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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:41 pm

Friends:

Understanding the 4 Truths is indispensable!

The Blessed Gotama Buddha once explained:
If anyone should ever postulate: "Without having made the breakthrough
to understanding: This is Suffering; Craving is the Cause of Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering; The 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
as it really is, I will make a final and complete end of all suffering!"
Then this is hopeless, impossible, impracticable, unachievable, and untrue!
Just as if anyone would build the second floor of a house without first
having built the first floor...
However if anyone should wish: "Having made this crucial breakthrough
to understanding: This is Suffering; Craving is the Cause of Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering; The 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
as it really is, I will make a final and complete end of all suffering!"
Then this is realistic, possible, likely, promising, feasible, and realizable!
Just as if one first having built the first floor of a house easily could
build and add the second floor... Therefore should an effort be made
to really understand, see, comprehend and realize these 4 Noble Truths!

Comment:
Many beings embark on raising a grand metaphysical religious "Tower" from,
which they can look down proud, yet forgetting all about to making a solid
foundation first! Result: At first wind this unstable tower tumble & they fall...
Back to square one again! There is only this ONE way: The Noble 8-fold Way...
Never give up developing this Way further, deeper, better and more pure!
Stay grounded! Pay attention to these facts and truths as they really are...

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:452-3]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 44: The Peaked House ...

An indispensable necessity...

Understanding the 4 Noble Truths is crucial!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In ... essity.htm

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 12:34 am

Friends:

Sense Joys, Happiness, Release & Beyond!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are joys of the flesh, there are joys not of this world, &
there are rapturous joys far beyond even such subtle unworldly joys ...
There is happiness of the flesh, there is a happiness not of this world, &
there is exquisite bliss far beyond even such subtle unworldly happiness!
There is indifference of the flesh, there is Equanimity not of this world,
and there is a serenity far beyond even such subtle unworldly Equanimity!
There is satiety of the flesh, there is a mental release not of this world,
and there is a liberation far beyond even such subtle unworldly release ...
And what, bhikkhus, are then these simple joys of the flesh?
There are these five strings of sense-pleasure. What five?
Visible forms experiencable by the eye ...
Hearable sounds experiencable by the ear ...
Smellable odours experiencable by the nose ...
Tastable flavours experiencable by the tongue ...
Touchable objects experiencable by the body ...
All are attractive, captivating, desirable, irresistible, lovely, agreeable,
tempting, pleasing, sensually enticing, seductive, alluring, & tantalizing!
These are the 5 strings of sense-pleasure. Joy that arises from these
five strings of sense-pleasure: This is simply the Joy of the flesh ...

Prince Siddhattha realizes the empty folly of sense pleasure...

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [235-7]
section 36:11 On Feeling: Vedana. Joys beyond this world ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sa ... index.html

Beyond Joy!

Sensing is simple. Ever-lasting Bliss is not...
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Jo ... Beyond.htm

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:55 pm

Friends:

Envy and Jealousy is a mix of Greed and Hate!

How to cure these agonizing mental states of Envy & Jealousy:

1: Review the Danger in Envy and Jealousy like this:
This Acid is eating up my mind from within! All joy & happiness is destroyed!

2: Know that Envy arises because one wants something that others have!
The aversion towards these persons arise due to greed for a desired object.
Wanting=greed is craving towards an object, while aversion=hate is craving
away from an object. All forms of Craving causes Suffering! Know that Envy
and Jealousy is the proximate cause of Discontent and Dissatisfaction!

3: Envy is cured by rejoicing in others success= Mutual Joy! (Mudita) like:
How good that this being, having done good in the past, now earns the well
deserved fruit!!! Thus one substitutes a disadvantageous mental state with
an advantageous mental state. Know that this subtle Mutual Joy! (Mudita) is
the proximate cause of Contentment! Contentment is the highest Treasure...

4: Begin and Cultivate meditation on Infinite Mutual Joy:
Sit down a silent & empty place with closed eye and beam from the heart:
May I be successful, rich, beautiful, famous, intelligent, popular & praised!
May my friends be successful, rich, beautiful, famous, intelligent, & praised!
May my enemies be successful, rich, beautiful, famous, intelligent, & praised!
May all in this village be successful, beautiful, famous, intelligent, & praised!
May all in this country be successful, rich, beautiful, intelligent, & praised!
May all on this earth be successful, rich, beautiful, intelligent, and praised!
May all in this galaxy be successful, rich, beautiful, intelligent, and praised!
May all in the universe be successful, rich, beautiful, intelligent, and praised!
Beaming this tender sympathy out from the heart first out in front, the right,
left, back, above as below, so gradually expanding beyond the limitations of
space and into the infinitude! When a cause is infinite, so will be the effect!

5: Keep on doing that 15-45 min every day. Note the difference in day joy!
May all beings rejoice in Mutual Joy celebrating all beings success & progress!

One should not despise any giving.
One should neither envy others.
One who envy others cannot attain absorption
and will never enter any concentrated trance.
Dhammapada 365

Neither nice speech, nor serene behaviour
Makes one accomplished, if one is still
Possessed of envy, miserliness or deceit.
Dhammapada 262

Absorbed in distractions,
Not paying appropriate attention,
Giving up the goal, following after the pleasant,
One comes to envy those, who enjoy right effort!
Dhammapada 209

How to cure envy and jealousy by substitution with the opposite see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm
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/IV/What_is_Wrong.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoi ... Mudita.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/I ... usness.htm

Have a nice rejoicing & noble day!

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

Envy and Jealousy is a Mix of Greed and Hate!

Envy and Jealousy!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ho ... alousy.htm

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 4:47 am

Friends:

The 10 Contemplations is Daily Buddhist Routine!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus and friends: There is this one contemplation, which when often practised
and developed leads to the complete turning away from the world, to detachment,
to stilling, to ceasing, to Peace, to final penetrating knowledge, to Enlightenment,
and thus to Nibbana... Any Noble Disciple, who by gradual progress has understood
this refined Dhamma, often dwells in this state. Which is that unique contemplation?
It is reflecting over the ethic qualities of own moral purity exactly like this:
The Noble Disciple reviews and recollects his own morality (Sila), which is unbroken,
immaculate, unspotted, unsoiled, productive of release, praised by the clever,
not stiff pride, which leads to concentration... Source: Anguttara Nikaya 6:10

Contemplating own Moral Purity..

Ethical integrity is crucial for future well-being!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Si ... lation.htm

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 1:49 am

Friends:

How does Effort to Avoid Protect against Evil?

The Blessed Buddha once said:
There are these 4 best efforts, Bhikkhus and friends:
1: The effort to avoid and thus prevent all evil states not yet arisen.
2: The effort to overcome all wrong states, that already has arisen.
3: The effort to initiate all the good mental states, that not yet has arisen.
4: The effort to maintain any advantageous state, that already has arisen.

What, Bhikkhus and friends, is the effort to avoid?
When experiencing a form with the eye, or a sound with the ear, or a smell
with the nose, or a taste with the tongue, or a touch with the body, or a
thought with the mind, then the Bhikkhu neither fixes his attention on the
whole appearance, nor on any of the object's specific tantalizing details...
He tries hard instead to dispel all these evil and disadvantageous mental states,
such as greed, lust and longing, that would arise if he left his senses unguarded.
He thus watches over his senses, controls his senses, and restrains his senses...
This is called the effort to avoid and thereby prevent all own evil mental states!

More on the Avoiding Effort!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/A ... Effort.htm

Source (edited extract):
The Numerical Sayings of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 4:14
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta ... erical.htm

Avoiding own Evil...!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Av ... ffort2.htm

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 12:17 am

Friends:

Equanimity of the Mind, Serenity & Beyond!

The Blessed Buddha once explained:
And what, Bhikkhus, is then this simple indifference of the flesh?
There are these five strings of sense-pleasure. What five?
Visible forms experienceable by the eye ...
Hearable sounds experienceable by the ear ...
Smellable odours experienceable by the nose ...
Tastable flavours experienceable by the tongue ...
Touchable objects experienceable by the body ...
That all are attractive, captivating, desirable, irresistible, lovely, charming,
tempting, pleasing, sensually enticing, seductive, alluring, and tantalizing!
These are the 5 strings of sense-pleasure. The indifference that arises
from these 5 strings of sense-pleasure when bored, is simply indifference
of the flesh...

And what, Bhikkhus, is the equanimity, which is not of this world?
With the leaving behind of both pleasure and pain, & with the prior fading
away of both joy & sorrow, one enters & dwells in the 4th jhana absorption,
which is an entirely stilled mental state of utter awareness, purified by
the equanimity of neither-pain-nor-pleasure. This is called the equanimity,
which is not of this world!

Finally, what is serenity beyond the equanimity, which is not of this world?
When a bhikkhu, whose mental fermentations are eliminated, reviews his
calmed mind, which is liberated from all lust, freed from all hatred, and
released from uncertainty, then there arises a transcendental serenity...
This is the serenity beyond that equanimity, which is not of this world!

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [235-7]
section 36:11 On Feeling: Vedana. Joys beyond this world ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sa ... index.html

Have a nice & noble day!

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

Tranquillity is a prerequisite for Happiness!

Serene is Equanimity!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Se ... Beyond.htm

SarathW · Post by **SarathW** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:03 am

Sadhu,Sadhu,Sadhu
Bhante,
I never thought about it.
Forth Jhana is the middle of the Lokiya and lokuttara?

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:18 am

All jhanas are supramundane (lokuttara)
Awakening is beyond that.

SarathW · Post by **SarathW** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 1:43 am

According to Abhidhamma, Kamma constitutes the
twelve types of immoral consciousness, eight types of moral
consciousness pertaining to the Sentient Realm (kāmāvacara),
five types of moral consciousness pertaining to the Realms
of Forms (rūpāvacara), and four types of moral consciousness
pertaining to the Formless Realms (arūpāvacara).
The eight types of supramundane (lokuttara) consciousness
are not regarded as Kamma, because they tend to eradicate
the roots of Kamma. In them the predominant factor is
wisdom (paññā) while in the mundane it is volition (cetanā).
The nine types of moral consciousness pertaining to
the Realms of Form and the Formless Realms are the five
Rūpāvacara and four Arūpāvacara Jhānas (Ecstasies) which are
purely mental.
P268:
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/buddh ... gsurw6.pdf

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:11 am

Sorry 'I' was mistaken (again) hehehe:
The 8 Jhanas (rupa and arupa) are all worldly (lokiya)
since they pertain to the Brahma and Formless levels
which, though subtle, nevertheless still are worldly:

About The 31 Planes of Existence please see:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dham ... /loka.html

Supra-mundane are only the 4 Noble paths and fruitions (ariya)
and Nibbana as the ninth Supramundane (lokuttara) state:
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPP ... uttara.htm

May U kindly forgive me for this inaccuracy so that
I can prevent similar mistakes in the future.

Thanx Teacher for pointing out these facts.

SarathW · Post by **SarathW** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:25 am

It is OK Bhante,
They all are fabrications!

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 4:08 am

Sadhu:
"They all are fabrications!"
So true:
TRANSIENT FORMATIONS...
"Bhikkhus: Is what is impermanent suffering or happiness?
Suffering, Venerable Sir..."
Samyutta Nikaya 24:71 III 223

Nikaya35 · Post by **Nikaya35** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:28 pm

Thanks for the daily drops blante. Amazing work !

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:31 pm

Thanx2U2 maitreya31

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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:38 pm

Friends:

How are the 5 Mental Abilities (indriya) being developed?

There are these 5 mental Abilities:
The ability (faculty) of faith,
The ability of energy,
The ability of awareness,
The ability of concentration,
The ability of understanding.

The five abilities are being developed in 10 aspects:
When a Noble Friend is leaving sceptical doubt behind, this is development of the faith ability.
When a Noble Friend is developing the faith ability, then this mistrust of non-faith is left behind.
When a Noble Friend is leaving laziness behind, this is development of the energy ability.
When a Noble Friend is developing the energy ability, this indolent idleness is left behind.
When a Noble Friend is leaving negligence behind, this is development of the awareness ability.
When a Noble Friend is developing the awareness ability, this dull inattentiveness is left behind.
When a Noble Friend is leaving distraction behind, this is development of the concentration ability.
When a Noble Friend is developing the concentration ability, this mental scattering is left behind.
When a Noble Friend is leaving ignorance behind, this is development of the understanding ability.
When a Noble Friend is developing the understanding ability, this blind not knowing is left behind.
The five abilities are being developed in these 10 aspects.

The five abilities have been thus developed, thus fully developed in 10 aspects:
Because sceptical doubt has been fully left, the faith ability has been fully developed.
Because the faith ability has been fully developed, non-faith has been fully left.
Because laziness has been fully left, the energy ability has been fully developed.
Because the energy ability has been fully developed, idleness has been fully left.
Because negligence has been fully left, the awareness ability has been fully developed.
Because the awareness ability has been fully developed, non-attention has been fully left.
Because distraction has been fully left, the concentration ability has been fully developed.
Because the concentration ability has been fully developed, mental scatter has been fully left.
Because ignorance has been fully left, the understanding ability has been fully developed.
Because the understanding ability has been fully developed, ignorance has been fully left.
The five abilities have been developed, completely developed in these 10 aspects.

The five abilities have fully tranquillized in four aspects:
At the path-moment of stream-entry, the five abilities are being developed.
At the fruition-moment of stream-entry, they have been fully developed, & fully tranquillized.
At the path-moment of once-return, the five abilities are being developed.
At the fruition-moment of once-return, they have been fully developed, & fully tranquillized.
At the path-moment non-return, the five abilities are being developed.
At the fruition-moment of non-return, they have been fully developed, & fully tranquillized.
At the path-moment of Arahatship, the five abilities are being developed.
At the fruition-moment of Arahatship, they have been fully developed, & fully tranquillized.
So there are four purifications in the 4 paths, and four purifications in the 4 fruitions,
four purifications in the cuttings off, and four purifications in the tranquillizations.
The five abilities have been fully developed and also fully tranquillized, these 4 aspects.

There is development of the abilities in 8 kinds of persons:
In what eight kind of persons is there development of the abilities?
In the 7 initiators & in the Magnanimous Ordinary Man, is there development of the abilities.
In what three kinds of persons have the abilities been completely developed?
In a Perfect One’s disciple (a hearer) with the mental fermentations all eliminated, who has been
enlightened as a disciple by hearing it from a Teacher, have the abilities been completely developed.
In One who has reached enlightenment without declaring it, (Solitary Buddha) in the sense of being
self-enlightened, without a teacher, have the abilities been completely developed.
In a Perfect One, accomplished & fully self-enlightened, in the sense of being immeasurable, infinite,
have the abilities been completely developed. There is development of the abilities in these 8 kind
of persons. The 5 mental abilities have been completely developed in these three kinds of persons…

Ven. Sariputta Thera and Ven. Maha Moggallana Thera

Source: Ven. Sariputta in: The Path of Discrimination: Patidasambhidamagga:
http://store.pariyatti.org/Path-of-Disc ... _2126.html

For further Study of the 5 Mental Abilities, which become the 5 Powers:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... ummary.htm

Developing the Abilities ..

How are the 5 Mental Abilities (indriya) being developed?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/De ... lities.htm

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Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

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Beyond Joy!

How-2-Cure Envy and Jealousy?

Contemplating own Moral Purity..

Avoiding own Evil...

Serene is Equanimity!

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