Of birds and meditators

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Ben
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Of birds and meditators

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Birds are first delivered from their mothers' wombs in the form of eggs.

By breaking through the shells, they are delivered for a second time. Finally when they become full fledglings, endowed with feathers and wings, they are delivered from their nests and can fly wherever they please.

Similar is the case of meditators. They are first delivered from the distractions of the mind which have
accompanied them throughout the beginningless saṃsāra (cycle of rebirth),
through successfully setting up mindful body contemplation (mindfulness of the body kayānupassanā), or by accomplishing the work of tranquillity meditation.

Secondly, when they attain insight (vipassana) into body, mind, aggregates (rupa, nama, khandha) and so on, they are free from coarse forms of ignorance.

Finally, when the seven factors of enlightenment (bojjhaṅga), develop and mature, they become fully fledged by attaining the knowledge of the supramundane path (lokuttara-magga- ñana) called sambodhi.

Thus are they delivered from the state of worldlings (puthujjana), attaining the state of Noble Ones (ariya) the supramundane (lokkuttara): nibbāna.

The Requisites of Enlightenment (Bodhipakkhiya Dipani).
Venerable Ledi Sayadaw
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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Created just for you, Ben. http://www.flickr.com/photos/49904366@N ... /lightbox/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Thank you, Alan. Your photo is beautiful!
with metta,

Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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its an image i had at a vipsoanna retreat and is in herman hesse's demian.
i like hearing the crocus o birds while i meditate.
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alan wrote:Created just for you, Ben. http://www.flickr.com/photos/49904366@N ... /lightbox/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Wonderful photos, Alan!

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Ben wrote:Venerable Ledi Sayadaw...
:bow:

Thanks for posting Ben!

:namaste:
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.

- BB
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