rajitha7 wrote:Enlightened beings no longer "intend" to do anything. Without good/neutral/bad intentions no Kamma generated what so ever. I was looking for an example in the Suttas where this is evident.
Could the following be an example?
"Venerable Gotama, Ajatasattu, the king of Magadha, pays homage at the feet of the Venerable Gotama and wishes him good health, strength, ease, vigour, and comfort.
He desires to wage war against the Vajjis, and he has spoken in this fashion: 'These Vajjis, powerful and glorious as they are, I shall annihilate them, I shall make them perish, I shall utterly destroy them.'"
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .vaji.html
The brahman Vassakara, an advisor to the king of Magadha asks Buddha's opinion on waging war against the "Vajjis".
The Buddha does not say whether or not to go to war. He gives 7 reasons why Vajjis will not be easily beaten in a war.
If the Buddha advises against a war that shows an intention to stop the war. Instead, he explains why war would be futile by mentioning how pious the Vajji community conducts themselves.
Is this an example of a display of no-intension. Are there any other examples in the Suttas that show "non-intention" by enlightened beings?
Awakened persons have intentions: consider this (SN 46.4:
https://suttacentral.net/en/sn46.4)
“Friends, there are these seven factors of enlightenment. What seven? The enlightenment factor of mindfulness, the enlightenment factor of discrimination of states, the enlightenment factor of energy, the enlightenment factor of rapture, the enlightenment factor of tranquillity, the enlightenment factor of concentration, the enlightenment factor of equanimity. These are the seven factors of enlightenment.
“Whichever of these seven factors of enlightenment I want to dwell in during the morning, I dwell in that factor of enlightenment during the morning. Whichever I want to dwell in during the middle of the day, I dwell in that factor of enlightenment during the middle of the day. Whichever I want to dwell in during the evening, I dwell in that factor of enlightenment during the evening."
Or DN 28: "And what is the Ariayan supernormal power? Here a monk if he wishes "Let me dwell with the disgusting not feeling disgust" he can so abide."
Or even after the Blessed ones awakening he considers that teaching the Dhamma might lead to his frustration and he needs the Brahmas intervention to teach, after he reaches the 5 monks he has to convince them to listen to the teaching. And so on.
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Even if the flesh & blood in my body dry up, leaving just the skin, tendons, & bones, I will use all my human firmness, human persistence and human striving. There will be no relaxing my persistence until I am the first of my generation to attain full awakening in this lifetime. ed. AN 2.5