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[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

What is this Fundamental Right Awareness?



That Noble Eightfold Way, leading to Nibbana, is simply this:
Right View, Right Motivation, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood,
Right Effort, Right Awareness and Right Concentration.
But what is Right Awareness?

The 4-fold Definition of Right Awareness:
1: Awareness of the Body merely as a transient and compounded Form..
2: Awareness of Feelings just as conditioned emotional Responses..
3: Awareness of Mind only as habituated and temporary Moods..
4: Awareness of Phenomena only as constructed Mental States..
Right Awareness is of these 4, while being alert, & clearly comprehending,
will put away longing towards and aversion against anything in this world!


The Characterization of Right Awareness:
Awareness of wrong view or right view present now, is Right Awareness!
Awareness of wrong motivation or right motivation, is Right Awareness!
Awareness of wrong speech or right speech now, is Right Awareness!
Awareness of wrong action or right action, is Right Awareness!
Awareness of wrong livelihood or right livelihood, is Right Awareness!
Awareness of wrong effort or right effort, is Right Awareness!
Awareness of wrong awareness or right awareness, is Right Awareness!
Awareness of wrong or right concentration now, is Right Awareness!



The Explanation of Acute Awareness and Clear Comprehension:
When inhaling & exhaling long, one notices and is fully aware of just that..
When inhaling & exhaling short, one notices & is fully aware of just that..
One trains: I will breathe in-&-out clearly comprehending the entire body.
One trains: I will breathe in-&-out calming the breath & all bodily activity.
When walking, one notices and clearly comprehends, that one is walking.
When standing, one notices and clearly comprehends, that one is standing.
When sitting, one notices & clearly comprehends, that one is sitting down.
When lying down, one notices & clearly comprehends, that one is lying.
Going forward one notices & clearly comprehends, this going forward.
When returning one notices and clearly comprehends, this returning.
When looking in front or back, one is notices, & is clearly aware of that.
When bending or stretching, when lifting or carrying, when eating or
drinking, chewing or tasting, one is aware of and comprehends just that.
When passing excrement or urine one clearly comprehends exactly that.
While falling asleep and waking up, when speaking or keeping silence,
one notices, knows and understands exactly that & clearly comprehends,
that this is, what one is doing just right here and exactly now...
Continuous awareness of purpose, suitability, domain and nature of one's
current behaviour, whether mental, verbal or bodily is Right Awareness
and clear comprehension...

The Function of Right Awareness and its associates:
Knowing right/wrong awareness as right/wrong awareness, is right view.
Exchanging wrong awareness with right awareness is right effort.
Right awareness has the function of observing, noticing, remembering &
knowing the reality that neither any body, nor any form, nor any feeling,
nor any mentality, nor any phenomena, nor any mental state is happiness,
truly attractive, lasting, satisfying or even personal, something keepable...
All phenomena are momentary: They pass away right after the moment of
their arising and occurrence! Nothing is permanent, everything is in a state
of flux: Arising and ceasing, emerging and vanishing, coming and going,
again and again and again and again and ever again...!!! Anicca = Change...

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, this is the only direct way to the mental purification of beings,
to the overcoming & elimination of sorrow, frustration, pain and misery,
to gaining the right method, to the realization of Nibbana, that is:
This establishing of the 4 Foundations of Awareness...
The 4 frames of reference...

Awareness is therefore a Mountain of Advantage!

Take Home: The 4 Foundations of Right Awareness are:
1: Being aware of the BODY as a mere transient form.
2: Being aware of the FEELING as a mere reactive response.
3: Being aware of the MIND as a mere passing set of moods.
4: Being aware of the PHENOMENON as a mere mental state.



Further study of Buddhist Right Awareness (Samma-Sati):

Root texts by the Buddha:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... tipatthana" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Complete reference on Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdf ... tthana.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Studies, anthologies and commentaries:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/samma-sati.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/misc/wayof.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/ ... el370.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/ ... el019.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... ml#part2-a" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

For further study on the illuminating presence of Awareness:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Sati_Studies.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Causes_of_sati.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Sati_Summary.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sa ... litude.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/A ... s_Sati.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Clear ... ension.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/N ... reness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/O ... ly_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... reness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/A ... alysis.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sa ... ruddha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ca ... ention.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/C ... ension.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What is Right Awareness?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_ ... reness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

What is this Sublime Right Concentration?



That Noble Eightfold Way, leading to Nibbana, is simply this:
Right View, Right Motivation, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood,
Right Effort, Right Awareness and Right Concentration…
But what is Right concentration?

The Buddha explained The 4-fold definition of Right Concentration:
Having eliminated the 5 mental hindrances, mental defects that obstruct
understanding, quite secluded from sensual desires, protected from any
detrimental mental state, one enters and dwells in the 1st jhana; full of joy
and pleasure born of solitude, joined with directed and sustained thought.
One makes this joy and pleasure born of seclusion drench, saturate, soak,
and suffuse the body, so that no part of the entire body is unperfused by
this intense joy and pleasure! Just as a skilled bath-man puts soap powder
in a copper basin and sprinkling it gradually with water, whips it until the
water soaks and pervades all the soap powder, yet without dripping, so too,
does the noble friend make the joy and pleasure born of solitude permeate
and pervade the entire body! Again, friends, with the stilling of directed
and sustained thought, one enters and dwells in the 2nd jhana: a calmed
assurance of unification of mind with even deeper joy and pleasure now
born of concentration, devoid of any thought! One makes this exquisite
joy and pleasure born of concentration drench, saturate, soak, & suffuse
the body, so no part of the whole body is unperfused by this profound joy
and pleasure: Just as a lake whose waters welled up from below within it
itself, & it had no other sources neither by showers of rain, then this cool
fount of water welling up from deep within would immerse, fill, & pervade
the entire lake, even and exactly so does one make this joy & pleasure born
of concentration infuse this entire body! Furthermore, friends, with the
fading away of the joy, the friend dwells in even equanimity, just aware &
clearly comprehending, still feeling pleasure in the body, one enters upon
and remains in the 3rd jhana, regarding which the Noble Ones declare:
"In aware equanimity one dwells in pleasure!" One makes the pleasure apart
from of joy flood, saturate, soak, and suffuse the body, so that there is no
part of one's whole body unperfused by this pleasure divested of joy...
Just as in a lotus pond some lotuses are born, grow and thrive immersed
under the water & the cool water soaks them from their roots to their tips,
so too, do the noble friend make the pleasure divested of joy drench, fill,
flood and pervade this entire body. Finally, friends, with the leaving behind
of both pleasure and pain, and with the prior disappearance of both joy and
sorrow, one enters and dwells in the 4th jhana; a completely stilled mental
state of awareness, purified by an equanimity of neither-pain-nor-pleasure.
One sits illuminating the body internally with this pure bright mind, so that
there is no part of one's whole body not illuminated by this pure bright mind!
Just as a man were sitting covered from the head down with a white cloth,
so that no part of his whole body was uncovered by this white textile; even
so does one sit encompassing this entire body with a pure bright & radiant
mind, so that there is no part of one's whole body not illuminated by this
pure, bright, and luminous mind...

Comment: No trivial worldly pleasure can ever surpass such sublime bliss!

The Function of Right concentration and its associates is:
Seeing right/wrong concentration as right/wrong concentration, is right view.
Exchanging wrong concentration with right concentration is right effort.
Right concentration functions as a drill: Focusing, unifying, & penetrating!


Concentration induces the intense Breakthrough!

On how to attain the Jhana absorptions:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Detai ... ptions.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Requi ... rption.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/T ... bility.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... ration.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/C ... amadhi.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... jhaana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Jh ... rption.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Samma-Samadhi.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Further study of Buddhist Right concentration (Samma-Samadhi):

Root texts by the Buddha:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/samma-samadhi.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/jhana.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Jhanas in Theravadin Buddhist Meditation:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Whe ... 1_353.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Wheels/wh351.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Complete Manual on Meditation and Absorption: The Path of Purification:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdf ... on2011.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What is Right Concentration?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_ ... ration.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

What is the Noble Life leading to Nibbâna?



A certain Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, the Noble Life, the Noble Life, is it often said…
What, Sir, is this Noble Life? And what is the final goal of this Noble Life?
This Noble 8-fold Way, Bhikkhu, is the Noble Life; namely:

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)

The destruction of Greed, the destruction of Hate, and the destruction
of Ignorance: This is the final goal of the Noble Life…



Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way:
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 [7-8] section 45:6 A certain Bhikkhu ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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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There is a Good Way

The Noble Life!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

One can Escape the Suffering of Samsara!



The Blessed Buddha once said:
Inconceivable is the beginning of this Samsara; not to be discovered is
any first beginning of beings, who, blinded by ignorance and ensnared
by craving, are hurrying, and hastening through this round of rebirths...
Source: (edited excerpt) SN 3:35



Some Comments:
Samsara is the crushing wheel of existence, which literally is meaning
'perpetual wandering': A sea of life & death ever restlessly heaving up
& down, the symbol of this never-ending process of ever again & again
being born, growing old, becoming weak & sick, suffering, and dying...
More precisely put: Samsara is the unbroken sequence of re-arisings of
combinations of the momentary events of the 5-fold cluster of clinging,
which constantly changing from moment to moment, follow continually
one upon the other, through inconceivable periods of time. A single life
constitutes only a tiny microscopic fraction of these trillions of eons...
In order to comprehend the 1st noble truth, one must therefore gaze
long and contemplate upon this Samsara, upon this frightful sequence
of ever rebirth mostly in lower painful forms, and not merely upon one
single lifetime, which may sometimes not seem very painful until aged...
The term Suffering: Dukkha in the first noble truth therefore refers
not only to painful bodily & mental feelings, caused now by displeasing
contacts & impressions, but it comprises in addition every thing creating
suffering or which is liable to produce it later... The truth of Suffering
teaches that, owing to the universal law of impermanence, even high and
sublime states of happiness are subject to change and destruction, and
that all states of existence therefore ultimately are unsatisfactory...
Without exception they all carry in themselves the seeds of suffering!
'Du' means bad. 'Kha' means state. Dukkha thus means 'Bad State'...
Samsara is a Bad State of Suffering. Nibbana is a Good State of Peace!



Video illustrating life among humans, in heaven and in hell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QDBHCxvX-Q" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


For details on this Round of Rebirths: Samsara see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Samsara.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Endless_Round.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... msaara.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Source (edited excerpt):
The Word of the Buddha: Venerable Nyanatiloka Mahathera.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book_404201.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Same, but not sane, rebirth repeat...

Samsara is an endless Time-Ocean of Suffering!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... _Round.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

When there is No Need for anything at All:



The Buddha said on the need for Bliss:  
Friends, for the virtuous one, correctly behaving, completed in morality, there is no need to wish:
 “May I enjoy a clear conscience”, since the right action, of correct behaviour, completed by purifying morality,
naturally results in the arising of a clear conscience.
Friends, for the moral one of clear conscience, there is no need to wish: “May gladness pervade me”,
since any clear conscience spontaneously is followed by the appearance of joyous gladness!
Friends, for the glad one there is no need to wish: “May rapture thrill me”,
since gladness automatically excites an exquisitely exalted rapture. 
Friends, for the enraptured one there is no need to wish: “May calm tranquillity still me”,
since rapture inherently simply evaporates any urge of needy frustrated restlessness.
Friends, for one dwelling in serene tranquillity there is no need to wish: “May happiness perfuse me”,
since abiding calmly in tranquil ease all by itself, makes one delight in silently smiling happiness.
Friends, for one perfused by happiness there is no need to wish: “May I be absorbed in concentration”,
since a mind filled with happiness effortlessly, and smoothly condenses into a single focused unification!
Friends, for one concentrated there is no need to wish: “May I understand reality as it actually develops”,
since the undistracted concentrated mind efficiently penetrates any phenomenon, and causality as it really is.
Friends, for one knowing and seeing reality, there is no need to wish: “May disgusted disillusion detach me”,
since seeing reality and knowing how it always becomes, induces released detachment by disgusted disillusion...
Friends, for one detached by disillusion there is no need to wish: “May I realize final mental relinquishment
through absolute knowledge and vision”, since such disgusted disillusion, friends, naturally, readily, easily,
essentially, and characteristically culminates in the matchless, unsurpassable and supremely releasing liberation
by complete knowledge and vision. Yeah, so mighty is verily this life-blood morality (sila)! 



The Buddha on more Bliss:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Buddha_on_Bliss.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Source:
The Numerical Sayings of the Buddha: Anguttara Nikaya V 2-3

Natural Bliss!

When there is No Need
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Natural_Bliss.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

How does Direct Experience confirm Faith?



Sariputta once said to the Buddha:
It is to be expected, Venerable Sir, that any Noble Disciple who has faith,
who has aroused energy & established awareness, and who is concentrated,
will understand reality thus: This Samsara is without discoverable beginning!
Any first point for beings roaming & wandering on, blinded by ignorance and
bound by craving cannot ever be seen! But what can indeed be experienced
is the traceless fading and ceasing of ignorance, this massive of darkness:
That is the peaceful state, that is the supreme state ... that is, the stilling of
all mental construction, the relinquishment of all acquisition, the elimination
of all craving, complete disenchanting disillusion, final ceasing, Nibbana!
That unique comprehension of his is rooted in his ability to understand Sir!
And, Venerable Sir, when he has strived again and again along this very way,
repeatedly recollected in that way, again & again concentrated his mind in
exactly this way, over and over again understood only this in this very way,
then that Noble Disciple gains complete faith thus: Regarding things that I
previously had only heard about, now I dwell having contacted them with my
body, and having perforated them by understanding; I now see and directly
experience! That conviction, Venerable Sir, is his ability of faith working...
Good, good. Sariputta! Noted the Buddha...

More on Direct Experience:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/4_Realizations.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Escape.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Venerable Sariputta

More on this mighty general of the Dhamma: Venerable Sariputta
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... iputta.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Venerable Sariputta

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:226] section 48: The Abilities. 50: At Apana ...



Direct Experience!

Insisting on Direct Personal Experience Confirms Conviction!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Di ... rience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

The Ego Illusion is the Strongest Prison!



The Blessed Buddha once said:
'I am' is an illusion. 'This I am' is an illusion. 'I shall be' is an illusion.
'I shall not become this or that' is an illusion. 'I shall be of form' is an illusion.
'I shall become formless' is an illusion. 'I shall become endowed with perception' is an illusion.
'I shall become without any perception' is an illusion. 'I shall become neither with nor without
perception' is an illusion. Any Ego-illusion is torture, a mind cancer, and a thorn in the future...
If, however, all illusion is overcome, one is called a stilled one, a sage. And the stilled one, the sage,
is reborn no more, grows old no more, nor accumulates any future deaths. Why not?
That craving, through which he could be reborn, is all eliminated!
If he is not reborn, how can he ever grow old? If he never grows old, how can he ever die?
If one never dies again, how ever to be in panic? If neither in any panic, nor in any urge,
how can one ever be haunted by any craving, longing or hoping? This thus ends Suffering!



More on No-Self (Anatta) = impersonality, ego-lessness, I-Me-Mine-voidness:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Ego-Projection.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/I-dentification.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No ... Inside.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/T ... Camera.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/In ... cation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ne ... _Actor.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;!


The EGO is an Illegal Illusion: A Freudian Folly!

Source Text (extract): Majjhima Nikaya 140: Analysis of the Elements:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Ego Illusion!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Egoless.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

Universal is Genuine Goodwill for all Beings!



The Buddha on the Universality of Friendliness:
Sabbe satta bhavantu sukhi tattha.
May all beings become thus Happy!



As I am, so are others... As others are, so am I...
Having thus identified self and others,
Never Harm anyone, nor have any being abused.
Sutta Nipata 3.710


"No I haven't seen the cat either ..."

With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart & mind:
Beaming above, below, & all around, unobstructed, without trace of hostility.
Sutta Nipata I, 8



Train yourself in doing good
that lasts and brings happiness.
Cultivate generosity, the life of peace,
and a mind of infinite universal love.
Itivuttaka 22

Video on Metta Meditation on Universal Friendliness:
How to cure Depression? https://vimeo.com/73424140" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



More on Friendliness (Metta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Hey_Friend.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Mothers_Love.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Loving-Kindness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Across_Borders.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Goodness_Galore.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Cosmic_Goodness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Unbounded_Mind.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Eva ... _Enemy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The ... ntages.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Met ... s_Most.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Fri ... versal.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Rel ... ntment.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/May ... _Happy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Adv ... ndship.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Mighty is Metta _/\_

May all beings be soo Happy!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Mighty_Metta.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

Seeing own past Lives and all their Mistakes!



Once the Venerable Anuruddha was dwelling at in Jeta's Grove, in Anathapindika's Park,
then some Bhikkhus went to the Venerable Anuruddha and exchanged polite greetings with him.
Then they sat down and asked the Ven. Anuruddha: Venerable Sir: What has the Venerable
Anuruddha developed and cultivated so that he has attained to his famous greatness of direct
knowledge?
It is, friends, because I have developed and cultivated these four Foundations of Awareness
that I have won great direct knowledge. What four?
Here, friends, I dwell constantly contemplating upon:
The Body as a formed group, neither as me, lasting nor pleasure!
The Feelings as passing sensations, neither as mine, nor pleasure!
The Mind as temporary mentalities, neither as I, nor as core soul!
All Phenomena as mental states neither as substance nor any real!
while eager, clearly comprehending, and fully aware, thereby removing all desire and frustration
rooted in this world! It is because I have cultivated these 4 Foundations of Awareness that I
have become empowered with all these suprahuman forces: I remember many of my prior lives,
one rebirth, two lives, three lives, four lives, five lives, ten past lives, twenty lives, thirty lives,
40 lives, 50 lives, a 100 past lives, one thousand prior lives, several hundred thousand lives,
many aeons (universal cycles) of world-contraction and expansion (big bangs): There such was
my name, species, family, such my appearance, such was my food, such my experience of any
pleasure and pain, such was the story of my life; passing away from there, I was reborn elsewhere.
There such was my name, variety, family, such my appearance, such was my food, such my experience
of pleasure and pain, such was my life length; passing away from there, I was reborn here.
Thus I recollect manifold various past lives and abodes in all their particular modes and in all their
spectacular details...



Comments: There one sees all the times one has been a killer, a thief, a crook, a rapist,
an ordinary being and all the possible evil things one has done not one time, but billions
of billions of times in this looong Samsara - This dreadful round of rebirths.
A truly humongous sight!

On folly longing after a now unreal past, that has passed never ever to return:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No_Nostalgia.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/At_All_Times.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hidden_Horror.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:305]
section 52: Anuruddha. Thread 22: The Past Lives.

Seeing own past Lives..

Deja Vu: Have I been here before?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Se ... _Lives.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

Friendliness can cross any Border!



If friendship between animal beings can cross even remote species borders,
so can and should we humans also make our kind friendship extend beyond
any national, religious, cultural, gender, educational, job, and age border!
Only in this very good way, can we establish a society, where we can sleep
with the doors open, and dance with the children in our arms. So be it



May all creatures, all breathing things,
all beings one and all, without exception,
experience good fortune only.
May they not fall into any harm.
Anguttara Nikaya II, 72



With good will for the entire cosmos,
cultivate a limitless heart & mind:
Beaming above, below, & all around,
unobstructed, without trace of hostility.
Sutta Nipata I, 8



For one who deliberately & aware
develops Universal Friendliness
Seeing the fading away of clinging,
All chains are worn down & broken.
Itivuttaka 27



Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Sutta Nipata I, 8



I am a friend of the footless,
I am a friend of all bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed!
Anguttara Nikaya 4.67



As I am, so are others...
As others are, so am I...
Having thus identified self and others,
Never Harm anyone, nor have any abused.
Sutta Nipata 3.710



Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the jungle.
No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.
Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the forest.
Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude…
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540



Train yourself in doing good
that lasts and brings happiness.
Cultivate generosity, the life of peace,
and a mind of infinite universal love.
Itivuttaka 22



The 9th mental Perfection is Friendliness (Metta):
Just as water refreshes and cleanses both just and unjust persons without
discrimination, so does the perfection of friendliness include both friends
and foes alike, and doesn't enact any distinction, favouritism, or partiality.



More on this fabulously fine Friendliness (Metta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sy ... mpathy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... ve_Saw.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The ... ntages.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Eva ... _Enemy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ge ... odwill.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Bl ... odwill.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Cosmic_Goodness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Unbounded_Mind.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Goodness_Galore.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Loving-Kindness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Goodwill Blazes Beyond...

Friendship can cross any Border!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Across_Borders.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

The Hard Problem of Consciousness!

ViDeo: http://youtu.be/hOID_7T2N0s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Consciousness is recognized as probably the most hard problem in today's science.
It cannot be reduced to swirling atoms, or neuronal blips, or even ever seen in any
micro-scope or scanning. It exposes a problematic, and maybe even embarrassing
epistemological gap straddling between physics, neuro-physiology and philosophy.
Consciousness seems to be contained in the brain, but not produced by the brain,
just as the beer is contained in the bottle, but not produced by the bottle...
Consciousness holds the key to understanding the nature of core phenomena like
this so-called actual reality versus the imaginary and fanciful dreams.
If both Early Buddhism and Quantum-Mechanics has got it right, then consciousness
is a fundamental property or foundational element in its own right on par with space
and time sharing the all-accommodating quality with these physical elements insofar
as just as they - though empty in themselves! - can 'contain' all physical things and
matter including mass, light and gravity so can consciousness - in itself also empty -
'contain', display, and even dynamically project all mental objects called 'phenomena'...

Consciousness (viññana) from an Early Buddhist Perspective:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/What_is_Mind.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... nnaana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/T ... Camera.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/De ... ontact.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Wh ... usness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Mom ... usness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Obs ... Object.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/W ... inking.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



The Buddha on Meditation and Higher States of Consciousness:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Wheels/wh189.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Online papers on Consciousness & core links:
http://consc.net/online/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_probl ... sciousness" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

TIME article: The Mystery of Consciousness:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 94,00.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Is consciousness a wave form or an emergent property of the brain?
Is it up in the sky, or hidden inside the labyrinth, or everywhere present?

The Hard Problem of Consciousness!

Is consciousness a nonlocal wave-form or an emergent property of the brain?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Consciousness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

There are Three Gateways to Enlightenment!



It is these 3 contemplations that produce the three gateways to Awakening!
These three gateways to liberation lead to the only outlet from this world:

Seeing mainly impermanence leads the determined one to the signless liberation:
Seeing all constructions as impermanent, limited in space, circumscribed in time,
and always liable to inevitable destruction makes mind enter into the signless state.
When such disciple, through determination, comprehends all phenomena as evanescence
impermanence, transience, and a vanishing void, he then acquires the signless liberation.

Considering mainly suffering leads the calm one to the desireless liberation:
Regarding of all constructions as an ultimately painful misery, thus seeing all phenomena
as a terror, addicting, imprisoning, stirring up and torturing any being, makes the mind
enter into the desireless state. When one who dwells in tranquillity regards all formations
as one great massed up heap of sure suffering, then he acquires the desireless liberation..

Meditating mainly on no-self leads the intelligent one to the void liberation:
Comprehending all things, constructions, phenomena and states as alien, remote, ownerless,
selfless, egoless, coreless, impersonal, insubstantial and neither-I-me-nor-mine, makes mind
enter into the void empty state. When one who has great wisdom comprehends all phenomena
as no-self, then he acquires this exceedingly subtle void liberation...

These three gateways to liberation leading to the only exit from this world: Enlightenment!
This is therefore Knowledge and Vision of the Noble Way!
Ps II 48+58, Visuddhimagga 658


 
More on these 3 gateways to Mental Liberation (Vimokkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... mokkha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


The Enlightenment reached is in all 3 cases the very same..

The 3 Gateways...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_3_Gateways.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

Genuine Goodwill Blazes and Shines!



The blessed Buddha once said:
Among tigers, lions, leopards and bears I lived in the jungle.
None of them was frightened of me, nor did I fear any of them!
Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the deep forest.
Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude…
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540



I am a friend of the footless,
I am a friend of all bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend too of any many-footed!
Anguttara Nikaya IV 67

May all creatures, all breathing things;
All beings, one and all, without exception,
Experience good fortune only!
May they not fall into any harm.
Anguttara Nikaya II 72

With good will for the entire cosmos,
Cultivate an infinite heart and mind:
Beaming above, below, and all around,
Unobstructed, without trace of hostility.
Sutta Nipata I



More genuine good even better here _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Bl ... odwill.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The ... ntages.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net//drops/IV/A ... ndness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net//drops/V/Ad ... ndship.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_B ... enship.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Genuine is Goodwill!

Friendliness Blazes and Shines beyond all!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ge ... odwill.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends:

How to Meet Buddha Metteyya in the Future:



The Buddha Metteyya, the Friendly One, will be the last & 5th Buddha in this Aeon!
1: One should give gifts (dana),
2: One should observe morality (sila),
3: One should practice meditation (bhavana),
4: One should be firm and determined (dalha),
5: One should wish sincerely to meet him with agitated mind (ubbigga-manasa),
6: One should be stirred by an acute sense of urgency (samvega),
7: The Observance days (uposatha) should be rigorously kept.
8: Friendliness (metta) should be quite carefully cultivated.
9: Deep Concentration (samadhi) should be regularly trained.
10: Real Understanding should be sought and achieved (pañña).
Right behaviour (action=kamma) can be compared to having sound limbs...
Right understanding can be compared to being able to see...
If one or the other is missing, a person will be unsuccessful.
If both is fully present, the person will be fully successful.
Meeting the Metteyya Buddha opens the Doors to the Deathless Nibbana...



How is The Formal Aspiration to Meet Buddha Ariya Metteyya:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Met ... imet10.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Bodhisatta Metteyya

Resources on the next Buddha Metteyya:  The Friendly One!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... tteyya.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Coming Buddha, Ariya Metteyya. By honourable Sayagyi U Chit Tin:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Met ... imet00.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/pdfs/Metteyya.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Anagatavamsa Desana: The Chronicle on the Future:
http://books.google.com/books?id=8Eua4C ... &q&f=false" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.amazon.com/Anagatavamsa-Desa ... 812081133X" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


He will say: "You can come as you like, but you pay as you go..."

Don't miss out on this last one...!

How to meet the next Buddha Metteyya?
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ho ... tteyya.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bhikkhu_Samahita]

Friends

How to be a Real True Buddhist through Observance?

This Esala Poya day is the full-moon of July, which is noteworthy since on this celebrated day:
1: The Blessed Buddha preached his First Sermon: The Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta.
2: The Bodhisatta was conceived in Queen Maya who dreamt a white elephant entered her side.
3: The Blessed Buddha made the Great Withdrawal from the world at the age of 29 years.
4: The Blessed Buddha performed the Twin Miracle (yamaka-patihariya) of dual appearance.
5: The Blessed Buddha explained the Abhi-Dhamma in the Tavatimsa heaven to his mother.
6: The ordination of Prince Arittha at Anuradhapura, under Arahat Mahinda on Sri Lanka.
7: The foundation of the celebrated Mahastupa & enshrinement of relics by King Dutugemunu.
8: The next day the yearly 3 months rains retreat (vassa) of Buddhist Bhikkhus start.


The Buddha performing the Twin Miracle of simultaneously producing water & flames from his body.

On such Uposatha 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 and
head touch the floor. Then, with joined palms in front of the heart,
one recite 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 request protection from the Buddha for the 3rd time.
I request protection from the Dhamma for the 3rd …
I request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.
I will 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!
This is the very start on the path towards Nibbana -the Deathless Element-
This is the Noble Way to Peace, to Freedom, to Bliss, initiated by Morality,
developed further by Dhamma-Study and fulfilled by training of Meditation...


Queen Maya who dreamt a white elephant entered her side when the Bodhisatta was conceived.

Today indeed is Pooya or Uposatha or observance day, where any lay Buddhist
normally keeps 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..." signed with name, date, town & country
to me or join here. A public list of this new Saddhamma-Sangha is here!

The New Noble Community of Disciples: The Saddhamma Sangha:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Saddhamma_Sangha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Can quite advantageously be Joined Here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

May your journey hereby be eased, light, swift and sweet. Never give up !!!

Bhikkhu Samahita: [email protected].

For Details on Uposatha Observance Days
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/uposatha.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Today Esala Full-Moon Poya day!
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