for optimizing any behaviour! It is a crucially needed key, imperative for preventing all mistakes! It is a vitally fundamental prerequisite for guidance & self-control! It is the only thing that can overcome relapses of careless neglect! When not aware of what one is doing, serious mistakes is inevitable! The 4 Great Frames of Reference!Details On Four Foundations of Awareness (Sati): http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Sati_Studies.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Causes_of_sati.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sati_Summary.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sati_in_Solitude.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear_Comprehension.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Noble_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/One_and_only_Way.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Analysis.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sati_a_la_Anuruddha.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Careful_and_Rational_Attention.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Clear_and_Aware_Comprehension.htm Have a nice clearly comprehending day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The 4 Fine Foundations of Awareness! | |
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| Subject: Noting the Posture! Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:03 am | |
| Friends:Awareness of Body as mere Postures of Elements!The Blessed Buddha said regarding noting The Four Postures: Again, friends, when walking, a Bhikkhu notes and understands: This body is walking; when standing, he notes and understands: This body is standing; when sitting, he notes and understands: This body is sitting; when lying down, he notes and understands: This body is lying down or he notes and understands the attitude, position and location of whatever way the body frame is positioned. In this way he lives considering the body as internal, as external as both something internal and external. And he lives therefore dwelling independent, freed, not clinging to anything in this world... He knows and understands that it is no real 'person', no real 'being', not an 'I', 'me' or ego that goes, sits, stands and lies down, but that it is only the 5 clusters of clinging & the 4 great elements of solidity, fluidity, heat & motion, which arising & ceasing in adjacent locations appears to be going, sitting, standing, and lying down, yet all these elements naturally and instantly cease right wherever they arised! Comment:When experiencing the body as a remote, alien, and ownerless form, an accumulated material circumstance, neither I-me-mine, nor what 'I am', nor what belongs to me, nor as safe, lasting or as something that can be kept, then there is fearlessness of death, since fear of death is closely related to fear of loosing the body... Fearlessness elevates mind into an imperturbable bliss! Source Text: Majjhima Nikaya 119: Kayagata-Sati Suttahttp://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Meditation_On_the_Body_Kayagata-Sati.htm Have a nice noting the position day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Noting the Posture! | |
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| Subject: Focused on Feeling! Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:27 am | |
| Friends:Feeling is a Reaction to Contact!The Blessed Buddha once explained Contemplation of Feeling thus: How, Bhikkhus & Friends, does one reflect on feelings as reactions? When feeling a pleasant feeling, one notes and clearly understands: I feel a pleasant feeling! When feeling a painful feeling, one notes & understands: I feel a painful feeling. When feeling a quite neutral & neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, one notes and understands: I feel a neutral neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. When feeling a worldly pleasant feeling, one notes and understands: I feel a worldly pleasant feeling. When feeling a pleasant feeling not of this world, one notes & understands: I feel a pleasant feeling not of this world. When feeling a worldly painful feeling, one notes and understands: I feel a worldly painful feeling. When feeling a painful feeling not of this world, one notes and understands: I feel a painful feeling not of this world . When feeling a worldly neutral feeling, which is neither-painful-nor-pleasant, one notes and understands: I feel a worldly neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. When feeling a neutral feeling not of this world, one understands: I feel a neutral feeling not of this world. This is how a Bhikkhu abides reflecting on feelings just as responses or reactions to various forms of sense contact... Feeling is pleasant, painful or neutral! Comments:Worldly feeling arises from sense contact with this world... Unworldly Feeling arises from meditative withdrawal from the world... The cause of the emergence of momentary feeling is sense contact! The cause of the ceasing of this feeling is the ceasing of that contact! Contact is the meeting of 3: Object, sense-organ and consciousness! Contact causes Feeling!All converges on Feeling (Vedana):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Indifference_Creates_Ignorance.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Three_Basic_Kinds_of_Feeling.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Feeling_Causes_and_Effects.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_8_Aspects_of_Feeling.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Bodily_and_Mental_Feeling.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Detached_from_Feeling.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Dependent_on_Contact.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Focusing_on_Feeling.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_Feeling.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_108_Feelings.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Emotional_Storm.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Latent_Feeling.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Five_Feelings.htm Source Text: Majjhima Nikaya 10: Satipatthana Sutta:http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.010.nysa.html Have a clearly felt day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Focused on Feeling! | |
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| Subject: Mind = Mentality = Moods! Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:58 am | |
| Friends:Awareness of Mind just as changing Moods and Mentality!The Blessed Buddha said regarding Contemplation of Mind: How, Bhikkhus & Friends, does one reflect on Mind just as Moods? Herein one notes when the mind is greedy or not greedy, angry or not angry, confused or unconfused, cramped or scattered, exalted or unexalted, surpassable or unsurpassable, concentrated or not concentrated, & one knows when mind is released or not released! Thus one lives while internally observing one's own mind, or externally the mind of others, or the minds of both. One notices how any new mood and mentality arises, and how it passes away. Or one is simply aware: Mind is now in this or that mood; just enough for mindful and clear comprehension of the present actual mental state. Caused by this mindful mental presence and acute ultra clear comprehension of the flow of momentary mental states, one comes to live independent, unattached, not clinging to anything in this world whatsoever.... Thus does one dwell immersed in contemplation of the mind! What is the Fuel on which any momentary event of Mind burns?The proximate causes of arising of any mood and mentality are: Presence of 1: Ignorance, 2: Craving, 3: Kamma, & 4: Name-&-Form.. The proximate causes of ceasing of any mood and mentality are: Absence of: Ignorance, Craving, Kamma, & Name-&-Form.. Prerequisite understanding:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Ignorance.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Causes_of_Emergence.htm More on the Mind:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/In_Control.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-Control.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_&_Bright.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Core_Duality.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Magnificent_Mind.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm Source Text: Majjhima Nikaya 10: Satipatthana Sutta:http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.010.nysa.html Have a nice mood day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Mind = Mentality = Moods! | |
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| Subject: Phenomena are Mental States! Fri May 01, 2009 7:02 am | |
| Friends:Awareness of Phenomena just as Mental States!The Blessed Buddha said about Contemplation of Mental Objects: How does one reflect on Phenomena just as Mental States? The 5 Hindrances:One notes & knows when mind is dominated by sense-desire, anger, lethargy & laziness, restlessness & regret, & doubt and uncertainty! One notes & knows when mind is released from sense-desire, anger, lethargy & laziness, restlessness & regret, & doubt and uncertainty! One understands how there is emergence of sense-desire, anger, lethargy & laziness, restlessness & regret, & doubt and uncertainty. One understands how there is overcoming of sense-desire, anger, lethargy & laziness, restlessness & regret, & doubt and uncertainty. One understands how there is elimination of sense-desire, anger, lethargy & laziness, restlessness & regret, & doubt and uncertainty. The 5 Clusters of Clinging:One understands such is form, feeling, perception, construction, and consciousness. One understands such is the causes of origin of form, feeling, perception, construction, and consciousness. One understands such is the causes of ceasing of form, feeling, perception, construction, and consciousness.... The 6 Sense Sources:One notes & understands such is the eye and the forms and the consequent obsessive sense-addiction arising dependent on both. One notes & understands such is the ear and the sounds, the nose and the smells, the tongue and the flavours, the body and touches, the mind & the thoughts & the consequent obsessive & compulsive sense-addiction there arises dependent on both. The 7 Links to Awakening:One notes & knows when mind contains awareness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquillity, concentration and equanimity. One notes & knows when mind is without awareness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquillity, concentration and equanimity. One understands how there is arising of awareness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquillity, concentration and equanimity. One understands how there is complete fulfilment of awareness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquillity, concentration & equanimity. The 4 Noble Truths:One notes, understands and knows as it actually is: This is Suffering! This is the Cause of Suffering! This is the End of Suffering! This is the Way to End Suffering! Thus lives one while considering own internal mental states, or the external mental states of others, or the mental states of both... One notices how any new mental state arises, & how it passes away. Or one is simply aware: There is this mental state now; just enough for mindful and clear comprehension of the present mental state. Caused by this acute aware presence and clear comprehension of any current momentary mental state, one comes to live independent, unattached, by not clinging to anything in this world whatsoever.... Thus does one dwell immersed in contemplation of the mental states! Remembered easily after memorizing this Key: 5-5-6-7-4 On the 5 Hindrances:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Mental_Hindrances.htm On the 5 Clusters of Clinging:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm On the 6 Sense Sources:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Source_of_All.htm On the 7 Links to Awakening: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7_Links_to_Awakening.htm One the 4 Noble Truths:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm On the nature of Phenomena:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_a_Phenomenon.htm Source Text (extract): Majjhima Nikaya 10: Satipatthana Sutta:http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.010.nysa.html Have a nice observant day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Phenomena are Mental States! | |
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| Subject: Understand the 3 Basics! Sat May 02, 2009 6:21 am | |
| Friends:What is Right Understanding of the 3 Facts!The Blessed Buddha once said:It is impossible, Bhikkhus and Friends, and cannot ever happen, that one possessed of right understanding should ever regard any phenomenon as really permanent ... or any phenomenon as lasting happiness ... or any state as an identical, same, and own self... But it is quite possible, that the ordinary worldling may indeed have, entertain and act upon such naive and distorted beliefs...! More on this supreme Ability to Understand:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Freed_by_Knowing.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Chief_Ability.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/pannaa.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Right_Understanding.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Understanding_is_the_Chief.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Supreme_Understanding.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Revealing_Understanding.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Understanding_Ability.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Outstanding_Understanding.htm Source:Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 15:1-3 http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm Have a nice comprehending day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Understand the 3 Basics! | |
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| Subject: Divine Guiding! Sun May 03, 2009 7:15 am | |
| Friends:The 10 Contemplations is Daily Buddhist Routine! The Blessed Buddha once said:Bhikkhus & friends: There is one contemplation, which when often practised and developed leads to the complete turning away from the world, to detachment, to stilling, to ceasing, to Peace, to final penetrating knowledge, to Enlightenment, and thus to Nibbana... Any Noble Disciple, who by progress have understood the Dhamma, dwells frequently in this state. Which is that unique contemplation? The Noble Disciple contemplates on the divine beings: There are the divine beings on the plane of the Four Great Kings, the divine beings of the World of the Thirty-three, Yama World, the Content Devas, those enjoying own creation, those with power over others creations, those of the Brahma world, and those still far above them... Now, such faith, morality, knowledge, generosity, concentration & understanding, which these divine beings acted upon & which made them re-appear on a divine plane after leaving this world, such good qualities as these, are also found in me! When a fine Noble Disciple reflects thus, his mind is neither obsessed by any greed, nor by any hate, nor by any confusion! Uplifted and elated is his mind, and this makes the Noble Disciple gain further deeper understanding of the Dhamma, and thus makes the Noble Disciple delight in the Dhamma! Being delighted, there arises rapturous joy in him. Being filled with rapture and joy, he is inwardly satisfied and he becomes quite calm. Being calmed makes him enjoy bliss & happiness and the mind of the Happy One becomes collected, condensed and concentrated... Of this Noble Disciple, friends, it is said that among many misguided humans, among suffering humankind, he lives freed from suffering! And as one who has entered the stream to Nibbana, he cultivates his contemplation. When, friends, a Noble Disciple has reached the fruit of understanding the Dhamma, he dwells often in this state! Source: AN 6:10Sakka - king of the 33 devas - hovering about with his nymphs. More on the many various types of gods (Devas=shining ones):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/deva.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/c/caatummahaaraajikaa.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/t/taavatimsa.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/y/yaamaa.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/t/tusita.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/n/nimmanarati.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/pa/paranimmita_vasavatti.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/brahmaloka.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/aa/aakaasaanancaayatana.htm http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/index.html http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/jootla/wheel414.html Have a nice divine day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Divine Guiding! | |
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| Subject: Re: Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon! Mon May 04, 2009 5:43 am | |
| Friends:Remembering Death is Daily Buddhist Routine! The Blessed Buddha once said:Just as the mighty Himalayan mountains Are high, all-expansive, & weighing heavily; Just so do ageing & death suppress & defeat All living beings in this world, whether divine, rich, warrior, priest, trader, slave, or sweeper! Not sparing anyone whatsoever, Crushing anybody that is found! Source: SN 3:25 The Most Precious Altar of our Temple: Soon this fragile body will fall to the ground, lifeless, cast aside, without any consciousness, stiff, cold & useless like a rotten log of wood ... Dhammapada 41 MomentaryWhosoever knows this body to be as temporary as a bubble, as insubstantial as a mirror image, May break Mara's honey tipped arrows and Can thus not be seen by this evil King of Death ... Dhammapada 46 Big Surprise!Death carries off the folly man while distracted by gathering various flowers of sensual pleasure, even & exactly so as the huge tsunami wave runs all over and carries away the sleeping village. Dhammapada 47In the ultimate sense, beings have only a very short moment to live: Only as long as one single moment of consciousness lasts! Just as the cart wheel, in rolling forward as in standing still, every time rests merely on one point of its rim: just so does any life of any being last only as long as a single moment of consciousness lasts! As soon as this moment is gone, that momentary being is also all gone... One is therefore reborn millions of times in each second! For as it was said by the ancient elders: All life and all existence here is blinking & momentary, All life's engaged involvement, its joy and all its pain, Depends all only on one single discrete state of mind, And quickly that moment passes by, for never to return... Source: Visuddhimagga VIII,1More on the inevitable fact of Death: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Death.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Game_Over.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Deathless.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/amata.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Death_Contemplation.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Desireless_is_Deathless.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Deathless_Dimension.htm Have a nice dying day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Game Over Ever Again! | |
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| Subject: The Highest Happiness! Tue May 05, 2009 7:10 am | |
| Friends:The Ten Contemplations is Daily Buddhist Routine! The Blessed Buddha once said:Bhikkhus & friends: There is one contemplation, which when often practised and developed leads to the complete turning away from the world, to detachment, to stilling, to ceasing, to Peace, to final penetrating knowledge, to Enlightenment, and thus to Nibbana... Any Noble Disciple who by progress have understood the Dhamma dwells frequently in this state. Which is that one contemplation? It is reflecting over the qualities of ultimate Peace like this: This is peaceful, this is sublime, namely, the stilling of all kammic construction, the leaving all behind of all substrata of any being, the complete vanishing of all sorts of craving, ceasing, Nibbana... Whatever, Bhikkhus & friends, there are of both conditioned & unconditioned things, dependent & independent constructions, detachment is considered the highest of them, that is, the final destruction of ego-belief, the overcoming of all desire & thirst, the rooting out of clinging, the breaking out of this long round of rebirths, the vanishing of craving, absolute release, Nibbana... The Buddha emphasized:Nibbana is the Highest Happiness!Source: AN 1:16.10 + 10:60 + 4.34 More on the Deathless Dimension; Nibbana: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Nibbana_Still.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2_Nibbanas.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/nibbaana.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Deathless_Dimension.htm PS: Recommended! Whoever wish these messages as colour email with embedded links, simply send an empty email to: What_Buddha_Said-subscribe@googlegroups.com and confirm the response from google groups.Have a nice, happy and peaceful day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The Highest Happiness! | |
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| Subject: Avoid all Evil! Wed May 06, 2009 6:01 am | |
| Friends:How do the Effort to Avoid Protect against Evil?The Blessed Buddha once said:There are these four efforts, Bhikkhus and friends: 1: The effort to avoid all evil, 2: The effort to overcome wrong, 3: The effort to develop the good, 4: The effort to maintain any advantage... What, Bhikkhus and friends, is the effort to avoid? When experiencing a form with the eye, a sound with the ear, a smell with the nose, a taste with the tongue, a touch with the body, or a thought with the mind, the Bhikkhu neither fixes his attention on the whole appearance, nor on any specific detail. He instead tries hard to dispel all these evil and disadvantageous states, such as greed, lust and longing, that would arise if he remained with his senses unguarded. He therefore watches over his senses, control his senses, and restrains his senses. This is called the effort to avoid evil. Source (edited extract):The Numerical Sayings of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 4:14 http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/Index.Numerical.htm More on the Avoiding Effort!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Avoiding_Effort.htm Have a nice benevolent day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Avoid all Evil! PS: Recommended! Whoever wish these messages as colour email with embedded links, simply send an empty email to: What_Buddha_Said-subscribe@googlegroups.com and confirm the response from google groups. | |
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| Subject: Direct Experience! Thu May 07, 2009 6:05 am | |
| Friends:How does Direct Experience confirm Faith?Sariputta once said to the Buddha:It is indeed to be expected, Venerable Sir, that a Noble Disciple who has faith, who has aroused energy & established awareness, & whose mind is concentrated, will understand the reality thus: This Samsara is without discoverable beginning! Any first point for beings roaming & wandering on, blinded by ignorance & bound by craving cannot ever be seen! But the traceless fading & ceasing of ignorance, this massive of darkness: This is the peaceful state, this is the supreme state ... ; that is, the stilling of all mental construction, the relinquishment of all acquisition, the elimination of all craving, disenchanting disillusion, final ceasing, Nibbana! That comprehension of his is rooted in his ability to understand Venerable Sir! And, Venerable Sir, when he has again and again strived in such a way, repeatedly recollected in that way, again & again concentrated his mind in exactly this way, over and over again understood only this in this very way, then that Noble Disciple gains complete faith thus: Regarding things that I previously had only heard about, now I dwell having contacted them with my body, and having perforated them by understanding; I now see & directly experience! That faith is his ability of faith... Good, good. Sariputta! noted the Buddha... More on Direct Experience:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/4_Realizations.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Escape.htm Venerable Sariputta More on this mighty general of the Dhamma: Venerable Sariputtahttp://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/sa/saariputta.htm Venerable Sariputta PS: Recommended! Whoever wish these messages as colour email with embedded links, simply send an empty email to: What_Buddha_Said-subscribe@googlegroups.com and confirm the response from google groups.Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:226] section 48: The Abilities. 50: At Apana ... Have a nice direct day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Direct Experience! | |
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| Subject: Happy Wesak 2U! Fri May 08, 2009 4:01 am | |
| Friends:At this Fullmoon Day do all Buddhas Awaken:2009 May 8 Wesak Day celebrates the birth, Enlightenment, & passing away of the Buddha Gotama. Keep Clean, Calm, Clever, Kind, Generous, and Gentle! Photo by K. Kawasaki. Please Remember:At this May full moon in year 534 BC the Blessed Buddha awakened by completely perfect & utterly unsurpassable self-Enlightenment! At that time a girl named Sujata Senani lived in Uruvela. When adult, she prayed before a certain Banyan tree, that she might get a good husband equal to herself in caste & that her firstborn may be a son. Her prayer was successful, since so indeed did it happen. At the full moon day of the Wesak month, she rose at early dawn & milked the cows. As soon as new buckets were placed under the cows, the milk poured in streams spontaneously all by itself! Seeing this miracle, she knew something special was going on. Now at that very night the Future Buddha had 5 dreams that made him conclude: Surely, truly, without any doubt, today is the very day, I will reach Enlightenment! His 5 colored radiance illuminated the whole tree. Then Sujata came and offered the cooked milk rice in the hands of the Great Being. After that a grass-cutter came going with a bundle of grass just harvested from nearby. He offered the Great Being 8 handfuls of Kusa grass, when he saw that this Sage was a Holy Man. The Future Buddha accepted the grass & proceeded to the foot of the Bo-tree. Reaching the imperturbable Eastern side, where all the Buddhas take their seat, he sat down saying to himself: This is verily the immovable spot, where all the prior supreme Buddhas have planted themselves! This is the very place for destroying this net of desire! Then the Future Buddha turned his back to the trunk and thus faced east. Right there, he then resolutely settled on this mighty decision: Let just blood & flesh of this body dry up & let skin and sinews fall from the bones. I will not leave this seat before having attained the absolute supreme Enlightenment! So determined did he seat himself in this unconquerable seat, which not a 100 strikes of lightning could make him waver from. At this very moment the rebel deity Mara -the Evil One- raised exclaiming: Prince Siddhattha will pass beyond my power, but I will never allow it! And sounding the Mara's war shout, he raised his army & went out for battle. Then Mara said to his evil militia: This Sakyamuni, son of Suddhodana, is far greater than any other man, so we will never succeed to fight him up front. We will thus have to attack him from behind. Frustrated, being unable even to touch the Wielder of power with 9 mighty hurricanes of wind, rain, rocks, weapons, red coals, hot ashes, sand, mud, and darkness Mara somewhat in panic commanded his army: Why do you all stand still? Seize, kill & drive away this prince. Mara yelled: Siddhattha, leave this seat. It is not yours, but mine! Hearing this the Well-gone One replied: Mara, neither have you fulfilled the 10 perfections to the third degree nor have you given the 5 great donations. Neither have you striven for insight, nor for the welfare of all the world, nor for enlightenment! Therefore does this seat not belong to you, but truly indeed only to me. Suddenly overpowered by fear Mara's followers fled helter-skelter in all directions. Not two went the same way, but leaving their weapons in a chaos all behind, they all fled terrified by metaphysical panic. Seeing them flee, the great assembly of deities triumphantly shouted: Mara is defeated. Prince Siddhattha has Won! Let us celebrate this truly sublime, wonderful and unique Victory! It was before the sun had set that the Tathagata thus conquered Mara & defeated his army. That same night, after having bathed, while the Bo tree rained red sprigs on his robe, the Consummate One gained knowledge of his prior lives in the first watch of the night: With the mind thus concentrated, purified, bright, fixed, unified, focused, tractable, compliant, steady & imperturbable, I directed it to remembrance of my past lives. I recollected many past lives, i.e., one birth, two...five, ten...fifty, a hundred, a thousand, 100 thousand, many eons of cosmic contraction, & many eons of cosmic expansion: There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan & species, had such a body. Such was my food, such my life of pleasure & pain, such was the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose there. There I had such name, belonged to such a sort & family, had such a form. Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure & pain, such was the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose here. Thus I remembered my various past lives in all their various modes & manifold details. This was the first knowledge I attained in the first watch of the night. Ignorance was destroyed; the knowledge arose; darkness was destroyed; light arose as happens in one who is alert, aware, & determined. But the pleasant feeling that arose in this way did not invade my mind nor remain. With the mind thus concentrated, purified, bright, intact, pliant, malleable, steady, & imperturbable, I directed it to the knowledge of the passing away & reappearance of beings. I saw by means of the divine eye, purified & surpassing the human eye & I saw beings passing away & re-appearing, and I realized how and why they are high and low, beautiful or ugly, fortunate and unfortunate all in exact accordance with the intentions of their prior actions: These beings who were endowed with bad behaviour of body, speech, & mind, who reviled the Noble Ones, held wrong views & acted under the influence of wrong views, with the break-up of the body, after death, have re-appeared in the plane of misery, the bad painful destination, the lower realms, even in hell. But these beings who were gifted with good behaviour of body, speech & mind, who did not revile the Noble Ones, who held right views and acted under the influence of right views after the break-up of the body, after the death, have re-appeared in happy destinations, even in a divine world...! Thus by means of the divine eye, purified & surpassing the human I saw beings passing away & re-appearing, all in accordance with their particular mixture of good & bad kamma. But the satisfaction that arose in this way did not invade my mind nor remain. With the mind thus concentrated, absorbed, I directed it towards understanding the ending of the mental fermentations. I realized how it actually comes to be, that: Such is Suffering... Such is the Cause of Suffering... Such is the End of Suffering... Such is the Way to End Suffering...
Such was the mental fermentations... Such is the Cause of mental fermentation... Such is the End of mental fermentation... Such is the Way leading to the end of fermentation.When my mind saw that, it was instantly freed of the fermentation of sense-desire, it was released from the fermentation of becoming, and it became fully unobstructed by the fermentation of ignorance. Fully & perfectly Enlightened - The Buddha - perceiving this immense glory, spoke these 2 solemn verses, which never has been omitted by any of countless thousands of prior Buddhas: Through this round of countless existences have I searched, but yet failed to find "the Creator", who framed this construction: What a Suffering is indeed such Endless Birth, Ageing, Decay & Death! Now I see that "the Constructor" of this structure is Craving...!!! Never shall this construction be build again, as all the rafters are shattered and the main beam is busted & broken... At this calming of all Craving, the mind was finally, irreversibly & ultimately stilled… Then, friends, this revelation of certainty arose in me: This release is immutable, this is the very last birth, this endless re-appearance has finally ceased... About Absolute Awakening!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/g/gotama.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/s/sujaataa.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhisatta.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/bodhi.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhirukka.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhimanda.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sammaa_sambodhi.htm Have a joyous remembering day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net PS: Recommended! Whoever wish these messages as colour email with embedded links, simply send an empty email to: What_Buddha_Said-subscribe@googlegroups.com and confirm the response from google groups.Happy Wesak 2U! | |
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| Subject: The Divine Ear! Sat May 09, 2009 6:41 am | |
| Friends:Establishing Awareness gains Divine Hearing!Once when the Venerable Anuruddha was dwelling at Savatthi in Jeta's Grove, in Anathapindika's Park, many Bhikkhus went to Anuruddha & exchanged polite greetings with him. Then they sat down to one side & asked the Ven. Anuruddha: Venerable Sir: What has the Venerable Anuruddha developed and cultivated so that he has attained to his famous greatness of direct knowledge? It is because I have developed & cultivated these 4 Foundations of Awareness that I have won great direct knowledge. What four? Here, friends, I dwell always constantly contemplating upon: The Body only as a constructed group, neither as I, me, mine, nor as a self... The Feelings only as passing responses, neither as I, as mine, nor as my self... The Mind only as temporary moods, neither as I, mine, nor as any part of self... All Phenomena only as appearing mental states, not as any real or absolute... while eager, clearly comprehending, & fully aware, thereby removing all desire and frustration rooted in this world! It is, friends, because I have developed and much cultivated these Four Foundations of Awareness that I have become empowered with suprahuman forces: With the divine ear element, which is purified, refined, subtle and surpasses the human, I hear both divine and human sounds, both those that are far away as well as those that are near. Details for further study:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Four_Foundations_of_Awareness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/One_and_only_Way.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/abhinna.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/sa/saavatthi.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/j/jetavana.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Sati_Studies.htm Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:304] section 52: Anuruddha. Thread 13: The Divine Ear! Have a nice day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The Divine Ear! | |
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