Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

Friends:

What is Mind and Consciousness?

A friend asked: What is Mind?
Mind (Mano) is an ever changing cyclic sequence of these 5 phenomena:
Contact1 => Feeling1 + Perception1 => Intention1 => Attention1 =>
Contact2 => Feeling2 + Perception2 => Intention2 => Attention2 =>
Contact3 => etc.



Regarding Consciousness itself:
Consciousness is NOT created by the brain, but RESIDES WITHIN the brain!
Just like the beer is inside the bottle, but is not created by the bottle...
To identify Mind only with Brain is a (false) view, which actually is a philosophical
(often dogmatic) standpoint, and NOT a scientifically & experimentally verified fact.
This tantalizing IDEA is called physicalism or materialism!
On this common, yet wrong assumption named Mind-Brain Identity Theory see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_physicalism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/
http://www.philosophyofmind.info/mindbrainidentity.html


Consciousness is information. Information is definitely real, but not material...

Luminous is the Mind said the Buddha:
Interestingly: When one person sees light in a dark room, another distant person's
brain emits low level light, if they are magnetically identically pulsed: Full text here:
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/Brain.Photon.Entanglement.pdf
Furthermore: So do cell cultures also! When one receives light, the other shines!



>What is going from this life to the next?
In brief: Causal Conditioning! Please see:
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/What_passes_on_by_Rebirth-Linking.htm
Regarding Buddhist Theory of Rebirth-Linking (patisandhi) see also:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/patisandhi.htm



For an Orthodox Buddhist explanation of the transmigration of consciousness:
Rebirth Explained: V. F. Gunaratna, BPS, Kandy, Wheel Publication No. 167-69
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/Wheels/wh_167_169.html
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/Wheels/wh_167_168_169.pdf



More on the Mind (Citta, Nama):
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/V/What_is_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mind_Reading.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Luminous_is_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mind_is_Home.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.5-6.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.6-7.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_&_Bright.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.8-10.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/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/citta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/naama.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Focusing_on_Mentality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Omniscient_Quantum_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Immersing_the_Body_in_the_Mind.htm

Mind Dhammapada with soothing music and images Citta-Vagga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rccI1c9JRtQ

What is Mind?

Like light consciousness is a non-local field of radiation.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/What_is_Mind.htm

Friends:

Craving for Sense Pleasure causes Pain!



The Blessed Buddha once said:
Truly, due to craving for sense pleasure, conditioned by sensuous
craving, compelled by craving for sense pleasure, entirely pushed by
craving for sense pleasure, kings fight with kings, princes fight with
princes, priests with priests, citizens with citizens; mother quarrels
with son, son with mother; father with son, son with father; brother
with brother, brother with sister, sister with brother, friend fights
even with his friend. Thus, lost in conflict, quarreling, and hostilities,
they attack one another with fists, sticks or weapons. And thereby
they suffer death or deadly pain. And further, due to this craving
for sense pleasure, people break into houses, rob, plunder, pillage
whole villages, commit highway robbery, & seduce the wives of others.
Then the rulers have such people caught and inflict on them various
forms of punishment. And thereby they meet death or deadly pain!
This is the misery of sensuous craving: The accumulation of pain in
this present life, due to craving for short and trivial sense pleasure...
Furthermore, one accepts evil modes of action, speech, and thought!
Thus, at the break-up of the body after death, one fall into a bad
state of existence, a state of suffering, into perdition, even into
the inferno of hell. All this misery results from sensuous craving...
Such is the heaping up of future suffering caused by craving for
this short-lived simple sense pleasure...



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



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



Source:
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya MN 13
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/majjhima/index.html

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Craving Causes Pain!

Searching for Sense Pleasure entails Suffering!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm

Friends:

Feel Pity for all those Falling Beings:



It is a great pity with all those thinking like this:
Pleasure is the only good; by that they fall!
Terror is a necessary way; by that they fall!
Sensuality is innocent; by that they fall!
Violence is allowable; by that they fall!
Money makes happiness; by that they fall!
Power is progress; by that they fall!
Falsehood is acceptable; by that they fall!
Stealing gives wealth; by that they fall!
Conceit can conceal; by that they fall!
Science knows all; by that they fall!
Killing can be good; by that they fall!
Hunting is only fun; by that they fall!
Adultery is mature; by that they fall!
Paedophilia is harmless; by that they fall!
Drugs are fantastic; by that they fall!
Booze is medicine; by that they fall!
Giving does not help; by that they fall!
After death is nothing!; by that they fall!
The Hells do not exist; by that they fall!
Intentional Action has no effect; by that they fall!
I am the better than...; by that they fall!
Making merit cannot elevate; by that they fall!



It is a great pity with all those poor beings:
who are veiled by wrong view; by that they fall!
who are fooled by own opinion; by that they fall!
who are gripped by greed and lust; by that they fall!
who are stirred by hate and anger; by that they fall!
who are clinging to all worldly things; by that they fall!
who are confused by not knowing; by that they fall!
who prostitute themselves; by that they fall!
who cheat and deceives; by that they fall!
who pretend what is not; by that they fall!
who hide what is actual fact; by that they fall!
who destroy beings or things; by that they fall!
who pollute the milieu and society; by that they fall!
who deliberately do evil willing it; by that they fall!
who fail their duties and obligations; by that they fall!
who miss the obvious opportunities; by that they fall!
It is a great pity with all those blinded by ignorance,
bound and dragged by craving, while pushed by aversion:
By that they surely fall into states of pain, agony and despair!
As if gripped by the arms of two strong men and hurled into a big fire...



More on this caring Great Compassion (maha-karuna)!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Endless_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Karuna_is_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Compassionate_Pity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Space_Compassion.htm



Have a nice, noble & compassionate day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Feel Infinite Pity for all those Falling beings!

Great Compassion!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Great_Compassion.htm

Friends:

Reality is Moments of Mentality & Materiality!



Nama-Rupa = Name-and-Form, Naming-and-Forming!



The mind is that, which knows the object! The object is that, which is known!
These two processes always arise and cease together simultaneously...
Neither inside, within, nor apart from, outside these two is any observer agent,
person, I, Me, or other assumed entity as a hidden variable, ever involved!
The mind is immaterial, formless and invisible. The object may be designated
or named 'material', 'physical', 'formed' and even 'visible' only and exactly
to the extent and in so far as it is experienceable by the mind!
No same, constant, lasting 'real', 'actual' or 'substantial substance' has ever
existed 'out there' independently or separable from the mind, that right then
momentarily perceived and thereby apprehended, displayed, manifested and
designated it! This core dual pair of mentality (nama) and materiality (rupa),
is thus one united yet dual continuum, like the two ends of the same stick!
They do never emerge, nor do they ever exist, nor can they ever be observed
separately, in and of themselves, but they can only arise in mutual dependence,
like two thin creepers can only arise & stand up if intertwined with each other.
Mentality & materiality thus arise and cease simultaneously in each moment!
They are thus the most basic, fundamental and primary pair on the bottom of
the dynamic ever-changing process of any being in any existence...
What is called 'matter' is delimited, defined, characterized, conceptualized,
compartmentalized and even named by mind! Therefore can matter never be
separated from mind, like if one tries to break the dual-ended stick in order
to separate the ends, then one always gets two sticks, still each with 2 ends!
Therefore one unambiguously always ends up with observing a pair-wise new
event of mentality & materiality! The basic founding, yet often unnoticed,
unspoken and maybe even sometimes actively denied assumption underlying
all Western science that: The naked, inert, objective observation is possible!
'Matter can be observed and analyzed objectively, independently of mind!'
is therefore utterly false, futile and even somewhat childish... No observation
can ever be independent of mind! Why not? What is observing IS the mind!
The naive physicist who postulates: 'Independently of Mind, "I!" will observe,
describe and evaluate matter!' extending out of his range of understanding,
thus speaks folly false and is thereby later ultimately enforced to introduce
'mysti-phystical' entities as 'hidden variables' into his explanations, in order
to reach completeness, coherence and internal consistence...
He seems to be in complete oblivion of the dry fact, that even before one even
thinks of, even speaks of, or experiment with any 'matter', mind have indeed
been long and hard at work! The basic hidden, yet always present, factor in
any observation, is naturally mind itself!
However, this factor is not so hidden, that it cannot be observed & analyzed
and that even without any laboratory or even a single 'instrument' apart from
a pillow to sit on!
Everyone, without even a single exception, who sits down with closed eyes, will
instantly be overwhelmed by a veritable storm of mentally created distractions:
This is the Mind! This is mental activity knocking your door... Undeniably real!
When this dynamic self-sustaining duality of mentality-materiality, this self-
sustaining perpetum mobile, cease to evolve, consciousness thereby ceases to
establish itself on an object! This - only this, in and of itself - is the very final
End of all Suffering...



On this Mind-&-Matter Duality, Mentality-Materiality, Naming & Forming:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Name_and_Form.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_Siamese_Twins.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/No_Being_No_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/naama_ruupa.htm



More on the Mind:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/In_Control.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-Control.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_&_Bright.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Magnificent_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm



Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Mentality and Materiality is Naming and Forming!

Nâma-Rûpa = The Core Duality!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Core_Duality.htm

Friends:

Experiencing Danger removes false Complacency of Lasting Safety!



The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, Ananda, is the experience of Danger?
Here the Bhikkhu considers thus: Truly, this body is prone to sickness, full of
countless painful Dangers. Many kinds of suffering arise in this body, such as:
Diseases of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, head, mouth, tooth-ache, pneumonia,
asthma, colds, angina, fever, belly ache, fainting, diarrhoea, kidney failure,
cholera, leprosy, arthritis, psoriasis, tuberculosis, epilepsy, anaemia, scabies,
ring-worm, psychosis, bilious jaundice, diabetes, strokes & palsy, cancer, piles,
boils, fistulas, diseases brought about by cold, heat, starvation, disturbed or
failing excretion, disharmonic living, climatic changes, environmental pollution,
accidents, social unrest, stress or violence or due to kamma! Thus does he live
while regularly experiencing the inherent Danger of having a physical body.
This is the experience of Danger.



Source (edited extract):
The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 10:60, AN V 108ff.
Girimananda Sutta http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.060.than.html

The experience of Danger is one of the 18 principal insights:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_18_Principal_Insights.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rough_Realism.htm



The rewards are:
1: Realistic sensation of acute urgency.
2: Disables risky reliance on what is neither safe nor lasting.
3: Complete cure of the naive intoxication of youth, beauty, and success.



Friendship is the Greatest
Bhikkhu Samahita Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net
http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct
http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said

False Complacency induces sleeping Downfall...

The Experience of Danger!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Danger.htm

Friends:

What is the Deathless State?



A certain not very well known Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, the removal of Greed, Hate, and Ignorance, is it often said…
What, Venerable Sir, is the real meaning of that statement?
This removal of Greed, Hate, & Ignorance is a description of the dimension
of Nibbana…The final elimination of the mental fermentations is spoken of
just like that.



Then that Bhikkhu asked the Blessed One:
Venerable Sir, the Deathless, the Deathless, is it often said…
What, Sir, is this Deathless and what is the way leading the Deathless?
The destruction of Greed, of Hate, and the destruction of Ignorance:
This is called the Deathless. The Noble 8-fold Way is the way leading to
this Deathless; that is:

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



Bhikkhu, I will teach you the taintless, the truth, the far shore ...
... the subtle ... the very difficult to see ... the unageing ... the stable ...
... the undisintegrating ... the unmanifested ... the unproliferated ...
... the peaceful ... the deathless ... the sublime ... the auspicious ...
... the secure ... the destruction of craving ... the wonderful ...
... the amazing ... the unailing ... the undecaying state ...
... the unafflicted ... disillusion ... purity ... freedom ...
... the unadhesive ... the island ... the shelter ... the asylum ...
... the refuge ... the destination ... Nibbana



More on the Deathless Dimension:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Deathless_Dimension.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Desireless_is_Deathless.htm

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V] section 45:7 A certain Bhikkhu ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

The Unborn and Uncreated state!

The Deathless...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Deathless.htm

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...

Friends:

The Deepest Tranquilization is that of Greed, Hate and Ignorance!



The Blessed Buddha once said:
Formerly, when that person was still ignorant, then he was possessed & obsessed
by sexual & sensual greed, lust, desire, yearning, envy, jealousy, and miserliness...
He was obsessed & possessed by hate, anger, ill-will, irritation and stubbornness...
He was obsessed and possessed by ignorance, doubt, delusion & plain foolishness...
These evils are now overcome by him, eradicated, like a slashed and uprooted tree,
completely destroyed, and therefore unable to sprout into existence ever again!
Therefore such Bhikkhu, thus endowed, is indeed enriched by the highest Calm!
This tranquillization is his unshakable foundation! Since this, friends, is the very
highest and most precious: The Tranquillization of Greed, Hate, and Ignorance!!!



Tranquillity (Passaddhi) Quiet:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Tranquillity.htm

Calm (Samatha) Peaceful Ease:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Forest_Bliss.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Calm.htm

The 3 Root Violations (Mula):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Fading_Away.htm

Source Text (extract): Majjhima Nikaya 140: Analysis of the Elements:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.140.than.html

Have a nice still day!

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

Deep Calm!

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[size=150]Seeing Disgusting Objects Dispels Greed! [/size]

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Awareness of the Body induces all advantageous qualities including clear
comprehension! The ancients said: Protect the sign, protect the nimitta...!
The Asubha Nimitta is a Disgusting Sign fixed in memory by meditation,
that one can redirect mind to whenever overcome by lust, greed and desire.
This sign detaches the mind from clinging to mere forms of foul impurities...
One then gain an 'off' button to turn 'off' desire and craving... This indeed
is the very KEY to disable suffering, since craving is the primary cause of all
suffering. Corpse Meditation (Asubha-Bhavana) effectively reduces desire!

How to cure compulsive over-eating, bulimia, and anorexia:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_32_Parts.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Body_as_only_Form.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm



How to cure sex obsession, porno addiction and gross perversions:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Corpse_Meditation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Body_Contemplation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_9_Corpse_Meditations.htm

How to cure any greed, lust, desire, voracity, lewdness, longing and craving:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Skeleton.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Disgust.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Meditation_On_the_Body_Kayagata-Sati.htm



Clever Disgust cools all obsessive greed and addictive lust:
For Inspiration: A collection of Corpse Pictures Warning: Only for Adults
https://s914.photobucket.com/albums/ac350/Asubha/ Password: corpses
Pick out the most disgusting picture and memorize it firmly and vividly.
Remember it whenever greedy! Then the greed will instantly vanish!
And the frustrating urge and tearing longing therefore subsides!



Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

How to Control Lust?

Disgust Evaporates Greed!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/How_to_cure_Greed.htm

Friends:

How to train Rejoicing Joy in others Success?



When sitting alone, in silence, each early morning, with closed eyes one wishes:
May I radiate and meet only never-ending and mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all the various beings on the 31 levels of existence develop and find
only celebration and elation in a never-ending mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material, and the formless plane
develop and encounter this generous, infinite and mutually rejoicing joy!
May I & all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left, and below as
above, develop and experience openhearted, sharing, & mutually rejoicing joy!
May I and all beings within this city, country, planet and universe always:
Be fully aware and deeply mindful of this content and mutually rejoicing joy!
Examine all details & aspects of this satisfied and mutually rejoicing joy!
Put enthusiastic effort in our praxis of this devoted mutually rejoicing joy!
Enjoy enraptured jubilant gladness in this exulting mutually rejoicing joy!
Be silenced by the tranquillity of quiet and all smiling mutually rejoicing joy!
Be concentrated & absorbed into one-pointedness by genuine rejoicing joy!
Dwell in an imperturbable equanimity of pure and mutually rejoicing joy...
Yeah! May it be even so, since mutual joy causes the jewel of contentment!



Comment: Mutual Joy is the 3rd infinite mental state (Appamañña):
This gradually reduces all envy, jealousy, possessiveness, stinginess, avarice
miserliness, green covetousness and unhappiness related with all these states.
The cause of Mutual Joy in rejoicing in your child's or boon companion's success.
This same joy can then be beamed towards all liked, neutral and hostile beings.
Mutual Joy is then the proximate cause of satisfied and fulfilled Contentment...
Lack of mutual joy is thus the proximate cause of dissatisfied discontentment...
Joined with the 7 links to Awakening it will later cause a formless jhana...
Be happy at all and especially other being's success! Then calm comfort grows!



More on Mutual Joy (Mudita):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Rejoicing_Joy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoicing_Bliss_is_Mudita.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Infinitely_Joyous_Consciousness.htm

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Mutual Joy causes Contentment!

Rejoicing Joy!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm

Friends:

The final safe State of supreme unified Bliss!



At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha once said to his monks:
I will teach you the uncorrupted state, & the way to the uncorrupted state...
Bhikkhus, I will teach you the truth, & the way leading to this absolute truth...
I will teach you the far shore ... the subtle ... the sublime ... the difficult to see ...
the unageing ... the stable ... the safe ... the undisintegrating & undecaying state ...
the unmanifested ... the unproliferated ... the unclinging ... untroubled silence ...
the peaceful ... the supreme bliss ... the fortunate ... the wonderful & amazing ...
the cooling of craving ... disillusion ... purity ... freedom ... the island shelter ...
the assured asylum ... the final refuge ... the deathless destination ... Nibbana...
Listen and pay alert attention to that which will lead you to lasting happiness!
And what, Bhikkhus is this Nibbana?
The absence of all Greed, the stilling of all Hate, & the ending of all Ignorance:
This is called the uncorrupted state of Nibbana... And what, Bhikkhus, is this
very good way leading to this undying state of Nibbana?



Awareness of the body just as organs is a way to this uncorrupted state ...
The four foundations of awareness is a way to this absolute truth ...
Serene calm and profound insight is a way to this this far shore ...
Absorption into directed thought and sustained examination is a way...
Absorption into emptiness, signlessness, and into the uninclined is a way...
The four right efforts are a way to this the very difficult to see state...
The four roads to force are a way to this supreme bliss ...
The five pure abilities are a way to this purity ...
The five pure powers are a way to this freedom ...
The seven links to awakening are a way to this peace ...
The Noble 8-fold Way are a way to this deathless destination ...



These are ways leading to this Nibbana... I have now taught you Nibbana...
and the way leading to this Nibbana... Whatever should be done, Bhikkhus,
by a considerate teacher out of sympathy for his disciples, wishing only their
welfare, that I have now done for you. There are roots of trees, Bhikkhus,
there are empty huts. Meditate, do not neglect your meditation, Bhikkhus,
otherwise you may come to regret it later. This is our instruction to you...



Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [369-73]
Section 43: On The Unconsctructed. The way to the uninclined: 13-44.
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 _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

There is something Else and far Better...

Buddhist Bliss!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Deathless_Dimension.htm

Friends:

All External Objects are always Fading Away & Vanishing!



At Savatthi The Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, all forms are impermanent! What is impermanent is suffering!
What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self should be seen as it really is
with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus:
This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self ...
All sounds are impermanent ... All smells are impermanent ...
All flavours are impermanent ... All touches are impermanent ...
All Mental states are impermanent. What is impermanent is suffering...
What is suffering is no-self. What is no-self should be seen as it really is
with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus:
This is neither me, nor mine, this I am not, this is not my self!
Seeing this, Bhikkhus, any educated Noble Disciple is disgusted with
all forms, sounds, smells, flavours, touches, and with any mental state ...
The experience of this disgust, brings disillusion and disenchantment!
Through this disillusion, the mind is all released! When it is liberated,
then there appears this assurance: "This mind is freed" and one instantly
understands: Rebirth is now ended, this Noble Life is fully concluded,
done is what should be done, there is no state beyond this...



More on impermanence, inconstancy, and transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli):
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_Fact_of_Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm



Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. IV 3-4
The group on the 6 Senses 35:4 The External as Impermanent...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html



Nothing here can ever last...

Transience!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm

Friends:

The Internal Sensors are Fragile, Decaying and Vanishing!



At Savatthi The Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, the eye is impermanent! What is impermanent is suffering!
What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self should be seen as it really is
with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus:
This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self...
The ear is impermanent.... The nose is impermanent....
The tongue is impermanent.... The body is impermanent....
The mind is impermanent. What is impermanent is ultimately suffering...
What is suffering is no-self. What is no-self should be seen as it really is
with correct, true, relevant and realistic understanding thus:
This is neither me, nor mine, this I am not, this is not my self!
Seeing this, bhikkhus, any educated Noble Disciple is disgusted with
the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body, and with the mind...
The experience of this disgust, brings disillusion and disenchantment!
Through this disillusion, the mind is all released! When it is liberated,
then there appears this assurance: "This mind is irreversibly freed" and
one instantly understands: Rebirth is now ended, this Noble Life is fully
concluded, done is what should be done, there is no state beyond this...



More on impermanence, inconstancy, & transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm



Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. IV 1-2
The group on the 6 Senses 35:1 The Internal as Impermanent...
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 _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Nothing Here Escapes Decay!

Internal Transience!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm

Friends:

Mental Purification induces pure Happiness!



The purpose of purification of Morality is purification of Mentality!
The purpose of purification of Mind is the purification of Understanding!
The purpose of purification of Understanding is the overcoming of Doubt!
The purpose of overcoming Doubt is knowing what to do & what not to do!
The purpose of knowing what to do & not do is purification of the Method!
The purpose of purification of the Method is purity of Knowledge & Vision!
The purpose of purification of Knowledge & Vision is Release of all clinging!
The purpose of Relinquishing all clinging is the only Supreme Bliss: Nibbana...



More on 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/Immaculate_Integrity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/visuddhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_8_Understandings.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Levels_of_Leaving_Behind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_stages_of_Purification.htm



Source:
The Middle Length Sayings of the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya. Sutta 24 Relays.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/majjhima/index.html



Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

What is your Mission here?

The Purpose of Purification is Happiness!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_purpose_of_purification.htm

Friends:

There are 3 Mental Fermentations (Âsavas):



The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, there are 3 mental fermentations.
What are these three mental concoctions?

1: The mental Fermentation joined with Sensuality..
2: The mental Fermentation linked with Becoming..
3: The mental Fermentation associated with Ignorance..

These are the three mental fermentations.
The Noble 8-fold Way is to be developed for the direct experience of these
three fermentations, for the full understanding of them, for their complete
elimination, and for their final overcoming, abandoning and leaving all behind...



Comments:
1: The mental fermentation (asava) linked with sensuality is the false assumption,
that sensing always brings pleasure, while actually sensing also is associated with
pain and also neutral feeling, which is far the most common!
2: The mental fermentation associated with becoming is like the banal yet common
wishing: May I become rich, beautiful, and famous, not noticing that any becoming
inevitably is associated with change, decay, death and thus suffering too!
3: The mental Fermentation associated with ignorance is the misconceptions we
make by inaccurate approximation, undue generalization and over-projection:
Ex: We make the observation: The horizon is linear. Then we assume, project and
simplify by conceptual generalization: 'The earth must be flat', which is a false
mentally ‘brewed=fermented’ misconception… For quite a while many would chop
off your head, if you suggested anything else, than that screaming error…
During biological fermentation sugar, water and yeast ferments into alcohol...
The alcohol was not there to begin with... It was made up by the fermentation!
During mental fermentation observations, mixed with ideas and assumptions
ferments into a misconception, that was not there in the raw observation data...
The misconception 'pancake earth' is not to be seen in an (almost) flat horizon!
This 'pancake round disc earth' concept is a false idea fermented and invented
by the mind desperately trying to predict the relations between what it sees...
Mind Misconstrues & Misconceives, and thus Misunderstands...



For Details on the 3 or 4 Mental Fermentations (asava) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Final_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Uprooting_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Naturally_Radiant.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/aasava.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Proximate_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_VI.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Freed_from_Fermentation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm




Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:56] section 45: The Way. 163: The fermentations ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html.



Mind Misconstrues & Misconceives, and thus Misunderstands...

The 3 Mental Fermentations...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm

Friends:

What is the Noble Life leading to Nibbâna?



A certain Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, the Noble Life, the Noble Life, is it often said…
What, Sir, is this Noble Life? And what is the final goal of this Noble Life?
This Noble 8-fold Way, Bhikkhu, is the Noble Life; namely:

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

The destruction of Greed, the destruction of Hate, and the destruction
of Ignorance: This is the final goal of the Noble Life…



Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Fulfilled_First_.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Noble_8_fold_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_3-fold_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Failed_by_Neglect.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Noble_8-Fold_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fruits_of_the_Noble_Way.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_Cease_Suffering.htm



Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book V [7-8] section 45:6 A certain Bhikkhu ...
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 _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

There is a Good Way :-)

The Noble Life!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm

Friends:

Seeing the 5 Clusters of Clinging as Alien:



The blessed Buddha once asked:
What do you think, Bhikkhus & friends, is form, feeling, perception
mental constructions, and consciousness permanent or impermanent?
Impermanent, Venerable Sir.
Is what is impermanent suffering or happiness? Suffering, Venerable Sir..
Is what is impermanent, suffering, and subject to change fit to be regarded
thus: "This is mine, this I am, this is my self"? No, Venerable Sir...!
Therefore, Bhikkhus & friends, any kind of form whatsoever, any kind of
feeling whatsoever, any kind of perception whatsoever, any kind of mental
constructions whatsoever, & any kind of consciousness whatsoever, whether
past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or fine, high or low, far or
near, all this should be seen as it really is with true understanding thus:
This is not mine, this is not me, this I am not, this is not my or any self...
Seeing thus, bhikkhus & friends, the learned Noble Disciple experiences
revulsion towards any form, towards any feeling, towards any perception,
revulsion towards all mental constructions, revulsion towards all consciousness.
While experiencing this revulsion, he becomes disillusioned and detached.
Through this detaching disillusion his mind is released. When it is released
there emerges this assurance: This mind is irreversibly released.
He then understands: Destroyed is any new rebirth, this Noble life has been
fully completed, what had to be done is done, there is no state beyond this...



More on impermanence, inconstancy, & transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli):
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm



Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 24:71 III 223
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 _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Just Transient Formations...

Never returning all states pass!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm

Friends:

How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?

Poya is the full-moon of Poson (June), which is specially noteworthy to the Sri Lankan
Buddhists as the day on which Emperor Asoka's son, the Arahat Mahinda, officially
introduced Buddhism to the island in the 3rd century B.C. Accordingly, in addition to
the normal ritualistic observances undertaken on a Poya day, on Poson day devotees
flock to Mihintale & Anuradhapura, the ancient holy capital city of the country, for
it was there that Arahat Mahinda converted the then ruler, King Devanampiya Tissa,
and his court to Buddhism, thereby setting in motion a series of events that finally
made Sri Lanka the stronghold home of Theravada Buddhism.



Arahat Mahinda arrives


and tests the king's intelligence.


Mihintale, Sri Lanka.


Mahinda Thera's cave there.

Essays about the significance of Poson Poya Days in Theravada Buddhism:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_Day.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_artikel1.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_artikel2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_artikel3.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_artikel4.htm



On such Uposatha 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 and
head touch the floor. Then, with joined palms in front of the heart,
one recite these memorized lines in a loud, calm & steady voice:

As long as this life lasts:
I hereby take refuge in the Buddha.
I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma.
I hereby take refuge in the Sangha.

I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time.

I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.
I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!

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



Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's own
eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much better
than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in & to this world!
This is the very start on the path towards Nibbana -the Deathless Element-
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Bliss, 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 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..." signed with name, date, town & country
to me or join here. A public list of this new Saddhamma-Sangha is here!

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

Join Here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm

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

May your journey hereby be eased, light, swift and sweet. Never give up!


Mihintale, Sri Lanka, where the Arahat Mahinda, arrived in 3rd century B.C.







Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Arahat Mahinda arrives at Mihintale!

Today is Poson Poya day!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Poson_Poya_Day.htm

Friends:

No Identical Identity Exists neither Internally, nor Externally!



At the time of Buddha Gotama Ven. Khemaka spoke thus:
I do not regard any form as 'This I Am' or 'I am' as if 'inside' any form, nor
do I regard 'This I Am' as 'apart from' any form or as if 'outside' any form!
I do not regard any feeling, perception or mental construction as 'This I Am'
or 'I am' as if 'inside' any feeling, perception or mental construction, nor do
I regard 'This I Am' as 'apart from' any feeling, perception or mentally made
construction or as if 'outside' any feeling, perception or mental construction!
I do not regard any consciousness as 'This I Am' or 'I am' as if 'inside' any
consciousness, nor do I regard 'This I Am' as 'apart from' any consciousness
or as if 'outside' any consciousness ... !!!



Yet, although this notion, this conception, this assuming, this conceiving, this
imagination, this mental fermentation, this false reference 'I Am' has not yet
vanished in me, still I do not consider anything neither internal, nor external,
neither among these five clusters, nor apart from the five clusters as: "Mine",
nor as "This I Am", nor as "This is My Self"... !!!



When a Noble Disciple keeps contemplating the momentary arising & ceasing,
the change, the becoming otherwise, the decay, fading & vanishing, and the
conditioned & dependent emergence of these five clusters of clinging, then
the subtle residual desire for 'identification', the remaining 'Ego'-conceit, &
the lingering & latent tendency to suppose 'I Am', not yet eliminated comes to
be uprooted! Thereby do the toxic traces of destructive Egoism all evaporate..
This - in itself - is release, is relinquishment, is liberation, is final freedom!



More on Anti-Egoism:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/I-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No_Agent_is_Inside.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Solo_Self-Deception.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Reference.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Selfless_and_Harmless.htm



Khemaka Thera: An Arahat. Once, when he lay very ill at the Badarikarama,
near Kosambi, some monks, staying at the Ghositarama, sent Dasaka, with a
message to Khemaka, inquiring whether he managed to bear his pains.
Dasaka returned with the reply that he did not; he was sent again to ask if
Khemaka had seen the self in the five khandhas; when Dasaka returned with
the answer that he had not, he was sent a third time to ask whether Khemaka
was an arahant. "No," came the answer, and Dasaka had to visit him a fourth
time with the inquiry, What did Khemaka mean by self?
In exasperation Khemaka came himself to Ghositarama and explained how,
even when the Noble Disciple has put away the five lower fetters, there still
clings to him a subtle remnant of the "I" conceit. As a result of this radical
sermon Khemaka himself and sixty others became Arahats right on the spot...!



Source of inspiration:
This Elder Lion Ven. Khemaka thereby Awakened 60 Theras & himself!
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III 127-32
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 Complete Free Text here:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn22-089.html

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

A Same 'I'-dentical Self is Not...

Uprooting Egoism!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Uprooting_Egoism.htm

Friends:

Contact is a Meeting of 3 Phenomena!



The blessed Buddha once defined sense Contact (phassa) like this:
In dependence the eye and forms, visual consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is eye contact.
In dependence the ear and sounds, auditory consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is ear contact.
In dependence the nose and odours, olfactory consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is nose contact.
In dependence the tongue and flavours, gustatory consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is tongue contact.
In dependence the body and touches, tactile consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is body contact.
In dependence the mind and thoughts, mental consciousness arises...
The meeting of these three phenomena is mind contact.
Conditioned by Contact, feeling comes into being.
Conditioned by feeling, craving arises.
Conditioned by craving, clinging emerges.
Conditioned by clinging, becoming appears.
Conditioned by becoming, rebirth happens.
Conditioned by birth, ageing, sickness and death arrive!
Such is this conditioned origin of that whole accumulation of suffering...!
Conditioned by Contact, feeling arises. But by the complete stilling, fading
all away and ceasing of that very same craving, comes the instantaneous
cessation of clinging! The ending of clinging ceases becoming.
The ending of becoming ceases any future rebirth.
The ending of birth ceases ageing, sickness, death, sorrow, pain and panic!
That is the conditioned ceasing of this entire massive bulk of suffering...!




On Contact (Phassa):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/In_Dependence_on_Contact.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Dependent_on_Contact.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/phassa.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Diversity_of_Contacts.htm



Source (edited excerpt):
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book II 74-5
The section on Causation 12. Thread on Natika: 45.
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Contact Causes Craving!

What is Contact?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Contact.htm

Friends:

The Absolute and Ultimate Release Beyond!



A wandering friend once asked the Great Disciple:
Friend Sariputta, Nibbana, Nibbana is it said! What is this Nibbana?
The destruction of Greed, the destruction of Hate, and the destruction of
Ignorance! This, friend, is called Nibbana …
But, friend, is there a method, is there a way to reach this Nibbana?
There is indeed a method, friend, there is indeed a way to reach Nibbana!
What, friend, is then this method, what is then that way to reach Nibbana?
It is, friend, simply the completion of this Noble 8-fold Way, namely:

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

This is undeniably the very method, friend, the only way to reach Nibbana!
Oh excellent is this unique method, exquisite is this way to reach Nibbana!
This –in itself- is enough for me, friend Sariputta, to begin the endeavour!



More on Nibbana: A Quenched State of Maximum Peace, Freedom, and Bliss:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Reaching_Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Entrance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Nibbana_Still.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Enter.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Uncreated.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Proximate_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Unborn_State.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Nibbana_or_non-return.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Nibbana_True_Peace.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/nibbaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Signless_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm



Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [251]
section 38:1 Questions on Nibbana ...
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

What is Nibbãna?

Absolute Peace, Ultimate Freedom, and Supreme Bliss!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Nibbana.htm

Friends:

Real Progress is gaining Real Freedom!



The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, growing in five areas of progress, the Noble Disciple attains a
Noble growth, and acquires the essence, acquires the best, one possibly can
in this bodily existence! What are these 5 areas:

1: One grows in Faith,
2: One grows in Morality,
3: One grows in Learning,
4: One grows in Generosity,
5: One grows in Understanding.

Developing in these five areas of progress, a noble disciple grows with a Noble
Progress, and acquires the very core essence, acquires the optimal advantage,
of this bodily existence. When one grows here in Faith and Morality, in Wisdom,
Liberality, and Learning, the virtuous lay disciple acquires right here the very
quintessence of all what is advantageous!



More on 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/Immaculate_Integrity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/u_v/visuddhi.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_8_Understandings.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



Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [250]
section 37:34 On growth ...
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Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

What is Progress?

Real Progress is more Mental Freedom!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Progress.htm

Friends:

What is the Buddhist 3rd Precept?



The 3rd Precept: One accepts the training rule of avoiding All Sexual Abuse.
One should cause No Pain to others or oneself in one's search for pleasure!
Avoiding sexual abuse is thus an essential core component of harmlessness!

Specifically:
One should not mate sexually with another's partner.
One should not mate sexually with anyone engaged or married to another.
One should not mate sexually with minors < 16-18 years of age.
One should not mate sexually with those imprisoned, forced or under the law.
One should not mate sexually with those protected by family or teachers.



kamesu-micchacara: lit. 'wrong or evil conduct with regard to sensual things';
Unlawful sexual contact refers to adultery, and to intercourse with minors
or other persons under guardianship. The abstaining from this unlawful act is
one of the 5 moral training rules (sikkhapada) binding upon all Buddhists.
Any sexual act transgressing this rule will inevitably cause suffering later...
The monk, however, has to observe perfect chastity by living fully celibate
even without any masturbation. In many Suttas (e.g. A.X., 176) we find the
following explanation:
He avoids unlawful sexual intercourse, abstains from it. He has no intercourse
with girls who are still under the protection of father or mother, brother,
sister or relatives, nor with married women, nor female convicts, nor, lastly,
with betrothed girls. Source: the Buddhist Dictionary:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Buddhist.Dictionary/index_dict.n2.htm



"Illicit sexual behavior, when indulged in, developed, & pursued, is something
that leads to hell, leads to rebirth as a common animal, leads to the realm of
the hungry ghosts. The slightest of all the results coming from illicit sexual
behavior is future rivalry and revenge, when one becomes a human being.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/anguttara/an08-040.html



"Furthermore, abandoning illicit sex, the disciple of the noble ones abstains
from illicit sex. In doing so, he gives freedom from danger, from animosity,
freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings. In giving freedom
from danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless
numbers of beings, he gains a fair share of limitless freedom from danger,
freedom from animosity, and freedom from oppression. This is the 3rd gift!
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/anguttara/an08-039.html



Furthermore: Ignoring, hiding or not informing about own STD:
Knowingly engaging in a sexual contact that puts another being in danger
of getting a sexually transmitted disease, which later may make this being
suffer and maybe even be potentially lethal (HIV/AIDS) is also not only sexual
abuse in the Buddhist sense, but also illegal and forbidden by law and thus
legally punishable in most countries today.



More on The 5 Basic Precepts: The 5 Training rules (Sikkhapada).
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Mighty_is_Morality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Five_Basics.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_Buddhist_Praxis.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/sangha/Refuges_and_Precepts.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sikkhaa_pada.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Buddhist_Life_Standards_Law_3.htm

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Be harmless also when seeking pleasure!

What is Sexual Abuse?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Sensual_and_Sexual_Misbehaviour.htm

Friends:

What are the primary Components of Suffering?



At Savatthi. While seated, the Venerable Radha asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, one says: Mara, Mara! What, Venerable Sir, is Mara?
Form, Radha, is suffering, feeling is suffering, perception is suffering,
mental constructions are suffering, consciousness is suffering... !
Radha, you should abandon desire, you should abandon lust, you should cease
all desire and all lust, for whatever is a state of Mara ...
for whatever is impermanent ... for whatever is of an impermanent nature ...
for whatever is suffering ... for whatever is of a painful nature ...
for whatever is non-self ... for whatever is of a selfless nature ...
for whatever is a state of destruction ... for whatever is a state of vanishing ...
for what-ever is a state of arising ... for whatever is of a nature to cease!
And what, Radha, is of a nature to cease?
All form is of a nature to cease...
All feeling is of a nature to cease...
All perception is of a nature to cease...
All mental constructions are of a nature to cease...
All consciousness is of a nature to cease...
Understanding this, Bhikkhu, a well instructed Noble Disciple experiences
disgust towards form, disgust towards feeling, disgust towards perception,
disgust towards mental construction, & disgust towards consciousness itself!
Experiencing disgust, he becomes disillusioned! Through disillusion his mind
is released. When it is released, he instantly knows: This mind is liberated,
and he understands: Extinguished is rebirth, this Noble Life is all completed,
done is what should be done, there is no state of being beyond this...
SN 23 24-34 III 199

See also how Buddha explains Radha how to smash, scatter, & demolish being:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn23/sn23.002.than.html



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


Gaining one more womb, stranded on yet another placental afterbirth is no victory!

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 23:24-34 III 199
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Du = Bad, Kha = State, Duk+kha = Literally "Bad State"!

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

What is Suffering?

Whatever is of an impermanent nature!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Suffering.htm

Friends:

Released by Disengaged Non-identification!




At Savatthi The Buddha once said:
All form is transient, all feeling is transient, all perception is transient,
all mental constructions are transient, all consciousness is transient...
This transience is suffering! What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self
should be seen as it really is with correct understanding in this very way:
'All this is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self!'...
When one sees and understands this thus, as it really is with correct and
penetrating understanding, then one maintains no views on what is past.
When one maintains no more views regarding the past, then one neither
maintains any views about the future. When one has relinquished all views
about the future, then one is not being possessed by stubborn clinging...
Having no trace of immovable clinging left, the mind becomes disillusioned
regarding all form, all feeling, all perception, all mental constructions, and
all consciousness. By that it is released from the 3 mental fermentations
through detached non-clinging... By being released, the mind is all silenced!
By being thus stilled, the mind becomes content... Being content, it is not
agitated anymore... Being thus unagitated, one indeed attains Nibbana!
Right there and then, one instantly understands: Ended is this process of
rebirth, this Noble Life has been lived, done is all what had to be done,
there is no state beyond this...



More on this nicely ballanced Equanimity (Upekkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_is_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Serene_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Exquisite_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Empty_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Equanimity_Upekkha.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unshakable_Equanimity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Serene_Equanimity_and_Beyond.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/tatra_majjhattataa.htm



Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III 55-58
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Have a nice, noble & serene day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Tranquillity ballances out the extreme states...

Not Agitated…
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Imperturbable_Equanimity.htm