I'll start:
- Two Extremes (antā)
1. Devotion to sensual happiness in sensual pleasures (kāmesu kāmasukhallikānuyoga).
2. Devotion to self-mortification (attakilamathānuyoga).
(Dhammacakkappavattanasutta, SN. v. 420-4)
Threes anyone?
The seven factors are:
Mindfulness (sati)
Keen investigation of the dhamma (dhammavicaya)3
Energy (viriya)
Rapture or happiness (piti)
Calm (passaddhi)
Concentration (samadhi)
Equanimity (upekkha)
More lists hereBhikkhu_Samahita wrote:Friends:
Running up & down the beach delays any crossing!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, these 8 things, when cultivated and refined, lead to going beyond
from this near shore, right here, to the far shore beyond all... What eight?
Right View (samma-ditthi)
Right Motivation (samma-sankappa)
Right Speech (samma-vaca)
Right Action (samma-kammanta)
Right Livelihood (samma-ajiva)
Right Effort (samma-vayama)
Right Awareness (samma-sati)
Right Concentration (samma-samadhi)
These 8 things, when cultivated and refined, lead to going beyond from this near
shore, right here, to the far shore beyond. This is what the Blessed Buddha said.
The Well-Gone-One, this supreme Teacher, then added this:
Few humans cross to that sublime far shore beyond all being.
Mostly, people just run up & down along this barren bank!
Those whose praxis is like this even and exact Dhamma,
Will pass beyond the State of Death in quiet harmony!
Having left all the dark and evil doing, any intelligence
Seeks the luminous bright light by leaving this turmoil,
and by going forth into solitary & silent homelessness.
Secluded from lust, he experiences an unworldly bliss!
Owing nothing, the wise & clever man thereby cleans
himself of all these mental pollutions and defilements...
Mentally well evolved by the 7 links to enlightenment,
Delighting in non-clinging and relinquishment of all,
Such luminous ones having quenched fermentation,
Are fully released even right here in this world.
Crossing...
To the Other Side...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya.
Book [V:24] section 45: The Way. 34: Gone to the other side ...
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Have a nice transcendent day!
Friendship is the Greatest!
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The Other Side...
Fun?!? But it was never meant to be fun. It was meant to be a source of unworldly bliss (nirāmisa sukha) for Buddhists who prefer their Buddhism in a numerically ordered form.tiltbillings wrote:This is no fun.
Okay then, a new rule: the list of items in each new post must be clearly related to the last item in the previous poster's list. For example, if one member posts the three piṭakas, of which the third is the Abhidhamma Piṭaka, then the next member might post, say, the four paramattha dhammas or the four mental factors common to all unwholesome consciousnesses or the fourfold relinking consciousness.You have to put some work into this.
No, limericks are out.Jechbi wrote:I know: Let's put the answers in the form of limericks. Who wants to go first?
And remaining thus focussed, he will develop the nine insight knowledges (vipassanā ñāṇa)."[They say:] 'He remains focused on arising & passing away with regard to the five aggregates: 'Such is form, such its origination, such its disappearance. Such is feeling... Such is perception... Such are fabrications... Such is consciousness, such its origination, such its disappearance.' Surely, knowing, he knows; seeing, he sees.' This, too, is a factor leading to endearment, to respect, to development, to consonance, to unification.
Shoot. And just when it's time for the 10 perfections. I'm going through withdrawal symptoms.Macavity wrote:The Buddha said his teachings would disappear through people's addiction to good poetry. So how much more so when people get addicted to bad poetry.