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Friendship IS the Greatest!
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What makes beings Aware?

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness!

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

Consciousness is recognized as probably the most hard problem of today's science.
It cannot be reduced to swirling atoms or neuronal blips or even ever seen in any
micro-scope or scanning. It exposes a problematic and maybe even embarrassing
epistemological gap straddling between physics, neuro-physiology and philosophy.
Consciousness seems to be contained by the brain, but not produced by the brain,
just as the beer is contained in the bottle, but not produced by the bottle...
Consciousness holds the key to understanding the nature of core phenomena like
reality versus dreams.

Consciousness (viññana) from an Early Buddhist Perspective:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/What_is_Mind.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... nnaana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/T ... Camera.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/De ... ontact.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Wh ... usness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Mom ... usness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Obs ... Object.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/W ... inking.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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The Buddha on Meditation and Higher States of Consciousness:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Wheels/wh189.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Links and online papers on Consciousness:
http://consc.net/online/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_probl ... sciousness" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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

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


What makes beings Aware?

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

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Not even as much as a Fingernail of Dust Lasts!

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

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More on the Universal Fact of Impermanence:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Tr ... ations.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pe ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/I ... Anicca.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... anence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Co ... anence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Co ... ence_2.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ex ... sience.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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

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

Transience purifies...

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

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Mutual Joy cures all vicious Envy and Jealousy!

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

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

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

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Friendship is the Greatest!
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Rejoicing Joy!

Mutual Joy Causes Contentment! :-)
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Rejoicing_Joy.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Gracious is Gratitude!

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Appropriate Appreciation is Gratitude!

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

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

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

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

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

Therefore: Always Say Thanx!

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Thanx for Your Attention! ;-)

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

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Have a nice gracious day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Gracious is Gratitude!

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

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All Buddhas Awakened by Breath Meditation!

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

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

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

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

Have a nice & noble day!

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

Mental Calm induces incisive Insight...

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

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We should be Good to our fine Friends here!

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

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As I am, so are others... As others are, so am I...
Having thus identified self and others,
Never Harm anyone, nor have any being abused.
Sutta Nipata 3.710

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Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the jungle.
No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.
Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the forest.
Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude…
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540

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

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Train yourself in doing good
that lasts and brings happiness.
Cultivate generosity, the life of peace,
and a mind of infinite universal love.
Itivuttaka 22

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More on Friendliness (Metta):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Hey_Friend.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Mothers_Love.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kalyanamitta.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unique_Unity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Loving-Kindness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_Kindness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Across_Borders.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Safe_Medicine.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Frien ... _Frees.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Goodness_Galore.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Cosmic_Goodness.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Our Fine Friends!

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

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The Ten Mental Liberators Frees!

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


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

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

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

Liberating Rescue!

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

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Five x Five Crucial Core Buddhist Categories:

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

There are five Rules of Training:

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

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

There are five Mental Hindrances:

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

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

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

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

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

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The Catastrophic Conceit "I Am":

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

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

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

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

More on Anti-Egoism: Be as humble as a doormat:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pride.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/I-dentification.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No ... Inside.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/So ... eption.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mi ... erence.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Se ... rmless.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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The Prison of Pride!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Cutting 5 minor mental Chains!

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Friends:

How to Cut the 5 Minor Mental Chains?

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Friends, how does one cut the 5 minor mental chains of:
1: Identity, ego and personality belief.
2: Skeptical doubt in Buddha's Awakening.
3: Superstitious clinging to rule and ritual.
4: Greed, desire, lust and attraction.
5: Hate, anger, irritation and aversion.  


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The Blessed Buddha once explained:
In whatever situation or mental state one enters, whether high or low,
whether fine or foul, whether subtle or gross, whether far or near,
one knows, notes, reflects upon & remembers the facts exactly like this:
'Whatsoever herein is form, feeling, perception, mental construction, &
bare consciousness, all this is impermanent, transient, passing, unstable,
decaying, and vanishing; all this is miserable, painful, ill, a thorn, a tumor,
a disaster, a torture, and a burning pit; all this is remote, alien, impersonal,
ownerless, void of stable substance and keepable entity, completely empty
of any self-ego-me-I-mine-identity-or-any-personality...'
One thereby re-directs mind away from those unsafe phenomena and turns
it towards the freedom of the Deathless Dimension: Nibbâna just like this:
'But this is peace, the supreme stilling of all construction, relinquishing of
all acquisitions, the sublime release of all clinging, the calming of all craving,
disgust, disillusion, ceasing of all noise, perception and sensation, Nibbâna...'
Firmly established in this safe mode of reflection, one either eliminates the
mental fermentations completely and thus attains Nibbâna - here and now -
in this very life, or if not that, then one is reborn spontaneously in the pure
abodes, the pure lands, the pure realms, the pure spheres, of fine material,
where one clears the 5 lower fetters - the 5 minor mental chains - & attains
Nibbâna from there, without ever returning to this world from that level...

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The Moderated Speeches by the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya 64
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072X" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/ma ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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PS: The 'Pure Land' (SukhaVati) Buddhism of today may thus have begun from
what the Buddha early & originally called 'The Pure Abodes' (SuddhaVasa):
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/loka.html#rupa" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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How to Cut these 2 sets of Five Mental Chains or Fetters (Samyojana) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... Chains.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... Chains.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... yojana.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Cutting 5 minor mental Chains!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Nibba ... return.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Solid Siam!

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Friends:

Thai Hard Core Oak: Venerable Luang Pu!

The Mind sent Outside is the Cause of Suffering.
The Effect of the Mind sent Outside is Suffering.
The Mind seeing the Mind is the Path: The Noble Way!
The Effect of Mind seeing Mind, is the End of Suffering.


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No matter how much one thinks, one will not know directly!
Only when one stops thinking, will one know directly...
Yet, one still depends on thinking, so as to know...!!!
When mind is all quiet, one will come to know directly.
Whatever one really knows, it is from watching one's own mind!

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Knowing is the ground state of the empty mind, which is bright,
pure, quiet, calm, not fabricating, not searching, not urging,
and neither possessed, nor attracted by anything at all...

He does, yet he doesn't:
Do you still have anger?
Yes, but I don't pick it up!

The Less the better:
Stop Thinking, and Stop Urging!
The Poorer one is, the more
Happiness one enjoys...

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Thai King Bhumibol presents a gift to Venerable Dun Atulo Thera.

On the Four Noble Truths (Ariya-Sacca):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Actually_So.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Indeed_True.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Four_but_One.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_16_Aspects.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Focused_Truths.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/V/Abs ... tainty.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... /sacca.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Th ... e_Fact.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Si ... omplex.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Co ... _Truth.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... Truths.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/V/The ... eaning.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In ... essity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... fering.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... fering.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... fering.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... fering.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Source: Gifts He Left Behind: The Dhamma Legacy of Ajaan Dune Atulo:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai ... eleft.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdf ... _Atulo.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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The Mind sent Outside is the Cause of Suffering!

Solid Siam!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/solid_siam.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Serene is Silent Equanimity!

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Friends:

How is Release by Equanimity Achieved?

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
And how, Bhikkhus, is release of mind by serene equanimity (Upekkha)
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 neutral & imperturbable equanimity?
Here, a Bhikkhu dwells pervading first the entire frontal quadrant,
with a mind imbued with infinite equanimity, so the second quadrant,
the 3rd quadrant, and the 4th quadrant. As above, so below, across,
and everywhere, & as to all beings also to himself, he dwells pervading
the entire universe with a mind saturated with unlimited equanimity,
immense, exalted, measureless, without hostility, without any enmity,
without any ill will! Thus prepared and expanded, he then develops:

1: The Awareness Link to Awakening joined with limitless equanimity.
2: The Investigation Link to Awakening fused with such equanimity.
3: The Energy Link to Awakening together with infinite equanimity.
4: The Joy Link to Awakening accompanied with absolute equanimity.
5: The Tranquillity Link to Awakening linked with serene equanimity.
6: The Concentration Link to Awakening associated with equanimity.
7: The Equanimity Link to Awakening joined with endless equanimity.

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

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If he then wishes:
May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in any unrepulsive & tempting,
then he can dwell experiencing repulsiveness therein. If he wishes:
May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in any disgusting & repulsive,
then he dwells experiencing pleasing beauty in whatever disgusting!
If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the repulsive in what is both
unrepulsive & repulsive, he dwells experiencing repulsive disgust in it.
If he wishes: May I dwell experiencing the unrepulsive in what is both
unrepulsive & repulsive, he experiences only unrepulsive beauty by it!
If he wishes: Avoiding both the repulsive and the unrepulsive, may I
dwell in equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending, then he
dwells in equanimity, just aware and clearly comprehending! Or else,
completely transcending the realm of infinitude of consciousness,
only aware that there is nothing, he enters & dwells in the sphere of
the void, empty & vacuous nothingness.. I tell you Bhikkhus for a wise
Bhikkhu here, who has not yet penetrated to an even more superior
mental release, the mental release by imperturbable equanimity has
the subtle sphere of the nothingness as its final culmination!

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More on this serene mental state of Equanimity (Upekkha):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Even_ ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/H ... _Alert.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Div ... reedom.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Ser ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/E ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Exq ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/F ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/E ... pekkha.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... ekkhaa.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Un ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_7 ... kening.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Im ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/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 of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V: 115-21] 46: The Links. 54: Joined by Friendliness...
Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Imperturbability induces Peace...

Serene is Equanimity!

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/E ... nimity.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Devoured by Delight!

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Friends:

Seeking Delight inherently Creates Craving!

At Savatthi the Buddha once said: Friends, any who seeks delight in form
seeks delight in suffering. I tell you, anyone seeking delight in suffering,
is not freed from suffering. Anyone who seeks delight in feeling, or seeks
delight in perception, or seeks delight in mental constructions, or seeks
delight in consciousness, indeed thereby also seeks delight in suffering...
One who seeks delight in suffering cannot be liberated from suffering...!
Anyone who does not seek any delight, neither in form, nor in feeling, nor
in perception, nor in mental constructions, nor in consciousness, does not
seek delight in any suffering! Anyone who does not seek any delight in any
form of suffering, is therefore and thereby released from all suffering...!

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"Garden of Earthly Delight" by Hieronymus Bosch. (1450-1516)

Comments:
Delight is a mixed state of craving camouflaged by the joy of satisfaction.
However, in the end, all craving will create suffering either sooner or later.
Seeking delight is therefore - ultimately speaking - creating suffering...
All beings in the sense-world (kama-loka) are devoured by their own delight...
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/De ... elight.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22(29) [III 31]
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 day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Seeking Delight!

Devoured by Delight!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Seeking_Delight.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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The 7 Latent Tendencies...

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Friends:

The Seven Latent Tendencies (Anusaya):

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1: The Latent Tendency to Sense-Desire.
2: The Latent Tendency to Aversion and Anger.
3: The Latent Tendency to Skeptical Doubt.
4: The Latent Tendency to Speculative Views.
5: The Latent Tendency to the Conceit "I am".
6: The Latent Tendency to Craving for Becoming.
7: The Latent Tendency to Blind Ignorance.


These are inherently deeply imbedded and hidden in the core of the mind,
where these subtle tendencies ever again exert their harmful influence
over our thoughts, speech & behaviour. Biased by such corrupt inclinations,
any intention to act will only produce detrimental and painful future results...
The only tool capable of overcoming and extracting them is indeed this quite
Noble 8-fold Way: The Ariya Atthangika Magga: :

1. Right View (samma-ditthi)
2. Right Motivation (samma-sankappa)
3. Right Speech (samma-vaca)
4. Right Action (samma-kammanta)
5. Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva)
6. Right Effort (samma-vayama)
7. Right Awareness (samma-sati)
8. Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)


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The Latent Tendencies are the Hidden Driver of Mind!
Local minima are Samsara. Global minimum is Nibbana!


More on the Latent Tendencies (Anusaya):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Latent_Feeling.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPP ... nusaya.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Th ... encies.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Bo ... eeling.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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The Latent Tendencies are like mental Strange Attractors!
These confine the mind into habitual cyclical behaviour...


Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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The 7 Latent Tendencies...

Strange Hidden Mental Attractors!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_L ... encies.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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