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Mixed cause => Mixed Effect!

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Friends:

The Effects of Action (Kamma) is delayed as a Sown Seed!

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[u]The Blessed Buddha once explained:[/u]
Regarding the effects of actions, Ananda, as to the person here who avoids
all killing of any living being, who avoids all stealing of what is not given,
who avoids any misconduct in sensual pleasures, who avoids all false speech,
divisive speech, aggressive speech, and all idle & empty gossip, who is neither
envious, nor jealous, is good-willed, and who is of right view, yet who at the 
breakup of the body, after death, is reborn in a state of deprivation, in a
dreadful destination, in the painful purgatory, or even in the hells then it is
because either earlier - prior to this - such one also did evil actions to be
felt as painful, or later - after this - such one did evil actions to be felt as
pain, or at moment of death such one entered into & maintained wrong views!
Because of one or more of these, right after death, such one is reborn in a
bad state of deprivation, a dreadful destination, in the painful purgatory,
or even in the hells. But since such one also - here & now - has been one who
avoids all killing of any living being, who avoids taking anything what is not given,
who avoids all misconduct in sensual pleasures, who avoids all false speech,
divisive speech, aggressive speech, & all idle & empty gossip, who is neither
envious, nor jealous, who is of good will, & who holds right views, such one
will experience the pleasant results of that good behaviour, either here and
now, or in the next rebirth, or in some subsequent later existence...
Comments: Behaviour (kamma) is always mixed: Sometimes good, sometimes bad!
The effects are therefore similarly mixed: Sometimes pleasure, sometimes pain...
Good begets good & dilutes & delays evil. Evil begets evil & dilutes & delays good!

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Source:
The Moderate speeches of the Buddha: The great speech on Action. MN 136
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Full Text:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/su ... mn136.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

An illustration of the delayed, overlapping & interfering result of mixed kamma:
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For details on the mechanics of Kamma = Intentional Action see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... ention.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In ... _Kamma.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Unint ... Action.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Bu ... _Kamma.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/K ... _Fruit.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/K ... ovable.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/I ... uences.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Go ... _Kamma.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... g_life.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... ckness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... _Birth.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... overty.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... liness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ef ... elayed.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... espect.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ev ... _Kamma.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Go ... _Kamma.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ka ... igence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Mixed cause => Mixed Effect!

Variable are the Delayed Effects of Mixed Kamma!
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/Ef ... elayed.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Chained is Causality!

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The Forward & Reverse Causality of Existence:

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So have I heard:
After 7 days of non-stop sitting meditation in the bliss of Awakening,
The Buddha in the last watch of the night directed his unified attention to
dependent co-arising in both forward & reverse order in this very way:

If A leads to => B, then non-A leads to => non-B!
When this is present, then that comes into being...
When this emerges, that arises too...
When this is absent, then that does not come into being...
When this ceases, that vanishes too...

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The forward causality:
When ignorance arises, mental construction also appears..
When mental construction arises, consciousness also comes into being..
When consciousness arises, name-&-form also comes to be..
When name-&-form arises, then the six senses emerge too..
When the six senses arise, then contact is the consequence..
When contact arises, then feeling is assigned too..
When feeling arises, then urge and craving surely follows..
When craving arises, then clinging too becomes dominant..
When clinging arises, then the process of becoming is initiated..
When becoming arises, then rebirth inevitably also appears..
When rebirth arises, then aging and death, sorrow, distress, pain, grief
and despair also arises. This verily is the origin, the causing, the arising
of this entire mass of Suffering...

The reverse causality:
Consequently, when this very same ignorance is utterly uprooted & eliminated,
then mental construction is tranquilized, all stilled, and it ceases & dissolves..
When mental construction ceases, then consciousness itself fades away..
When consciousness ceases, then naming-&-forming also terminate..
When name-&-form ceases, then the six senses come to an end..
When the six senses cease, then contact closes down as well..
When contact ceases, then feeling stops out too..
When feeling ceases, then craving also evaporates..
When craving ceases, then clinging is relinquished too..
When clinging ceases, then the re-becoming process essentially ends!
When becoming ceases, then this process of endless rebirth is exhausted too..
When birth ceases, then aging, death, sorrow, sadness, and pain also finishes.
This verily is the cessation, and the final end of this whole mass of Suffering...!

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Dispersing all Darkness...

Then, he, the Blessed One, on recognizing the profundity of that sequence,
exclaimed: When the appearance of phenomena becomes clearly manifest
to this very Noble Friend through rapt meditation, then he is constantly s
cattering Mara’s - the Evil One's - army, exactly as the sun continuously
disperses all darkness, when lighting up the bright sky...

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Chained Events...

Everything has a Cause: Conditioned Origination & Cessation:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Caused_by_What.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohes ... nation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Colla ... sation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/C ... rgence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ppaada.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Source:
The Udana: Inspired utterances by the Buddha: I – 3
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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Have a nice & noble day!

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All Phenomena are Chained Events!

The Forward & Reverse Causality of Existence!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/As ... kening.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Urgent Medicine Request!

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Dear Dhamma Friends & Supporters:

Unfortunately have I again contracted a parasite infection called Schistosomiasis
(also known as liver-fluke, bilharzia, bilharziosis or snail fever)! from the infected wild
pigs living here in this jungle, who excrement in my mountain stream water supply.
Some medicine is therefore needed, which is not available here on Sri Lanka. (See below)
If any of you kind Dhamma-friend could get the medicine from your doctor
pharmacy/pharmacist or health-care-provider and send it here it would be VERY fine.
Since the parasite eggs can spread to the brain and spinal cord, which effectively would
disable me, then the medicine is somewhat urgently needed.

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NEEDED MEDICINE:

A: Tablets PRAZIQUANTEL 600mg: 36 tablets (for treatment)
(brands: Distoside, Biltricide, Cesol, Cysticide, Zentozide)


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and

B: Tablets ARTHEMETER 40, 50 or 100 mg: 336 tablets
(for 1 years prevention)


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Email: [email protected]


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Many Thanx in Advance :-)

About Generosity (Dana): The First Mental Perfection:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Openh ... rosity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Rev ... rosity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Glad_Giving.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice & noble day!
 
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Many Thanx in Advance!
Sabbe Sattâ Bhavantu Sukhi Tatthâ:
May Many Beings Become Thus Happy Thereby!

Some Medicine is Needed urgently!
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Genuine Goodwill Blazes & Shines!

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Genuine Goodwill Blazes & Shines!

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The blessed Buddha once said:
Among tigers, lions, leopards and bears I lived in the jungle.
None of them was frightened of me, nor did I fear any of them!
Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the deep forest.
Finding great solace in such sweet and 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 too of any many-footed!

Anguttara Nikaya IV 67

May all creatures, all breathing things;
All beings, one and all, without exception,
Experience good fortune only! :-)
May they not fall into any harm.

Anguttara Nikaya II 72

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

Sutta Nipata I

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More genuine good even better here ;-) _/\_
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Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Friendliness Blazes and Shines beyond all!

Genuine Goodwill!
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Gracious is Gratitude!

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Gratitude appreciates all assistance!

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The Buddha indeed pointed out Gratitude as an important mental quality:
These two people are hard to find in the world. Which two?
The one who is first to do a kindness, and
the one who is grateful and thankful for a kindness done.
Anguttara Nikaya 2.118

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I tell you, monks, there are two people who are not easy to repay.
Which two? Your mother & father. Even if you were to carry your mother
on one shoulder & your father on the other shoulder for 100 years, & were
to look after them by anointing, massaging, bathing, & rubbing their limbs,
and they were to defecate and urinate right there on your shoulders, you
would not thereby repay your parents. Even if you were to establish your
mother & father in absolute sovereignty over this great earth, abounding in
the seven treasures, you would not in that way repay your parents!
Why is that? Mothers and fathers do much for their children. They care for
them, they nourish them for long, and they introduce them to this world.
But anyone who rouses his unbelieving mother & father, settles & establishes
them in faith; rouses his immoral mother & father, establishes them in virtue;
rouses his stingy mother & father, settles & establishes them in generosity;
rouses his unwise mother & father, settles & establishes them on a new level
of understanding: It is in this way that one truly repays one's mother's and
father's many longstanding services.
Anguttara Nikaya 2.32

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Mother & father, compassionate to their family, are called Brahma, first teachers,
honour them with food & drink, clothing & bedding, and anointing, bathing, washing
their feet. Performing these services to their parents, the wise are praised right
here and after death rejoice in heaven. Itivuttaka 106

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If this is what you think of me:
The Blessed One, is sympathetic, is seeking our well-being, teaches us this
Dhamma out of sympathy, then you should train yourself in being in harmony,
cordial, and without conflict and train in yourselves cultivation of all the 37
best mental qualities: The 4_Foundations_of_Awareness, the 4 right efforts,
the 4_Feet_of_Force, the 5 Abilities, 5 powers, the 7 Links to Awakening,
& the Noble_8-Fold_Way. Majjhima Nikaya 103
A Tathagata is worshipped, honoured, respected, thanked & shown gratitude
by any follower, who keeps practicing the Dhamma in accordance with true
Dhamma, who keeps practicing masterfully, who lives in and by the Dhamma!
Digha Nikaya 16

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We will undertake & practice those qualities that makes one a contemplative,
so that all those who helped us by services of robes, alms-food, lodging, and
medicines will bring them great fruit and great future reward.
Majjhima Nikaya 39

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Comments:
In Pali, the word for gratitude = kataññu literally means to have a sense of
what was done for one in the past even when long ago. Remembering all help!
A network of kindness and gratitude is what sustains whatever goodness
there is and ever will be in this - otherwise destitute & impoverished - world!

Thus: Thank you for reading this!

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Source (edited extract): The Lessons of Gratitude by Thanissaro Bhikkhu:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... itude.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ap ... iation.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice & noble day!

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Appropiate Appreciation is Advantageous!

Gracious is Gratitude!

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Total is Transience...

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Experiencing Impermanence Exposes the Futility of Clinging!

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, Ananda, is experiencing impermanence, inconstancy and transience?
When a Bhikkhu, having gone to a forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty
place, reflects: all form is inconstant, all feeling is fleeting, any experience
is impermanent, all mental construction is transient, and all consciousness is
momentary and in this way remains noting the impermanence, the inconstancy
and transience of these 5 Clusters of Clinging...
Then this, Ananda, is indeed the very experience of impermanence...,
The perception of inconstancy... and the sensation of transience...

Source (edited extract):
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya AN 10:60, AN V 108ff.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Buddha furthermore explained:
Bhikkhus, there is no lasting matter or materiality, no lasting form whatsoever...
There is no lasting feeling whatsoever... no lasting perception whatsoever...
There is no lasting mental construction whatsoever...
There is no lasting consciousness or awareness of anything whatsoever...
There is no permanent, everlasting, eternal thing that is not subject to change,
not transient, not vanishing, that will last as long as eternity...
SN 22.96/vol. iii, 144 

All formations, all constructions are impermanent, transient, vanishing...
MN 35/vol. i, 230

Whatever can arise and emerge, that also will surely cease...
MN 56/vol. i, 380

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Comments from the classical commentaries:

Impermanence is not Evident unless specifically looked for:
False apparent continuity covers up and camouflages impermanence:
The characteristic of impermanence does not become apparent because,
when rise and fall are not given attention, it is concealed by continuity...
However, when continuity is disrupted by observing rise & fall here & now,
the characteristic of impermanence becomes apparent in its true nature.
Vism. Ch. xxi/p. 640

Moments of mental states always change as iron darts hit:
Observing the abrupt change of all states discloses their discrete nature:
When continuity is disrupted means, when it is exposed by observation of
the perpetual alteration of states as they go on occurring in succession.
For it is not through the connectedness of states, that the characteristic of
impermanence becomes apparent to one who rightly observes rise and fall,
but rather the characteristic becomes properly evident through their discrete
disconnectedness, regarded as if each moment were iron darts, hitting in on
reality one by one separately, instead of as a continuous flow of slow change.
VismA. 824

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All states rise and fall. This characteristic of change, ageing, & evanescence
is the universal impermanence of all worldly. Nothing here escapes change!
It is a distortion of view, perception, and thinking to regard anything as lasting!
Impermanence inherently implies suffering as all what is liked will evaporate!
Impermanence implies no-self as nothing remains identical as an entity or identity!
Whether internal or external: It is only passing states - material and mental - ...
Experiencing impermanence thus also means seeing suffering and no-self!

When realizing that all states passes on and evaporates instantly,
one realizes the impossible futility inherent in all forms of clinging.
It is like sand running out between the fingers. It can never be kept!
Nothing can ever be kept, owned, possessed, maintained, or retained!
So let it go. Release it! Relinquish it all. Do not fear. Nothing lasting is lost!
It was never yours anyway. It will go away by itself anyway. It is pain anyway!
It was never really the same anyway, and it will never ever return again anyway...

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All things arise, go through a series of changes and die. All phenomena are
impermanent, every living being eventually dies. Life has a limit and is always
in a state of uncertainty. This is an undeniable reality! Life is very uncertain,
only death is certain. Knowing that death is certain and is the natural destiny
that everyone has to face, we should not be afraid of death. To be considered
really free in life, we must be free from the fear of death. We must humbly
contemplate the words “All things are impermanent.” We must indeed be aware
that birth and death comes at any moment. Every moment is thus impermanent.
Enlightenment can be achieved by this acute awareness of impermanence!

More on impermanence, inconstancy, & transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... el186.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... anicca.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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;

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Memento Mori: Remember your mortality, that you must and surely will die!

Total is Transience...

The Experience of Impermanence!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... anence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Fearless Freedom!

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Friends:

Free from Fear by Release from all Anxiety:

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The young deity Subrahma once asked the Buddha:
Always frightened is this Mind!
Always agitated is this Mind!
About present problems.
About future problems.
If there is a release from this worry & anxiety,
please then now kindly explain it to me...

Whereupon the Blessed Buddha declared:
I see no other real safety for any living being,
except from control of the senses,
except from the relinquishment of all,
except from awakening into Enlightenment!

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More on systematic relinquishment:

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Le ... Behind.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No ... ything.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Source: The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya I 54
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;

Original deposited here:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Free_from_Fear.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice relinquishing day Without Worry!


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Fearless Safety!
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The 4-Fold Advantage!

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The Fourfold Prime Advantage:

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A deity once asked the Buddha:
What is good, when one is old?
What is good, when established?
What is a human's finest treasure?
What is hard for robbers to steal?
The blessed Buddha answered:
Morality is good, even when one is old!
Conviction is good, when firmly established!
Understanding is any human's finest treasure!
Merit well done is impossible for robbers to steal!


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Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya I [39-40]
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Have a nice, noble & advantageous day!

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The 4-Fold Advantage!
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The Noble 8-fold Way

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Noble indeed is this 8-fold Way:

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From right View comes right Motivation.
From right Motivation comes right Speech.
From right Speech comes right Action.
From right Action comes right Livelihood.
From right Livelihood comes right Effort.
From right Effort comes right Awareness.
From right Awareness comes right Concentration.
From right Concentration comes right Understanding.
From right Understanding comes right mental Release.
From right Release comes full Freedom, Bliss, and Peace!

Thus opened are the doors to the Deathless State...!

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Source: The Exhaustive Speeches by the Buddha. Digha Nikaya 18
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Note the 8 spokes in the wheel symbolizing the 8 steps of the Noble Way!

Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way (Ariyo Atthangiko Maggo):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_3-fold_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Fa ... eglect.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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There is no other way out of Suffering...

The Noble 8-fold Way

The 8 Steps to End all Suffering!
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The fine Fruits of the Noble Way!

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How does the Noble 8-fold Way makes one Noble?

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Having cultivated the Noble 8-fold Way, a being might enter the stream,
which leads to Nibbana! The Stream-Enterer (Sotapanna) is entirely freed
from rebirth as Animal, Hungry Ghost, Angry Demon & Burning Hell Being!
Such Noble One (Ariya) will be enlightened within maximally 7 rebirths...
The Stream-Enterer has eliminated all egoism, belief in a 'person' or 'self',
eradicated all 'I-making' & 'Mine-making', abolished all sceptical doubt in
the perfect Self-Enlightenment of the Buddha, & removed silly superstitious
belief in any benefit of empowerments and empty rituals. Such Noble have
by direct momentary experience touched and tasted the deathless Nibbana
and is forever hereafter independent of any Dhamma-teacher...
Having cultured the Noble 8-fold Way even further, a being might attain the
state of a Once-Returner (Sakadagami), who is reborn only once as human or
lower god (deva) and then awakens in that next life! Such Noble has further
reduced sense-desire and aversion...
Having yet further refined the Noble 8-fold Way, a being might attain the
state of a Non-Returner (Anagami), who is reborn in the higher fine material
worlds - The Pure Abodes - where they live for many universal cycles & there
attain Nibbana without ever returning to the human or lower divine worlds...
Such Noble has furthermore entirely eliminated sense-desire and aversion!
Having fully perfected the Noble 8-fold Way one awakens as an Arahat, who
is enlightened in this very life, by elimination of all remaining mental defects
such as desire for fine form and formlessness, the subtle conceit that 'I am',
latent tendency to restlessness and all ignorance. Such Noble One enters at
the moment of death the freedom, bliss & peace of Nibbana without trace of
clinging left...

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Further study on the Noble 8-fold Way:
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;
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Noble_8_fold_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_3-fold_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Fa ... eglect.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_N ... ld_Way.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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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;
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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.
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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
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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;
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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'!
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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;
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Have a nice, noble & compassionate day!

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Feel Infinite Pity for all those Falling beings!

Great Compassion!
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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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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;
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Final Freedom!

Nibbana is the highest Bliss.
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