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Hooked on Hedonism!

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The Hook of Sense-Addiction gathers Fear!

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, imagine a fisherman, who have thrown a baited hook into a deep lake,
and then an yearning fish, hungry for food, would swallow it at first sight...
That fish, having swallowed the fisherman's hook, would indeed meet with much
pain, disaster and tragedy, since the fisherman would do with it as he wishes...
So too, Bhikkhus, there are these six hooks in the world for the pain, disaster and
tragedy of beings, for the slaughter of living beings: Forms experienceable by the
eye, sounds experiencable by the ear, smells experienceable by the nose, tastes
experienceable by the tongue, touches experienceable by the body, & mental states
experienceable by the mind, that all are seductive, gorgeous, alluring, agreeable,
pleasing, enticing, tempting and tantalizing. If a bhikkhu search for delight in them,
welcomes them, and thus remains clinging to them, he is called a Bhikkhu, who has
swallowed Mara's hook!!! He has met with pain, disaster & tragedy, & the Evil One
can do with him, as he wishes. However, one who does neither hunt for delight in them,
nor does he welcome them, nor does he remain clinging to them, such is a Bhikkhu,
who has resisted Mara's hook, who has broken, destroyed, and defeated this Hook!
He he will neither gather nor meet any pain, disaster nor tragedy, and this Evil One
cannot do with him, as he wishes... He has gained true self-control and integrity!

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The inevitable boomerang retribution of urge for 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/II/Th ... al_Pit.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/II/Th ... Desire.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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

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Source (extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [157-8]
Section 35 Salayatana: On The 6 Senses. The Fisherman Simile: Balisiko 230.
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 unhooked day!

Hooked on Hedonism!
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No 'Substance' exists in and by itself 'Out There'!

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No Substance exists 'out there', nor any Subject 'in here'!

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
In the seen is merely the process of seeing...
In the heard is merely the process of hearing...
In the sensed is merely the process of sensing...
In the thought is merely the process of thinking...
So knowing, you will not be connected 'with that'...
So disconnected you will not be absorbed 'into that'...
So neither 'with that', nor 'within that' you are not 'by that' sensation!
When there is no 'You' inferred or conjectured by that very sensation,
then 'You' are neither 'here', 'there', 'both', 'beyond', nor 'in between'.

On realizing the importance of this incident the Blessed One exclaimed:
Where neither solidity, fluidity, heat nor motion find any footing,
there no sun, moon nor star ever shines. There is neither any light,
yet nor is there any darkness! When the Noble, through stilling of
all construction, through quieting of all mental formation, directly
experiences this, then is he freed from both form & formlessness,
then is he released from both pleasure and pain ...

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Comments:
There is no-one 'who' senses, nor is there any 'substance' that is sensed,
even though the process of sensing occurs! Seeing is just a selfless event
of contact between the eye, the object & visual consciousness. Neither is
any 'person', nor any 'observer' involved nor inferred just by this seeing!
No subject or 'I' is thereby created, just because there is an object, or
just because there occurs the impersonal, automatic process of sensing...
Sensing itself, thus neither create any object, nor any subject, just as a
camera - though making an image - neither creates the object, nor does
the camera create the photographer! Thus can neither any 'substance',
nor 'reality out there' per se be ascribed to neither object, nor subject:
Just because there is a picture, one cannot by that in itself infer or even
ascribe any existence to neither the object, nor the picture-maker! Both
may actually be artificial, or of past existence and not real anymore ...
The fact that there is an image projected, does not per se imply, in or by
itself, that any-one actually is 'looking in' or 'is behind' the camera …
'By that' perception no 'perceiver' is thereby instrumentally present or
created... So the 'personal entity' we assume, suppose, deduce, expect &
believe to enjoy our experience, is merely a mental construct, a habitual
idea, a concept, & not a reality... The passive impersonal process of sensing,
perceiving and experiencing cannot thereby be 'instrumental' for neither
creating, nor inferring any 'being in existence'. The fact of this enigmatic
yet fundamental 'selflessness' is far the most essential core of the unique
Buddha-Dhamma... Outmost important to grasp, yet subtle, counterintuitive
and thereby difficult & somewhat 'nasty' to comprehend. Please keep on
trying, since this central Anatta doctrine is the opener, releaser & freer
of any mind. No-one is 'inside' the conditions that arise, cease & pass by!
Being hopelessly in love with an imagined idea of 'I=EGO' & 'World=Real'
is both fatal, tragic and sardonically comic... Hehehe ;-)

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Source: The Udana – Inspirations by the Buddha: I - 10
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=404214" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/kh ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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More on No-Self (Anatta) = ego-susbstance-lessness, no entity/identity:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ne ... _Actor.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/No-Ag ... ndence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Se ... rmless.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... ctrine.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/V/No_ ... Person.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Dee ... t_Doer.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Div ... reedom.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Se ... Anatta.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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No External Substance is independent of the internal Mind!

No Substance exists 'Out There'!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/No ... There'.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Great is Compassion!

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Feel Pity for all those Falling Beings:

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It is a great pity with all those thinking like this:
Pleasure is the only good; by that they fall!
Terror is a necessary way; by that they fall!
Sensuality is innocent; by that they fall!
Violence is allowable; by that they fall!
Money makes happiness; by that they fall!
Power is progress; by that they fall!
Falsehood is acceptable; by that they fall!
Stealing gives wealth; by that they fall!
Conceit can conceal; by that they fall!
Science knows all; by that they fall!
Killing can be good; by that they fall!
Hunting is only fun; by that they fall!
Adultery is mature; by that they fall!
Paedophilia is harmless; by that they fall!
Drugs are fantastic; by that they fall!
Booze is medicine; by that they fall!
Giving does not help; by that they fall!
After death is nothing!; by that they fall!
The Hells do not exist; by that they fall!
Intentional Action has no effect; by that they fall!
I am the better than...; by that they fall!
I know better ...; by that they fall!
Making merit cannot elevate; by that they fall!

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It is a great pity with all those poor beings:
who are veiled by wrong view; by that they fall!
who are fooled by own opinion; by that they fall!
who are gripped by greed and lust; by that they fall!
who are stirred by hate and anger; by that they fall!
who are clinging to all worldly things; by that they fall!
who are confused by not knowing; by that they fall!
who prostitute themselves; by that they fall!
who cheat and deceives; by that they fall!
who pretend what is not; by that they fall!
who hide what is actual fact; by that they fall!
who destroy beings or things; by that they fall!
who pollute the milieu and society; by that they fall!
who deliberately do evil willing it; by that they fall!
who fail their duties and obligations; by that they fall!
who miss the obvious opportunities; by that they fall!
It is a great pity with all those blinded by ignorance,
bound and dragged by craving, while pushed by aversion:
By that they surely fall into states of pain, agony and despair!
As if gripped by the arms of two strong men and hurled into a big fire...

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More on this caring Great Compassion (maha-karuna)!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Endless_Pity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Karuna_is_Pity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Com ... e_Pity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/S ... assion.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Have a nice, noble & compassionate day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Feel Infinite Pity for all those Falling beings!

Great Compassion!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Gr ... assion.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Friendliness Outshines All!

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Universal Friendliness (Mettâ) Outshines All!

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The Buddha said:
May all creatures, all breathing things,
all beings everyone without exception,
experience joy & good fortune only.
May they not fall into any harm!
Anguttara Nikaya II, 72

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

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For one who deliberately & aware
Fully develops Universal Friendliness
Fading away of clinging is realized,
All chains are worn down & broken!
Itivuttaka 27

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More Metta:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Frien ... _Frees.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/O ... Family.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... Friend.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Bl ... liness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Selfl ... eetest.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Friendliness Outshines All!


Good-Will Encore!
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Nibbana is the highest Bliss.

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The Supreme Goal Ahead:
 
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The Blessed Buddha Gotama once said:
The purpose of morality is control of behaviour.
The purpose of controlled behaviour is absence of regrets.
The purpose of absence of regrets is joy.
The purpose of joy is satisfaction.
The purpose of satisfaction is calm.
The purpose of calm is happiness.
The purpose of happiness is concentration.
The purpose of concentration is understanding.
The purpose of understanding is disillusion.
The purpose of disillusion is detachment.
The purpose of detachment is mental release.
The purpose of mental release is Nibbana,
Final Freedom without any remnants of clinging...


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More on this uncreated state - Nibbana (Sanskrit = Nirvana):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Peace.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/climax_of_calm.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Reaching_Peace.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2_Nibbanas.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Wh ... ibbana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_P ... _Cause.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Nibba ... return.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Final Freedom!

Nibbana is the highest Bliss.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Final_Freedom.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Daily Dhamma Drops from Ceylon!

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What makes beings Aware?

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness!

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

Consciousness is recognized as probably the most hard problem of 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 by 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
reality versus dreams.

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;

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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;

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

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


What makes beings Aware?

The Hard Problem of Consciousness!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Consciousness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Experiencing the Break-Up!

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Not even as much as a Fingernail of Dust Lasts!

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At Savatthi. Seated to the side, a certain bhikkhu asked the Blessed One:
Is there, Venerable Sir, any form, or any feeling, or any perception, or any
mental construction, or any consciousness, that is permanent, stable, eternal,
not a changing state, that will remain the same, just like eternity itself ?
Then the Blessed One took up a tiny bit of soil on his fingernail and said to
that bhikkhu: Bhikkhu, there is not even this much form, feeling, perception,
construction, or consciousness, that is permanent, stable, eternal, not subject
to change, that will remain the same, just like eternity itself...! If there was
this much form, feeling, perception, construction, or consciousness, that was
permanent, stable, eternal, and not changing, this living of the Noble Life for
the utterly complete elimination of all suffering, could not be made known...
But because there is not even this much form, nor feeling, nor any perception,
nor mental construction, nor consciousness that is permanent, stable, eternal,
not subject to change, this living of the Noble Life for the complete elimination
of all suffering can indeed be made known...

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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;

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VANISHING
Impermanent, Momentary are all phenomena existing.
Whoever fully perceives this with Insight straightaway
develops immunity to suffering. This is a way to freedom.
Dhammapada 227

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Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya XXII (97); [III 147-9]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; An Ocean of Dhamma Teaching!
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/su ... ml#Khandha" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; On Clusters!

Transience purifies...

Experiencing the Break-Up!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Finge ... f_Soil.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Mutual Joy Causes Contentment! :-)

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Mutual Joy cures all vicious Envy and Jealousy!

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The dear companion can be the proximate cause for Mutual Joy, where one
rejoices in another being's success... One thus rejoicing in others fortune
is called a 'boon companion', for he is constantly glad: He laughs first and
speaks afterward! So he should be the first to be pervaded with gladness.
Or on seeing a dear person being happy, cheerful and glad, mutual joy can
be aroused thus: 'See this being is indeed glad! How good, how excellent!'
Just as one would be glad at seeing a dear and beloved person very happy,
exactly so does one pervade all other beings in all directions with mutual joy...
Rejoicing mutual joy can also be aroused by remembering others happiness
in the past and recollecting the elated joy aspect in this way: 'In the past he
had great wealth, a great following and he was always glad'. Or mutual joy
can be aroused by apprehending the future glad aspect of his in this way:
'In the future he will again enjoy similar success and will go about in gold
palanquins, on the backs of elephants or on horseback'. Having thus aroused
mutual joy regarding a dear person, one can then direct the very same feeling
successively towards a neutral one, and gradually towards any hostile person.
Vbh 274, Vism I 316

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Comments:
Mutual joy causes Contentment! No mutual joy thus means Discontentment!
Therefore: If being generally dissatisfied, then be happy over others gains.
Secondly: Mutual joy causes all envy & jealousy to evaporate into equanimity!

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Mutual Joy (Mudita), which cures all envy and jealousy, is a divine state!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoi ... Mudita.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/I ... usness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Rejoicing Joy!

Mutual Joy Causes Contentment! :-)
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Gracious is Gratitude!

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Appropriate Appreciation is Gratitude!

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One should be grateful towards one's Parents! Why so?
They have worked hard and very long raising one into being!

One should be grateful towards one's Teachers! Why so?
They do much to make one learn and understand the good...

One should be grateful towards one's Friends! Why so?
They have shown one an open kindness and much goodwill!

One should be grateful towards one's Spouse! Why so?
They have loyally accompanied one along a long way...

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What is the future kammic effect of gratitude or ungratefulness?
The one who is grateful will receive gifts and favours ever again!
The one who is ungrateful will never again receive gifts or favours !
Thankfulness wisely invested thus pays back quite a lot!

Therefore: Always Say Thanx!

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Thanx for Your Attention! ;-)

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On Contentment and Rejoicing Appreciation:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Contentment.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mutual_Joy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rejoi ... Mudita.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/I ... usness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Have a nice gracious day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Gracious is Gratitude!

Appreciation Echoes Back... :-)
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ap ... iation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Calm and Insight!

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All Buddhas Awakened by Breath Meditation!

It has aspects both of serene calm (Samatha) & incisive insight (Vipassana).
It is extraordinarily advantageous to train this unique breathing technique.
Can recommend this booklet about standard Breathing Meditation very much:
Mindfulness of Breathing. Classic Anapanasati meditation manual of the root
Pali texts translated by Bhikkhu Ñanamoli. BPS. 1998.
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdf ... nasati.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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The ideal is when Calm and Insight goes hand in hand, as if yoked together!

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More on this both simple yet quite profound Breathing Meditation:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_I.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_II.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_IV.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_LAMP_III.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Aw ... athing.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... Breath.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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More on Insight (Vipassana):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ca ... nsight.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In ... y_Life.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Hi ... ibbana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... sights.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Br ... nsight.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Mental Calm induces incisive Insight...

Calm and Insight!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Br ... nsight.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Our Fine Friends!

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Friends:

We should be Good to our fine Friends here!

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The Buddha on the Universality of Friendliness:
I am a friend of all bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed,
I am a friend of those with no feet!
Anguttara Nikaya 4.67

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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

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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

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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

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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

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More on Friendliness (Metta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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/II/Kalyanamitta.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unique_Unity.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/IV/Calm_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/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Frien ... _Frees.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;

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Our Fine Friends!

We are not alone here...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Our_Friends.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Friendship is the Greatest!
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Liberating Rescue!

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Friends:

The Ten Mental Liberators Frees!

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Venerable Sariputta once explained:
1: The experience of deep disgust.
2: The experience of death approaching.
3: The experience of disliking whatever food.
4: The experience of dispassion with the entire world.
5: The experience of the inevitable impermanence.
6: The experience of frustration inherent in decay.
7: The experience of the impersonality of existence.
8: The experience of letting go and leaving all behind.
9: The experience of disinterested, & detached disillusion.
10: The experience of calming, stilling, ceasing, and ending.


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These 10 perceptions are real, true, exactly so and not otherwise,
perfectly realized, comprehended and formulated by the Buddha!
They cool all craving, relinquish all clinging, and still all urge...
They are therefore to be remembered, recited and reflected over
repeatedly.. When made arise, they release mind into Bliss and Peace!

More on Liberation (Vimokkha) via directed Perception (Sañña):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Liberation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... iences.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... Danger.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/IV/Ex ... easing.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... nation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... ssness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Cr ... ration.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... g_Away.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/Ex ... ntment.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;

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Source: The Exhaustive Speeches of the Buddha. Digha Nikaya 34
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Liberating Rescue!

http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Saving_Rescue.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Five x Five!

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Friends:

Five x Five Crucial Core Buddhist Categories:

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There are five Mental Abilities:
1: Faith, 2: Energy, 3: Awareness, 4: Concentration & 5: Understanding.

There are five Rules of Training:

1: No Killing, 2: No Stealing, 3: No Lying, 4: No Sexual Abuse, 5; No Alcohol or Drugs.

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There are five Clusters of Clinging to:
1: Form, 2: Feeling, 3: Perception, 4: Construction & 5: Consciousness.

There are five Mental Hindrances:

1: Sense-Desire, 2: Anger, 3: Lethargy & Laziness, 4: Regret & Restlessness 5: Doubt & Uncertainty.

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There are five Destinations right after Death:
1: Hell, 2: Animal Womb, 3: Hungry Ghost, 4: Human Being or 5: Deity.

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Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by the Buddha. Digha Nikaya 33
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25103" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/digha/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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More on these core concepts enabling comprehension:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... ummary.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Refu ... ecepts.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... inging.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... rances.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Fi ... ations.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Friendship is the Greatest
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Five x Five!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/5-times-5.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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The Prison of Pride!

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The Catastrophic Conceit "I Am":

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All the egoism is born right when assuming the impersonal and transient
phenomena, such as body, feeling, perception, mental construction, and
consciousness to be "I-Me-Mine", thereby conceiving the idea: "I am"!
At once hereafter one falls desperately in love with this hypothetical
ego, exalts, gratifies and even worships it, as the most dear possession
of all... Pride is born right here! By comparing this non-existent entity:
"My Personal Identity" with external equally conceived perceptions, one
erroneously concludes: "I am better than ..." There arrogance is born...
Or one concludes equally erroneously: "I am worse than or equal to ..."
When there is pride, there is bound to be wounded pride! Because of that
"I-Me"-construing, ego-love and self-overestimation, one cannot respect
what should be respected. Feeling threatened by any realistic evaluation
of this adored "Ego", all potential "critics" or "competitors" are violently
repressed... By clinging to this cherished idea of "Myself", harming, hate,
ill-will, and violence thereby come into being. Even wars are initiated by
immature & infantile imagination of "Own Greatness" or "National Lead"!
Thus more than fatal is verily this cramped conceit: "I Am this and that"!
Serene Joy is however connected with open, and detached impersonality.
If there is no "I", no "Me", what then to be proud of, or violently defend?

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As the blessed Buddha said:
Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desire.
More blissful is dwelling in complete harmlessness.
Even more blissful is solitude for one content and learned.
But highest is the bliss of uprooting this deepest conceit: "I am"!
Udana – Inspiration: II – 1

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Frequent reflection on the impermanent and transient flux of all internal
and external phenomena, leads towards this counter-intuitive, yet crucial
comprehension of the fact of No-Self=Anatta. Absolutely freeing is that...

Sabbe Dhamma Anatta ...
All States are Selfless!!!

More on Anti-Egoism: Be as humble as a doormat:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pride.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.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/Prison_of_Pride.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/Anatta_No_Self.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/II/So ... eption.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mi ... erence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Se ... rmless.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice, noble and humble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Prison of Pride!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Friendship is the Greatest!
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