mjaviem wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:05 pm
What does sunnata mean? What's the sunnatta teaching?
Sunnata means a lack of inherent existence ie. anatta or corelessness.
For example-
What is the ear?
Is it the ear drum, ear canal, the fleshy part, ear bones, the nerves or brain?
Without its parts, there is no ear!
So the ear is dependent on its parts. It is empty!
What about the eye?
What is it really without the eyeball, the lens, the iris, the aqueous or vitreous humours, retina, nerves and brain?
There is actually no eye! Its "existence" is dependent on the presence of all those things. That's sunnata.
Some of its parts.
What about a fire?
Same thing. It is dependent on conditions that don't inherently exist. It is also empty.
Without the conditions, it just goes out. It doesn't go anywhere. Not unbound but just goes out.
A being is likewise sunna -form, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness - the five aggregates.
Satta Sutta: A Being
"Just as when boys or girls are playing with little sand castles:[4] as long as they are not free from passion, desire, love, thirst, fever, & craving for those little sand castles, that's how long they have fun with those sand castles, enjoy them, treasure them, feel possessive of them. But when they become free from passion, desire, love, thirst, fever, & craving for those little sand castles, then they smash them, scatter them, demolish them with their hands or feet and make them unfit for play.
"In the same way, Radha, you too should smash, scatter, & demolish form, and make it unfit for play. Practice for the ending of craving for form.
"You should smash, scatter, & demolish feeling, and make it unfit for play. Practice for the ending of craving for feeling.
"You should smash, scatter, & demolish perception, and make it unfit for play. Practice for the ending of craving for perception.
"You should smash, scatter, & demolish fabrications, and make them unfit for play. Practice for the ending of craving for fabrications.
"You should smash, scatter, & demolish consciousness and make it unfit for play. Practice for the ending of craving for consciousness — for the ending of craving, Radha, is Unbinding."
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
Why now do you assume 'a being'?
Mara, have you grasped a view?
This is a heap of sheer constructions:
Here no being is found.
Just as, with an assemblage of parts,
The word 'chariot' is used,
So, when the aggregates are present,
There's the convention 'a being.'
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .bodh.html
So by convention, there is a person called mjaviem who posts and responds to posts and messages.
Form is like a glob of foam;
feeling, a bubble;
perception, a mirage;
fabrications, a banana tree;
consciousness, a magic trick —
this has been taught
by the Kinsman of the Sun.
However you observe them,
appropriately examine them,
they're empty, void
to whoever sees them
appropriately.
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
It is this voidness that is the single highest teaching of the Buddha, so
much so that in the Saṁyutta-nikāya the Buddha says that there are no
words spoken by the Tathāgata that are not concerned with suññatā. He
says, in this discourse (sutta), that the most profound teachings are those
dealing with voidness and that everything else is superficial. Only the
teaching of suññatā is so profound that an enlightened Tathāgata must
appear in the world in order to teach it. Other matters are superficial and
don’t require a Tathāgata’s appearance.
Please think this over. Contemplate it, observe it, and ponder it until
you perceive that
all things display the characteristic of suññatā. It’s just
that we can’t see. So who is to blame but ourselves? There’s a Zen koan that
says, “An ancient pine tree is proclaiming the Dhamma.” Even that old pine
tree is displaying suññatā, the voidness that it shares with all things, but
people don’t see it. They don’t hear its Dhamma teaching, its ceaseless
proclamation of voidness. This, then, is the word suññatā in its first
meaning, which concerns all things.
Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree: The Buddha's Teaching on Voidness
http://www.buddhadasa.org/files/pdf/Hea ... hadasa.pdf
And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech, & from idle chatter: This is called right speech.