BrokenBones wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:56 am
pegembara wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 5:48 am
Maybe flow or flux is better than saying million times per second.
Eg the river flows and changes constantly-therefore it is without inherent substance like a blowing wind.
Constantly changing rather than "momentarily existing".
I've often wondered why dispassion or weariness should arise at seeing Bhanga. It's a buzz... a self induced one... like acid
Dispassion is more likely to arise in contemplating... 'I was young... now I'm older... I'm soon gonna be dead just like that poor bugger they've just buried'.
'I was young... now I'm older... I'm soon gonna be dead just like that poor bugger they've just buried'. This is too slow a contemplation. The degree of anicca perceived is too slow!
This leads to a sense of urgency rather than dispassion. The time interval is about one in or out-breath. In that time you will not have the luxury of thinking so much! It's more like everything is going, going, gone right now, and not that I am going to die sometime in the future.
"But whoever develops mindfulness of death, thinking, 'O, that I might live for the interval that it takes to swallow having chewed up one morsel of food... for the interval that it takes to breathe out after breathing in, or to breathe in after breathing out, that I might attend to the Blessed One's instructions. I would have accomplished a great deal' — they are said to dwell heedfully.
They develop mindfulness of death acutely for the sake of ending the effluents.
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
The Pali word is nibbida.
"This general teaching about turning away from the “external” world, or about finally realizing that one will perpetually “not find” the nutrients we seek in the bleached bones of sensory objects, or about waking from the enchantment cast upon us by a primordial delusion, is not unique to the early Buddhist tradition. The same thought seems to be conveyed in that consummate Mahayana and Zen text, the Lankavatara Sutra. In the introduction to his translation of this text, D.T. Suzuki brings special attention to what he calls an important psychological event of “turning back” from the world: “Technically, it is a spiritual change or transformation which takes place in the mind, especially suddenly..."
If everything that you experience is always passing away and like sand slipping through your fingers. You experience emptiness and begin to turn away from the world.
The world is on fire. Seeing this leads to disenchantment.
And disenchantment leads to liberation.
"Seeing thus, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with the eye, disenchanted with forms, disenchanted with consciousness at the eye, disenchanted with contact at the eye. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the eye, experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain: With that, too, he grows disenchanted.
Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is fully released. With full release, there is the knowledge, 'Fully released.' He discerns that 'Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.'"
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitak ... .than.html
And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech, & from idle chatter: This is called right speech.