Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Fri Dec 30, 2016 10:12 pm

Dhamma on Air #51: The 6 Animals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlPvvy9wP20

Simile of the 6 animals @ 7:08

Question 168: What is the Alaya Consciousness in regard to mind? @ 18:55

Question 169: Does a Stream-Entrant struggle with lust (porn, masturbation), anger, & sadness? @ 34:43

Question 170: Are there sure signs on approaching the 1st Jhana absorption during meditation? @ 44:10

Kamma-Story: Ekadhammasavaniya Thera: Merits of listening to Dhamma: @ 58:46

Simile Tipitaka Text source: Chappana Sutta: The Six Animals
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: Samyutta Nikaya SN 35: 247
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/at ... .than.html

The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV 15
The Salayatana section 35. Thread on the ALL: Sabba Sutta (23)
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/at ... .than.html

The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: Samyutta Nikaya: Pahanaya Sutta: To Be Given up SN 35.24
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/at ... .than.html

The Stream-Enterer (Sotapanna)
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Frui ... le_Way.htm

The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book V [411-2]
55: Stream Entry. Sotapatti. The fruits of Stream Entry. 55-63
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/L ... _Entry.htm

The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:61] section 45: The Way. 179: The 5 Lower mental chains...
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/T ... Chains.htm

Big Classic Meditation Manual:
The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga.
By the Great Explainer: Buddhaghosa. 5th century AC. Ceylon.
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/pd ... on2011.pdf

The Jhanas In Theravada Buddhist Meditation
by Venerable MahaThera Henepola Gunaratana BPS: Wheel No. 351/353:
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/Wheels/wh351.pdf

On how to attain the Jhana absorptions:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Deta ... ptions.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Requ ... rption.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What ... ration.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... amadhi.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DP ... jhaana.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/J ... rption.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Samma-Samadhi.htm

The Entry into the Noble Saddhamma Sangha:
https://what-buddha-said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm

The Saddhamma Sangha with over 2100 members -still counting- is listed here:
https://what-buddha-said.net/sangha/Sad ... Sangha.htm

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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Mon Jan 02, 2017 8:16 pm

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 10:44 pm

Friends:

The Only Clever Killing:

Sakka - the king of the 33 divinities - once spoke these verses to the Blessed Buddha:

Having slain what, does one sleep in ease?
Having slain what, does one never sorrow?
What is the one thing 0ohh Gotama
Whose killing you can approve?

The Blessed One:
Having slain Anger, one sleeps in ease;
Having slain Anger, one does not sorrow
The killing of Anger, 0ohh Vasava
With its poisoned root and honeyed tip:
This is the killing, the Noble Ones approve.
For having slain that, one does not grieve.

Sakka continued:
I am not one easily upset in mind.
Nor easily agitated by anger's whirl.
I never become angry for long
Nor does anger hang on in me.
When angry, I do not despise.
Nor do I praise own qualities.
I keep myself well under control.
Thus protecting my own good future!

Therefore: Bring Anger under control;
Do not let your friendships waste away.
Do not blame the one who is blameless;
Do not speak splitting or divisive speech.
Their own anger crushes enraged people.
Like the roaring mountain avalanche!

Do not let Anger overpower you;
Do not become angry with the angry.
Noble Ones always remain harmless.
Their own hate crushes angry people.
Like a devastating mountain avalanche.

FUEL ON FIRE?
Not by anger is Hate ever quenched.
Only by Kind Friendliness is Hate always quenched.
This Ancient Law is an Eternal Truth ...
Dhammapada Illustration 5 Background Story 5

Beasts in anger showing their teeth...

Source: The Grouped sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya I 237-40
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sa ... index.html

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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What is the only Clever Killing?

Kill Anger!
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Slaying_Anger.htm

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:36 pm

Dhamma on Air #52: Desire Fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye46gflEnu8

Simile of the Conscious Fire @ 2:51

Question 171: Did the Buddha also struggle with sense-desire until gaining Jhana? @ 24:07

Question 172: What does it signify, when seeing colours/patterns during meditation? @ 31:07

Kamma-Report: The late-born Arahant Sivali - Foremost of Receivers @ 37:47

Simile of the Fire of Consciousness source Tipitaka text:
The Middle-length Discourses, Majjhima Nikaya, MN 38: Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta
The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/at ... index.html

On the Arahant Sivali Thera:
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/DPPN/s/siivalii.htm

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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 10:41 pm

Dhamma on Air #41 audio: The Raft and Sirima

https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... r-41-audio

Dhamma Questions answered:

Lotus-Offering from Bronx, New York City, USA. @ 5:37

Question 133: Why did the Buddha said one finally should let go of the Dhamma? @ 12:32

Question 134A: Is it right livelihood for a Buddhist to trade on the stock market? @ 28:11

Question 134B: What is and how does hatred, anger, aversion, and dislike arise? @ 39:43

Question 135: Please do a Dhamma talk on Devas in early Buddhism. @ 49:13

Question 136: What does it signify, when coming to Buddhism, while young or old? @ 58:43

Corresponding Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otW4ojNEu-Y

What is Right Livelihood?
https://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What ... lihood.htm

Video on the Devas, the Divine Dimensions, and the 31 Levels of Existence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi0dAOBeJrI

The Courtesan Sirima's Divine Mansion: Stories of the Mansions
https://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutt ... .story.htm
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/at ... .irel.html

The Vimanavatthu: Stories of the Mansions English translation by I.B. Horner, with commentarial excerpts:
https://store.pariyatti.org/Minor-Antho ... _2090.html

The Simile of the Raft: MN 22, SN 35:197, Sn1:2
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/at ... .html#raft
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/at ... .html#raft
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/at ... .than.html

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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:57 pm

Friends:

How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?

Durutu Poya day is the full-moon of January. This holy day celebrates
the first visit of the Buddha to Sri Lanka. The Buddha visited the very
place, where the present magnificent Mahiyangana Stupa was built to
enshrine the Buddha's hair relics and the collar bone. For Details see:
http://www.buddhanet.net/sacred-island/mahiyangana.html and
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DP ... angana.htm

Mahiyangana Stupa

On such Full-Moon Uposatha Poya Observance days:
Any Lay Buddhist simply joins the Three Refuges and undertakes the
Five Precepts like this: Newly bathed, shaved, white-clothed, with clean
bare feet, one kneels at a shrine with a Buddha-statue, and bows first
three times, so that feet, hands, elbows, knees & head touch the floor.
Then, with joined palms at the heart, one recites these memorized lines
in a loud, calm & steady voice:

As long as this life lasts:
I hereby take refuge in the Buddha.
I hereby take refuge in the Dhamma.
I hereby take refuge in the Sangha.
I hereby seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.
I hereby seek shelter in the Sangha for the 2nd time.
I hereby request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd time.
I hereby request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.
I will hereby respect these Three Jewels the rest of my life!

I accept to respect & undertake these 5 training rules:
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Killing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Stealing.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Sexual Abuse.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Dishonesty.
I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs.
As long as this life lasts, I am thus protected by these 5 precepts...

Then, one keeps and protects these sacred vows better than one's
own eyes & children!, since they protect you & all other beings much
better than any army! They are the highest offer one can give in & to
this world! So is the start towards Nibbana: the Deathless Element!
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Ease, to Happiness,
initiated by Morality, developed further by Dhamma-Study and
fulfilled by training of Meditation...

Today indeed is Pooya or uposatha or observance day, where any lay
Buddhist normally keeps even the Eight Precepts from sunrise until the
next dawn... If any wish an official recognition by the Bhikkhu-Sangha,
they may simply forward the lines starting with "I hereby ..." signed with
name, date, town, & country to me or join here. A public list of this new
quite rapidly growing global Saddhamma-Sangha is set up here!

The New Noble Community of Buddha's Disciples: The Saddhamma Sangha:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sad ... Sangha.htm

Can quite advantageously be Joined Here:
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May your journey hereby be light, swift, and sweet. Never give up !!
Bhikkhu Samahita: [email protected].

For Details on The Origin of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html

How to be a Real Buddhist by Observance?

Today is Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day!
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/ ... ya_Day.htm

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sun Jan 15, 2017 12:36 am

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Mon Jan 16, 2017 9:33 pm

Dhamma on Air #42 audio: The Lost Traveller

https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... r-42-audio

Dhamma Questions answered:

Simile of the lost Traveller: @ 04:15

Question 137: How do I find Buddhism in the next life, if at all? @ 13:05

Question 138: Can the merit gained in this life might be wiped out at rebirth? @ 19:07

Question 139: How to understand the Syrian War from a Buddhist perspective? @ 26:44

Question 140: What are the karmic effects of watching TV shows? @ 38:39

Question 141: When one experiences no-self, who or what experiences this? @ 48:03

Corresponding Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuxZrfkv4Co

Video on reunion with the Dhamma after rebirth :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQxL5Nu2g0w

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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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:01 pm

Friends:

Special Experiences might cure illness instantly!

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

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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

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sat Jan 21, 2017 8:40 pm

The 2 Oxen

Dhamma on Air #54:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTe0wtF4v90

Simile of the two Oxen: @ 3:23

Question 174: Should one make Paritta or Pali chanting a daily Sonic Dhamma practice? @ 08:07

Question 175: @ 15:28
A: If a Buddhist monk or nun gives up the monastic life, are they then destined for downfall?
B: If a monk disrobes because of a person, what is the kammic effects for that person?

Question 176: In which realm is the next Buddha Metteyya (Maitreya) Bodhisatta located currently? @ 24:15

Kamma Story: Kammic Merit results of Offering Lamps: @ 33:47

Canonical Text reference to Simile of the two Oxen:
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: Samyutta Nikaya SN 35: 232-33

On the next Buddha Metteyya check:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4rmO7duGsE
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/Metteyya.pdf

The Visuddhimagga = The Path of Purification:
Main Meditation Manual translated by Nanamoli Thera.
By Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa
Free PDF:
https://what-buddha-said.net/library/pd ... on2011.pdf

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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 10:11 pm

Dhamma on Air #43 Audio: How to Cure Depression?

https://soundcloud.com/bhikkhu-samahita ... r-43-audio

Dhamma Question answered:

Question 142: What is causing, and how to cure depression? @ 3:26

Methodological Metta Meditation on Friendliness can elevate the mind out of depression.
This ancient and classic mental technique established by last Buddha Gotama can furthermore
expand the mind ideally into infinitude. This video explains exactly how to gain this sublime elation.
May all beings become thus Happy thereby.

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 9:47 pm

Friends:

Remote & Solitary is Forest Bliss!

The forest bhikkhu pays much attention to the experience of forest:
Thereby he enters deeper yet unattained depths of concentration.
By living remote he is not distracted by any unsuitable phenomena.
He is free from anxiety and stress. He abandons attachment to life.
He enjoys a taste of the bliss of seclusion, and the silenced peace.
He lives secluded and apart. Calm and remote abodes delight his heart.
The hermit that in woods can dwell alone, may gain the bliss as well.
Whose savour is beyond the price of royal bliss even in any paradise.
So let the forest delight a wise man for his precious dwelling's site.
Sources: MN 121, AN III 343, Vism I 73

ALONE
The one who sits and lives solitary,
& walks alone finds great delight
in the silence of the forest...
Dhammapada 305

SUCH ONE
The One wearing only 3 robes,
who is thin with veins showing,
who meditates alone in the forest,
such one is a Holy One...
Dhammapada 395

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Forest_Bliss.htm

Forest Bliss...

Sweet, Calm and Silent is Forest Bliss...
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/forest_bliss.htm

Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 11:32 am

Dhamma on Air #55: The Participatory Anthropic Principle

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Simile of the Cow's Hide @ 12:04

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Can this be Mara attacking? @ 39:27

Question 179: Was the Buddha silent, when asked about a Creator God? @ 49:50

The Participatory Anthropic Principle @ 59:29

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Majjhima Nikaya MN 146: Nandakovada Sutta — Nandaka's Exhortation {M iii 270}
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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 12:17 am

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Bhikkhu_Samahita · Post by **Bhikkhu_Samahita** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:48 pm

Friends:

The 10 Mental Perfections Fulfilled by all Buddhas!

The Ten Perfections of an Enlightened One:
The Great Beings (Mahasatta = Bodhisatta) being destined for Buddhahood) are
always intent on the welfare of all living beings, and do not tolerate any suffering of
anyone, wishing all beings long enjoyment of their particular states of happiness...
For all being's sake they therefore practice for many universal cycles (eons) the:

The 1st Perfection: Not favourizing any special side, they are quite Generous (Dana)
impartially towards all, without considering whether they are worthy of gifts or not.

The 2nd Perfection: By avoiding all killing, harming or hurting of any living being, and
by neither stealing, cheating, lying, nor faking, they practise purity of Morality (Sila).

The 3rd Perfection: To perfect morality, they retreat into Withdrawal (Nekkhamma).

The 4th Perfection: In order to obtain absolute certainty of what is advantageous and
what is detrimental for beings, they purify and complete their Understanding (Pañña).

The 5th Perfection: For the sole sake of the salvation and welfare of all breathing beings,
they always arouse and exert their quite heroic and enthusiastic Energy (Viriya).

The 6th Perfection: Patiently they endure and tolerate abuse, full of Forbearance (Khanti).

The 7th Perfection: They never break promises, or speak what is not Truthful (Sacca).

The 8th Perfection: Rock solid resolute with unshakable Determination (Adhitthana) they
keep relentlessly ever working hard for the safety and welfare of all sentient beings.

The 9th Perfection: With outmost gentle, kind, benevolent, and good Friendliness (Metta)
they teach, guide, serve and protect all kinds of beings in an entirely selfless way.

The 10th Perfection: In their well ballanced and imperturbable Equanimity (Upekkha)
they do not expect anything in return. They are not stirred by any worldly fuzz...
Source: Visuddhimagga IX, 124

The 10 Mental Perfections..

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