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Holy is Harmlessness...

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Friends:

Harmlessness is the Best Protection!

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
May all creatures, all living things,
all beings without any exception,
experience good happiness only!
May they not fall into any harm.
Anguttara Nikaya 4.67

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Solitude is happiness for one, who is content,
who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees.
Non-violence is happiness in this world:
Harmlessness towards all living beings.
Udana 10

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The Noble is not one, who injures living beings.
The Noble is one, who never injures living beings.
Dhammapada 270

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Ever are the true disciples of the Buddha
well awake and quite aware. Constantly they
meditate both day and night on Harmlessness!
Dhammapada 296-301

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The one who has left all violence,
who never harms any being at all,
whether they are moving or still,
who neither kill, nor causes to kill,
such one, harmless, is a Holy One!
Dhammapada 405

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More on Harmlessness (Ahimsa = Non-Violence):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/H ... erance.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/B ... _Bliss.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/S ... rmless.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... ance_I.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Ha ... ssness.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Pati ... erance.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/B ... olence.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Killing.htm

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Holy is Harmlessness...

Harmlessness is the very best Protection!
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Ho ... ssness.htm
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Re: Holy is Harmlessness...

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Bhikkhu_Samahita wrote:Friends:

Harmlessness is the Best Protection!

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
May all creatures, all living things,
all beings without any exception,
experience good happiness only!
May they not fall into any harm.
Anguttara Nikaya 4.67

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Solitude is happiness for one, who is content,
who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees.
Non-violence is happiness in this world:
Harmlessness towards all living beings.
Udana 10

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The Noble is not one, who injures living beings.
The Noble is one, who never injures living beings.
Dhammapada 270

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Ever are the true disciples of the Buddha
well awake and quite aware. Constantly they
meditate both day and night on Harmlessness!
Dhammapada 296-301

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The one who has left all violence,
who never harms any being at all,
whether they are moving or still,
who neither kill, nor causes to kill,
such one, harmless, is a Holy One!
Dhammapada 405

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More on Harmlessness (Ahimsa = Non-Violence):
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/H ... erance.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/B ... _Bliss.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/S ... rmless.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... ance_I.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Ha ... ssness.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Pati ... erance.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/B ... olence.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Not_Killing.htm

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Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Holy is Harmlessness...

Harmlessness is the very best Protection!
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Ho ... ssness.htm
Few points here:

1) Thai monks were mostly silent when the Government they re represented by was contributing in one of the worst mass deaths in recent times: the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I consider ths as totally unwholesome and uncompassionate.
How can someone call himself as compassionate and then stay silent when hundreds of thousands of civilians are murdered in his name aswell, this is beyond me
I consider the death of a fly immensely less important than the death of a human being, still monks turned their faces away and did not help when thousands perished
How unwholesome!

2) the nonviolent principle proposed by Gandhi is sometimes misunderstood as cowardice
Not so!

After an exhaustive study of Mahatma Gandhi’s works, scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein has written a new book about the principles of nonviolent resistance from the Indian struggle for independence to Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park. He says Gandhi found "nothing more despicable than cowardice," and argued that nonviolence does not mean running away from danger. In fact, Gandhi argued that fighting a war with weapons takes less courage than nonviolent resistance in which "you’re supposed to march into the line of fire, smilingly and cheerfully, and get yourself blown to bits."
https://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/5/p ... nd_courage

One can only argue that monks, who did not even took time and effort to just say "not in my name " when people were killed intheir name are not following the teaching of Gandhi, and, if the Buddha teachings were really about compassion, I strongly doubt they are following the teaching of the Buddha

With metta

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The Great Smoky Dragon!

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Dhamma on Air #62: Quantum Buddhism 2 = The Great Smoky Dragon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcoKk4HdLyA

The Law of Kamma = Quantum Entanglement + Participant Observation

Lotus Offering 4 @ 9:59

Peradeniya University Philosophy Lecture @ 14.21

Participant Observation @ 24:40

Quantum Entanglement = Kammic Law @ 35:24

The Participatory Principle @ 52:21

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

Quantum Buddhism Links:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/ontology.htm
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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Re: Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

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Quantum physics can be independently verified
Kammic laws can not

They are different then
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Viking Dhamma 101A

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Dhamma on Air #58 audio: Viking Dhamma 101A

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Basic Introduction to Early Buddhism delivered to
the Implement management consultancy company
in Tuborg Havn, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2017.

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Experiencing the Breath!

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Special Experiences might cure illness instantly!

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Once when Venerable Girimananda was sick, the Buddha said to Ven. Ananda.
What is the experience of acute Awareness by in-&-out Breathing?
It is when a Bhikkhu, who have gone to the forest, or to the root of a tree,
or to an empty hut, sits down cross-legged, having straightened his body and
back, and set up awareness around the nostrils, then just plain aware of only
that itself, he breathes in, and then just solely aware of only that breathing
in itself, he then breathes out...
1: Breathing in-&-out long, he knows, notes & understands: I in-&-exhale long!
2: Breathing in short, he knows, notes & understands: I in-&-exhale short!
3: He trains thus: Experiencing this entire body, I will breathe in-&out!
4: He trains thus: Calming all bodily activity, I will breathe in-&out!
5: He trains thus: Experiencing enraptured joy, I will breathe in-&out!
6: He trains thus: Experiencing a happy pleasure, I will breathe in-&out!
7: He trains thus: Experiencing all mental activity, I will breathe in-&out!
8: He trains thus: Calming all mental activity, I will breathe in-&out!
9: He trains thus: Experiencing the present mood, I will breathe in-&out!
10: He trains thus: Elating & gladdening the mind, I will breathe in-&out!
11: He trains thus: Concentrating & focusing mind, I will breathe in-&out!
12: He trains thus: Releasing, & liberating the mind, I will breathe in-&out!
13: He trains thus: Considering impermanence, I will breathe in-&out!
14: He trains thus: Considering disillusion, I will breathe in-&out!
15: He trains thus: Considering ceasing, I will breathe in-&out!
16: He trains thus: Considering relinquishment, I will breathe in-&out!
Having learnt and memorized these 16 simple steps from the Blessed One,
the Venerable Ananda went to the Venerable Girimananda and recited these
to him. Then as soon as Venerable Girimananda heard these 16 simple steps
& the ten experiences his illness instantly subsided & he rose from his bed!
This was thus the way Venerable Girimananda was cured from his sickness....

Video on detailed explanation of Anapanasati breathing meditation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLud0Ue7LE

Anapanasati breathing meditation guided and explained:
As streaming audio and mp3 download
https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... meditation

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The 10 Experiences are:
1: The experience of Impermanence, and Transience (Anicca-Sañña).
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... anence.htm
2: The experience of No-Self, and Egoless Impersonality (Anatta-Sañña).
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... ssness.htm
3: The experience of Loathsome Foulness, and Disgust (Asubha-Sañña).
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... isgust.htm
4: The experience of Danger, Damage, and Disadvantage (Adinava-Sañña).
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... Danger.htm
5: The experience of Leaving Behind, Overcoming; Giving up (Pahana-Sañña).
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... nation.htm
6: The experience of Disillusion, Dispassion, & Detachment (Viraga-Sañña).
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... g_Away.htm
7: The experience of Ceasing, Stilling, and Final Finishing (Nirodha-Sañña).
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... easing.htm
8: The experience of Disgust with the Whole World (Sabbaloka-Anabhirati-Sañña).
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... ntment.htm
9: The experience of Decay of all Formations (Sabbasankharesu Anicca-Sañña)
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... sience.htm
10: The experience of Awareness by in-and-out Breathing (Anapanasati-Sañña)
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... Breath.htm

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Ven. Webu Sayadaw was a great promoter of Anapana-sati meditation.

On Awareness by Breathing:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_I.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pd ... nasati.pdf
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_II.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_IV.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/1_Producing_4.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_III.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/F ... _Seven.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Ma ... tation.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... Breath.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/A ... athing.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DP ... a_sati.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/B ... nsight.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/P ... e_Spot.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/U ... athing.htm



Source (edited extract):

Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 10:60, V 108ff.
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutt ... erical.htm

Calming is Simple:
Stay focused on the Breath!


Experiencing the Breath!
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/E ... Breath.htm
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If using breath people may be cured istantly, why even seniour monks go to hospitals to get cured?
And why average life expectancy in Sri Lanka is way way below Japan and Switzerland, where people do not know at all about buddhist meditation?
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Re: Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

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Because few - very few - practice this jewel consistently..
Other Karmic + environmental factors also interact.
Luca123 wrote:If using breath people may be cured istantly, why even seniour monks go to hospitals to get cured?
And why average life expectancy in Sri Lanka is way way below Japan and Switzerland, where people do not know at all about buddhist meditation?
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Rejoicing Joy :-) _/\_

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How to train Rejoicing Joy in others Success?

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When sitting alone, in silence, each early morning, with closed eyes one wishes:
May I radiate, and meet with only never-ending, and mutually rejoicing joy!
May I and all the various beings on the 31 levels of existence develop and find
only celebration, and elation in a never-ending mutual joy in other's well-being!
May I and all beings on the sense-desire, fine-material, and the formless plane
develop and encounter this generous, infinite, and mutually rejoicing joy!
May I and all beings in the front, to the right, the back, the left, and below as
above, develop, and experience open-hearted, sharing, and mutually rejoicing joy!
May I and all beings within this city, country, planet, and multi-verse always:
Be fully aware and deeply mindful of this content and mutually rejoicing joy!
Examine all details and aspects of this satisfied and mutually rejoicing joy!
Put enthusiastic effort in our praxis of this devoted mutually rejoicing joy!
Enjoy enraptured jubilant gladness in this exulting mutually rejoicing joy!
Be silenced by the tranquillity of quiet, and all smiling mutually rejoicing joy!
Be concentrated and absorbed into one-pointedness by genuine rejoicing joy!
Dwell in an imperturbable equanimity of pure, and mutually rejoicing joy...
Yeah! May it be even so, since mutual joy causes the jewel of contentment!

Mutual Joy Audio Dhamma-Talk: Rejoicing evaporates all Envy and Jealousy..
https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... ontentment

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Crucial Comment: Mutual Joy is the 3rd infinite mental state (Appamañña):
This gradually reduces all envy, jealousy, possessiveness, stinginess, avarice,
miserliness, green covetousness, and any unhappiness related with all these states.
The cause of Mutual Joy is rejoicing in your child's or boon companion's success.
This same joy can then be beamed towards all liked, neutral and also hostile beings.
Mutual Joy is then the proximate cause of all satisfied and fulfilled Contentment...
Lack of mutual joy is thus the proximate cause of all dissatisfied discontentment...
Joined with the 7 links to Awakening it will later cause a formless jhana...
Be happy at all, and especially other being's success! Then calm comfort grows!

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More on Mutual Joy (Mudita):
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/Rejoi ... Mudita.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/I ... usness.htm

Mutual Joy causes Contentment!

Rejoicing Joy!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm
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Re: Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

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Bhikkhu_Samahita wrote:Because few - very few - practice this jewel consistently..
Other Karmic + environmental factors also interact.
Luca123 wrote:If using breath people may be cured istantly, why even seniour monks go to hospitals to get cured?
And why average life expectancy in Sri Lanka is way way below Japan and Switzerland, where people do not know at all about buddhist meditation?
Then why even Ajahan chah had to go to hospital?
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Meditation vs. Psychedelics

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Dhamma on Air #63: Meditation vs. Psychedelics

No Purity = No Progress .!.

Chemical Calm is a Phoney Pseudo Phantasm ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCU05-9cOY0

Question 188: A: Is sex an Addiction to sense pleasure? @ 3:24
B: Is Masturbation a compulsive behaviour?
C: Can orgasm be advantageous?

Question 189:
Can psychedelics improve meditation, and/or spirituality? @ 18:19

Question 190: What is the Buddhist view on Organ Donation? @ 44:30

A Roof is Needed.. @ 50:21

How difficult is it to be reborn as a Human? Simile of the Blind Sea-turtle:
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/T ... Turtle.htm
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/By_Chance.htm

Generosity is the 1st Mental Perfection:
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Open ... rosity.htm

On the solitary and silenced Pacceka-Buddhas:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DP ... buddha.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DP ... buddha.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/T ... s_Horn.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratyekabuddha
The Paccekabuddha Study: A Buddhist Ascetic by Ria Kloppenborg.
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Re: Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

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Luca123 wrote:
Bhikkhu_Samahita wrote:Because few - very few - practice this jewel consistently..
Other Karmic + environmental factors also interact.
Luca123 wrote:If using breath people may be cured istantly, why even seniour monks go to hospitals to get cured?
And why average life expectancy in Sri Lanka is way way below Japan and Switzerland, where people do not know at all about buddhist meditation?
Then why even Ajahan chah had to go to hospital?
Moggallana was killed in a violent fashion even though he was an arahant and one of the chief disciples of the Buddha. Apparently even those with very good wholesome qualities (arahant, chief disciple, well-respected monk) might still have some distant past kamma ripening (according to the Theravada tradition).
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Re: Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

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David N. Snyder wrote:
Moggallana was killed in a violent fashion even though he was an arahant and one of the chief disciples of the Buddha. Apparently even those with very good wholesome qualities (arahant, chief disciple, well-respected monk) might still have some distant past kamma ripening (according to the Theravada tradition).
The point was about health
The point was about why arhants go to hospital if using the breath can cure illnesses
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Arhants go to hospital out of compassion for doubters fumbling in Samsara.
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Friends

The Blessed Buddha once said:

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Sangahako mittakaro,
Vadaññu vitamaccharo,
Neta vineta anuneta,
Tadiso labhate yasam.


Friendly + Unselfish = Honourable!
Who is hospitable, and friendly,
Generous and unselfish,
A guide, a teacher, a leader,
Such one will to honour attain.
Digha Nikaya 3.273

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Have a nice day!

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Friendly + Unselfish = Honourable!
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