another simile: SN 35.199 "Once upon a time, monks, a hard-shelled tortoise was foraging for food in the evening along the shore of a lake. And a jackal was also foraging for food in the evening along the shore of the lake. The tortoise saw the jackal from afar, foraging for food, and so — with...

My question for discussion is how did the teaching about the arising & cesssation of craving & suffering result in the realisation of " whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation "? Thanks ye dhammā hetuppabhavā- is a statement of dependant origination “yaṃ kiñ...

"Wander, monks, in what is your proper range, your own ancestral territory. In one who wanders in what is his proper range, his own ancestral territory, Mara gains no opening, Mara gains no foothold. And what, for a monk, is his proper range, his own ancestral territory? The four frames of ref...

"Wander, monks, in what is your proper range, your own ancestral territory. In one who wanders in what is his proper range, his own ancestral territory, Mara gains no opening, Mara gains no foothold. And what, for a monk, is his proper range, his own ancestral territory? The four frames of ref...

{http://www.ajahnchah.org/book/Even_One_Word_Is.php} If someone calls you good, don't be that. Don't think, ''I am good.'' If someone says you are bad, don't think, ''I'm bad.'' Don't try to be anything. Know what is taking place. But then don't attach to the knowledge either. People can't do this. ...

it is clear the following 18 covers the whole of the ordinary human experience cakkhu, rūpā, cakkhusamphassaviññāṇāyatanaṃ. sotaṃ, saddā, sotasamphassaviññāṇāyatanaṃ. ghāṇaṃ, gandhā, ghāṇasamphassaviññāṇāyatanaṃ. jivhā, rasā, jivhāsamphassaviññāṇāyatanaṃ. kāyo, phoṭṭhabbā, kāyasamphassaviññāṇāyatana...

so the next question is what is this "suffering" i fear?
how can i pin it down?

cappuccino wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:20 pm is not every moment of existence difficult?

that is experience, you can know for yourself

I like this answer. i definitely fear suffering. this i have no doubt.

it seems the poor fellow mara is running about looking for his oxen.with disheveled hair, forgotten even to wash his feet

P.S.S :
what is mara the farmer harvesting?

P.S :
From [https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dha ... /loka.html]
Paranimmita-vasavatti deva Devas Wielding Power over the Creation of Others . These devas enjoy sense pleasures created by others for them. Mara, the personification of delusion and desire, lives here.

:anjali: I respectfully wish to discuss the following sutta [https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn04/sn04.019.than.html] At Savatthi. Now at that time the Blessed One was instructing, urging, rousing, & encouraging the monks with a Dhamma talk concerning Unbinding. The monks — attentive...

[SN 12.68] Then Ven. Pavittha said to Ven. Musila, "Musila, my friend, putting aside conviction, putting aside preference, putting aside tradition, putting aside reasoning through analogies, putting aside an agreement through pondering views: Do you have truly personal knowledge.............. W...

Right Concentration= concentration that has Right Mindfulness

Right Mindfulness= Mindfulness that has Right Effort