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The Heap of Good!

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 9:51 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

How does one Accumulate a Heap of Advantage?

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, if one should call anything a heap of the Disadvantage, then
it is these five hindrances, that one could rightly call this. For these are
verily only one heap of evil Disadvantage, these five mental hindrances...
What five?

1: The Mental Hindrance of Desire for Sensing...
2: The Mental Hindrance of Aversion & Ill-Will...
3: The Mental Hindrance of Lethargy & Laziness…
4: The Mental Hindrance of Restlessness & Regret…
5: The Mental Hindrance of Doubt & Uncertainty…


If one were to call anything a mass of the Disadvantage, then it is about
those five hindrances, that one could rightly say this. Since indeed are
these five mental hindrances an immense stockpile of damage and loss!!!

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However:
If, Bhikkhus, one were to call anything a heap of Advantage, then it is
these Four Foundations of Awareness, that one could rightly call this.
For these are verily a perfect accumulation of sole Advantage, that is,
these Four Foundations of Awareness... What four?

1: Awareness of the Body merely as a transient & compounded form..
2: Awareness of Feeling just as a passing reactive sensation.
3: Awareness of Mind only as a group of habitual & temporary moods..
4: Awareness of Phenomena simply as momentary mental states..


If, Bhikkhus, one were to call anything an Accumulation of Advantage,
then it is these Four Foundations of Awareness, that one could rightly
call this. For these are verily a pure & massive abundance of Advantage,
that is, these Four Foundations of Awareness... !!!

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On the 4 Foundations of Awareness (Sati):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Causes_of_sati.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/What_ ... reness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Man ... Manual.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

On the 5 Mental Hindrances (Nivarana):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... rances.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/Bo ... _burnt.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Le ... ziness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Re ... Regret.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Do ... tainty.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 146] 47 The Foundations of Awareness: 5 Heap of Good...

The Heap of Good!

A perfect accumulation of pure Advantage!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/A ... antage.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Blind Turtle...

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 11:00 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

Precious yet often wasted is this Dhamma Opportunity!

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The Blessed Gotama Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus & friends, imagine a single floating ring drifting in the great oceans!
The Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern winds drive it here and there...
Imagine also a blind turtle, which surfaces only once every hundred years...
What do you think, Bhikkhus, would that blind turtle by chance often dive
right up under this randomly drifting single ring & insert its neck in the hole?
If it ever would at all, Sir, it would only happen by an exceedingly rare chance!
Similarly, Bhikkhus it is by an exceedingly rare chance that one becomes human;
it is by an extraordinarily rare chance that a Well-Come-&-Gone-One, an Arahat,
a Perfectly Self-Enlightened Buddha arises in this world; and it is thus also by
an exceptionally rare chance that the Dhamma and Discipline explained by this
Tathagata shines forth in this world and saves it from Barbarism.
Bhikkhus: You have now gained that precious & rare human state, a Tathagata,
an Arahat, a Perfectly Self-Enlightened Buddha has arisen in the world, & the
Dhamma and Discipline proclaimed by the Tathagata shines out in this world...
Therefore, Bhikkhus & friends, an exertion should be made Now to understand:
All This is Suffering; This Greedy Craving is the sole Cause of all Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering; The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore should effort to fathom these 4 Noble Truths be made NOW!

Comment:
It is now or never. May a sense of urgency save many from the ruin of neglect!

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Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:456-7]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 48: The Ring and Blind Turtle 2 ...

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The Blind Turtle...

Precious yet often wasted is this human Opportunity!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/By_Chance.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cut down by Name and Fame!

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:05 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

Sliced by Praise, Fame, Name, Gain and Honour:

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At Savatthi the blessed Buddha said: Friends, horrible are gain, honour,
fame, name and praise! As if they cut through the outer skin, then through
the inner skin, then through the flesh, then through the sinews, then right
through to the bone! Having cut through the bone, they reach the marrow
itself. So terrible indeed friends, are gain, honour, fame, name and praise...
They are as if splattering pig bile over a mad dogs nose, bitter, vile, wicked,
tricky, obstructive to achieving this incomparable security from domination!
Friends, I have known of a certain person here whose mind I penetrated with
my own mind and have thereby realized: This venerable one would not tell a
deliberate lie even for the sake of his own life! Yet, sometime later, I see him
telling a deliberate lie, because his mind was overwhelmed & obsessed by gain,
honour, fame, name & praise... So destructive, friends, are gain, honour, fame,
name and praise, so bitter, so vile and blocking any achievement of matchless
security from bondage. Therefore, friends, you should train yourselves thus:
"We will leave behind any arisen gain, honour, fame, name & praise and we will
not let the arisen gain, honour, fame, name and praise remain obsessing or
consuming our minds Thus should you train yourselves...!!!"

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Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya II 238
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;

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Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka
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Cut down by Name and Fame!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_S ... d_Fame.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Serene is Equanimity!

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:34 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

Equanimity of the Mind, Serenity & Beyond!

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The Blessed Buddha once explained:
And what, Bhikkhus, is then this simple indifference of the flesh?
There are these five strings of sense-pleasure. What five?
Visible forms experienceable by the eye ...
Hearable sounds experienceable by the ear ...
Smellable odours experienceable by the nose ...
Tastable flavours experienceable by the tongue ...
Touchable objects experienceable by the body ...
That all are attractive, captivating, desirable, irresistible, lovely, charming,
tempting, pleasing, sensually enticing, seductive, alluring, and tantalizing!
These are the 5 strings of sense-pleasure. The indifference that arises
from these 5 strings of sense-pleasure when bored, is simply indifference
of the flesh...

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And what, Bhikkhus, is the equanimity, which is not of this world?
With the leaving behind of both pleasure and pain, & with the prior fading
away of both joy & sorrow, one enters & dwells in the 4th jhana absorption,
which is an entirely stilled mental state of utter awareness, purified by
the equanimity of neither-pain-nor-pleasure. This is called the equanimity,
which is not of this world!

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Finally, what is serenity beyond the equanimity, which is not of this world?
When a bhikkhu, whose mental fermentations are eliminated, reviews his
calmed mind, which is liberated from all lust, freed from all hatred, and
released from uncertainty, then there arises a transcendental serenity...
This is the serenity beyond that equanimity, which is not of this world!

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More one the fine mental state of Equanimity (Upekkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_ ... nimity.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/V/Ser ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/E ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Exq ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/E ... pekkha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ekkhaa.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Un ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7 ... kening.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Im ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ttataa.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [235-7]
section 36:11 On Feeling: Vedana. Joys beyond this world ...
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sa ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Tranquillity is a prerequisite for Happiness!


Serene is Equanimity!
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Be Good!

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:51 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

Regarding the Best Way to Be:

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
Sabbadanam dhammadanam jinati
sabbarasam dhammaraso jinati
sabbaratim dhammarati jinati
tanhakkhayo sabbadukkham jinati.


THE SUPREME GIFT
The gift of Dhamma surpasses all other gifts.
The taste of Truth excels every other taste.
The joy of Understanding exceeds any other joy.
The elimination of Craving overcomes, quenches &
triumphs over all pain, all sorrow, and all suffering ...
Dhammapada 354

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Be understanding to your perceived enemies.
Be loyal to all your good friends.
Be strong enough to face the changing world each day.
Be weak enough to know you cannot do everything alone.
Be generous to those who need your help.
Be frugal with that you need yourself.
Be wise enough to know, that you do not know everything.
Be foolish enough to believe in the unknown miracle.
Be willing to share your joys, resources and riches.
Be willing to share and bear the sorrows of others.
Be a leader, when you see the path others may have missed.
Be a follower, when you are shrouded by the mists of uncertainty.
Be the first to congratulate an opponent, who succeeds.
Be the last to criticize a colleague, who fails.
Be sure where your next step will fall, so that you will not tumble.
Be sure of your final destination, in case you are going the wrong way.
Be loving to those, who love you, and also towards those who don't...
Be friendly to those, who do not love you since then they may change.
Above all: Be AWARE!

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Be Good!

The Best Way to Be :-)
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In this very life...

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:23 am
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

What 5 things causes Awakening in this very Life?

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
If, Bhikkhus and Friends, anyone wishes: Oh, may I in this very life be able
to eliminate the mental fermentations, and thereby come to fully experience
mental release, release through understanding, by directly realizing it and
make it my own! Then he should practise to perfect morality (sila), be devoted
to mental tranquillity (samatha), not neglect the mental absorptions, cultivate
insight (vipassana), and often frequent remote & peaceful places for training!

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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/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;

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Source Text (extract): Majjhima Nikaya 6
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... /siila.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/library/DPP ... amatha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ssanaa.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ssanaa.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What to Do?

In this very life...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In ... y_Life.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Going Upwards!

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:07 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

There is only One really good Noble Way!

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
Some priests postulate this as the way going upwards: "Get up early and walk
facing east. Do not avoid a pit, or a cliff abyss, or a stump, or a thorny place,
or a village or a cesspool! You should expect death wherever you fall.
Thus, good man, with the breakup of the body, after death, you will be reborn
in a good destination, in a heavenly world." This the praxis of the priests, Bhikkhus,
is a foolish & stupid way, since it does neither lead to revulsion, to disillusion, nor
to ceasing, to peace, to direct knowledge, to Enlightenment, nor to Nibbana!
However, Bhikkhus, I will explain the very way Going Upwards in the Noble One's
Discipline, that way, which leads to utter revulsion, to disillusion, to ceasing, to peace,
to safe knowledge, to Enlightenment, to Nibbana: Any Noble Disciple possesses a
sure confirmed confidence in the Buddha thus:
"Worthy, and perfectly self-Enlightened is the Buddha!"
He possesses confirmed confidence in the Dhamma thus:
"Perfectly formulated is the Buddha-Dhamma, visible right here and now.."
He possesses confirmed confidence in the Sangha thus:
"Perfectly training is this Noble Sangha of the Buddha's disciples..."
He also possesses the purity of morality esteemed by the Noble Ones: Unbroken,
untorn, unspotted, freeing, praised by the clever, natural, leading to concentration.
This, Bhikkhus, is the way going upwards, which leads to utter revulsion, to disillusion,
to ceasing, to Peace, to direct knowledge of Enlightenment, and Nibbana!

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On the Noble Way:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Sun.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Middle_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Noble_Purpose.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Seed_of_Good.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Going Upwards!

There is only One really good Noble Way!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Going_Upwards.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ownerless is all being!

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:25 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

Imploding Vacuum Personality Void of any Self!

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The Blessed Buddha explained the flowing transience of existence as void:
Suppose a man with good sight observed the many bubbles on the Ganges
river as they drifted along, by carefully watching and examining them all.
Then after he had carefully examined them, they would appear to him as
empty, evanescent, and unsubstantial. In exactly the same way does the
Bhikkhu observe all the material phenomena, all feelings, all perceptions,
all mental constructions, & all states of consciousness, whether they be
past, present, or future, far or near. By carefully watching, analysing &
examining them all, they appear to him as empty, void, and without a core...
Source (edited extract) SN 22:95

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Comment:
If feeling a bit nausea, or dizziness, or fear, when rigorously attempting
to comprehend egolessness, then one is going in the right direction...
Worth noticing is that one cannot ever loose a self that never was there
in the first place...!

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For more on this universality of selfless impersonality (anatta) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... ctrine.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;

Ownerless is all being!

All Phenomena is an imploding vacuum void of any self or core!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ju ... ubbles.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Dhamma is the Quintessence!

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:08 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

The 3 Kinds of Sublime Quintessence:

The cream of Teachings are The 4 Noble Truths & the 37 producers of Enlightenment.
The cream of Recipients are The Noble Disciples capable of understanding & praxis.
The cream of Holy Lives is that lived while developing the Noble 8-fold Path.

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Check it out!
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Source:
Path of Discrimination: Patisambhidamagga by Sariputta...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=133494" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Buddha-Dhamma is the Quintessence!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Supre ... ssence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Today is Vap Poya Observance Day!

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:31 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?

Vap Poya day is the full-moon of October. This holy day celebrates the
end of the Bhikkhu's three months rains retreat and marks the Kathina
month of robes , where lay people donate a set of robes to the Sangha.
This also celebrates the day that Buddha began to teach the Abhidhamma!

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The Buddha descending from the Tusita Level after having spent a rains
retreat there explaining the Abhidhamma to the assembled devas during
a single three months long speech! His biological mother Mahamaya, who
died 7 days after his birth, and was reborn there as a deva, was present.
He is followed down by the deva rulers Sakka and Maha-Brahma.


More about this Higher Abhidhamma Science:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/abhi/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

More about the Kathina Ceremony:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/K ... remony.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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The Kathina Ceremony of giving robes to the Maha-Sangha and receive blessing merit thereby!

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 True Noble Community of Buddha's Disciples: Saddhamma Sangha:
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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]

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

For the 2010 Calendar of Uposatha Observance Days:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/various/Poy ... s.2010.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Respecting Uposatha Days Purifies and Elevates!

Today is Vap Poya Observance Day!
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Ignorance Causes Animal Rebirth!

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:15 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

If Blinded by Ignorance one takes Animal Rebirth!

Because of greed one is reborn in eggs of geese, doves or as other animals
obsessed by great passion, like also in the womb of a rhinoceros...
Because of ignorance one is reborn in the eggs of insects and worms.
Because of hate one is reborn as snake. Because of pride and obduracy,
one is reborn as lion. Because of arrogance & narcissism one is reborn in
the wombs of donkeys and dogs. If miserly & discontented one creates
rebirth as a monkey. If foulmouthed, faithless & shameless one is reborn
as crow. Those flogging, chaining & injuring elephants, horses, & buffalos
become spiders, scorpions, & stinging insects of cruel character. Those who
are flesh-eating, angry, & fiery are reborn after death as tigers, jackals,
cats, sharks, vultures, wolves & the like. Those who are generous givers,
but angry & cruel become Nagas = snake-demons of great iddhi-power...
Any deliberate wrongdoing in thought, speech and/or action can produce
rebirth as animal! Therefore one should always shun all that is wrongdoing...

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Animal rebirth induced by cruelty!

Please enjoy study here for details on Rebirth:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rebirth.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Rare_Rebirth.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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The Animal Realm!

Source (edited extract):

Pañcagatidipani by Ashvaghosa & Saddhammaghosa: 11-12th century AC.
Tr. by Ann A. Hazlewood. Journal of the Pali Text Society. Vol. XI 1987:
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Have a nice human day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Animal Rebirth!
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Actually So!

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:35 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

Actually, exactly so, invariable, & not otherwise!

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The Blessed Buddha once said this:
Bhikkhus, there are these four things, that are actually so, invariable,
not otherwise... What four?
Suffering is actually so, invariable, not otherwise...
The Cause of Suffering is actually so, invariable, not otherwise...
The Ending of Suffering is actually so, invariable, and not otherwise...
The Way to End all Suffering is actually so, invariable, not otherwise...

These 4 Noble Truths are actually & exactly so, invariable, & not otherwise...
Therefore, Bhikkhus, an effort should be dedicated now to really understand:
All this is Suffering! An effort should be made much of to truly comprehend:
Craving is the Cause of Suffering! An effort should be cultivated to realize:
No Craving is the End of Suffering! Effort should be made to break through,
reinforce, and develop: This Noble 8-fold Way, which ceases all Suffering...

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Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:430-1]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 19: Actually So...

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Have a nice true day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Careful Attention Protects!

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:27 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

Careful Attention weakens the Mental Hindrances:

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
When one attends carefully unarisen Sense-Desire does neither arise, nor later expand.
When one attends carefully unarisen Ill-Will does neither arise, nor later expand.
When one attends carefully unarisen Lethargy & Laziness does neither arise, nor expand.
When one attends carefully unarisen Restlessness & Regret does neither arise, nor expand.
When one attends carefully unarisen Doubt & Uncertainty does neither arise, nor expand.
Furthermore the Awareness Link to Awakening arises, & is gradually completed by repetition.
Any unarisen Investigation Link to Awakening arises, and is completed by gradual evolution.
Any unarisen Energy Link to Awakening arises, & is completed by repeated mental refinement.
Any unarisen Joy Link to Awakening arises, & is completed by meditative mental improvement.
Any unarisen Tranquillity Link to Awakening arises, and is completed by mental silencing.
Any unarisen Concentration Link to Awakening arises, & is completed by mental sophistication.
Any unarisen Equanimity Link to Awakening arises, and is completed by mental maturation.

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Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:93-4] section 46: The Links. 35: Careful Attention...

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Careful Attention Protects!

The best umbrella, life-buoy, and armour...
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Blending like Milk and Water...

Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 10:40 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

The 6 Things Uniting in Harmony to be Remembered:

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
These six things are to be remembered in order to Unite any Community in Harmony:
Which six?
1: Friendly Behaviour (metta-kaya-kamma=friendly bodily action) both in public and in private.
2: Friendly Speech (metta-vaci-kamma=friendly verbal action) both in public and in private.
3: Friendly Thought (metta-mano-kamma=friendly mental action) both in public and in private.
4: Sharing of Gains (sadharana-bhogi=common wealth) even down to any single lump of food.
5: Moral Harmony (sila-samannagato=uniform morality): All respect the same ethical rules.
6: Harmony in Views (ditthi-samannagato=uniform attitude): All share the same general views.
These 6 things are to be considered & remembered both for individual & social Harmony...

Comments:
So we can sleep with open doors and dance with the children in our arms :-)

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Source (edited extract):
The Numerical Sayings of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya.
The Book of Sixes 11: To be Remembered... [III: 288-9]

United in Harmony :-)

Blending like Milk and Water...
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Patience is the Highest Praxis...!

Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 10:40 pm
by Bhikkhu_Samahita
Friends:

Patience is the 6th Perfection:

The characteristic of patience is acceptance, its function is to endure,
and its manifestation is non-opposing tolerance! The cause of patience
is understanding how things really are.. The effect of patience is calm
tranquility despite presence of intensely stirring provocation..
Patience of the will produces forgiving forbearance!
Patience of the intellect produces faith, confidence and certainty!
Patience of the body produces resolute and tenacious endurance!
Internal tolerance of states within oneself is patient endurance...
External tolerance of other beings is forbearance and forgiveness...

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He who patiently protects himself, protects also all other beings!
He who patiently protects all other beings, protects also himself!

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Not from speaking much is one called clever.
The patient one is free from anger and free from fear,
only such steady persisting one, is rightly called clever...
Dhammapada 258

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Patient tolerance is the highest praxis...
Nibbana is the supreme Bliss!
So say all the Buddhas.
Dhammapada 184

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The innocent one, who has done nothing wrong,
Who endures abuse, flogging and even imprisonment,
Such one, armed with stamina, the great force of tolerance,
Such stoic one, who self-possessed can accept, I call a Holy One!
Dhammapada 399

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One should follow those who are determined, tolerant, and enduring,
intelligent, wise, diligent, clever, good-willed and evidently Noble.
One shall stick to them as the moon remains in its regular orbit.
Dhammapada 208

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Friends, even if bandits were to cut you up, savagely, limb by limb,
with a two-handled saw, you should not get angry, but do my bidding:
Remain pervading them and all others with a friendly Awareness imbued
with an all-embracing good-will, kind, rich, expansive, and immeasurable!
Free from hostility, free from any ill will. Always remembering this very
Simile of the Saw is indeed how you should train yourselves.
Majjhima Nikaya 21

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The five ways of removing irritating annoyance:
Bhikkhus, there are these five ways of removing annoyance, by which any
irritation can be entirely removed by a Bhikkhu, when it arises in him.
What are these five ways?
1: Friendliness can be maintained towards an irritating person or state..
2: Understanding can be undertaken towards an irritating person or state..
3: On-looking Equanimity can be kept towards an irritating person or state..
4: One can forget and ignore the irritating person, mental or physical state..
5: Ownership of Kamma of the irritating person can be reflected upon thus:
This good person is owner of his actions, inherit the result his actions, is
indeed born of his actions and only he is responsible for his actions be they
good or bad. This too is how annoyance with the irksome can be instantly
removed. These are the five ways of removing annoyance, and by which any
irritation can be entirely removed in a friend, exactly when it arises...
Anguttara Nikaya V 161

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Buddha to his son Rahula: Develop an Imperturbable Mind like the elements:
Rahula, develop a mind like earth, then contacts of arisen like and dislike
will not obsess your mind! Rahula, on the earth is dumped both the pure and
the impure: excreta, urine, saliva, pus, blood, but the earth does not detest
any of those... Even and exactly so make your mind stable like the earth!
Rahula, develop a mind like water, then contacts of arisen pleasure and pain
will not seize your mind. Rahula with water both the pure and the impure
are cleaned... Washed away with water are excreta, urine, saliva, pus, and
blood, yet the water does not despise any of that! Even so make the mind
fluid and adaptable like the water!
Rahula, develop a mind like fire, then the contacts of any arisen attraction
or aversion will neither consume, nor hang on to your mind! Rahula, fire burns
both the pure and the impure, burns excreta, urine, saliva, pus, and blood,
yet the fire does not loathe any of that.. In the same manner refine the mind
into a tool like an all consuming and purifying fire!
Rahula, develop a mind similar to space, then contacts of arisen delight and
frustration does neither take hold of, nor remain in your mind. Space does
not settle anywhere! Similarly make the mind unsettled and unestablished
like open space. When you expand mind like space, contacts of delight and
frustration will neither be able to dominate, nor obsess your mind...
Majjhima Nikaya 62

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Friendship is the Greatest!
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