Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Mon May 14, 2012 3:54 am

MAY all CRITTERS be HAPPY

VIDEO: "My" Reptile and amphibian hermit friends

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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Mon May 14, 2012 10:45 pm

Friends:

The Empirical ALL is what can be Sensed or Thought!

At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha pointed out a most Radical Empiricism:
Bhikkhus, I will teach you the ALL. Listen to that... And what, Bhikkhus, is this ALL?

The Eye and the Forms;
The Ear and the Sounds;
The Nose and the Smells;
The Tongue and the Tastes;
The Body and the Touches;
The Mind and the Mental States.

This is defines and establish this ALL... If anyone, Bhikkhus, should ever postulate this:
'Having denied this all, I will define & point another all ...!!!', that would be empty babble!
If he were questioned, he would not be able to reply & he would become quite perplexed.
Why? Because, Bhikkhus, that would be far out of his mental range!
(since)
This World both Begins and Ends within this 2 fathom frame of bones... SN I 62

Looks initially quite far & remotely 'out there'...

Yet IT IS actually rather close up, as inherently sensed 'in here'...

See also the ALL as the Sensed Source:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Out_in.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... of_All.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

OUT = IN Wholeness:
Inseparable are the internal and the external...
Inseparable are the mental and the physical...
Inseparable are the experience and experienced...
Inseparable are the subject and the object...
Inseparable are the naming and the forming...
Inseparable are the mirror and the representation…
The ‘Real’ World is a perceived Representation…
Of what we will never know, since IT IS just & only that...
A never-ending FILM in dire need of a Scissor!

Insisting on Direct Experience never fails!

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV 15
The Salayatana section 35. Thread on the ALL: Sabba Sutta (23)
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sa ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What IS this ALL actually and factually?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_ALL.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Wed May 16, 2012 12:17 am

Friends:

What is the Final Goal and Destination?

The ascetic wanderer Nandiya once asked the Blessed One:
Which things, Master Gotama, when developed and refined, lead to Nibbana,
have Nibbana as their end destination, have Nibbana as their final goal?
These eight things, Nandiya, when developed and refined lead to Nibbana, have
Nibbana as their last destination, have Nibbana as their final goal. Which eight?

Right View (samma-ditthi)
Right Motivation (samma-sankappa)
Right Speech (samma-vaca)
Right Action (samma-kammanta)
Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva)
Right Effort (samma-vayama)
Right Awareness (samma-sati)
Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)

These eight things, Nandiya, when developed and refined, lead to Nibbana,
have Nibbana as their target, have Nibbana as their final aim!
When this was thus spoken, the wanderer Nandiya said to the Blessed One:
Magnificent, Master Gotama! Marvellous, Master Gotama! Let the Master
Gotama remember me as one, who has taken refuge in the Buddha for life…

The 8 spokes symbolizes the 8 Steps of the Noble Way!

Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Fu ... First_.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Noble_8_fold_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_3-fold_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Fa ... eglect.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_N ... ld_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Fruit ... le_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... fering.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:11-2] section 45:10 Nandiya ...
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sa ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice targetted day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
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What is the Final Goal?

Nibban is the Highest and only Lasting Happiness!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_Final_Goal.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Wed May 16, 2012 11:47 pm

Friends:

Can an Almighty God or Divine Power save you?

Question:
>Can one be saved by an Almighty God or Divine Power?

Answer:
India has always had two holy traditions:

Brahmana: Priests, who by rituals and worship of assumed almighty ‘gods’,
and ‘divinity’ believe that they can be saved by these divine other-powers,
which they then rely on. Depending thus on something they cannot see or
contact their search is often blind…

Sramana: Recluses, who only trust themselves and that every-one has to
purify and thereby save themselves by themselves. They trust intense
meditation & study after guidance of a teacher, who usually is a Buddha.

No Brahmana have ever – so far reported – reached any Noble State…
That is, come within 7 rebirths of Nibbana – the only lasting safety!
No Brahmana have – so far reported – ever reached Nibbana…
No Brahmana, priest, guru, swami this or that will ever reach Nibbana!
Emptiness can also be tantalizing and have even been worshipped also
as a transcendental divine state … (That leads also to no safety…)

Conclusion:
There are gods (devas) out there. But they cannot save U or anyone else…
So there is no need or gain by looking ‘out there’ after an almighty ‘saviour’…
Rather moral and mental purification can only come by looking inward.
One has to do the job oneself! Most can only do it by taking a Teacher,
who is either a Noble or an Awakened Buddhist… Not so easy to find...

The blessed Buddha Gotama once said:

NO OTHER
By self alone, is harm done.
By self alone, does one suffer from own evil.
By self alone, is harm left undone.
By self alone, is one purified & thereby saved.
Both destruction and salvation is the work of oneself.
No-one can purify another!
Dhammapada 165

SAVIOUR
Self is indeed self's only saviour! Who else can save you ?
With oneself well tamed, one gains a saviour hard to otherwise find.
Dhammapada 160

NOW OR NEVER
Make an island for yourself. Strive quickly now in exerting effort.
Be the wise one. Not a naive fool…
When your defilement have been blown away
and you have freed yourself from evil passions;
Never will you again be Ageing! Never will you again be Dying!
Dhammapada 238

ISLAND
Make an island of yourself, haste to exert effort, be clever.
When your mental defilements have been cleaned & you have
cleared yourself of passion, then yours will be the divine state
of exquisite choice.
Dhammapada 236

Make an island of yourself!

Be your own Lamp… There is no other safety!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Make_an_island.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri May 18, 2012 10:38 pm

Friends:

What is Mara: A Transient, Painful, and Selfless State?

At Savatthi. While seated, the Venerable Radha asked the Blessed One:
Venerable Sir, one says: Mara, Mara!! What is this Mara; the Evil One?
Radha, form, feeling, perception, mental construction, and consciousness
is Mara, is a state of Mara, is impermanent, is of an impermanent nature,
is suffering, is of a painful nature, is no-self, is of an impersonal nature,
is in a state of destruction, is in a state of vanishing, is an unstable state,
is always in a state of momentary ceasing, vanishing right there and then...
Radha, you should therefore leave behind desire, should leave behind lust,
you should leave behind all desire and lust for whatever is a state of Mara,
for whatever is impermanent, for whatever is only impermanent appearance,
for whatever is suffering, for whatever is of a painful nature, for whatever
is no-self, for whatever is of a ownerless nature, for whatever is a state of
destruction, for whatever is a state of vanishing, for whatever is in a state
of arising, for whatever that is a state of cessation... And what, Radha, is a
state of cessation? Form is a state of cessation. Feeling, Perception, Mental
Constructions, and this Consciousness is also a state of continuous ceasing...
Understanding this, Radha, the well instructed Noble Disciple experiences
disgust towards form, disgust towards feeling, disgust towards perception,
disgust towards mental construction, & disgust towards consciousness itself!
Experiencing disgust, he becomes disillusioned! Through disillusion his mind
is released. When it is released, he instantly knows: This mind is liberated,
and he understands: Extinguished is birth, this Noble Life is all completed,
done is what should be done, there is no state of being beyond this one...

More on the individual deva personality Mara: The Evil One...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... /maara.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Mara attacks the Buddha in a failed attempt to frighten him.

More on the Universal Fact of Impermanence:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Tr ... ations.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pe ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/I ... Anicca.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... anence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Co ... anence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Co ... ence_2.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Mara's daughters temptation of the Buddha also fails flatly!

More on the Mental Release induced by Disgust:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Re ... isgust.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... isgust.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Co ... uction.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

He is also called Namuci: Never letting any Escape his hypnotic hedonist powers!
Any Deva can choose own body form. His favourite manifestations are as above..

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 23:24-34 III 199
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sa ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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What is Mara?

Any Transient, Painful, & Selfless State is Suffering!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Mara.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sat May 19, 2012 9:09 pm

Friends:

Brahmavihãra Meditation gives Infinite Joy!

Training Universal Friendliness induces unalloyed Joy!
Cultivating Boundless Pity enables tranquil Tolerance!
Developing Mutual Joy produces deep Contentment!
Refining Equanimity establishes calming Serenity!

The Blessed Buddha repeatedly explained:
May all creatures, all breathing things,
all beings one and all, without exception,
experience joy and good fortune only.
May they not fall into any harm!
Anguttara Nikaya II, 72

With good will for the entire cosmos,
Cultivate a limitless & infinite heart:
Above, as below, across & all around,
Unobstructed, without any hostility.
Sutta Nipata I, 8

Overcome the angry by friendliness;
Overcome the wicked by goodness;
Overcome the miser by generosity;
Overcome the liar by truth.
Dhammapada 223

Train yourself in doing only pure good...
That lasts and brings great happiness!
Cultivate generosity, a peaceful living,
and a mentality of infinite friendliness!
Itivuttaka 16

Joy creating is Meditation on the 4 infinite Brahmaviharas:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Higher_Release.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In ... lassic.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice joyous day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
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Blazing Goodwill produces Infinite Joy!
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sun May 20, 2012 11:43 pm

Friends:

Feeding the Serene Equanimity!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, just as this body, is sustained by feeding, exists in dependence on
feeding and cannot survive without food, so are the 7 Links to Awakening
also sustained by feeding, they can also only exist in dependence on feeding
and they cannot remain without feeding... And what, bhikkhus, is the feeding
of the emergence of any yet unarisen equanimity and also feeding of the
completion by condensation of any arisen Equanimity?
There are states that are the basis & source Equanimity! Frequently pointing
careful and rational attention to them, is feeding the emergence of unarisen
equanimity & also feeding of the gradual fulfillment of any arisen Equanimity
Link to Awakening... And what, Bhikkhus, is the starving that obstructs all
emergence of a yet unarisen equanimity and which also hinders any already
arisen Equanimity Link from reaching complete fulfillment by development?
There are states that are the basis and source for the equanimity!
Not giving frequent, careful and rational attention to them; not considering
them much and often; is the starving that prevents an unarisen equanimity
from arising and also blocks any already arisen equanimity from reaching
any complete fulfillment through training in the form of frequent meditation!

Comments from the classical commentaries:
Imperturbable onlooking ballance is characteristic of the equanimity.
(Upekkha-Sambojjhanga). Moderation, seeking the neutral middle, composure
and control is the purpose of the quality of Equanimity (Upekkha).
Imperturbability is the manifestation of the equanimity. This stable yet still
plastic patience purifies all the other advantageous mental states, which thus
reach their maximum, when joined with Equanimity...

Further conditions helpful for the emergence of the equanimity are:
1: Impartiality regarding all living & sentient beings...
2: Indifference regarding all inanimate constructions...
3: Avoiding biased people who prefer favouritism & one-sided partiality...
4: Friendship with well ballanced people unmoved by both pleasure & pain...
5: Commitment to ballance the mind into even & imperturbable Equanimity!

There is Equanimity towards living beings and regarding material things!
There is Equanimity towards internal states & regarding external states!
There is Equanimity towards all past, present, and future times, and events!
There is Equanimity towards all mentality and regarding all materiality!

Sources (edited extracts):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 65-6+102-8] 46: Links. 2+51: Group & Nutriments....

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Serene is Mental Ballance...

Feeding Equanimity!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Mon May 21, 2012 11:59 pm

Friends:

How to train and purify Imperturbable Equanimity!

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.

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.

Even is also: Equanimity (Upekkha):
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/H ... _Alert.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ttataa.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Exquisite is Equanimity!

Unshakable is Equanimity (=Upekkhã)!
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Tue May 22, 2012 11:12 pm

Friends:

How does Sense-Desire Muddle the Mind?

A Brahmin Priest once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Master Gotama, what is the cause of being unable to remember something
that has been memorized over a long period & also that which has not been?
Brahmin, when the mind is obsessed, beset, and dominated by sense-desire,
and one does not understand any safe escape from this arisen sense-desire,
in that moment, one neither sees nor understands, what is advantageous,
neither for oneself, nor for others, nor for both...
On such occasions, even texts, that have been long memorized, cannot be
recalled by mind. Why is this neglect so? Imagine a bucket of water mixed
with dyes or paints: Yellow, blue, and crimson red. If a man with good eyes
were to inspect the reflection of his own face in it, he would neither see nor
recognize his own face! So too, brahmin, when the mind is obsessed, beset,
and dominated by sense-desire, on that occasion those texts, that have been
long memorized does not recur to the mind, not to speak of those texts,
events and things, that have not been memorized at all…

More on the folly vanity of desire for simple Sense Pleasure (Hedonism):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/C ... s_Pain.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.1-2.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Jo ... Beyond.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ha ... Beyond.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights...

Blissful is being without passions in this world,
Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desires!
Udana II, 1

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:121-2] section 46: The Links. 55: To Sangarava...

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Sense pleasure cannot ever give lasting Happiness!

Is Hedonism Happiness?
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Wed May 23, 2012 8:45 pm

Friends:

Self-Control means Guarding the 6 Senses!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus by possessing 3 qualities, one lives this life full of pleasure & joy!
Furthermore, one has thereby prepared for the elimination of the subtle
mental fermentations... What are these 3 advantageous qualities?

I: One guards the doors of the senses,
II: One is moderate in eating, and
III: One is devoted to wakefulness...

How, Bhikkhus, is a Bhikkhu devoted to wakefulness?
During daytime, while doing either walking or sitting meditation, a Bhikkhu
purifies his mind of detrimental states. In the 1st watch of the night, while
walking back & forth & sitting, he also purifies mind of obstructive states!
In the middle watch of the night, he lies down on the right side in the lion's
posture, with one foot lying upon the other, aware & clearly comprehending,
determining when to rise again. After rising, in the last watch of the night,
while walking back & forth and sitting, he cleans out any disadvantageous
mental states again. It is in this way, Bhikkhus, that a true Bhikkhu is fully
devoted to wakefulness! Bhikkhus, it is by possessing these three qualities,
that a Bhikkhu lives full of happiness and Joy in this very life, and that he
has prepared for the final destruction of the mental fermentations...

When have you last been Wide Awake before Sunrise?

The first 3 Basics of Self-Control:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Gu ... Senses.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mo ... Eating.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/De ... ulness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sit up! Rise Up! Let not the King of Death find you sloppy!

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [176-7]
Section 35: The 6 Senses. Salayatana. The Horse-Wagon. Rato 239.
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Get Moving! Train & Prepare! There is no free ride or lunch!

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Only those who Train will Win Freedom & Happiness...

Devoted to Wakefulness!
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Thu May 24, 2012 7:41 pm

Friends:

How to cure Confusing Uncertainty and Skeptical Doubt?

What if doubt leading to confusion and indecisiveness, keeps coming back?

Undertaking these 5 simple actions gains assured certainty over time:
1: The praxis of living under a Teacher...
2: The effort of learning the True Dhamma...
3: The work of examining the meaning of the Dhamma...
4: The habit of listening to/reading the Dhamma repeatedly...
5: The quality of inquiring into the Cause & Non-Cause of all phenomena...

Through these 5 behaviours is both ignorance, skeptical doubt, uncertainty,
and bewildered confusion gradually eradicated by the invested effort!

See also:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Barren_Stagnation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Do ... tainty.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cu ... tainty.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Certainty dispels doubt & indecisiveness!

Doubt and Uncertainty!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ho ... _Doubt.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri May 25, 2012 11:16 pm

Friends:

Selfless Release Disengages and Detaches!

The Buddha once explained how to enter the stream leading to Nibbana:
One can cut off the 5 lower fetters and enter the Stream to Nibbana by
resolving on this with unwavering determination: What is present here now,
what has come into being, all that I relinquish and leave behind here & now!
If it is neither 'Me' nor 'Mine' now, nor will it then ever be 'Me' or 'Mine'
in any future... All this accumulation is not-I, not what I am, not my self!
There is no reason to fear a peace, that is not frightening since:
All form is impermanent, painful, selfless, dependent and vanishing.
All feeling is transient, hurting, egoless, conditional and fading away.
All perception is passing, distress, not me, contingent and leaving instantly.
All construction is temporary, tender, not mine, reliant and always lost.
All consciousness is brief, misery, not-self, contingent and evaporating.
So nothing whatsoever is lost al all by leaving behind lust for form, feeling,
perception, construction and consciousness! When this desire, this craving
for these 5 elements, is all eliminated, then there remains neither object,
nor foundation, nor basis for the establishing of any consciousness...!
When that consciousness remains un-established, without any foot-hold,
without any object, disengaged, neither generating, nor proliferating, nor
propagating anything, then it is released, detached by non-construction,
non-display, non-projection, in a non-manifesting all stilled quietness...
Being thus liberated from its usual tasks, then consciousness stabilizes,
and settles. When consciousness becomes steady in this ease of peace,
it also becomes quite content... When content, then it is also unagitated!
Being thus fully imperturbable, one attains Nibbana right there and then,
and instantly understands: Birth is ended, this Noble Life is completed,
done is what should be done, there is no state beyond this ...!!!

Source (Edited excerpt):
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III 55-58
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Have a nice, noble & egoless day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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No Ego = No Problems!

Elevation occurs when the fake Ego detaches!
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sat May 26, 2012 10:41 pm

Friends:

How to stop recurring Distracting Thoughts?

1: Redirect attention to a different advantageous object:
Like when driving out a coarse peg from a piece of wood, using a fine peg,
one can substitute and thereby replace :
A: Desire for living forms with thinking on a disgusting rotting corpse...
B: Desire for inanimate things with thinking on their impermanence...
C: Aversion towards living beings with the mental release of friendliness...
D: Aversion towards inanimate things with noting their composition...
E: Delusion, doubt, uncertainty & confusion with thorough investigation...

2: Consider the Danger in thoughts mixed with hate, greed & ignorance:
These thoughts of mine are disgusting, dangerous, bringing much misery
now & later, just like a young man or woman is disgusted & humiliated, if
somebody hang a rotting carcass of a snake, dog or human around their
neck, so should one regard disturbing distractions!

3: Stopping all flow of thought by Non-Attention and Non-Reflection:
Like a man not wishing to see close his eyes & turn away from the object.

4: Repeat reflection of the Root Cause of these Distractions:
Searching for the reason of these mental afflictions can cure them:
Like a running man wishing calm finding no reason to run, starts walking...
Then finding no reason to walk, he sits down, finding no reason to sit,
he lies down... Now cured!

5: Beating the evil mind down with the force of the good mind:
By clenching the lower teeth against the upper teeth, and pressing the
tongue up against the palate, like a strong man holds down a weak man by
the shoulders so should one beat down mind with mind. Then these evil, ill
& detrimental thoughts rooted in greed, hate, & ignorance are eliminated,
and they vanish. By their evaporation mind settles down, becomes focused,
concentrated and unified on the purely good thought!

Attention Deficit occurs, when following after Distracting Thoughts!

Source: Moderate speeches of the Buddha: Majjhima Nikaya 21:
The Removal of Distracting Thoughts Full text and commentary is here:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... el021.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Distractions Disturb Delight!

Habitual Attention Deficit Scatters the Mind!
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sun May 27, 2012 10:33 pm

Friends:

Control starts with Guarding the 6 Doors of the Senses!!

The Buddha once explained
Bhikkhus by possessing three qualities, one lives in this very life full of ease,
pleasure & joy! Furthermore, one has thereby prepared the elimination of
the mental fermentations... What are these three advantageous qualities?

I: One guards the doors of the senses,
II: One is moderate in eating, and
III: One is devoted to wakefulness...

How is a Bhikkhu moderate in eating? While reflecting rationally, he eats
food neither for the sake of entertainment, nor of infatuation, nor wishing
for bodily beauty, but exclusively for the support and maintenance of this
body, for ending discomfort, and for assisting this Noble life, considering:
Thus will I now end this old feeling, yet without arousing any new feeling!
Thus will I remain healthy, blameless & in comfort... Exactly as one treats
an open wound, only for the purpose healing it, or just as one greases an
axle only for the sake of easy transport of a heavy load, so does a Bhikkhu,
who is moderated in eating, while always reflecting rationally, eat food ...

More on Moderate Eating:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Oozing_Out.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Food_Disgust.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... Flesch.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [176-7]
Section 35: The 6 Senses. Salayatana. The Horse-Wagon. Rato 239.
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Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Moderation while Eating initiates Self-Control!

Moderate Eating...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mo ... Eating.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Mon May 28, 2012 8:52 pm

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 ...

Blissful is being without passions in this world,
Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desires!
Udana II, 1

More on the folly vanity of desire for simple Sense Pleasure (Hedonism):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/C ... s_Pain.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.1-2.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.3-4.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... al_Pit.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta ... I.3-4c.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Co ... _Muddy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Cr ... rophic.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... Desire.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/W ... ageous.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Jo ... Beyond.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ha ... Beyond.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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 ...
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Beyond Joy!

Sensing is simple. Ever-lasting Bliss is not...
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Jo ... Beyond.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Dhamma Wheel

Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

MAY all CRITTERS be HAPPY :-)

The All is an internal Experience!

What is the Final Goal?

Make an island of yourself!

What is Mara?

Friendliness Shines Everywhere!

Feeding the Equanimity!

Exquisite is Equanimity!

Is Hedonism Happiness?

Devoted to Wakefulness!

How2Cure Doubt and Uncertainty?

No Ego = No Problem!

Distractions Disturb Delight!

Moderate Eating...

Beyond Joy!