Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

IImploding Vacuum Personality Void of any Self!



he Blessed Buddha explained the flowing transience of existence as void:
Suppose a man with good sight observed the many bubbles on the Ganges
river as they drifted along, by carefully watching and examining them all.
Then after he had carefully examined them, they would appear to him as
empty, evanescent, and unsubstantial. In exactly the same way does the
Bhikkhu observe all the material phenomena, all feelings, all perceptions,
all mental constructions, & all states of consciousness, whether they be
past, present, or future, far or near. By carefully watching, analysing &
examining them all, they appear to him as empty, void, and without a core...




Comment:
If feeling a bit nausea, or dizziness, or fear, when rigorously attempting
to comprehend egolessness, then one is going in the right direction...
Worth noticing is that one cannot ever loose a self that never was there
in the first place...!



For more on this universality of selfless impersonality
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... ctrine.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ownerless is all being!

All Phenomena is an imploding vacuum void of any self or core!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ju ... ubbles.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

What are the 40 Classic Meditation Objects?



The Buddha taught 40 principal meditation objects = kammatthana:
kammatthana literally means: Place of work, basis of action leading
to the various degrees of mental meditative absorption jhana:

These 40 meditation subjects are:
I. The 10 kasina exercises: Kasina = 'Entirety'. All 4 jhanas possible:
1: Earth kasina, 2: Water kasina, 3: Fire kasina, 4: Wind kasina,
5: Blue kasina, 6: Yellow kasina, 7: Red kasina, 8: White kasina,
9: Light or consciousness kasina, 10: Space kasina.

II. The 10 perceptions of disgust: asubha-sañña:. 1st jhana possible:
A swollen & bloated corpse, a bluish livid corpse, a rotting corpse,
a cut-up & split corpse, a gnawed corpse, a hacked corpse, a spread
scattered corpse, a bloody corpse, a corpse of maggots, a skeleton.

III. The 10 contemplations, remembrances or recollections anussati::
1: On the Buddha, 2: The Dhamma, 3: Noble Sangha community,
4: Morality, 5: Generosity, 6: Heavenly divine beings, 7: Death,
8: Body, 9: In-and-out-breathing All 4 jhanas possible:, 10: Peace.

IV. Four divine abodes or infinite states brahma-vihara:
1: All-embracing friendliness = metta:, 2: Pity = karuna:
3: Mutual joy = mudita, 4: Equanimity = upekkha:

V. Four formless spheres arupayatana: based on the 4th jhana:
1: The infinitude of space, 2: The infinitude of consciousness,
3: Empty nothingness, 4: Neither-perception-nor-non-perception.

VI. Perception of the disgust of food. ahare patikkula-sañña

VII. Defining Analysis of the four elements dhatu-vavatthana



More details on these 40 precious objects:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/l/DPPN/wtb/ ... avanaa.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/libraryibra ... kasina.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... asubha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ussati.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... dhamma.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... sangha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... /caaga.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... /siila.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... f/deva.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... marana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... a_sati.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... a_sati.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ussati.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ihaara.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... jhaana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... thaana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



The 40 Classic Meditation Methods!

What are the 40 Early Buddhist Meditation Objects?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... ations.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Dhamma on Air #22: Right Livelihood & Consciousness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYG9C7eQiP4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Dhamma-Questions answered:

Q36: Do you have some instructions for the first try of meditation?

Q37: Please explain the rarity of human rebirth, and the emergence of a Buddha

Q38: How does one develop insight into making big decisions about life and career?

Q39: What exactly constitutes right livelihood?

Q40: Please comments on this 2 statements :
" There are so many mental consciousness that can not be counted " and
" The body of human being does not have only one consciousness."

Q41: Is there any way we can reconnect with our own pure consciousness
in order to have a clear heart and mind.

What is Right Livelihood (Samma-Ajiva)?:
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What ... lihood.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

On Consciousness (Viññana) please check:
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Consciousness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/W ... usness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DP ... nnaana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Mo ... usness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/DP ... nnaana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

All Dhamma on Airs are listed and linked here:
http://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dhamma_on_Air.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Please email New Dhamma Questions to [email protected].

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

Gratitude Appreciates all Assistance!



The Buddha indeed pointed out Gratitude as an important mental quality:
These two people are hard to find in the world. Which two?
The one who is first to do a kindness, and
the one who is grateful and thankful for a kindness done.
Anguttara Nikaya 2.118


I tell you, monks, there are two people who are not easy to repay.
Which two? Your mother & father. Even if you were to carry your mother
on one shoulder & your father on the other shoulder for 100 years, & were
to look after them by anointing, massaging, bathing, & rubbing their limbs,
and they were to defecate and urinate right there on your shoulders, you
would not thereby repay your parents. Even if you were to establish your
mother & father in absolute sovereignty over this great earth, abounding in
the seven treasures, you would not in that way repay your parents!
Why is that? Mothers and fathers do much for their children. They care for
them, they nourish them for long, and they introduce them to this world.
But anyone who rouses his unbelieving mother & father, settles & establishes
them in faith; rouses his immoral mother & father, establishes them in virtue;
rouses his stingy mother & father, settles & establishes them in generosity;
rouses his unwise mother & father, settles & establishes them on a new level
of understanding: It is in this way that one truly repays one's mother's and
father's many longstanding services.
Anguttara Nikaya 2.32


Mother & father, compassionate to their family, are called Brahma, first teachers,
honour them with food & drink, clothing & bedding, and anointing, bathing, washing
their feet. Performing these services to their parents, the wise are praised right
here and after death rejoice in heaven. Itivuttaka 106



If this is what you think of me:
The Blessed One, is sympathetic, is seeking our well-being, teaches us this
Dhamma out of sympathy, then you should train yourself in being in harmony,
cordial, and without conflict and train in yourselves cultivation of all the 37
best mental qualities: The 4_Foundations_of_Awareness, the 4 right efforts,
the 4_Feet_of_Force, the 5 Abilities, 5 powers, the 7 Links to Awakening,
& the Noble_8-Fold_Way. Majjhima Nikaya 103
A Tathagata is worshipped, honoured, respected, thanked & shown gratitude
by any follower, who keeps practicing the Dhamma in accordance with true
Dhamma, who keeps practicing masterfully, who lives in and by the Dhamma!
Digha Nikaya 16

We will undertake & practice those qualities that makes one a contemplative,
so that all those who helped us by services of robes, alms-food, lodging, and
medicines will bring them great fruit and great future reward.
Majjhima Nikaya 39



Comments:
In Pali, the word for gratitude = kataññu literally means to have a sense of
what was done for one in the past even when long ago. Remembering all help!
A network of kindness and gratitude is what sustains whatever goodness
there is and ever will be in this - otherwise destitute & impoverished - world!

Thus: Thank you for reading this!

Source (edited extract): The Lessons of Gratitude by Thanissaro Bhikkhu:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... itude.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ap ... iation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Gracious is Gratitude!

Appropiate Appreciation is Advantageous!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The ... titude.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

All Adultery, Incest, and Paedophilia is Harmful Sexual Abuse!



Once in Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said this:
What, householder friends, is the Dhamma explanation befitting for oneself?
Here, householder friends, a Noble Disciple reflects thus: If someone were to
commit adultery with my wife, that would neither be pleasing, nor agreeable to me.
Similarly, if I were to commit adultery with another man's wife, that would also
be illicit sex, & horny fornication, which would neither be pleasing, nor agreeable
to that other man either....
What is displeasing and disagreeable to me, is also displeasing and disagreeable
to any other being too. How can I harm & hurt another being with what provoke,
annoy and exasperate myself? Having reflected repeatedly thus, then gradually:
1: He/she will carefully avoid all adultery, sexual and sensual abuse...
2: He/she will persuade others also to abstain from all adultery & sexual abuse...
3: He/she will speak praising behaving faithfully, loyal, in trustworthy fidelity...
In this very way is this advantageous bodily behaviour purified in it's 3 respects!

One should never mentally hurt or harm other beings, even when Greedy for Sex!



What is Sexual Abuse (kamesu-micchacara)?:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Wh ... aviour.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... acaara.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:354]
section 55: Sotapattisamyutta. Thread 7: To the people at the Bamboo gate...



Avoid all Sexual Abuse..

All Adultery, Incest, and Paedophilia is Harmful Sexual Abuse!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Abusing.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Dhamma Audio #11: The 5 Destinations

https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... r-11-audio" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Dhamma Questions answered:
Q1: How to come to understand suffering?
Q2: Adultery induces rebirth as homosexual. Source text? Other causal karmic relations?
Q3: When we are reborn as humans, are one into the future, or can we be reborn into the past?
Q4: Isn't attachment to a jhana meditation absorption also a form of clinging?
Q5: How can lay people gain deeper peace, when still craving for primitive things like sex?
Q6: Did Buddha said anything about euthanasia of humans and animals?
Q7: Should one participate in politics if there are political wrong doings that makes people suffer.
Q8: To quit alcohol and tobacco is there any Dhamma-medicine or meditation-method?
Q8: If Mara is performing evil actions, shouldn't he had destroyed himself karmically by now?
Q9: What makes the effect of kamma manifest as good or bad future?

The 5 Destinations:
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/T ... ations.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Manual on the 5 Destinations (Pañcagatidipani):
https://store.pariyatti.org/Journal-Pal ... _2026.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The realm of the Hungry Ghosts (Petavatthu) and The seats of the Divine Devas (Vimannavatthu):
https://store.pariyatti.org/Minor-Antho ... _2090.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Audio Dhamma Talks on Kamma:
https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... echanics-i" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... chanics-ii" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... hanics-iii" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Video of this Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NOscY15314" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Please send new questions to [email protected].

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

The Happiness of Bliss is the Goal of all Life!



The Buddha on the Beauty of Bliss:
Blissful is solitude for one who is content, learned & who sees the Dhamma.
Blissful is harmlessness towards all beings without any exception.
Blissful is freedom from any sensual urge whatsoever.
Yet, the supreme bliss, is the elimination of this abysmal conceit “I am”!
Udana – Inspiration: II – 1



Mind initiates and precedes all Phenomena...
Mind is their chief! They are all mind-made!
Therefore:
If a person thinks, speaks or acts with a pure mind:
Happiness then follows him like the cart-wheel that
follows the foot of the ox...
Dhammapada 2



Oh let us live happily! Possessing nothing at all!
Let us feed on joy, just like the shining Devas!
Dhammapada 200



Nibbanam paranam sukham...
Nibbana is the Highest Bliss!
Dhammapada 203/204



On this precious happiness, pleasure, bliss (Sukha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Happy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Samana-Sukha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Un ... d_Yeah.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... /sukha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Beautiful is Bliss!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Buddha_on_Bliss.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

The Very First Lesson:

The Blessed Buddha once said:

One should not kill any living being,
nor cause it to be killed,
nor should one incite another to kill.
Do never injure any being, whether strong
or weak, in this entire universe!
Sutta Nipata 2.396



About Harmlessness (Ahimsa):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Killing.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Bo ... olence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Patie ... erance.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/O ... ance_I.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Bl ... _Bliss.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ha ... erance.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;



NEVER KILL!
May all Beings become Happy thereby![/b][/i]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Never_Kill.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

At this Fullmoon Day do all Buddhas Awaken:

21th May 2016 Vesak Day celebrates birth, Enlightenment, and passing away
of the Buddha Gotama. Rejoice! Keep clean, calm, cool, clever, and caring...
About this Buddhist Vesak Festival: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesak" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This May full moon also celebrates the Buddha's third visit to Sri Lanka in
the eighth year after his Enlightenment where he journeyed to Kelaniya on
the invitation of the Naga King Maniakkhika (Mahavamsa i,72ff.).
The day also celebrates the crowning of king Devanampiyatissa (Mhv.Xi.42),
and the laying of the foundation stone of the Maha Stupa (Mhv.Xxix.1)



Please Remember:
At this very May full moon in year 528 BC the Blessed Buddha awakened
by completely perfect and utterly unsurpassable self-Enlightenment!
At that time a girl named Sujata Senani lived in Uruvela. When adult she
prayed before a certain Banyan tree, that she might get a good husband
equal to herself in caste & that her firstborn may be a son. Her prayer was
successful. Since indeed it did happen. At the full moon day of the Wesak
month, she rose at early dawn and milked the cows. As soon as new buckets
were placed under the cows, the milk poured spontaneously in streams all by
itself! Seeing this miracle, she knew something special was happening!
That same night the Future Buddha dreamt 5 dreams making him conclude:
"Surely, truly, without any doubt, today I will reach perfect Enlightenment!"
His 5 colored radiance illuminated the whole tree. Then Sujata came and
offered the cooked milk rice into the hands of this Great Being.



Later a local grass-cutter came going with a bundle of grass just harvested
from nearby. He offered the Great Being 8 handfuls of Kusa grass, when he
saw that this Sage was a Holy Man. The Future Buddha accepted the grass
and proceeded to the foot of the Bodhi-tree. Reaching the imperturbable
Eastern side, where all the Buddhas take their seat, he sat down saying to
himself: This is the immovable spot, where all the prior supreme Buddhas
have planted themselves! This is the place for destroying this net of desire!
Then the Future Buddha turned his back to the trunk and thus faced east.
Right there, he then resolutely settled on this mighty decision:

Let just blood and flesh of this body dry up & let skin and sinews fall from
the bones. I will not leave this seat before having attained the absolute and
Supreme Self-Enlightenment!



So determined did he seat himself in this unconquerable seat, from which
not a 100 lightning strikes could make him waver from. At this very moment
the rebel deity Mara -The Evil One- raised exclaiming: Prince Siddhattha will
pass beyond my power, but I will never allow it! And sounding the Mara's war
shout, he summoned his mighty army for battle. Then Mara warned his evil
militia: This Sakyamuni, son of Suddhodana, is far greater than any other
man, so we will never succeed to fight him up front. We must thus attack
him from the rear. Frustrated, being unable even to touch this big wielder
of power also with 9 mighty hurricanes of wind, rain, rocks, weapons, red
coals, hot ashes, sand, mud, and darkness Mara somewhat in panic shouted
at his army: "Why do you all stand still? Seize, kill & drive away this prince!"



Mara then yelled: "Siddhattha, leave this seat. It is not yours, but mine!"
Hearing this, the Well-gone One replied: Mara, neither have you fulfilled the
10 perfections to the third degree, nor have you given the 5 great donations.
Neither have you striven for insight, nor for the welfare of all the world,
nor for supreme self-enlightenment! Therefore does this very seat surely
not belong to you, but truly indeed only to me. Suddenly overpowered by fear
Mara's followers fled helter-skelter in all directions. Not two went in the
same direction, but leaving their weapons in a chaos, they all fled terrified
by metaphysical panic. Seeing them flee thus, the great assembly of deities
triumphantly shouted: Mara is defeated. Prince Siddhattha has won! Let us
celebrate this truly sublime, wonderful and unique victory! It was before
the sun had set that the Tathagata conquered Mara and defeated his army.
That same night, after having bathed, while the Bo tree rained red sprigs onto
his robe, The Consummate One gained knowledge of his prior lives during the
1st watch of the night: "With the mind thus concentrated, purified, bright,
unified, focused, tractable, compliant, steady & imperturbable, I directed
mind to remembrance of my past lives. I recollected many past lives, i.e., one
re-birth, two...five, ten... 50, a hundred, a thousand, 100 thousand, many eons
of cosmic contraction, & many eons of cosmic expansion: There I had such
a name, belonged to such a clan & species, had such a body. Such was my food,
such my life of pleasures and pains. Such was the end of my life. Passing away
from that state, I re-arose there. There I had such name, belonged to such
a sort & family, had such a form. Such was my food, such my experience of
pleasures & pains. Such was the end of my life. Passing away from that state,
I re-arose here. Thus I remembered my various past lives in all their various
modes and manifold details. This was the first knowledge I attained in the
first watch of the night. Ignorance was destroyed; the knowledge arose;
darkness was destroyed; light arose as happens in one who is alert, aware,
and determined. But the very pleasant feeling that arose by this did neither
invade my mind, nor remain. With the mind thus concentrated, purified, bright,
intact, pliant, malleable, steady, and totally imperturbable, I directed it to
the knowledge of the passing away and reappearance of beings. I saw by
means of the divine eye, purified & surpassing the human eye! I saw beings
passing away & re-appearing, and I realized how & why they are high or low,
beautiful or ugly, fortunate and unfortunate all in exact accordance with
the intentions of their prior actions: These beings who were endowed with
bad behaviour of body, speech, and mind, who reviled the Noble Ones, held
wrong views & acted under the influence of wrong views, with the break-up
of the body, after death, have re-appeared in the plane of misery, the bad
painful destination, the lower realms, even in hell. But the beings who were
gifted with good behaviour of body, speech and mind, who did not revile the
Noble Ones, who held right views and acted under the influence of right
views after the break-up of the body, after the death, have re-appeared in
happy destinations, even in a divine world! Thus by means of the divine eye,
purified and surpassing the human I saw beings passing away & re-appearing,
all in accordance with their particular mixture of good and bad kamma...
But the satisfaction that arose here did neither invade my mind, nor remain.
With the mind thus concentrated and completely absorbed, I then directed
it towards understanding the ending of mental fermentation. I realized how
it actually comes to be, that:

This is Suffering...
Such is the Cause of Suffering...
Such is the End of Suffering...
Such is the Way to End Suffering...



Such was the mental fermentations...
Such is the Cause of mental fermentation...
Such is the End of mental fermentation...
Such is the Way leading to the end of mental fermentation.

When my mind saw that, it was instantly freed of the fermentation of all
sense-desire, it was released from the fermentation of becoming, and it
became fully uncovered from the fermentation of ignorance. Thus fully and
perfectly Enlightened - The Buddha - perceiving this immense glory, spoke
these 2 solemn verses, which never has been omitted by any of countless
billions of prior Buddhas:

Through this round of countless existences have I searched, but yet failed
to find "the Creator", who framed this construction: What Suffering indeed
is such endless birth, ageing, decay, sickness and ever repeated death!
Now I see that "the Constructor" of this structure is Craving...!!! Never shall
this construction be built again, since all the rafters are shattered and the
main beam is busted and completely broken... At this calming of all Craving,
the mind was finally, irreversibly and ultimately stilled…
Then, friends, this revelation of certainty arose in me: This release is indeed
immutable, this is the very last rebirth, this endless reappearance has finally
come to a happy end... Nibbana is verily the Highest Bliss!



About Absolute Awakening!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/g/gotama.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/s/sujaataa.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... /bodhi.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... irukka.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... imanda.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... mbodhi.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Source:
The Jataka Nidana. The story of Gotama Buddha.
Tr. by N.A. Jayawickrama, Pali Text Society 1990.
https://store.pariyatti.org/Story-of-Go ... _2166.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



VESAK FESTIVAL VIDEOS, COLOMBO 2011:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4Zw2rKFWs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLScBZ1tW0A" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eunH6Dh2mM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Happy Vesak to All Beings!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Vesak_2016.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Dhamma on Air #23: Vesak and Right Effort

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Dhamma Questions answered:

Q42: What is the true meaning of Viriyena dukkhamacceti?

Q43: Did the Buddha communicate with Devas in Pali?

Q44: Should merit be passed on to the hungry ghosts by reciting Pali?

Q45: If having done "Papanthariya Kamma" can one escape Hell before the end of this Aeon?

Q46: Is modern popular "Mindfulness" the same as Buddhist Mindfulness or Awareness (Sati)?

What is Right Effort defined as:
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[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

The Sage is a stilled Seer, sweet in his Silence!



The Buddha explained the sweet, yet solid silence of the sage:
From all acquaintance, association, affiliation, and attachment, fear arises!
From any form of civil house-life emerges a mentally dull and dusty pollution!
The sage therefore prefers the disentangled and dissociated houseless state.
He who has cut down what has grown up accumulating, and who would never
neither plant anything new, nor irrigate what has already sprung up, him they
call a solitary wandering sage. Such great seer has seen the state of peace...
Having considered and comprehended all the fields of constructing activity,
having killed all initiation and all clinging affection, such sage indeed, seeing
the end of both birth and death, is beyond both speculation and designation!
Knowing all stations of the mind, yet detached from them all, a silenced sage
with neither greed nor preference, does neither any good nor any bad action,
for he has gone beyond to the far shore, by not accumulating any kamma...
Overcoming all, knowing all, very intelligent, unattached to all phenomena,
giving up all, completely released by the destruction of craving, such one the
wise know as a sage. One who has the power of wisdom, endowed with pure
virtue and ascetic praxis, concentrated, delighting in meditation, possessing
continuous mindfulness, released, detached, with neither mental barrenness,
nor with any mental fermentation brewing, such one the wise know as a sage.
Persistent, unshaken by blame & praise like a lion not trembling at any sound,
or like the wind not caught in any net, or like a lotus not defiled by any mud.
The sage is wandering alone, attentive, leading others, not to be led by any.
In the midst of oppression, despise & accusation he becomes imperturbable
like a pillar, with passion gone, with senses well under control... Immovable,
straight, upright, direct, never ever deviating, disgusted with all evil deeds,
examining both good & bad conduct, such one the wise surely know as a sage.
Fully restrained, fully self-controlled, who cannot be angered and who never
angers anyone, who does no evil, and who neither praises, nor criticizes any
other, him indeed the wise know as a sage. Constantly protecting all living &
breathing beings, the sage meditating in the remote forest, all beyond both
company and sex, completely released, not tied to anything, never negligent,
knowing all in this world, seeing the highest goal, having crossed the flood,
such a one, with his bonds completely cut, not fettered, without any mental
pollution, unselfish, swift and elevated, him indeed the wise know as a sage...
Sn 207-221



On this Quenched State of Peace, Freedom, and Maximum Bliss (Nibbana):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Reaching_Peace.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Entrance.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Nibbana_Still.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Uncreated.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://www.What-Buddha-Said.net/library ... bbaana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The silent Sage...
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_Sage.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

How is Understanding Penetrating?



Understanding (pañña) knows more than the mere perception since this can
just classify as 'blue' or 'round'. Only Understanding can dig out, reveal, and
penetrate into abstract characteristics of the object such as: Impermanent,
Miserable and Impersonal... While perception is like a child, and thinking is like
a villager, then Understanding is like an Expert, who knows far beyond both
the childish perception, and the naive villager-like pedestrian logical thinking...
Penetration into the particular, individual, special essence significant for only
the currently present object is the characteristic of Understanding!
To eliminate the darkness of delusion and the scatter of doubt by illuminating
the object, as if from all sides, is the elucidating function of Understanding!
Certainty, assured knowing, being beyond all doubt, fully comprehending without
any pollution of confusion is the confirming manifestation of Understanding!
The proximate cause of Understanding is Concentration, since only that quality
can anchor consciousness long enough on the object so that analytical thinking
can drill into it, and penetrate the quintessential and fundamental core!
When the object is experienced as if from inside, it is completely Understood!
Understanding is always accompanied by clear elevated Joy, or calm Equanimity!
Understanding prevents disadvantageous states from arising, and eliminates all
already arisen, and already habitually present detrimental states of the mind.
Understanding also initiates the arising of so far absent advantageous states,
and refines, expands, completes, and perfects these already arisen good states!

There is Understanding gained by Hearing and Learning from another.
There is Understanding earned by Thinking and Rational Reasoning.
There is Understanding won by Development through Meditation.

Who Knows? There is NOT an 'I, Me, or Person' who understands anything!
Rather the Event of Understanding occurs exactly when the ability and process
of Understanding is in the state of understanding. It is thus Understanding itself!,
that Knows, Comprehends, and Understands...



More on this supreme Ability to Understand:
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... bility.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... pannaa.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/R ... anding.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Source:  The Path of Purification XIV 2ff:
The Visuddhimagga by Ariya Buddhaghosa from the 5th century AC.
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdf ... on2011.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Understanding Reveals ..

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

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Dhamma Audio #12: Death-Consciousness

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Dhamma Questions answered:
Q1: What is Sankhara-upekkha-ñana. Can a layperson achieve it?
Q2: How is equanimity different from nihilism or depression?
Q3: Can a person who has achieved stream entrance break the 5 precepts?
Q4: If one forgive others for harms done, would that reduce their karmic effects?
Q5: How should one behave in order to be reborn in a higher than human world?
Q6: Is there any supreme power except the soul?
Q7: What is cuti citta? How can one gain a good cuti citta at the death-moment?

Cuti-citta: 'death-consciousness', lit. 'departing consciousness',
is one of the 14 functions of consciousness (viññana-kicca).
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... inking.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Rebirth.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Sankhara-upekkha-ñana = is Knowing indifference regarding all constructions.

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Friends:

What are the qualities of Nibbâna?



Nibbana is:
Total ease, complete calm, absolute freedom, perfect happiness & pure peace…
Absence of any uncertainty, doubt, confusion, any delusion and all ignorance…
Presence of confidence, certainty, understanding all, and direct experience…
Absence of any greed, lust, desire, urge, attraction, hunger, and temptation…
Presence of imperturbable and serene composure in an all stilled equanimity…
Absence of all hate, anger, aversion, hostility, irritation, & stubborn rigidity…
Presence of universal goodwill: An infinite & all-embracing friendly kindness…
Nibbana is not a place, not an idea, not a fantasy deception, not a conceit,
not a conception, not a cause, not an effect, not finite, not definable,
not formed, not begun, not ending, not changing, not temporal, but lasting…
Nibbana is unborn, unbecome, unmade, uncreated, uncaused, unconditioned,
and unconstructed, yet ultimately real…
Nibbana is void of eye, visible objects & visual consciousness, void of ear,
sounds & auditory consciousness, void of nose, smells & smell consciousness,
void of tongue, tastes & gustatory consciousness, void of body, touch & tactile
consciousness and void of mind, thoughts and mental consciousness…
Pure Peace @ Rest …



The Blessed Buddha once said:
Hard it is to see the unconstructed, the undistorted! This independent state
is not easily realized. Craving is all cut for the One, who knows, since he sees,
that there is nothing to cling to ... !!! Udana – Inspiration: VIII - 2

In any dependence there is bound to be instability. In free independence there
cannot be any instability. When there is no liable instability, no feeble wavering,
there is a quiet calm, stillness, serenity and peace.
When there is such solid tranquillity, then there is no tendency to drift,
no attraction, neither any mental push, nor any pull, nor any strain of appeal
or repulsion. When there is no attraction, no drift, no bending, then there is
no movement, no development, and neither any coming, & much less any going.
Neither any starting, nor any ending occurs... When there is neither any coming,
nor any going, then there is neither any ceasing, nor any re-appearance...
There being neither ceasing, nor reappearing, then there is neither any here,
there, beyond, nor in between... This – just this – is the End of Suffering.

Udana – Inspiration: VIII - 4
Having understood this unconstructed state, released in mind, with the chain
to becoming eliminated, they attain to the sublime essence of all states.
Delighting in the calmed end of craving, those steady Noble Ones have left all
being & becoming behind.  

Nibbana is The Highest Bliss!



One, who so knows, sees, that there is nothing to cling to ...

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;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Pure is Peace...

Nibbana is The Highest Bliss!
One, who so knows, understands that there is nothing to cling to...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

No Craving is the Ceasing of all Suffering!



The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, now, is this Noble Truth on the Elimination of all Suffering?
It is the complete fading away & irreversible elimination of all Craving,
the rejection & leaving of it, & the liberating release from it! SN 56:11

But where may this craving vanish, where may it be extinguished?
Wherever in the world, there are delightful and pleasurable things!
Right there and then may this craving be overcome, and quenched...
DN 22

Be it in the past, the present, or in any future, whatever true recluse
considers all delightful, attractive & pleasurable things in this world
as impermanent anicca, as miserable dukkha, & as without a self anatta,
as diseases & as cancers, it is he who conquers craving... SN 12:66

By final fading away and elimination of craving, clinging also ceases;
By the elimination of clinging, the process of becoming also ceases;
By the elimination of the process of becoming, rebirth also ceases;
Through the elimination of all rebirth, all decay, ageing & death!,
sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, & despair is finally extinguished...
Only that is the eradication of this entire mass of Suffering...
SN 12:43


                                                                                               
More on this thorny Craving causing all pain:
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No Craving = No Suffering!
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