Wednesday 29 September, 2010

What_Buddha_Said 1313: Genuine Goodwill!

Friends:

Genuine Goodwill Blazes & Shines!

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

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 Nikāya 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 Nikāya 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 Nipāta I

More genuine good even better here ;-) _/\_
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Blazing_Goodwill.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_11_Advantages.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/All-Embracing_Kindness.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/Advantageous_is_Friendship.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Buddha_on_Noble_Frienship.htm

Have a nice & noble day!

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Genuine Goodwill!

Monday 27 September, 2010

What_Buddha_Said 1312: Uprooting Mental Fermentation!

Friends:

What are the Fruits of the 5 Mental Abilities?

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these five mental abilities. What five?

The ability of Faith (saddhā)
The ability of Energy (viriya)
The ability of Awareness (sati)
The ability of Concentration (samādhi)
The ability of Understanding (pañña)

These are the five abilities.
It is, Bhikkhus, because he has developed and cultivated these 5 abilities,
that a Bhikkhu, by the destruction of the fermentations, in this very life
enters and dwells in the stainless liberation of mind, released by wisdom,
realizing it for himself with direct experience and complete understanding!

Comments:The 4 mental fermentations are wrong, false & hidden assumptions associated with:
1: Sense-desire (kāmāsava). Ex: "Sensing is only and always pleasant. Pain doesn't exist!"
2: Desiring becoming into new existence (bhavāsava): Ex: "All life is good. Death doesn't exist!"
3: Wrong views (ditthāsava): Ex: "I am better, know better and what I think is never wrong!"
4: Ignorance (avijjāsava): Ex: "Suffering, craving, ending craving & the Noble Way don't exist!"

All beings can train their mental abilities!

For Details on the 3 or 4 Mental Fermentations (āsava) see:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/aasava.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm

Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V: 203] 48 The Mental Abilities: 20 Fermentation free..

Have a nice & noble day!

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Uprooting Mental Fermentation!

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Sunday 26 September, 2010

What_Buddha_Said 1311: Stopping Feeling or perceiving it remotely as if in another room…?

A Good Friend asked:
>How can one stop unpleasant bodily feeling?

Answer:
Feeling (vedanā) cannot be stopped as long as there is contact!
From a moment of sense contact inevitably arise a moment of feeling.
But feeling can be felt as ‘remote’, ‘not mine’, ‘distant’ = ‘not disturbing’!

Even the Arahat feel physical pain, when he cuts his finger,
but he is not afflicted or disturbed by it (no mental pain), since:
1: He is not opposing this physical pain, he does not create the 2^nd feeling: Mental frustration!
2: He does not cling to this moment of painful feeling or any other phenomena whatsoever.
3: He does not resist neither this painful feeling, nor anything else. He accepts all, as it comes.
4: He sees it arise and knows it will cease by itself, by the sheer force of impermanence. (insight)
5: He has complete mental control and can direct attention away from any object & feeling.

6: He feels any feeling as something alien, remote, distant, weak, irrelevant, and impersonal,
just as if somebody, one does not know, is speaking to someone else in another room…

Let Feeling yell and roar as much as it wants. Mind your ‘own’ business!
And the feeling will vanish even before one perceives it…

Have a nice & noble day!

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What_Buddha_Said 1310: The 3 Types of Persons...

Friends:
On the 3 Types of Persons similar to Sick People:

The Blessed Buddha once noted:
There are these three kinds of bodily sick people:
One will recover by himself, even without any doctor or any medicine..
One will never recover, even if treated by the best doctor & best medicine..
One will only recover if treated by right medicine and a good doctors advice..
It is for the sake of this last person, that doctors work and medicine is made!

Similarly with those mentally infected by illness of greed, hate & ignorance!
There are these three kinds of mentally sick people:
One will cure & free himself, even without meeting this Buddha-Dhamma...
One will never be cured, even if taught this Dhamma by the Buddha himself...
One will be cured & freed, if & only if, taught & learning this Buddha-Dhamma...
It is for the sake of this last type of person, that this Dhamma should be shared!

The Best Doctor treating one of his disciples for a physical illness.

Mental Dis-Ease is found in almost all beings!

The Kammic Causes of Disease:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_&_Sickness.htm

Source (abbreviated excerpt):
The Numerical Sayings of the Buddha. Anguttara Nikaya. Sutta III:22 The sick [I:120] Gilānāhttp://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132552
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/index.html

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Saturday 25 September, 2010

What_Buddha_Said 1309: Without Worry

Friends:

Free from Fear by Release from all Anxiety:

The young deity Subrahma once asked the Buddha:
Always frightened is this Mind!
Always troubled 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 explain it to me right now!

Whereupon the Blessed Buddha simply 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!

Source: The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya I 54
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

More on systematic relinquishment:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Leaving_All_Behind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Not_Resisting_Anything.htm

Have a nice & noble day!

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Fearless Safety!

Friday 3 September, 2010