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| Subject: Sense Urge Blocks! Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:38 am | |
| Friends:Urge for Sensing blocks the Way to Freedom:At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said this:Desire & lust for the ability* to see forms obstructs & corrupts the mind! Desire and lust for the ability to hear sounds; Desire and lust for the ability to smell smells; Desire and lust for the ability to taste flavours; are also obstructing corruptions of the mind...! Bhikkhus, the desire and lust for the ability to speculation on mental objects is also an obstructing corruption for the mind...! When a bhikkhu has overcome and all left these obstructing mental corruptions, his mind inclines towards inward withdrawal! A mind prepared by withdrawal becomes fit & open for those higher mental states, that are to be realized by direct experience and immediate knowledge... Note*:This can & should be freely exchanged, expanded & enhanced by these objects: Visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile & mental consciousness, contact, feeling born of sense contact, perception born of contact, intention for, and craving for whatever sensual object existing or even just imagined ... Sense desire is variegated and always wants and seeks new ways!More on the folly vanity of desire for simple Sense Pleasure (Hedonism):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.1-2.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Charcoal_Pit.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4c.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Colourful_but_Muddy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Catastrophic.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/What_is_Disadvantageous.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Joys_of_the_Flesch_and_Beyond.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Happiness_of_the_Flesh_and_Beyond.htm Any kind of greed, desire, & lust has obvious side effects of Pain! Blissful is being without passions in this world, Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desires! Udana II, 1Like a moth flying into the flame... Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya SN 27(1+2) III 232 http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html Sense Urge Blocks!Urge for Sensuality Obstructs the Way to Freedom...http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Obstructing_Corruption.htm | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: Even is Equanimity... Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:03 am | |
| Friends:Balanced Equanimity is the Tenth Mental Perfection:Equanimity characteristically induces & promotes impartial neutrality... Its function is to look upon things with an even unreactive indifference! Its manifestation is the gradual stilling of both attraction & repulsion.. Its proximate cause is seeing, that all inherit the results of their actions. Its effect is utter purification & perfection of all other mental qualities, by ending both discontent & delight, thereby providing the necessary equal calm required for their complete assessment & accomplishment. Equanimity means Unaffectable.. Equanimity means Unprovokable.. Equanimity means Undisturbable.. Equanimity means Unexcitable.. Equanimity means Imperturbable.. Equanimity means Disengaged.. Equanimity means Disentangled.. Equanimity means Detached.. Equanimity means Immovable.. Equanimity means Unbeatable.. Equanimity means Untemptable.. Equanimity means Wholly Immune.. Equanimity means Indifferent.. Equanimity means Impartial.. Equanimity means Unbiased.. Equanimity means Disinterested.. Equanimity means Balanced.. Even like a smiling mountain! Cool Calm is the ultimate Balm! The Threefold Equanimity (Upekkha): If Indifferent towards: Internal states & external phenomena, Living beings & lifeless things, Past, present & future events, How can one be hurt, upset, disturbed or distressed? Calm is his mind. Calm is his speech. Calm is his action. So is the Tranquility; So is the Equanimity; Of one freed by the Insight Of right Knowledge. Dhammapada 96Although a man is richly dressed and adorned, if he is in peace, at ease, in equanimity, calmed, composed, controlled, celibate and harmless towards all beings, then verily he is a Holy One, a recluse, a sage ... Dhammapada 142 Equanimity towards one's own internal states - that is indeed a link to Enlightenment. Equanimity regarding external phenomena & conditions - that is indeed also a link to Enlightenment. Samyutta Nikaya V Bojjhanga-samyutta. Such noble friend finally develops the link to awakening that is Equanimity during Awareness of in-&-out breathing, which protects against damaging mental states, tends to detachment, to ceasing, tends to release & culminates in complete self-surrender... If, friends, Awareness of in-&-out breathing, is so cultivated and so made much of, it is indeed of great fruit, of great advantage! One whose Awareness of breathing in-&-out is perfected, well developed, and gradually brought to refined growth thus, according to the teaching of the Buddha, such one illuminates the entire world, just like the full moon freed from clouds. Samyutta Nikaya V Anapana-samyutta. The Blessed One once said:Now how, Ananda, in the discipline of a Noble One is there the unsurpassable development of the senses? There is the case where, when seeing a form with the eye, there arises in a monk what is agreeable, or what is disagreeable, or what is both agreeable & disagreeable. He recognizes that: This agreeable thing has arisen in me, or this disagreeable thing... or this both agreeable & disagreeable thing, has arisen in me: And that is constructed, conditioned, coarse & dependently co-arisen! But this is peaceful, this is exquisite, namely even & equal equanimity! Instantly, that arisen agreeable or disagreeable thing ceases, and Equanimity takes its calm stance! Just as a man with good eyes, having closed them, might open them; or when open, might close them, that is how quickly, how rapidly, how easily, no matter what it refers to, Equanimity make whatever arisen agreeable thing... or disagreeable thing... or both agreeable & disagreeable thing cease right there, and Equanimity takes its even stance! In the discipline of The Noble One, this is called the unsurpassable development of the senses with regard to visible forms cognizable by the eye. Similar is the supreme development of the other senses. MN 152With the fading of rapturous joy, he remains in equanimity, aware & alert, still physically sensitive to bodily pleasure. He enters & remains in the third jhana, of which the Noble Ones declare: 'In aware Equanimity, one abides in pleasure...' With the stilling of pleasure & pain as with the earlier disappearance of elation & frustration, he enters & remains in the fourth jhana: sole Awareness purified by equanimity, - neither pleasure nor pain - This is called Right Concentration... The elimination of both sensual desires & of discontent, the ejection of laziness, the calming of all regrets, just this pure Equanimity being aware of all mental properties exactly at the moment they appear: That I call the direct knowledge of release the breakthrough from ignorance. Sutta Nipata V 13: Udaya's Questions Equanimity is 'Tatra-majjhattata', which designates the evenly balanced keeping to the moderate middle of all things. It has as characteristic, that it affects the balance of consciousness and mental properties as a single function of single taste, which prevents both overt excessiveness and any lack or insufficiency. Equanimity thereby puts an end to biased partiality by manifesting moderation well within range of the properly reasoned midway. Visuddhimagga XIV The Buddha once explained: I would make my bed in a charnel ground, with a skeleton for my pillow.. And cowherd boys came up and spat on me, urinated on me, threw dirt at me, and poked sticks into my ears! While others, exultant & thrilled brought me offerings of food, caskets of perfume & incense and garlands of flowers! Yet I do not recall, that I ever showed any partiality towards any of them... I was the same to them all! Neither arousing any fondness nor any aversion! This was my ultimate perfection of equanimity... MN 12 Lomahamsanapariyaya The Hair-raising Presentation Cariyapitaka III 15 More on Equanimity (Upekkha):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Serene_Equanimity_and_Beyond.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unshakable_Equanimity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Equanimity_Upekkha.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Equanimity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Empty_Equanimity.htm More of the 10 mental perfections (paramis):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ten_Perfections.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_10_mental_perfections_(parami)_in_three_levels.htm Even is Equanimity...Balanced Equanimity is the 10th Mental Perfection!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_is_Equanimity.htm | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: The Supreme Triumph! Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:36 am | |
| Friends:Daily Words of the Buddha:The Blessed Buddha once said:Sabbadanam dhammadanam jinati Sabbarasam dhammaraso jinati Sabbaratim dhammarati jinati Tanhakkhayo sabbadukkham jinati.The Supreme Triumph:The gift of Dhamma surpasses all other presents. The taste of Dhamma excels every other flavour. The delight of Dhamma exceeds any other happiness. Eradication of craving conquers all and any suffering...More on the Dhamma:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_Boat.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Discrete_States.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Discrete_States.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dhamma_Presence.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/dhamma.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Dhamma_Contemplation.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Momentary_Consciousness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Omniscient_Quantum_Mind.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No_Substance_'Out_There'.htm Have a really nice day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The Supreme Triumph! | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: Immaculate Integrity! Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:50 am | |
| Friends:Purification by Knowledge & Vision of the Way!As one repeats, develops and cultivates that equanimity about constructions, faith becomes more resolute, energy better exerted, awareness much better established, and mind better and deeper concentrated, as a consequence of, that this equanimity around all phenomena & formations grows more refined! This insight, leading to emergence, is called aloofness, which itself can eclipse even the delicate unified equanimity gained from a subtle mental unification... Experiencing disgust makes greed gradually fade away. With the fading away of greed, clinging evaporates. One is thereby liberated by this mental release. Purification by knowledge & vision of this way is the principal factor of purity! It is conforming to what is mentally utterly unpolluted... It is for this precious immaculate integrity, that this Noble life is lived under the Blessed Buddha! DN III 288, MN I 139, 147, III 220 The Greatest Sage did thus proclaim: This insight stilled, refined and purified! This round of rebirth's abysmal pit of pain, Is vast, entangling, deceptive and terrible! Any wise man should strive all the best he can, When hoping emergence from suffering to gain.Vism 671More on Mental Purification (Visuddhi):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mental_Purity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ability_Purification.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_7_Purifications.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_8_Understandings.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/visuddhi.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Levels_of_Leaving_Behind.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_purpose_of_purification.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_stages_of_Purification.htm Have a nice pure day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Immaculate Integrity!http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Immaculate_Integrity.htm | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: Calmed... Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:53 am | |
| Friends:One becomes Calmed by Stilling all Agitation!The brahmin Magandiya asked the Buddha about how to become calmed:Not dwelling in the past, stilled in the present, one prefers no kind of future! Without irritation, without agitation, without regrets, without worry, neither boasting, nor proud, but humble and modest, one is indeed a restrained sage... Withdrawn, not opposed to anything, not wanting anything, all unconcerned, aloof, gentle, independent, for such one there exists neither craving or fear for any kind of existence, nor craving or fear for any form of non-existence... Such calmed one is indifferent to sense pleasures, detached, not clinging to any kind of property! For him there is nothing more to take up or lay down! For whatever others might accuse him, he remains tranquil and not agitated! Neither opposing anything, nor attracted to anything, with nothing of his own, not perturbed by what does not exist, such tranquil one is truly calmed! Sutta-Nipata 849-861 Edited excerpt. More on Calm (Samatha) = Tranquil Ease: 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/V/Calm_Power.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Insight.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Tranquil_One.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/samatha.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breathing_Calm_and_Insight.htm Have a nice & noble day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka http://What-Buddha-Said.net Calmed...Tranquillity slides into Bliss!http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Calmed.htm | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: The True Torch! Mon Feb 27, 2012 5:43 am | |
| Friends:The True Dhamma Makes U Safe!The Buddha-Dhamma is a Torch, since it guides beings through the Darkness! The Buddha-Dhamma is a Boat, since it brings beings across to the far Shore! The Buddha-Dhamma is a Mirror, since it shows beings, how they Actually are! The Buddha-Dhamma is a Medicine, since it cures beings from deep Diseases! More on this genuine Law (Dhamma):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Dhamma_Contemplation.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dhamma_Presence.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Supreme_Triumph.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Simple_Core123.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Be_Good.htm Have a nice Dhamma day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net The True Torch!There is some light outside this cave...http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_True_Torch.htm | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: Don't miss out on this last one...! Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:27 am | |
| Friends:How to Meet Buddha Metteyya in the Future:The Buddha Metteyya, the Friendly One, will be the last & 5th 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 and determined (dalha), 5: One should wish sincerely to meet him with 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 and achieved (pañña). Right behaviour (action= kamma) 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 fully successful. Meeting the Metteyya Buddha opens the Doors to the Deathless Nibbana... How is The Formal Aspiration to Meet Buddha Ariya Metteyya:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Metteyya/arimet10.htm Bodhisatta MetteyyaResources on the next Buddha Metteyya: The Friendly One!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/me_mu/metteyya.htm The Coming Buddha, Ariya Metteyya. By honourable Sayagyi U Chit Tin:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Metteyya/arimet00.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdfs/Metteyya.pdf The Anagatavamsa Desana: The Chronicle on the Future:http://books.google.com/books?id=8Eua4CFFGBoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false http://www.amazon.com/Anagatavamsa-Desana-Chronicle-Buddhist-Tradition/dp/812081133X He will say: "You can come as you like, but you pay as you go..."Don't miss out on this last one...!How to meet the next Buddha Metteyya?http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/How-2-Meet_Buddha_Metteyya.htm | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: Enlightened without a Teacher! Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:52 am | |
| Friends:Gotama Buddha explained this about the Pacceka-Buddhas:The muni Vedeha (Ananda) bowing his body, asked the Tathagata, who was staying at Jetavana: PaccekaBuddhas exist, yet by what reasons do they arise, 0h wise one? Then the best of the omniscient, the great wise one told the following to Ananda in a sweet voice: Those who paid honour to all former Buddhas, without attaining liberation during the period in which their teaching was known, who are wise by means of sense of urgency, whose intelligence is very sharp, also without the instruction of Buddhas, these attain insight alone even by means of a tiny limited object of meditation... And furthermore, in this whole world, there is no one except me, equal to these PaccekaBuddhas. I shall clearly express the following, only an short description, of the distinction of these great heroic Munis (silenced ones)... Listen, all of you, who wish for the highest medicine, your attention should be very calm, always directed to their good words, which are sweet like fine honey of those great wise men, who are fully & perfectly enlightened all by themselves! These are the explanations of PaccekaBuddhas, who assembled on Mount Gandhamadana, pronounced one after the other, about the sorrow of any desire and the cause of the overcoming of all craving, & how they attained their insight. Conscious of the absence of lust, while being in the midst of the objects of lust, their minds are dispassionate in an infatuated world, having dumped the proliferations, & subdued all obstructions, they all attained insight thus: Putting aside any violence to all beings, not hurting any of them, good and compassionate, with a mind filled with friendliness, one should live, alone, like the horn of a rhinoceros... Their morality are pure, their wisdom purified, their minds are concentrated, practicing watchfulness, reflecting, seeing the characteristics of the dhamma, they understand it, having developed all the elements of the Noble Way and the Links to Enlightenment... Having perfected the fulfillment of merit, with the motive to become a solitary conqueror, they become PaccekaBuddhas, self-existent, independent, such is destination of the wise, who does not attain the state of a disciple during the time in which, there still remains the knowledge of the SammaSamBuddhas teaching... Their dhamma being great, being all sublime manifestations of the core essential dhamma, powerful are their minds, having overcome the flood of suffering, their minds are exalted, seeing the highest & deepest truth, they are like lions, like the horn of a rhinoceros... With serene senses, calm, concentrated, remembering all beings in remote border districts, illuminating like lamps in the other world and in this world, thus are these PaccekaBuddhas, always good... Having destroyed all hindrances, these kings of men, illuminators of the world, shining like pure solid gold, undoubtedly worthy of any gifts in this world, are these PaccekaBuddhas, always good... There are in this world together with the divine world, good teachings of PaccekaBuddhas. Those fools, who after having heard these, do not act accordingly, whirl round in suffering again and again... Those who act accordingly, having heard the good words of PaccekaBuddhas, which are like pure streaming honey of small delicate bees, become seers of the truths, possessing Wisdom! Thus spoke the Gotama Buddha about those solitary ones Awakened like a rhinoceros horn... Source: The Canonical Apadana I 7-14 More on these solitary and silenced Pacceka-Buddhas:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/pacceka_buddha.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/pa/pacceka_buddha.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Rhinoceros_Horn.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratyekabuddha Enlightened without a Teacher!Solitary and Silenced is the Pacceka-Buddhas!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/PACCEKABUDDHA.htm | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: Infinite Pity! Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:40 am | |
| Friends:How is Release by Infinite Pity Achieved? The Blessed Buddha once said: And how, Bhikkhus, is the mental release by universal pity achieved? What does this liberation have as its destination, what is its culmination, what is its sweet fruit, and what is the goal of release by universal pity? Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading the frontal quadrant with a mind imbued with infinite pity, so the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter. As above, so below, across, and everywhere! To all beings and to himself, he dwells pervading the entire universe with a mind saturated with unlimited pity, immense, exalted, vast, measureless, without hostility, without enmity, without any trace of ill will! Thus prepared & expanded he then develops: 1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with this limitless pity. 2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such vast pity. 3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with this infinite pity. 4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with this absolute pity. 5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with this spacious pity. 6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with this great pity. 7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with this endless pity.While based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in release. If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in the unrepulsive and tempting, then he can dwell experiencing the repulsive therein. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in the disgusting and repulsive, then he dwells experiencing pleasing beauty in whatever is disgusting! If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in what is both unrepulsive and repulsive, he dwells experiencing repulsive disgust in it. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in what is both unrepulsive and repulsive, he experiences only excessive beauty in it! If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive and the unrepulsive, may I dwell in equanimity, just aware & clearly comprehending, then he dwells in this equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending. Or else, by completely transcending of all experience of form, fully stilling any perception of all sense-reaction, non attending to any experience of diversity, only aware that space is infinite, he enters and dwells in the infinitude of space... I tell you Bhikkhus, for a wise Bhikkhu here, who has not yet penetrated to an even more superior mental release, this release of mind by infinite pity has the sublime sphere of the infinitude of space as its culmination! On this infinite Pity (maha-karuna):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Endless_Pity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Karuna_is_Pity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Compassionate_Pity.htm On these 7 Links to Awakening (Sambojjhanga): http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Sun.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Peak.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Clothes.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Rare_Emergence.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sequential_Seven.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Vast_Penetration.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Seven_Fruits.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Unsurpassable_Seven.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/When_7_becomes_14.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7_Links_to_Awakening.htm Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness... Have a nice & noble day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ http://What-Buddha-Said.net Pity can open a mental infinitude of space!Infinite Pity!http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Space_Compassion.htm | |
| | | Bhikkhu_Samahita
| Subject: Beyond Release! Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:26 am | |
| Friends:Simple Satisfaction, Liberation, and the Ultimate Release!The Blessed Buddha once said:There is the satisfaction of the flesh. There is a mental liberation not of this world. There is an ultimate release far beyond even subtle unworldly liberation! And what, Bhikkhus, is carnal satisfaction? Satisfaction with whatever form, or sensation that is carnal satisfaction. And what is the mental liberation, which is not of this world? Liberation from any formless state is liberation, which is not of this world. Finally, friends, what is the ultimate release beyond unworldly liberation? When a Bhikkhu, whose mental fermentations are eliminated, reviews his stilled mind released from all lust, freed from all hatred, and completely cleared from all confusion, then there occurs a transcendental deliverance. This is called the release beyond that release, which is not of this world... More on Mental Release (Vimokkha, Vimutti): http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Freed_by_Knowing.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_8_Deliverances.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vimutti.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Self-Control_Releases.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/vimokkha.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Fulfilling_Release_by_Wisdom.htm Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [235-7] Section 36:11 On Feeling: Vedana. Joys beyond this world ... http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html Beyond Release!Mental Liberation comes in grades...http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Beyond_Release.htm | |
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| Subject: The 10 Perfect Similes! Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:43 am | |
| Friends:The 10 Perfect Qualities Explained:The 10 Perfect Qualities (Dasa Parami) are:1st Perfection: Generosity (Dana): Just as a water pot turned upside down lets all its liquid run out, and takes none of it back, so is the perfection of generosity not having the slightest remorse over what has been given away, even when sacrificing everything! 2nd Perfection: Morality (Sila):Just as a yak whose tail is caught in bush will rather die than to tear it off, so consists the perfection of morality in being meticulously careful about keeping all precepts and promises & not breaking them in any circumstance, even if being threatened with death! 3rd Perfection: Withdrawal (Nekkhamma):Just as one imprisoned in jail does not desire anything more intensely than to get out of there, so the perfection of withdrawing renunciation consists in the longing to get out of the prison of transitory existence & having only this one wish: To spit out the impermanent, to be rid of it once and for all! 4th Perfection: Understanding (Pañña):Just as a monk on alms-round neglects no house, but goes to all the families without exception, so the perfection of understanding consists in leaving no gaps, leaving nothing out, & of being ready to learn from all wise people, who are more advanced, even though they may be younger than oneself. 5th Perfection: Energy (Viriya):Just as a lion marshals his strength whether standing, going, or sitting even so does the perfection of energetic & enthusiastic effort consist in keeping on striving with initiative launching into action, that endures until fulfilment! 6th Perfection: Patience (Khanti):Just as the great earth accepts even the most disgusting things thrown onto it, so consists the perfection of patience in accepting slander, disgrace and every disrespect without aversion, enduring them, while letting them pass. 7th Perfection: Honesty (Sacca):Just as a star never strays from its fixed orbit, so consists the perfection of honest truthfulness in not lying under any circumstances, not moving even an inch from the actual and real truth for any trivial advantage whatsoever. 8th Perfection: Determination (Adhitthana):Just as a mountain stands immoveable even in the strongest storm and is incapable of being thrown over, so consists the perfection of determination in remaining unshakeable in one's advantageous choices and not being able to be distracted by anything when pursuing something good and beneficial. 9th Perfection: Friendliness (Metta):Just as water refreshes and cleanses both just and unjust persons without discrimination, so does the perfection of friendliness include both friends and foes alike and doesn't display any distinction, favouritism, or partiality. 10th Perfection: Equanimity (Upekkha):Just as the great earth remains unmoved and equanimous, avoiding like and dislike whether one throws pure or impure things onto it, even so does the perfection of equanimity consist in always remaining, calm and composed, neither being repulsed nor attracted, whether by any pain or any pleasure. Imperturbable even in strong conflicts as well as in the greatest success! Sujata perfecting generosity by giving The Buddha his last meal before Awakening!More on these 10 Mental Perfections (Dasa Parami): http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/paramii.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ten_Perfections.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_10_Perfect_Qualities.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_10_mental_perfections_(parami)_in_three_levels.htm Source: Buddhavamsa II verses 117-166 (Edited Excerpt):In: Similes of the Buddha: An introduction BP 427S by Hellmuth Hecker. Tr. Ven. Khantipalo and Ven. Piyadhammo. Ed. Ven. Nyanatusita. http://www.bps.lk Have a nice & noble day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka http://What-Buddha-Said.net The 10 Perfect Similes!Perfecting the Mind Perfects the World!http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_10_Perfections_Explained.htm | |
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| Subject: Some Sacred Sights :-) Sun Mar 04, 2012 7:55 am | |
| Friends:New Buddhist Gallery!Click link to enter image albums and thereafter triangle upper right for slideshow or picture for full size. :-) Buddha images: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/gallery/index.php/Buddha-Images Dhamma illustrations: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/gallery/index.php/Dhamma-illustrations Sangha pictures: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/gallery/index.php/Sangha-pictures India Pilgrimage: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/gallery/index.php/India-Pilgrimage Sacred Sri Lanka: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/gallery/index.php/Sacred-Sri-Lanka The Buddha's Life: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/gallery/index.php/The-Buddha-s-Life Sciencehttp://What-Buddha-Said.net/gallery/index.php/Science Cypress Hermitage: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/gallery/index.php/Cypress-Hermitage Graphics & Comics: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/gallery/index.php/Graphics-Comics http://What-Buddha-Said.net/gallery/index.php/ Immaculate Images!Some Sacred Sights :-)http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sacred_Sights.htm | |
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| Subject: Neither Restless, nor Lazy! Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:03 am | |
| Friends:Ballanced Energy is neither Lazy, nor Restless!Laziness overcomes one strong in concentration and weak in energy, since concentration favours idle inaction... Agitation and restlessness overpowers one strong in energy and weak in concentration, because energy stimulate agitation... But concentration coupled & ballanced with energy cannot lapse into laziness, & energy coupled & ballanced with concentration cannot provoke restlessness... Therefore should these two abilities be ballanced, since excellence of effort and mental absorption arises out of the even ballancing of the mental abilities. For a full Study on Energy (Viriya): The root Hero of all Success:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Definition_of_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Arising_of_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Ability_of_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Origin_of_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Enthusiastic_is_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Power_of_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Ballanced_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Chief_Hero.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energetic_Effort.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Avoiding_Effort.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Dual_Energy.htm Source:The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga by Buddhaghosa 5th century AC. http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=771100 Ballanced Energy...Ballanced Energy is neither Lazy, nor Restless!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Ballanced_Energy.htm | |
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| Subject: Rejoice! Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:02 am | |
| Friends:How is the Mental Release by Mutual Joy?The Blessed Buddha once explained: How is the release of mind by infinite mutual joy (Mudita) achieved? What does this liberation have as its destination, what is its culmination, what is its sweet fruit, and what is the ultimate goal of mental release by universally mutual, unselfish, altruistic, appreciative & rejoicing joy? Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading the frontal quadrant with a mind imbued with infinite mutual joy, so the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quadrant. As above, so below, across, and everywhere to all beings as for himself, he dwells pervading the entire cosmos with a mind fully saturated with unlimited mutual joy, immense, exalted, measureless, without hostility, without any enmity, without any trace of ill will, of jealousy or of envy! Thus prepared and mentally quite expanded, he then develops: 1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with limitless mutual joy. 2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such mutual joy. 3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with infinite mutual joy. 4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with absolute mutual joy. 5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with noble mutual joy. 6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with mutual joy. 7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with endless mutual joy.Based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release... If he then wishes: May I dwell experiencing repulsion by any attractive & tempting object, then he can dwell experiencing repulsiveness therein. If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in any disgusting and repulsive object, then he experiences pleasing beauty in whatever disgusting & ugly thing! If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive & the unrepulsive, may I dwell in equanimity, just aware & clearly comprehending, then he experiences equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending! When meditating he can completely transcend the realm of infinitude of space, only aware that consciousness is infinite, he can enter and dwell in the sphere of the infinitude of consciousness.. I tell you Bhikkhus for a quite wise Bhikkhu here, who has not yet penetrated to an even more superior mental release, the mental release by infinite, altruistic and mutual joy has the sphere of the infinitude of consciousness as its culmination! More on Mutual Joy (Mudita): http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/brahma_vihaara.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoicing_Bliss_is_Mudita.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Wrong.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Rejoicing_Joy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm Comments: Are you Discontent? Here is Why!Mutual joy is the proximate cause of contentment. Consequentially: Lack of mutual joy produces frustrated discontent! Mutual joy also eliminates jealousy and envy! Absence of mutual joy therefore induces the acid like mental pain called envy and jealousy! Source of reference (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness... Rejoice!Mutual joy is the cause of contentment!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Infinitely_Joyous_Consciousness.htm | |
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| Subject: Today is Sangha Poya Day! Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:21 am | |
| Friends:How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?Medin Poya day is the full-moon of March. This holy day celebrates that the Buddha visits his parental home after his supreme Enlightenment, and ordains his son prince Rahula, & half brother Nanda. This day is also called: The Sangha Day, since on this full-moon 1250 Arahats spontaneously met & assembled around the Buddha without any call. Buddha then spoke the famous Ovada Patimokkha core teaching! 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, keep & 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 Lying & Cheating. 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... 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! The journey towards Nibbana: The Deathless is hereby started! This is the Noble Way to Absolute Peace, to Complete Freedom, to Ultimate 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 also 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 web Saddhamma-Sangha is set up here! The New Noble Community of Buddha's Disciples: The 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 Buddha with his Rahula, who also awakened into enlightenment!Have a nice observance day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka! http://What-Buddha-Said.net Sangha Poya Day! | |
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| Subject: The Chief Root Hero! Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:45 am | |
| Friends:Energy (Viriya) is a Link to Awakening!The Energy Link to Awakening (Viriya-sambojjhanga): Is basically the same mental property (viriya-cetasika), as that which performs any effort of action and which also is inherently included in the: The Energy Feet of Force (viriyiddhipada)The Ability of Energy (viriyindriya)The Power of Energy (viriyabala)The Right Effort Path Factor (samma-vayama-magganga)When trained, developed and aroused energy is capable of enlightening! The Buddha once said: What mental fermentations (asava) should be overcome by development? If a Bhikkhu by careful & rational attention develops the Energy Link to Awakening based on seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, & culminating in relinquishment, then neither can any mental fermentation, nor any fever, or discontent ever arise in him. ]i] MN2 [i 11][/i]In one who examines, finds out why, & comes to assured comprehension, in him his energy link to awakening becomes aroused. He develops it, & for him it goes to the culmination of its development. MN118 [iii 85] The ability of energy is to initiate, launch into action and to complete any undertaking using persistent endurance. When this ability becomes unshakable and unfailing, it then becomes the mighty Power of Energy! The function of energy is this four-fold Right Effort of: 1: Eradicating evil & disadvantageous states that have arisen in the mind. 2: Preventing the arising of yet unarisen disadvantageous mental states. 3: Initiating and developing yet unarisen advantageous mental states. 4: Increasing, refining & completing already arisen advantageous states. The characteristic of energy is readiness, willingness, enthusiastic ease, eager and keen vigour. The manifestation of energy is action, exertion, endeavour, industry, struggle, powerful striving and accomplishment! Lazy: The one, who does not rise, when it is time to rise. Who though young and strong, is weak in mind, soft in will, and lazy by nature, such slow one does never find the way to Nibbana. Dhammapada 280Get up! Sit up!Of what use are your dreams? How can you sleep, when sick, stabbed by the arrow of craving... Sutta Nipata 331 Get up! Sit up!Push on your training, until reaching sole peace! Do not let the king of death see you sloppy and thus delude and dominate you like a toy doll... Sutta Nipata 332 Feeding the Energy: And what, friends, is feeding the Energy Link to Enlightenment, that has not yet arised, and food too for boosting of any present Energy? 1: The element of mental initiative, 2: The element of launching into action, 3: The element of enduring persistence. Systematic attention to these, is feeding any yet unarisen Energy Link to Awakening, and food too for boosting any present Energy. Samyutta Nikaya XLVI 51 Bojjhanga-samyutta Fivefold final Energy: Following the Buddha the energy in the disciple culminates, when he finally thinks: Let just this blood and flesh dry up & wither away so only skin, sinews and bones remain, I will not give up my quest and stray from this Noble 8-fold Path before having reached Enlightenment...! For a full Study on Energy (Viriya): The root Hero of all Success:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Definition_of_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Arising_of_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Ability_of_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Origin_of_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Enthusiastic_is_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Power_of_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Ballanced_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Chief_Hero.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energetic_Effort.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Avoiding_Effort.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Energy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Dual_Energy.htm The Chief Root Hero!Energy is the Chief Root Hero of all Success!!!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm | |
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| Subject: Sweet Serenity :-) Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:05 am | |
| Friends:What is the Tranquillity Link to Awakening?The Tranquillity Link to Awakening (passaddhi-sambojjhanga) has the characteristic of peace, and the function of stilling, which manifests as absence of restless trembling. Stillness of feeling, perception and mental construction is the factor that induces bodily Tranquillity. Stillness of consciousness itself induces mental Tranquillity. The proximate cause of Tranquillity is the satisfaction within Joy! The resulting effect of Tranquillity is the bliss within Happiness! The Buddha once said: What mental fermentations (asava) should be overcome by development? If a Bhikkhu by careful & rational attention develops the Tranquillity Link to Awakening based on seclusion, based on disillusion, based on ceasing, and culminating in cool relinquishment, then neither can mental fermentation, nor any fever, nor any discontent ever arise in him. MN2 [i 11]In one who is joyous, the body becomes calm & the mind becomes calm. The Tranquillity Link to Awakening emerges right there. He develops it, & for him it goes to the culmination of its development. MN118 [iii 85] CALMEDCalm is his thought, calm is his speech, and calm is his deed, who, truly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly tranquil and wise. Dhammapada 96CONTENTThe one who eliminates discontent, tearing it out by the roots, utterly cuts it out, such one spontaneously becomes absorbed in the calm of tranquillity both day & night. Dhammapada 250COMPOSEDThe one who is tranquil in movement, calmed in speech, stilled in thought, collected & composed, who sees right through & rejects all allurements of this world, such one is truly a 'Peaceful One'. Dhammapada 378Inspirations on the calming & soothing of serene Tranquillity (Passaddhi): http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Tranquillity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Tranquil_One.htm Inner Calm Soothes the Mind!Tranquillity!http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm | |
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| Subject: Openhanded is Generosity :-) Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:47 am | |
| Friends:Generosity is the first Perfection:Generosity means willingness to give and share whatever. Generosity means magnanimous and open-handed liberality. Generosity means freedom from small and stingy pettiness. Generosity means practicing charity for the poor and unfortunate. Generosity means kind bigheartedness towards those worthy of it. Generosity means warmhearted and altruistic unselfishness. Generosity provides the kammic cause for later wealth.. Giving causes Getting... No Giving causes future Poverty!The Blessed Buddha explained the treasure of generosity like this: When a disciple of the Noble Ones whose mind and mentality is all cleared of disgracing miserliness, living at home, is freely generous and open-handed, delighting in being magnanimous, responsive to every request and, is enjoying the giving of any alms. Such is this treasure called generosity. AN VII 6 Just as a filled pot, which is overturned, pours out all its water, leaving nothing back, even and exactly so should one give to those in need. whether low, middle or high, like the overturned pot, holding nothing back…!!! Jataka Nidana [128-129] The Generosity of Giving, The Kindness in Speech, The Benefit of Service, The Impartiality of treating all Alike, These 4 threads of Sympathy upholds this world, like the axle do the cart! AN II 32Giving food, one gives and later gets strength Giving clothes, one gives and later gets beauty Giving light, one gives and later gets vision Giving transportation, one gives and later gets ease. Giving shelter one gives all, Yet one who instructs in the True Dhamma - The supreme Teaching of the Buddhas - Such one gives the quite divine ambrosia! SN I 32These are these five rewards of generosity: One is liked and charming to people at large, One is admired and respected by wise people, One's good reputation is spread wide about, One does not neglect a householder's true duty, and with the break-up of the body - at the moment of death - one reappears in a happy destination, in the plane of the divine worlds! AN V.35 There are these two kinds of gifts: material gifts and gifts of Dhamma. The supreme gift is that of Dhamma. There are these two kinds of sharing: material sharing and sharing of Dhamma. The supreme sharing is that of Dhamma. There are these two kinds of help: Material help and help with the Dhamma. This is the supreme of the two: help with this subtle Dhamma … It 98 The gift of Dhamma exceeds all other gifts. Dhammapada 354 The Bodhisatta once as king Sivi gave both his eyes to a beggar who was Sakka the king deity in disguise, who desired to test him. He remembered "While I was wishing to give, while I was giving and after this giving there was neither contrariety, nor opposition in my mind since it was for the purpose of awakening itself! Neither were these eyes, nor the rest of myself disagreeable to me. Omniscience was dear to me, therefore I gave both my eyes." The Basket of Conduct Cariyapitaka I-8 Full story: Sivi Jataka no. 499 The Bodhisatta once as the Wise Hare gave his roasted body as alms to a beggar by jumping into a fire: He remembered: "There came a beggar and asked for food. Myself I gave so that he might eat. In alms-giving there was none equal to me. In alms I had thereby reached the absolute ultimate perfection." From then and the rest of this world-cycle the moon will display a characteristic 'hare-in-the-moon' sign! Sasa-Jataka no. 316Giving of things, treasures, external possessions, job, position, wife, and child is the first perfection of giving. Giving the offer of one's organs, limbs, and senses is the second higher perfection of giving. Giving the sacrifice of one's life is the ultimate perfection of giving. The clarifier of sweet meaning 89 (Commentary on Buddhavamsa) Madhuratthavilasini [59] Venerable Buddhadatta: 5th century. Generosity is the first mental perfection (parami):Clinging and egoism creates internal panic and social tension. Giving and sharing creates internal elation and external harmony... What is gladly given, returns more than thousandfold! Giving requires Relinquishing! Giving is Anti-Clinging! Giving is the opposite mental state of Greed... More of the 10 mental perfections (paramis):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ten_Perfections.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_10_mental_perfections_(parami)_in_three_levels.htm More on Generosity (Dana) = The 1st mental perfection:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Glad_Giving.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/caaga.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/daana.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Generosity_Contemplation.htm Have a nice, noble and generous day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka http://What-Buddha-Said.net Sharing Elevates Your Future!Glad Generous Giving! http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Openhanded_Generosity.htm | |
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| Subject: Micro-Hydro-Power and Green Webhosting Update! Sun Mar 11, 2012 5:55 am | |
| Dear Dhamma Friends & Supporters:Your essential core website http://What-Buddha-Said.net has now happily gone all GREEEN by proudly being webhosted by our new wind-energy-driven ISP greengeeks.com :-) We furthermore wish to include daily hacker-scanning and vulnerability identification by sitelock.comThis necessary safety measure costs 135$ per year. Donation below for this crucial security is welcome :-) The ongoing upgrade of the Micro-Hydro-Power plant here at the Hermitage is almost finalized!See also: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Hydro_Power_Update.htm The new transformers, rectifiers, regulators, dump-loads and second pipe-line have all been installed. However the hydro-turbine impeller was unexpectedly found to be worn paper-thin by sand & silt over almost 5 years of continuous use. It can last only ~2 months more! Bearings was replaced without hazzle. A new longer-lasting stainless steel Pelton impeller oa. hardware is thus now needed. Donations for this Noble Purpose facilitating the worldwide Daily Dhamma sharing presently reaching out to a growing ~20.000 individuals+ is very Welcome below. :-) Quite Many Thanx in Advance!The rest of the Cypress Hermitage's Solar and Hydro-power system photos are here:http://www.altestore.com/solar-showcase/system/system-78 Some pictures of the recent hydro-power upgrade process:h h http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam The Cypress Hermitage's Solar and Hydro-power photos are here:http://www.altestore.com/solar-showcase/system/system-78/ Click the "Donate" button on one of these pages below:Single Donation:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Dhammadhara_Foundation.htm Automatically Recurring Monthly Donation:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Subscribe_to_Regular_Donation.htm All on-line Donations are processed securely by. Most credit cards & bank accounts are accepted. Dhammadhara Foundation's PayPal Account is: dhammadhara@gmail.com Sabbe Sattâ Bhavantu Sukhi Tatthâ: May Many Beings Become Thus Happy Thereby!An anonymous appreciation will be acknowledged here:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/appreciations.htm About Generosity (Dana): The First Mental Perfection:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Openhanded_Generosity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Reviewing_Generosity.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Glad_Giving.htm Have a Nice, Noble, & Easy Day :-) Many Thanx in Advance!Micro-Hydro-Power and Green Web-hosting Update!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Hydro_Power_Update2.htm | |
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| Subject: Friendship can cross any Border! Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:00 am | |
| Friends:Friendliness can cross any Border!If friendship between animal beings can cross even remote species borders, so can and should we humans also make our kind friendship extend beyond any national, religious, cultural, gender, educational, job, and age border! Only in this very good way, can we establish a society, where we can sleep with the doors open, and dance with the children in our arms. So be it :-) May all creatures, all breathing things, all beings one and all, without exception, experience good fortune only. May they not fall into any harm. Anguttara Nikaya II, 72With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart & mind: Beaming above, below, & all around, unobstructed, without trace of hostility. Sutta Nipata I, 8For one who deliberately & aware develops Universal Friendliness Seeing the fading away of clinging, All chains are worn down & broken. Itivuttaka 27Let no one deceive another or despise anyone anywhere, or through anger or irritation wish for another to suffer. Sutta Nipata I, 8I am a friend of the footless, I am a friend of all bipeds; I am a friend of those with four feet, I am a friend of the many-footed! Anguttara Nikaya 4.67As I am, so are others... As others are, so am I... Having thus identified self and others, Never Harm anyone, nor have any abused. Sutta Nipata 3.710Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the jungle. No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone. Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the forest. Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude… Suvanna-sama Jataka 540 Train yourself in doing good that lasts and brings happiness. Cultivate generosity, the life of peace, and a mind of infinite universal love. Itivuttaka 22The 9th mental Perfection is Friendliness (Metta):Just as water refreshes and cleanses both just and unjust persons without discrimination, so does the perfection of friendliness include both friends and foes alike, and doesn't enact any distinction, favouritism, or partiality. More on this fabulously fine Friendliness (Metta):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Symbiotic_Sympathy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The-Effective_Saw.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_11_Advantages.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Evaporated_Enemy.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Genuine_Goodwill.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Blazing_Goodwill.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Cosmic_Goodness.htm http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Unbounded_Mind.htm http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Goodness_Galore.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Loving-Kindness.htm Goodwill Blazes Beyond... :-)Friendship can cross any Border!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Across_Borders.htm | |
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| Subject: Pure Buddhist Praxis. Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:17 am | |
| Friends:What are the 8 Training Rules (Precepts), which brings Divinity?The Blessed Buddha once said:The habitual praxis of the observance day endowed with eight features brings high reward and blessing, & is of sublime dignity and greatness. And which are these eight features? In this, any Noble Disciple considers within himself: Throughout their life the Arahats avoid all stealing of others' property and abstain from any cheating. Always waiting till whatever thing is freely and only openly given, free from any thievish intent, they remain intact and pure both in mind & moral! May also I, this day and night, avoid all stealing & not cheat anyone. By that I will follow the traits of these perfected Arahats! I shall then have observed the Uposatha observance day perfectly. With this second praxis is the observance day enriched. Observed in this very way, the observance day endowed with eight features brings high - even divine - reward & blessing & is of sublime dignity and immense greatness... The one, who never takes, what is not freely & openly given, whether long or short, fine or foul, exquisite or ordinary, such one is a Holy One. Dhammapada 409 Behaviour that counts as ways of stealing: Cheating with values, documents, weights or measures, embezzlement, corruption, fraud, misappropriation, robbery, theft, swindling, trickery, forgery, counterfeit, extortion, bribing, blackmail, tax-evasion, false accounting, double book-keeping, over-prizing, pirating, deliberate false valuation of assets, and insurance fraud...!More on Not Stealing:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Threefold_Right_Action.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hungry_Ghost_Rebirth.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Action.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Five_Basics.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Virtue.htm More on this Optimal Buddhist Behaviour of Observance: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fullmoon_Observance_Day.htm http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/atthasila.html http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html Source (edited extract):Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 8:44 Have a nice & $-honest day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Best Buddhist Behaviour: No Theft or Fraud!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Optimal_Observance_II.htm | |
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| Subject: Relinquishing all Resentment! Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:15 am | |
| Friends:The Relief of Relinquishing all Resentment!When one's resentment towards any hostile person has been allayed, then one can deliberately turn mind with loving-kindness towards any person: Both the very dear friend, the neutral person and the hostile opponent! By repeated praxis of meditation on infinite friendliness one gradually breaks down the mental barrier of evil opposition thereby accomplishing mental impartiality towards the 4 persons: oneself, the very dear person, the neutral person and the hostile person. Suppose a trainee is sitting in a place with a dear, a neutral, and a hostile person, himself being the 4th. Then bandits come to him and say, 'Venerable friend, give us a person so that we may kill him and use the blood of his throat as an offering'...! When one does not see a single one among these four people suitable to be given to the bandits and one directs mind impartially towards oneself and towards those three people, then one has broken down the barriers... Breaking the Barrier to: ImpartialityTherefore the Ancient Nobles said: When he does not discriminates between the 4 persons: That is: Himself, the dear, the neutral, and the hostile one, Then "Skilled" is not the name he gets, nor "Most Friendly", But only "Kind towards all beings". Now when a bhikkhu's barriers towards all the 4 persons have been broken down, Then he treats with equal amity all beings in the whole world; Exalted and distinguished is he, who knows no barriers... Vism 307 Universal friendliness, which cures all resentment, is a divine state:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The-Effective_Saw.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_Friendliness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Universal_Friendliness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/All-Embracing_Kindness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Grace_of_Goodwill.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/All_Embracing_Kindness.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Infinite_and_Divine_Classic.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Selfless_Friendship_is_Sweetest.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Buddha_on_Noble_Frienship.htm Entangled by the bonds of hate, one who seeks his own happiness, by inflicting pain on others, is never ever delivered from neither pain, nor hatred. Dhammapada 291Breaking down the Barriers!http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Release_of_Resentment.htm | |
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| Subject: Rational Attention! Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:01 am | |
| Friends:Rational Causal Attention Breaks Mental Hindrances:The Blessed Buddha once said:When attending rationally sense-desire neither arises, nor expand. When attending rationally evil-will neither arises, nor later expand. When attending rationally lethargy & laziness does neither emerge nor grow. When attending rationally restlessness & regret cannot arise or amplify. When attending rationally doubt & uncertainty do not begin or blow up. Furthermore, when attending carefully & rationally to cause and effect: The awareness link to awakening arises, and is gradually developed. The investigation link to awakening arises, and is gradually developed. The energy link to awakening arises, and is gradually developed. The joy link to awakening arises, and is gradually developed. The tranquillity link to awakening arises, and is gradually developed. The concentration link to awakening arises, and is gradually developed. The equanimity link to awakening arises, and is gradually developed! More on Attention: (Manasikara):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Careful_Attention.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/manasikaara.htm Source (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:93-4] section 46: The Links. 35: Careful Attention... Have a nice & noble day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Causal Attention! | |
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| Subject: Cutting all Craving Ends all Suffering! Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:19 am | |
| Friends:Cutting all Craving Ends all Suffering! At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said this: Bhikkhus: Whatever desire & lust there is for form, feeling, perception, mental construction and consciousness, whatever greed, urge and craving, whatever engagement, entanglement and clinging, any habitual addiction, obsession, and underlying tendency there is for form, feeling, perception, mental construction and consciousness, overcome, cut and eliminate it all! Then all form, feeling, perception, mental construction and consciousness will be overcome & conquered, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, completely destroyed, so that it is unable to ever re-arise again... This - only this - is the End of all Suffering...! Craving => Clinging => Fear => Panic => Suffering!More on this thorny Craving causing all pain:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cut_Craving.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Cause.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Origin_of_Suffering.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ceasing_of_Suffering.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Craving_is_Catastrophic.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm Craving can be cut due to the neuro-plasticity of learning. Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22:112 III 162 http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html Have a nice & noble day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Cut all Catastrophic Craving!http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Cut_Craving.htm | |
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| Subject: Everything Converges on Feeling! Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:28 am | |
| Friends: Detached from both Bodily and Mental Feeling! The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, the uninstructed ordinary person feels pleasant feelings, painful feelings, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feelings... Such does the instructed Noble Disciple also feel. What then is the difference, the variation, and the distinction between the instructed Noble Disciple and the uninstructed ordinary person? Bhikkhus, when the uninstructed ordinary person is being touched by a painful feeling, then he cries, grieves, moans, weeps, beats his breast and becomes bewildered! He feels actually two feelings: A bodily pain and a mental sadness...!!! Imagine they hit a man with a dart, and then they pricked him immediately after with another dart, then that man would indeed feel two feelings caused by both the two darts. Similarly is it in this case where this poor uninstructed ordinary person touched by a painful feeling, actually feels two feelings: A bodily pain and another mental frustration over that pain. Whenever touched by pain, he responds with aversion towards that painful feeling, then the latent tendency to aversion towards painful feeling grows even deeper. When touched by painful feeling, he seeks for sense pleasure! Why? Because the uninstructed ordinary person does not know any other escape from painful feeling than seeking to relief by new sense pleasure. When he seeks towards delight by sensual pleasure, the latent tendency to lust for pleasant feeling grows even deeper. He does not at all really understand as it really is neither the cause, nor the fading away, nor the satisfaction, nor the danger, nor the escape regarding these feelings!# Not understanding any of these things, then when touched by a neutral neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling the latent tendency to ignorance also grows deeper. When feeling a pleasant feeling, he feels it as if attached to it, and as the owner ("my feeling") being involved in it. When feeling a painful feeling, he also feels this as if attached to it and involved in it. If he feels a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, he feels it as if attached to it and involved in it... This, bhikkhus, is called an uninstructed ordinary person, who is attached & clings desperately to birth, aging, death, sorrow, pain, discontent, and despair. I tell you: What he clings to is Suffering ...! Bhikkhus, when the instructed Noble Disciple is being touched by a painful feeling, he neither cries, nor grieves, nor moans, nor weeps, nor beats his breast, nor does he become bewildered! He feels actually only one feeling: Bodily pain, yet no mental sadness or frustration! Imagine they hit a man with only one single dart, and not any other dart, then that man would feel a single feeling caused by only one single dart. So too, when the instructed Noble Disciple is contacted by a painful feeling, then he feels one feeling: A bodily pain, but not any mental sadness or frustration. Touched by that painful feeling, he neither develops nor reinforces any aversion towards it! Because he develops no aversion towards this painful feeling, the latent tendency to aversion towards painful feeling does not grow deeper! When touched by painful feeling, he does not wish for sense pleasure. For what reason? Because the instructed Noble Disciple knows another escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure! Since he does not seek delight in sensual pleasure, the latent tendency to lust for pleasant feeling does not grow deeper in him. He indeed understands as it really is, the cause, the fading away, the satisfaction, the danger, and the escape in the case of feelings. Since he understands all these things, the latent tendency to ignorance, when touched by a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, does not grow deeper in him. When feeling a pleasant feeling, he feels it as if detached from it, as something remote, irrelevant and alien. When feeling a painful feeling, he also feels this as if detached from it, as if remote and alien. If he feels a neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling, he feels even that neutrality as if disconnected from it, remote and alien. This, Bhikkhus, is called a Noble Disciple, who is released from birth, aging, and death! Who is separated from sorrow, lamentation, pain, discontent, and desperate despair... I tell you, such one is separated from Suffering. This, is the difference, variation, and distinction, between the learned Noble Disciple and an uninstructed ordinary person! The wise, clever and learned one does not feel the adjoined pleasant & painful mental feeling! This is the great difference between the wise and learned one and the ordinary person. For the learned one, who has comprehended the Dhamma, who clearly sees this world and the next, the desirable things do neither incite, nor stir up, nor stimulate his mind...Towards whatever disgusting, he has no aversion. All mental attraction and repulsion has ceased in him... Both have been extinguished, brought to silence. Having known this stain and sorrow-less state, such transcender of existence rightly understands: Pleasant feeling induces greed... Painful feeling produces hate... Neither-painful-nor-pleasant neutral feeling causes neglect and therefore generates ignorance... Note #:The cause of feeling is contact bye the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or mind. The fading away of feeling occurs right when this contact ceases. The satisfaction in feeling is the delight one can take in it. The danger of feeling is the impermanence of it. Instantly it goes away! The escape from feeling is Nibbana by completing the Noble 8-fold Way! All converges on Feeling (Vedana):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 (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [208-10] section 36: Feeling. Vedana. The Dart. Sallatena. 6. http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html Have a nice & noble day! Friendship is the Greatest! Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka. http://What-Buddha-Said.net Everything Converges on Feeling!http://What-Buddha-Said.net /drops/II/Bodily_and_Mental_Feeling.htm | |
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