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What is Right Awareness?

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Friends:

What is this Fundamental Right Awareness?

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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!


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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!

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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...

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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...

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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;

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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;

Have a nice, noble and aware day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka.
http://What-Buddha-Said.net" 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;
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What is Right Concentration?

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Friends:

What is this Sublime Right Concentration?

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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!

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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!

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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;

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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;

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Have a nice, noble and concentrated day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_ Sri Lanka
http://What-Buddha-Said.net" 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;
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Emergence of Stream-Entry!

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Friends:

Emergence is directly knowing the Noble Way!

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At the stream-entry moment - right there & then - as an internal light flash:
Right view emerges from wrong view and from all defilements as seeing...
Right motivation emerges from wrong motivation as now directing...
Right speech emerges from wrong speech as kindly embracing...
Right action emerges from wrong action as clever originating...
Right livelihood emerges from wrong livelihood as full cleansing...
Right effort emerges from wrong effort as enthusiastic exerting...
Right awareness emerges from wrong awareness as alert establishing...
Right concentration emerges from wrong concentration as non-distraction...
Externally this change-of-lineage emerges from all symbols and conventions!
This mental remodelling is an irreversible phase transition to the Noble state!
Vism 681

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Noble Emergence from all the assuming mental fermentations!

More on Stream-Entry (Sotapatti-magga):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_6_Keys.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Doors.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Internal_Bath.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Divine_Tracks.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Enter.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Stream-Enterer.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/St ... trance.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/St ... _Tools.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/As ... nation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... apanna.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... uggala.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Enter ... upreme.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Entering the Stream leading to Nibbana within 7 lives at most...

Have a nice noble day!

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

Emergence of Stream-Entry!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Entry_Emergence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Mutual Joy Causes Contentment!

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Friends:

How is the Mental Release by Mutual Joy?

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The Blessed Buddha once explained:
How is the release of mind by infinite mutual joy (Mudita) achieved?
What does this liberation have as its destination, what is its culmination,
what is its sweet fruit, and what is the ultimate goal of mental release
by universally mutual, unselfish, altruistic, appreciative & rejoicing joy?
Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading the frontal quadrant with a
mind imbued with infinite mutual joy, so the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quadrant.
As above, so below, across, and everywhere to all beings as for himself,
he dwells pervading the entire cosmos with a mind fully saturated with
unlimited mutual joy, immense, exalted, measureless, without hostility,
without any enmity, without any trace of ill will, of jealousy or of envy!
Thus prepared and mentally quite expanded, he then develops:
1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with limitless mutual joy.
2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such mutual joy.
3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with infinite mutual joy.
4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with absolute mutual joy.
5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with noble mutual joy.
6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with mutual joy.
7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with endless mutual joy.

Based upon seclusion, disillusion, ceasing, and culminating in release...

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If he then wishes:
May I dwell experiencing repulsion by any attractive & tempting object,
then he can dwell experiencing repulsiveness therein. If he wishes: May I
dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in any disgusting and repulsive object,
then he experiences pleasing beauty in whatever disgusting & ugly thing!
If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive & the unrepulsive, may I dwell
in equanimity, just aware & clearly comprehending, then he experiences
equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending! When meditating he
can completely transcend the realm of infinitude of space, only aware
that consciousness is infinite, he can enter and dwell in the sphere of the
infinitude of consciousness.. I tell you Bhikkhus for a quite wise Bhikkhu
here, who has not yet penetrated to an even more superior mental release,
the mental release by infinite, altruistic and mutual joy has the sphere of
the infinitude of consciousness as its culmination!

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More on Mutual Joy (Mudita):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ihaara.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/IV/What_is_Wrong.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/Rejoicing_Joy.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;

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Comments: Are you Discontent? Here is Why!
Mutual joy is the proximate cause of contentment.
Consequentially: Lack of mutual joy produces frustrated discontent!
Mutual joy also eliminates jealousy and envy! Absence of mutual joy
therefore induces the acid like mental pain called envy and jealousy!

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Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness...

Rejoice!

Mutual joy is the cause of contentment!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/I ... usness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Disillusion Frees!

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Revulsion Releases since Disillusion Frees!

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Any kind of form whatsoever; Any kind of feeling whatsoever;
Any kind of perception whatsoever; Any kind of construction whatsoever;
Any kind of consciousness whatsoever; Whether past, present or future;
Whether internal or external; Whether fair or foul; Whether high or low;
Whether far or near; Should be seen & understood as it really is:
This is transient, impermanent, uncertain and ultimately unsafe!
This is therefore disappointing, frustrating, and inevitably painful!
This is thus 'Not Me', 'Not Mine', 'Not what I am', 'Not My Self'...

Seeing this, the Noble learner is disgusted by all kinds of forms, feelings,
perceptions, mental constructions and all types of consciousness.
Being disgusted he experiences disillusion, disenchantment, and dispassion.
By this very disillusion, is craving fully extinguished and his mind is released!
Such cooled and liberated one understands: This round of rebirth is ended,
the Noble Life is completed, done is what should be done, there is no state
of becoming beyond this...

More on the Mental Release induced by Disgust:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Re ... isgust.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/II/Co ... uction.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Me ... a-Sati.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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More on these 5 Clusters of Clinging (Khandha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Not_Yours.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Leash.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Like_Foam.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Finge ... f_Soil.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Acqui ... f_Fuel.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Cl ... Truths.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... g_Five.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/St ... inging.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... handha.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/What_ ... inging.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Source: The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya II 124-5
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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Disillusion Frees!

Revulsion Releases all Clinging...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Any_Kind.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Goodwill is Genuine :-)

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Friends:

Goodwill is Genuine, Authentic and Universal!

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The Buddha on Goodwill:
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

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Quite pro roller-skate retrofit IMHO :-) Born legless and adopted by smart family.

Among tigers, lions, leopards and 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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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...
Therefore none of them ever harm me!
Anguttara Nikaya 4.67

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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

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

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Train yourself in doing only good
that lasts and brings great happiness.
Cultivate generosity, a peaceful living,
and a mentality of infinite friendliness.
Ittivuttuka 16

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Solitude is happiness for one who is content,
who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees.
Non-violence is happiness in this world:
Harmlessness towards all living beings.
Udana 10

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Consort only with the good,
come together with the good.
To learn the teaching of the good
gives wisdom like nothing else can.
Samyutta Nikaya 1.31

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More on the blazing 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;
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The 7 Arahat Qualities!

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Friends:

The Seven Qualities of an Arahat:

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For any fully awakened Arahat:
1: The impermanence of all constructions is perfectly seen and comprehended.
2: The addiction and torture of all sense-desires is perfectly perceived & known..
3: His mind is only inclined towards solitude, seclusion, silent ease, and Peace...
4: The Four Foundations of Awareness are continually & perfectly established...
5: The Five Mental Abilities & Powers are thoroughly developed & consummated...
6: The Seven Links to Awakening are utterly refined and fully accomplished...
7: The Noble Eightfold Way is perfectly realized, acquired and all concluded...
By these 7 criteria, he clearly and invariably recognizes, that for him, has the
mental fermentations associated with Sense-Desire, joined with Becoming,
and grounded in Ignorance been completely and irreversibly eliminated!
Cut of at the root and like a palm tree stump never ever to grow again...
The mission is completed. Done is what was to be done. No more of this...

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More on what those gone to the end, have perfected:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ay/arahat.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/IV/Pe ... htened.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_ ... nd_Men.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... ummary.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/L ... enment.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by 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;

The 7 Arahat Qualities!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Arahat_Qualities.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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The Ultimate Goal!

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The Ultimate Goal is complete Extinguishing of Craving:

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By the gradual stilling, giving up, fading away, letting go, relinquishing
and thus ceasing of all greed, desire, lust, craving, clinging, attachment,
adherence, obsession, and latent tendency towards the various elements
of forms, feelings, perceptions, constructions & kinds of consciousness,
the mind is finally said to be well released...!!!
Therefore; those recluses & priests, who are well released by Extinction
of Craving, have reached the Ultimate End & won Absolute Security from
Bondage, they have achieved a Sublime Nobility, they have accomplished
the Supreme Good! They are therefore Best among all Gods & all Humans!!!
Even these mighty Devas as Indra, Brahma and Pajapati praise them with
these long standing ovations from afar:

Homage to you, Thoroughbred Man!
Admirable are you, Supreme Man!
We do not know on what you Meditate!


See also:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Arahat_Qualities.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22(4+79): [III 13+-91]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/su ... 22-001.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Ultimate Goal!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_ ... nd_Men.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Perfect Praxis!

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How to be a real true Buddhist?

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Simply and easily by joining the Three Refuges and undertaking
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 seek shelter in the Buddha for the 2nd time.
I seek shelter in the Dhamma for the 2nd time.
I 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 time.
I request protection from the Sangha for the 3rd time.

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...


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 Meditation...
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. I have then out up a public list of this evolving Saddhamma Sangha.
May your journey hereby be eased, light, swift and sweet. Never give up!!!
One can also join the Saddhamma Sangha by taking the 3 refuges 5 accept
the 5 training rules right here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Sangha_Entry.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/sangha/Saddhamma_Sangha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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More on this basic first cause of all Good: Morality (Sila)!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sila_1_to_5.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Happy_Habbit.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/T ... Basics.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Si ... lation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Behaviour gradually evolves and spread like rings of pure good!

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Perfect Praxis!
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Get Up! Arousal Wins!

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Friends:

Enthusiastic Energetic Effort gains all Success:

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, the lazy person dwells in misery, soiled by evil detrimental states.
Great is the personal advantage, which such one thereby neglects & looses.
But the energetic & enthusiastic person lives happily, secluded from evil
detrimental states, & great is the personal advantage, that he thereby wins.
It is not by the inferior, that the supreme is attained. Rather, it is only by a
truly supreme effort, that the supreme state is attained. Friends, this Noble
Life is a sublime juice! Therefore, friends, while this Dhamma Teaching is still
present here arouse your energy for the attainment of the yet unattained,
for achievement of the yet unachieved, for realization of the yet unrealized...
Considering your own future, friends, is enough motivation to make all effort
for reaching this goal; considering the good future of others, is also enough
motivation to do your best; considering the best of both, is more than enough
inspiration to strive for the supreme goal with diligent thoroughness!
Thus enthusiastically, friends, should you train yourselves!

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More on Energy (Viriya): The root Cause of all Success
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Enthu ... Energy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... Energy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Source: The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya II 29
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sa ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Get Up! Arousal Wins!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Arous ... _Going.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Today is Nikini Poya Day.

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Friends:

How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?

Nikini Poya day is the full-moon of August. Bhikkhus who did not enter the yearly
rains retreat (Vas) early at Esala Poya day (peravas), are allowed to enter the
the rains retreat now in August (pasuvas). Nikini Poya day celebrates the first ever
Dhammasangayana - The First Buddhist Council where, what the Buddha said, was
agreed upon and recited. This took place at the Saptapanni Rock Cave in Rajagaha
(now Rajgir, India), under the patronage of Mahakassapa Thera and it went on for
seven long months. It established the original authentic Tipitaka: The 3 Baskets
of Sacred Text = The Pali Canon spoken by the historical Buddha and his disciples.

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One of the 7 Sattapanni Caves, where the First Buddhist Council was held ~ 483 BC.

On this first Buddhist Council:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Buddhist_Council" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Video of the Sattapanni Caves:
http://youtu.be/vNLtLcslKNQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

On such 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 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 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 Saddhamma-Sangha is set up 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;

And 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 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;

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This huge cave hall was built to house the Sixth Buddhist Council convened in 1955
to recite the Pali Tipitaka and authenticate the texts. On the 2,500th Anniversary
of the Buddha’s final passing away (Parinibbana), 2,500 monks assembled from the
Theravada Buddhist countries. Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw performed the central
role as Chief Questioner (Pucchaka), which was fulfilled by Venerable Mahakassapa
in the First Council, held three months after the Buddha’s passing away. To house
this great hall, an artificial hill was constructed by voluntary workers at Kaba-Aye
in Rangoon. This great hall is still used to hold the examinations in the Tipitaka.

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Today is Nikini Poya Day.

True Buddhists Respect the Poya Days!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/N ... ya_Day.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Without Agitation…

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Released by Disengaged Non-identification!

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At Savatthi The Buddha once said:
All form is transient, all feeling is transient, all perception is transient,
all mental constructions are transient, all consciousness is transient...
This transience is suffering! What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self
should be seen as it really is with correct understanding in this very way:
'All this is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self!'...
When one sees and understands this thus, as it really is with correct and
penetrating understanding, then one maintains no views on what is past.
When one maintains no more views regarding the past, then one neither
maintains any views about the future. When one has relinquished all views
about the future, then one is not being possessed by stubborn clinging...
Having no trace of immovable clinging left, the mind becomes disillusioned
regarding all form, all feeling, all perception, all mental constructions, and
all consciousness. By that it is released from the 3 mental fermentations
through detached non-clinging... By being released, the mind is all silenced!
By being thus stilled, the mind becomes content... Being content, it is not
agitated anymore... Being thus unagitated, one indeed attains Nibbana!
Right there and then, one instantly understands: Ended is this process of
rebirth, this Noble Life has been lived, done is all what had to be done,
there is no state beyond this...

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More on this nicely ballanced 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/Ser ... 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/E ... 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/drops/IV/Un ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Se ... Beyond.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:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III 55-58
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 & serene day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samahita _/\_
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Tranquillity ballances out the extreme states...


Not Agitated…
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Im ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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The Stream Supreme!

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Friends:

Entering the Noble Stream leading to Nibbâna:

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At Savatthi the Buddha said: Bhikkhus, the eyes are impermanent, changing,
becoming otherwise. All forms are impermanent, changing, & becoming otherwise.
The ear & all sounds, the nose & all smells, the tongue & all tastes, the body,
all touches, & the mind & all ideas are all impermanent, transient, changing, and
always becoming otherwise. One who accepts these teachings by understanding,
after having examined them, by careful reflection, is called a Dhamma-follower!
One who decides to place confidence in these teachings, is a Faith-follower!
Both such persons have entered the fixed track of correctness, entered a plane
of superior being, and thereby transcended the level of ordinary worldling.
Such beings cannot do any action later resulting in rebirth in hell, or as animal,
or as hungry ghost! Such Nobles are incapable of dying without having enjoyed
the fruit of stream-entry. Knowing & seeing these teachings thus, one is called
a Stream-Enterer, saved from lower worlds, fixed in destiny, with enlightenment
as destination within 7 lives at most...!

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Regarding the precious abilities of:
Faith: http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Lay_Faith.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Understanding:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/T ... bility.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Stream-Winner & Stream Entry:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ssa_an.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... apanna.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The Noble Beings:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... uggala.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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SUPREME SAFETY
In comparison with kingship over whole earth,
In comparison with arising in a divine world,
In comparison with supremacy over all universes,
the fruit of entering the Stream - being a Sotapanna -
is of supreme excellence. Dhammapada 178

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Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 25(1) III 225
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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More on this supreme and crucial Stream-Entry (Sotapatti-magga):
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The 3 Ultimate Facts!

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Friends:

The 3 Universal Characteristics are Absolute:

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All form is unstable, falling apart, transient and inevitably vanishing!
Therefore is all form fragile, frustrating, and ultimately disappointing!
Therefore is all form ownerless, neither what I am, nor mine or self!

All feeling is unsteady, disintegrating, temporary and just fading away!
Therefore is all feeling feeble, annoying, and really a painful suffering!
Therefore is all feeling unkeepable, alien, not-me-nor-mine-nor-any-self!

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All perception is fickle, collapsing, transitory and quickly disappearing!
Therefore is all perception frail, bothering, and never quite enough!
Therefore is all perception foreign, strange, not-me-nor-mine-nor-self!

All construction is insecure, subsiding, ephemeral and always leaving!
Therefore is all construction brittle, irksome, and invariably inadequate!
Therefore is all construction impersonal and not-me-nor-mine-nor-self!

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All consciousness is momentary, fleeting, passing, evanescent and lost!
Therefore is all consciousness insubstantial, tedious, and quite miserable!
Therefore is all consciousness egoless, alien and neither-me-nor-I-nor-self!

Thus seeing, thus knowing, thus assured, and clearly comprehending, but
shattered, and disgusted, yet still calm, cool and collected, one gradually
stops taking up and accumulating these things, since only fools pick up pain!
One instead Relinquishes! This -only and exactly this release by letting go-
is the liberating escape from all suffering, be it past, future or present!

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The Blessed Buddha said:

Whether Perfect Ones appear in the world, or whether Perfect Ones do not
appear in the world, this still remains the same condition, an immutable fact,
and a fixed regular nature-law: That all constructions are impermanent, that
all constructions are subject to suffering, that everything is without a self...

Anguttara Nikaya III 134

Constructions are all impermanent:
When he sees thus with understanding
And turns away from what is ill,
Then that is the path to mental purity.
Constructions are all suffering:
When he sees thus with understanding
And turns away from what is sick,
Then this is the path to mental purity.
All states are all without a same self:
When he sees thus with understanding
And turns away from what is illusory,
This is verily the path to mental purity.

Dhammapada 277-79

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A Bag of Bones.

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Friends:

Mahãmoggallãna on the Foul Body:

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You ragged shed of a chain of bones, sewn together with flesh and sinews.
Fie upon you evil-smelling body worshipping those who have another's limbs.

You bag of shit, tied up with skin, you demon with lumps on your chest...
Nine holes is there in you body, ever streaming with disgusting things...


You body, with your nine oozing holes, makes an evil smell and is all brimful
of smelly mess. Any Bhikkhu desiring purity avoids this putrid form as one
avoids any stinking heap of rotten excrement...

If any person knew you body, as I know you, he would violently avoid you,
keeping far away, as one avoids a fetid toilet-pit in the rainy season...


This is so, Great Hero, as you say, Ascetic and here many sink down as an
old drowning bull in deep, wet, and fatal mud.. Feverishly desiring the foul!

See this painted puppet, a heap of sores, a constructed form, diseased,
decaying, falling apart, with many evil intentions, of no permanent stability,
or safety
...


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In whomever such Awareness of the body as a dangerous & disgusting trap
is not developed, not pursued, Mara gains entry, Mara gains a foothold...
These 'body-lovers' becomes Mara's - the Evil Ones' - friends and soldiers!
Not knowing, not seeing Suffering - the 1st Truth - they run about claiming:
Body is beautiful, form is happiness, there is neither sickness, decay, ageing
nor any death! When Mara contacts them, they say: Come on in Sir, touch me!,
it will be my honour and pleasure ... Because of this false & wrong view, such
feverish 'body-lovers' share a future painful destiny with Mara the Evil One!

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Body (Kaya) understood only as being a Fragile Form:
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Bag_of_Bones.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Awareness of the Body gives fearlessness of even death!
Meditation on the Body disables greed, lust, and lewd desire!
The 9 Corpse Meditations induces a bold, brave, and confident joy!


Source: Theragatha: verses 1150-1157

Have a nice & noble day!

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The Body is a Bag of Bones; a Painted Puppet!

The Foul Frame...
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