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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:49 pm

Friends:

There are these 9 Superior and Noble Persons!

1: The perfectly self-awakened Buddha... (Sammasambuddho)
2: The solitary self-awakened Buddha... (Paccekasambuddho)
3: The one released both ways... (Ubhatobhagavimutto)
4: The one released by understanding... (Paññavimutto)
5: The body-witness of direct experience... (Kayasakkhi)
6: The view-winner of straight comprehension... (Ditthipattto)
7: The one released by faith... (Saddhavimutto)
8: The one guided by Dhamma... (Dhammanusari)
9: The one guided by faith... (Saddhanusari)

More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Fo ... lities.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... Person.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... lained.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... _Trees.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Source:
The 4th Abhi-Dhamma Book: The Personality Concept: Puggala-Paññatti.
http://store.pariyatti.org/Designation- ... _1958.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdf ... nnatti.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The 9 Supreme Persons!

Those, who has done, what should be done...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 10:03 pm

Friends:

There are these 9 Superior and Noble Persons!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Source:
The 4th Abhi-Dhamma Book: The Personality Concept: Puggala-Paññatti.
http://store.pariyatti.org/Designation- ... _1958.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdf ... nnatti.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Types.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Fo ... lities.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... Person.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... _Trees.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For Details on the 3 and 4 Mental Fermentations (asava) please see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Na ... adiant.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... aasava.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_P ... _Cause.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ca ... orance.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... ations.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... tation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The 9 Supreme Persons explained:

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... lained.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:36 pm

Friends:

Experiencing Impermanence Exposes the Futility of Clinging!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, Ananda, is experiencing impermanence, inconstancy and transience?
When a Bhikkhu, having gone to a forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty
place, reflects: all form is inconstant, all feeling is fleeting, any experience
is impermanent, all mental construction is transient, and all consciousness is
momentary and in this way remains noting the impermanence, the inconstancy
and transience of these 5 Clusters of Clinging...
Then this, Ananda, is indeed the very experience of impermanence...,
The perception of inconstancy... and the sensation of transience...

Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 10:60, AN V 108ff.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Buddha furthermore explained:
Bhikkhus, there is no lasting matter or materiality, no lasting form whatsoever...
There is no lasting feeling whatsoever... no lasting perception whatsoever...
There is no lasting mental construction whatsoever...
There is no lasting consciousness or awareness of anything whatsoever...
There is no permanent, everlasting, eternal thing that is not subject to change,
not transient, not vanishing, that will last as long as eternity...
SN 22.96/vol. iii, 144

All formations, all constructions are impermanent, transient, vanishing...
MN 35/vol. i, 230

Whatever can arise and emerge, that also will surely cease...
MN 56/vol. i, 380

Comments from the classical commentaries:

Impermanence is not Evident unless specifically looked for:
False apparent continuity covers up and camouflages impermanence:
The characteristic of impermanence does not become apparent because,
when rise and fall are not given attention, it is concealed by continuity...
However, when continuity is disrupted by observing rise & fall here & now,
the characteristic of impermanence becomes apparent in its true nature.
Vism. Ch. xxi/p. 640

Moments of mental states always change as iron darts hit:
Observing the abrupt change of all states discloses their discrete nature:
When continuity is disrupted means, when it is exposed by observation of
the perpetual alteration of states as they go on occurring in succession.
For it is not through the connectedness of states, that the characteristic of
impermanence becomes apparent to one who rightly observes rise and fall,
but rather the characteristic becomes properly evident through their discrete
disconnectedness, regarded as if each moment were iron darts, hitting in on
reality one by one separately, instead of as a continuous flow of slow change.
VismA. 824

All states rise and fall. This characteristic of change, ageing, & evanescence
is the universal impermanence of all worldly. Nothing here escapes change!
It is a distortion of view, perception, and thinking to regard anything as lasting!
Impermanence inherently implies suffering as all what is liked will evaporate!
Impermanence implies no-self as nothing remains identical as an entity or identity!
Whether internal or external: It is only passing states - material and mental - ...
Experiencing impermanence thus also means seeing suffering and no-self!

When realizing that all states passes on and evaporates instantly,
one realizes the impossible futility inherent in all forms of clinging.
It is like sand running out between the fingers. It can never be kept!
Nothing can ever be kept, owned, possessed, maintained, or retained!
So let it go. Release it! Relinquish it all. Do not fear. Nothing lasting is lost!
It was never yours anyway. It will go away by itself anyway. It is pain anyway!
It was never really the same anyway, and it will never ever return again anyway...

All things arise, go through a series of changes and die. All phenomena are
impermanent, every living being eventually dies. Life has a limit and is always
in a state of uncertainty. This is an undeniable reality! Life is very uncertain,
only death is certain. Knowing that death is certain and is the natural destiny
that everyone has to face, we should not be afraid of death. To be considered
really free in life, we must be free from the fear of death. We must humbly
contemplate the words “All things are impermanent.” We must indeed be aware
that birth and death comes at any moment. Every moment is thus impermanent.
Enlightenment can be achieved by this acute awareness of impermanence!

More on impermanence, inconstancy, & transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... el186.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... anicca.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Tr ... ations.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pe ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/I ... Anicca.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Memento Mori: Remember your mortality, that you must and surely will die!

Total is Transience...

The Experience of Impermanence!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... anence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:50 pm

Friends:

How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?

Navam Poya day is the full-moon of February. This holy day celebrates
the ordination of the Buddha Gotama's main disciples Sariputta and
MahaMoggallana. On this day Buddha also later decides his Parinibbana.

The death moment of the Buddha, where he enters Nibbana (Sanskrit Nirvana)...!

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

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

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

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

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

The New Noble Community of Buddha's Disciples: The Saddhamma Sangha:
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Can quite advantageously be Joined Here:
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May your journey hereby be light, swift, and sweet. Never give up !!
Bhikkhu Samahita: [email protected].

For Details on The Origin of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice Poya Observance day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
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Today is Navam Poya Day!
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:10 pm

Friends:

We should be Good to our fine Friends here!

The Buddha on the Universality of Friendliness:
I am a friend of all bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed,
I am a friend of those with no feet!
Anguttara Nikaya 4.67

As I am, so are others... As others are, so am I...
Having thus identified self and others,
Never Harm anyone, nor have any being abused.
Sutta Nipata 3.710

Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the jungle.
No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.
Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the forest.
Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude…
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540

With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart & mind:
Beaming above, below, & all around, unobstructed, without trace of hostility.
Sutta Nipata I, 8

Train yourself in doing good
that lasts and brings happiness.
Cultivate generosity, the life of peace,
and a mind of infinite universal love.
Itivuttaka 22

Our Fine Friends!

We are not alone here...
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 8:48 pm

Friends:

How is the Energy that is utterly Unshakable?

It cannot ever be shaken by indolent laziness, thus is it the Power of Energy.
It is the Power of Energy by stabilizing and stiffening other mental qualities.
It is the Power of Energy by terminating any polluting mental defilement.
It is the Power of Energy by purifying penetration to real understanding.
It is the Power of Energy by calming, steadying and focusing the mind.
It is the Power of Energy by clearing, cleansing and purifying the mind.
It is the Power of Energy in the sense of arrival at a subtle distinction.
It is the Power of Energy in the sense of penetration to an even higher.
It is the Power of Energy in the sense of convergence upon actuality.
It is the Power of Energy in the sense of establishing in cessation.
The energetic one has unflagging faith. The faithful one is energetic.
The energetic establishes awareness. The aware one is energetic.
The energetic one concentrates. The concentrated one is energetic.
The energetic one understands. The understanding one is energetic.
Thus is the Power of Energy a synergy of mutually enhancing abilities!
Energy therefore becomes the Chief Root Hero of all Success!

Energy = Enthusiasm (Viriya) is therefore a Link to Enlightenment:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For a full Study on Energy (Viriya): The root Hero of all Success:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/T ... Energy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/T ... Energy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/P ... Energy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/B ... Energy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/T ... f_Hero.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/E ... Effort.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... Energy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Dual_Energy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Source: Sariputta - The General of the Dhamma -
The Canonical: Path of Discrimination: Patisambhidamagga. IV + XIX.
http://store.pariyatti.org/Path-of-Disc ... _2126.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Driving is Enthusiasm..

Energy is the Chief Root Hero of all Success!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/P ... Energy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:50 am

Friends:

Expectation is bound to give Disappointment!

Whenever and wherever there is expectation, there is also hoping & longing!
Whenever and wherever there is hoping & longing, there is also craving...
Whenever and wherever there is craving, there is also suffering!
This is the 2nd Noble Truth: Craving causes suffering...
Whenever & wherever there is neither expectation, nor hoping, nor longing,
nor any form of craving present, how can there ever be any suffering?
This is the 3rd Noble Truth: Absence of craving ends all suffering...

About the 4 Noble Truths (Ariya-Sacca):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... Truths.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The ... eaning.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Discontent Disappointment is NOT caused by the outside world!
'Loving' and 'liking' mixed with expectation => passion => suffering!
'Loving' and 'liking' without expectation = friendliness => elevation!
These 2 forms of “love” lookalike, but are VERY different in outcome!
Expectation is an often subconscious diluted derivative of greed, which
nevertheless retains the ability to ruin any relationship and any life by
inducing the mischievous and treacherous mental state called discontent!
This discontent is NOT caused by the external object as often believed,
but by the very 'own' internal hidden prejudgement inherent in expectation!

About Expectation: Always Different!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Always_Different.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Awareness of Emerging Expectation Helps:
If one notices expectation right when it arises, and also when it persists,
this enables reflecting: "Now future suffering is created and maintained!"!
This in itself gradually will reduce this diluted derivative of painful craving.

On this poisonous Craving (Tanha) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cut_Craving.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/C ... s_Pain.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Cr ... _Cause.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Or ... fering.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ce ... fering.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Cr ... rophic.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... raving.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... fering.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Expectation is a Sandcastle...

Expectation = Disappointment = Suffering!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Expectation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:48 pm

Friends:

Infinite Loving-Kindness is an Exalted State!

The Blessed Buddha once explained Loving-Kindness like this:
This is what should be done by a clever one to arouse the advantageous:
Having attained a peaceful state: He should be capable, straight, and very
upright, easy to speak to, gentle and not proud, contented and easy to support,
with few duties, living simple, with calmed senses, devoted, and neither angry,
nor greedy. He should not do any mean thing, which wise men would criticize.
He always should wish: Let all beings be happy, joyous, glad, safe and secure.
Whatever living creatures there exist, still or moving, small or large, seen or
unseen, far or near, already existing or coming into being, let all these living
beings without any even single exception be completely and perfectly happy!
One should never despise anyone anywhere, nor humiliate anyone anywhere,
nor ever wish for any beings misery or harm, because of anger or irritation.
Just as a mother would protect her only little son even risking her own life,
exactly so should one cultivate an unbounded mentality towards all beings:
Loving-kindness towards all in this universe. One should cultivate an infinite
mind, above, below and across, without barriers, without enmity, matchless..
Whether standing, going, sitting, or lying down, even when slumbering should
one practise this exalted infinite goodwill. This is said to be a Sacred State!
Sn 143-151

On this exalted Infinite Friendliness (Metta) see also:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_B ... enship.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Selfl ... eetest.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/A ... ndness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Bl ... liness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Exalted bliss is Infinite Loving-Kindness!
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:20 am

Friends:

The Cypress Hermitage 2014 Progress and Improvements.
Thanx to all the kind donors and helpers.
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 9:45 pm

Friends:

Completion of 7 Things initiates The Noble 8-fold Way!

Human beings are special as they can train, learn, and educate themselves to elevating progress!

The Blessed Buddha once explained:
Completion of 7 things is the seed, initiator, and precursor for developing the Noble 8-fold Way!
What are these 7 things?

1. Having a Good and Beautiful Friend (Kalyana-mitta):
Such friend has a pure and beautiful mind, which by simply being a good example will influence and
encourage all other beings to improve their mentality, behaviour & understanding. Such good friend
encourages one to learn, train, and develop one self towards individual, and social harmony.

2. Completion of Pure Morality (Sila-sampada):
Having a minimum of 5-precept moral discipline is the indispensable foundation of any right life..
This means living harmlessly and helpfully, and not exploitatively, both within the material and
social environment, by using the four necessities of food, clothing, shelter and medicine as
well as any technology, so they enhance a true quality of one's own and others beings life, by
promoting education, constructive action, merit-making, and the state of balance in nature.

3. Consummation of Motivation (Chanda-sampada):
Having a mind that is well motivated by withdrawal and good-will, which aims at learning and
doing good. Not obsessed by only wanting ever more, getting new, and low consumer pleasure...
Instead, one uses all one's abilities in joyous learning of how to do only advantageous things,
avoid all evil and detrimental things, and purify one's mind into a subtle radiant excellence..

4: Perfection of One-self (Atta-sampada):
By dedicating oneself to the realization of one's full human potential through daily meditation.
One views all difficulties, hardships, obstacles, and problems as good training grounds to test
and improve one's mind, intelligence, and abilities toward the realization of one's full potential,
through a comprehensive refinement, that encompasses mentality, behaviour, and understanding.

5. Clarification of View (Ditthi-sampada):
Seeing that all phenomena has a cause and an effect is adhering to the principle of conditionality.
This comprehension of the vast mutual dependency of all mental and material states in the universe
comes from repeated reasoning, thorough examination, and an excellence in rational analysis. This
enables a mental clarity and intellectual independence of neither being impulsive, nor over-reactive,
by not allowing oneself to drift along the stream of public hysteria and banal commonday priorities.

6. Achievement of Alertness (Appamada-sampada):
To be acutely and constantly aware of the inevitable impermanence, inherent instability, transience,
fleeting evanescence and total insubstantiality of all life, all things, and all phenomena, which are
constantly changing according to their causes and conditions, both internally and externally, will
establish oneself in alertness. One realizes, that one cannot afford to be complacent. One sees the
preciousness of time, and strives to learn about, prevent, and rectify the causes of decline and bring
about the causes of growth and prosperity, using all one's time, night and day to the greatest advantage!

7. Fulfillment of Rational Attention (Yoniso-manasikara-sampada):
Attending wisely so as to what is the cause of any phenomena or state, will make one advantageously
realize the real truth. To investigate, by intelligently examining, investigating, tracing, analyzing and
researching into the very proximate cause of any given situation, will make one able to solve problems
and do things successfully through intelligent methods, that allows one to be independent, self-reliant,
and by that cement-solid self-sufficiency become a helping refuge to many other people and beings.

As dawn is the forerunner for the rising of the sun, even and exactly so do these 7 things
seed, initiate, and begin the development, and completion of the Noble 8-Fold Way..
The Noble 8-fold Way culminates in Nibbana - the Deathless State - !

These 7 things are therefore indeed Noble Goals!

Source: Samyutta Nikaya V 29-31 and the classical commentary on that, which inspired:
A constitution for Living. Buddhist Principles for a Fruitful and Harmonious Life.
Ven. P.A. Payutto. Thailand. Buddhist Publication Society 2007: BP 620S http://www.bps.lk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The 7 Noble Goals..

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... _Goals.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:00 pm

Friends:

Analysis of the Four Foundations of Awareness:

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, I will now teach you:
A: The Foundation of Awareness,
B: The building up of the Foundation of Awareness,
C: The Way to build up the Foundation of Awareness,
Please pay attention by listening to this...

A: And what, Bhikkhus, is the Foundation of Awareness?
While always acutely alert and clearly comprehending, thus removing
any envy, jealousy, frustration, and discontent rooted in this world,
the wise Bhikkhu keeps regarding the:
1: Body as an alien frame of filthy foulness...
2: Feeling as a banal ever recurring reactivity...
3: Mind as a habituated set of bizarre mentalities...
4: Phenomena as only mentally constructed appearances...
These are the 4 Foundations of Awareness...

B: And what, Bhikkhus, is the Building Up of this Foundation of Awareness?
While always acutely alert and clearly comprehending, thus removing
any envy, jealousy, frustration, and discontent rooted in this world,
the wise Bhikkhu keeps considering the:
1: Body as something bound to emerge, decay and vanish...
2: Feeling as something naturally arising and fading away...
3: Mind as of a nature to appear, disappear, flutter and flicker...
4: Phenomena as only momentary manifestations always ending...
This is building up the 4 Foundations of Awareness...

C: And what is the Way to build this Foundation of Awareness?
It is just 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 the Way to build the 4 Foundations of Awareness...

Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 186] 47: Foundations of Awareness: 44 Analysis..

Alert is Awareness..

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/A ... alysis.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 11:00 pm

Friends:

Ceasing of Kamma comes only by Exhaustion of Effect!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
I tell you, Bhikkhus and Friends, that it is absolutely impossible, that willed,
intended, performed, & accumulated actions (kamma) will cease to be effective
as long as one has not yet experienced their results, be it in this life,
or in the next life, or in even further future lives!
And it is equally impossible, that without having experienced these results of
one's accumulated, intended, & performed past actions, that one will be able
to put an end to Suffering. May this hereby be well known!

Kamma is an accumulated interference with a universal wavefunction
determining the probability of all the various possible future events!
Kammic moral efficacy of action is thus not a metaphysical postulate,
but a experimentally verified -yet subtle- quantum-mechanical fact!

Disadvantageous Action (Kamma) has painful effects!

Source:
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 10:208
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta ... erical.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Advantageous is respecting bhikkhus, parents, elders & teachers.

For details on the mechanics of Kamma = Action see:
http://www.mahindarama.com/e-library/whatkammais.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... ention.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Bu ... _Kamma.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Go ... _Kamma.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... g_life.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ef ... elayed.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... ckness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... _Birth.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... overty.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... liness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... espect.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ev ... _Kamma.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... igence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Go ... _Kamma.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Impossible!

Only by exhaustion ceases the effect of Kamma!
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 10:40 pm

Friends:

The 10 Tricks in the Art of Jhãna Concentration:

1: Making the basis pure: Means a clean body, a clean room and a clean morality.
2: Balanced abilities: Energy on same level as concentration. Faith as understanding.
3: Skill in the sign: A moment of absorption is remembered exactly for recollection.
4: One exerts the mind on all occasions by advantageously pushing and prodding it forth.
5: One controls the mind on all occasions, by advantageously holding it checked and back.
6: One encourages mind on occasions by advantageously inciting and cheering the mind.
7: One observes mind with calm on-looking equanimity when things proceed appropriately.
8: One avoids all distracted, agitated, frantic, unconcentrated, and stressed up persons.
9: One cultivates company with well focused, all determined and concentrated persons.
10: One is resolutely single-minded upon that absorption level of jhana concentration!
Visuddhimagga I 128.
Vism I 128.

More on this penetrating and thrilling absorption Concentration (Samadhi):
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Jh ... rption.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... ration.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Jo ... _World.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Requi ... rption.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Art of Absorption!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Art ... rption.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 11:10 pm

Friends:

How to train and expand Universal Friendliness!

Sitting alone, in silence, each early morning, with closed eyes one wishes:
May I radiate and meet only infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all the various beings on the 31 levels of existence develop and find
only the genuine good of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material and the formless plane
develop and encounter this fine infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left and below as
above develop and experience high infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe always be fully aware
and deeply mindful of this infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe examine all details and
subtle aspects of this sublime infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe put enthusiastic effort
into their praxis of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe find enraptured joy and
jubilant gladness in this infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe cultivate the tranquillity
of quiet, silent and all stilled infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe attain concentrated and
absorbed one-pointedness of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe dwell in undisturbable
and imperturbable balance of infinite friendliness, kindness and goodwill!
Yeah! (Print this out, dwell in each state until deep, use ~ 25-45 minutes.

Comment: Universal Friendliness is the 1st endless state (Appamañña)
This gradually reduces all hate, anger, irritation, resentment, opposition,
stubbornness, mental rigidity, and unhappiness related with these states.
Release of Mind by Universal Friendliness (Metta-Ceto-Vimutti) is >16
times more worth, than any merit won by whatever worldly gift or gain...
Joining with the 7 links to Awakening will later cause formless jhana...

Genuine is Goodwill

Universal is Friendliness!
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:18 pm

Friends:

The Quenched Dimension:

Peaceful, tamed, smokeless, wishless, and harmless,
unobstructed both in front and behind, untroubled,
unconcerned with both past and future, pure, aloof,
imperturbable, beyond wavering & doubt, confident,
directly knowing, calmed & freed, the Arahat being
enters the final state:

The cooling of all craving,
The stilling of all construction,
The releasing of all the clinging,
The relinquishing of all acquisition,
Detachment, disillusion, ceasing,
Formless, senseless and deathless,
Silent, free, & blissful pure peace...
Nibbâna... Yeah!!!

More on this uncreated state - Nibbana (Sanskrit = Nirvana):
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
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The Climax of Calm!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Dhamma Wheel

Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

The 9 Supreme Persons:

The 9 Supreme Persons explained:

The Transience is Total...

Today is Navam Poya Day!

Our Fine Friends :-)

Driving is Enthusiasm..

The Mental Sandcastle...

Exalted Bliss..

Re: Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

The 7 Noble Goals..

Alert is Awareness..

Karmic escape is Impossible!

The Art of Absorption!

Genuine is Goodwill :-)

The Climax of Calm!