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Exquisite is Equanimity!

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Friends:

How to train and purify Imperturbable Equanimity!

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Sitting alone, in silence, each early morning, with closed eyes one wishes:
May I radiate and meet only calm, imperturbable, and even equanimity!
May I and all the various beings on the 31 levels of existence develop and find
only the composure and poise of calm, imperturbable, and even equanimity!
May I and all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material, and the formless plane
develop and encounter this serene, calm, imperturbable, and even equanimity!
May I and all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left and below as
above develop and experience cool, calm, imperturbable, and even equanimity!
May I and all beings in this city, country, and universe always be fully aware
and deeply mindful of this steady, calm, imperturbable, and even equanimity!
May I and all beings in this city, country, and universe examine all details and
subtle aspects of this unstirred, placid, imperturbable, and even equanimity!
May I and all beings in this city, country, and universe put enthusiastic effort
into their training of this solid, calm, imperturbable, and even equanimity!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe find enraptured joy and
jubilant gladness in this unmovable, calm, imperturbable, and even equanimity!
May I and all beings in this city, country, and universe cultivate the tranquillity
of quiet, silent, stilled, and all smiling calm, imperturbable, and even equanimity!
May I and all beings in this city, country and universe attain concentrated and
absorbed one-pointedness by stoic, deep, imperturbable, and even equanimity!
May I and all beings in this city, country, and universe dwell in undisturbable
and imperturbable equanimity of unexcitable and unreactive detachment...
Yeah! Print this out, dwell in each state until pure, use ~ 25-45 minutes.

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Comment: Imperturbable Equanimity is the 4th infinite state (Appamañña):
This gradually reduces all desire, attraction, drift, tendency, bias, preference,
favouritism, one-sided partiality and unhappiness related with all these states.
Equanimity is the proximate cause of any knowing and seeing leading to Wisdom...
Equanimity is an extremely subtle form of solid, calm and peaceful Happiness...
Equanimity purifies all other advantageous states and brings them to Perfection...
Equanimity is unresponsive indifference, unstirred, unaffected, and untroubled!!!
There is Equanimity both regarding all live beings and all dead things!
There is Equanimity both regarding all internal and all external states!
There is Equanimity both regarding all past, all present and all future events!
There is Equanimity both regarding all what is mental and all which is physical!
There is Equanimity both regarding all what is material and all which is immaterial!
There is Equanimity both regarding all formed and all formless phenomena!
Cultivating such six-fold equanimity brings this supreme state to completion.

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Even is also: Equanimity (Upekkha):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even ... nimity.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... _Alert.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Di ... reedom.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Se ... nimity.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... nimity.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Ex ... nimity.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... nimity.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... pekkha.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DP ... ekkhaa.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/U ... nimity.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_ ... kening.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/I ... nimity.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/S ... Beyond.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DP ... ttataa.htm

Exquisite is Equanimity!

Unshakable is this serene form of inner Peace ...[/i]
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/U ... nimity.htm
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The Samsaric Ocean

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The Samsaric Ocean

Dhamma on Air #65: Right Motivation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UOrgzhBSsg

Simile on the Ocean of Samsara @ 6:48
Ref: Samyutta Nikaya SN 35:228.

Question 193: @ 23:56
A: While dying Anagarika Dharmapala said
"Let me be reborn again 25 times to share the Buddha-Dhamma"
Are such wishes advantageous and effective?
B: Are there Buddhas that arise on other planets, or is there some special aspect to earth?

Question 194: @ 25:58
A: Is Mahatma Ghandhi a Boddhisatta?
B: What is your opinion about this man, and the movie about his life?

Question 195: @ 30:51
A: Is Garden Buddha statues a good idea?
B: What is the difference between giving to a Buddha statue and personally to a Buddha?

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Zomethin Else ..

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Zomethin Else ..

The Pure Descent into Voidness..

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Source: What Buddha Said Series #1
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. MN 121
[iii 106] The minor speech on Voidness.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/De ... idness.htm
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Dhamma on Air #66:

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Right Speech ...

Dhamma on Air #66:

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Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion

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What Buddha Said Audio #2

Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion
The Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta:

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What is the Noble 8-fold Way?

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What is this Noble Eightfold Way?

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These eight things, friends, when developed and cultivated lead to Nibbana,
have Nibbana as their ultimate destination, have Nibbana as their final goal!
What eight?

1: Right View 
2: Right Motivation
3: Right Speech
4: Right Action
5: Right Livelihood
6: Right Effort
7: Right Awareness
8: Right Concentration


Friends, true knowledge is initiating all advantageous states, with a sense of
shame and fear of wrongdoing coming right after! For any clever person, who
has arrived at such true knowledge, right view emerges. For one of right view,
right motivation improves. For one of right motivation, right speech evolves.
For one of right speech, right action springs up. For one of right action, right
livelihood comes into being. For one of right livelihood, right effort arises.
For one of right effort, right awareness emerges. For one of right awareness,
right concentration develops.
Friends, this dawn is the sign and precursor for the arising of the sun. So too,
friends, for a person, there is a sign and precursor for the arising of this fine
Noble 8-fold Way. This sign and precursor is Good and Noble Friendship!
When a person has a Good Noble Friend, it is to be expected that he will develop
and cultivate this Noble 8-fold Way... And how does a person, who has a good
friend develop and cultivate this Noble 8-fold Way? Here, friends, a person
develops right view, right motivation, right speech, right action, right livelihood,
right effort, right awareness, and right concentration, which has as its final goal
the complete elimination of all greed, the full eradication of all hate, and the final
luminous erasure of all ignorance...

Source: The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha on the Way. SN V (56)
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sa ... index.html

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Further study on this Noble 8-fold Way:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/F ... First_.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Noble_8_fold_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/T ... ld_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/F ... eglect.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_ ... ld_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... le_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Frui ... le_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/T ... fering.htm

What is the Noble 8-fold Way?
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_ ... ld_Way.htm
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Dhamma on Air #67: Feeding Right Action

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Dhamma on Air #67: Feeding Right Action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mul67LjTqXI

Simile of The 4 Nutriment Fuels [ahara]
the Samsaric process of Suffering burns on. @ 7:34

1: Material food [kabalinkara], (Simile of the the Sons Flesh) @ 8:51
2: Contact [phassa], (Simile of the Flayed Cow) @ 18:21
3: Intention [cetana], (Simile of the Pit of Glowing Embers) @ 22:39
4: Consciousness [viññana], (Simile of the 300 Sword Stabs) @ 25:49

Question 199: @ 36:05
A: How to identify a monk, who have become an Arahant?
B: Do all awakened Arahants possess super-natural powers (iddhi)?

Question 200: Can evil spirits inhabit our consciousness, and create havoc? @ 55:41

Question 201: What is the Dhutanga practices, and should a lay do them? @ 1:00:19

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Similes of the Buddha, by Hellmuth Hecker:
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Designation of Human Types 31 [puggalapannati]
https://store.pariyatti.org/Designation ... _1958.html
http://www.abhidhamma.com/Puggala-pannatti_Scan.pdf

On Dhutanga practice in modern Thailand:
With Robes and Bowl, by Bhikkhu Khantipalo (WHEEL 83).
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/Wheels/wh083.pdf

Food donation (Classic Dana) is Possible @
https://what-buddha-said.net/various/Dana_via_Keels.htm

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On the Five Minor Mental Chains = The Lower Fetters (Samyojana) see:
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Obsessed by Form..

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Obsessed by Form..

What Buddha Said #2

https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... ed-by-form

Corresponding Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HaZhjIay3s

The Numerical Sayings - Anguttara Nikaya I [1-2]
Form - Rupa - The Obsessed Mind - Citta-Pariyadana

https://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutt ... .I.1-2.htm

On Sense-Desire (Hedonism=Kama-chanda):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... al_Pit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Co ... _Muddy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... s_Hook.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... Desire.htm

Daily Contemplation (Anupassana) of the 3 jewels (Tiratana):
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/B ... lation.htm
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/D ... lation.htm
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/S ... lation.htm

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Right Livelihood ..

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Right Livelihood ..

Dhamma on Air #68:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARQE3oaAQAc

Simile of The Painter and his Painting (SN12:64) @ 19:02
Txt. source: The connected discourses of the Buddha [Samyutta Nikaya]
Book 12 (Nidana-Vagga) on Causation, Causality & Cause and Effect
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/at ... .than.html

More on Nama-Rupa ~ Name-&-Form = Naming-and-Forming:
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/T ... uality.htm
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Name_and_Form.htm
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Th ... _Twins.htm

Question 202: @ 31:42
What is the Buddhist way of breaking up a relationship compassionately?

Question 203: @ 37:14
A: Why did the Buddha not stay in the human world for his full life-term?
B: Why did he need Ven. Ananda to plead him to stay?

On the Two State Dimensions of Nibbãna:
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/T ... bbanas.htm

Question 204: @ 43:20
A: Is it advantageous to buy alcohol, and then throw it away?
B: Can Hungry Ghosts [Petas] eat physical food?
See also:
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Ghosts_Petas.htm
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/H ... ebirth.htm
C: Does thinking of another's partner break the 3rd precept? @ 45:55
D: Can Devas re-offer food dedicated to them to monks? @ 47:33
E: Is looking younger than one's age a sign of good kamma? @ 48:37

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The 5 Mental Hindrances ..

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The 5 Mental Hindrances ..

What Buddha Said #3

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Noble is this 8-fold Way!

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Friends:

Noble indeed is this 8-fold Way:

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From right View comes right Motivation.
From right Motivation comes right Speech.
From right Speech comes right Action.
From right Action comes right Livelihood.
From right Livelihood comes right Effort.
From right Effort comes right Awareness.
From right Awareness comes right Concentration.
From right Concentration comes right Understanding.
From right Understanding comes right mental Release.
From right Release comes full Freedom, Bliss, and Peace!

Thus opened are the doors to the Deathless State...!

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Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by the Buddha. Digha Nikaya 18
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html

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Note the 8 spokes in the wheel symbolizing the 8 steps of the Noble Way!

Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way (Ariyo Atthangiko Maggo):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/F ... First_.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/T ... ld_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/F ... eglect.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_ ... ld_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... le_Way.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Frui ... le_Way.htm

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There is no other way out of Suffering...

The Noble 8-fold Way

The 8 Steps to End all Suffering!
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Noble_8_fold_Way.htm
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The Fire of Right Awareness

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Einstein's Relativity = Relational Reality

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Einstein's Relativity = Relational Reality

https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... r-60-audio

Albert Einstein's Relativity corresponds to Early Buddhism's Conditional Relation

Dhamma on Air #60: There is no "Same Time". Lengths can Contract! Time can Dilate!

Corresponding Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwrrtwkWENk

See also in the same Early Buddhism ~ Modern Science Trilogy:

Dhamma on Air #62: Quantum Buddhism 2
The Great Smoky Dragon and Quantum Entanglement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcoKk4HdLyA

and

Dhamma on Air #61: Quantum Buddhism 1
The Double Slit Experiment and Wave-Particle Duality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG9JKDES_Ag

and

Dhamma on Air #60: Einsteinian Relativity = Relational Reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwrrtwkWENk

Quantum Buddhism:
Consciousness flips the aspect of the observed object from wave to particle aspect:
American physics grand old man John Archibald Wheeler coined this
the "Participatory Observer (Strong Anthropic) Principle" on which
contemporary orthodox quantum physics and Buddhism fully agree!

PUFFING the SQUIF...
Consciousness causes Collapse of the Quantum-mechanical Wavefunction:
"No phenomenon is a phenomenon, until it is an Observed Phenomenon...!" John A. Wheeler
"The path of the electron comes into existence, only when we observe it." John S. Bell
“Observations not only disturb, what has to be measured, they produce it!" Pascual Jordan

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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Some_Clues.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Di ... States.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Q ... ddhism.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Bud ... cience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Om ... m_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No ... _There.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdf ... ut_law.pdf
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Co ... stency.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The ... Anatta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Qua ... ements.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Obs ... Object.htm

Experimental ramification recently published:
Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments
Dean Radin at al. Physics Essays 25, 2 (2012)
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdf ... n.2012.pdf

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Emergence of Stream-Entry!

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Emergence is directly knowing the Noble Way!

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At the stream-entry moment - right there & then - as an internal light flash:
Right view emerges from wrong view and from all defilements as seeing...
Right motivation emerges from wrong motivation as now directing...
Right speech emerges from wrong speech as kindly embracing...
Right action emerges from wrong action as clever originating...
Right livelihood emerges from wrong livelihood as full cleansing...
Right effort emerges from wrong effort as enthusiastic exerting...
Right awareness emerges from wrong awareness as alert establishing...
Right concentration emerges from wrong concentration as non-distraction...
Externally this change-of-lineage emerges from all symbols and conventions!
This mental remodelling is an irreversible phase transition to the Noble state!
Vism 681

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Noble Emergence from all the assuming mental fermentations!

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https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Divine_Tracks.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Enter.htm
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Entering the Stream leading to Nibbana within 7 lives at most...

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Emergence of Stream-Entry!
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Absorbed into Right Concentration

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Absorbed into Right Concentration

Dhamma on Air #70:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Lsw88d6vU

Simile of the Deers in the Swamp @ 21:13

Question 208: @ 28:23
How to deal with insomnia from a Buddhist perspective?

Question 209: @ 30:23
A: Is there no other planets with beings at the human level?
B: Do they have access to pure Buddha-Dhamma?

Question 210: @ 32:17
Will science ever be able to detect the 4 great elements in materiality (rupa)?

Source Text of Simile of the Deers: Majjhima Nikaya: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha.
MN 19 [M i 114] Dvedhavitakka Sutta: Two Sorts of Thinking
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