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Sent by Bhikkhu Samahita.



The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, Ānanda, is the experience of fading away of greed through disillusion?
When a Bhikkhu retires to the forest, to the root of a tree, or an empty hut
and thinks thus: This is Peace, this is sublime, namely, the stilling of all mental
construction, the ending of all kammic formation, the evaporation of all fuel

Buddha
of becoming, the ceasing of all craving, the relinquishing of all by detachment,
Nibbāna... Then this very reflection itself is the experience of fading away...

Some Simple Comments:
Fading Away/Disillusion means comprehending all as impermanence, pain & no-self!
Ceasing means complete fading away into absence of all greed, hate and ignorance!
Fading away of greed by disillusion is the proximate cause of all mental release...
This reflection on fading away of greed by disillusion, leads to final knowledge...
The fading away of greed & lust by disillusion is one of the 18 Principal Insights...

Simile:
Greed, lust, & desire fades away slowly like the colours of cWhat are the 4 Fuels of re-becoming into renewed existence?
1: Sense-desire is one kind of fuel upon which the fire of existence burns.
2: The 5 Clusters of Clinging is another fuel upon which the fire of existence burns.
3: The Mental Defilements are also fuels upon which the fire of existence burns.
4: Formation of Kamma by Intention is a fuel upon which the fire of existence burns.loth hanging in the sun!

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Sent by Banthe
Friends:

Released by Disengaged Non-identification!



At Savatthi The Buddha once said:
All form is transient, all feeling is transient, all perception is transient,
all mental constructions are transient, all consciousness is transient...
This transience is suffering! What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self
should be seen as it really is with correct understanding in this very way:
"All this is not mine, cannot be mine, this I am not, this is not my self!"...
When one sees and understands this thus, as it really is with correct and
penetrating understanding, then one maintains no views on what is past.
When one maintains no more views regarding the past, then one neither
maintains any views about the future. When one has relinquished all hopes
regarding the future, then one is not being possessed by stubborn clinging!
Having no trace of immovable clinging left, the mind becomes disillusioned
regarding all form, all feeling, all perception, all mental constructions, and
all consciousness. By that it is released from the 3 mental fermentations
through detached non-clinging... By being released, the mind is all silenced!
By being thus stilled, the mind becomes content... Being content, it is not
agitated anymore... Being thus unagitated, one indeed attains Nibbāna!
Right there and then, one instantly understands: Ended is this process of
rebirth, this Noble Life has been lived, done is all what had to be done,
there is no state beyond this...
Buddha Gautama

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Text sent by Banthe on impermanence

Friends:

Transient whether Internal, External, Past, Present or Future!!


At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, any eye and any form is impermanent, whether internal, external,
past, present or future. Seeing this any educated Noble Disciple becomes
indifferent towards any past vision and any past form, he does not search for
delight neither in any future vision, nor any future form, and he cultivates disgust
for any present vision and present form in order to make it all fade away and cease...
Any ear and any sound is impermanent. Any nose and any smell is impermanent..
Any tongue and flavour is impermanent... Any body and any touch is impermanent!
Any mind and any mental state is impermanent, whether internal, or external,
past, present or future. Seeing this any educated Noble Disciple becomes
indifferent towards any past mind, and any past mental state, thus he does neither
search for delight neither in any future mind, mood, nor any future mental state,
and he does indeed cultivate disgust for any present mind, mood, mentality and
any mental state so to make it fade away, be all stilled, tranquilized and cease...
Buddha Gautama

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Sent By Banthe

Friends:


The 6 Things Uniting in Harmony to be Remembered:
The Blessed Buddha once said:
These six things are to be remembered in order to Unite any Community in Harmony:
Which six?
1: Friendly Behaviour (metta-kaya-kamma=friendly bodily action) both in public & in private.
2: Friendly Speech (metta-vaci-kamma=friendly verbal action) both in public & in private.
3: Friendly Thought (metta-mano-kamma=friendly mental action) both in public & in private.
4: Sharing of Gains (sadharana-bhogi=common wealth) even down to any single lump of food.
5: Moral Agreement (sila-samannagato=uniform morality): All respect the same ethical rules.
6: Same Views (ditthi-samannagato=similar attitude): All share the same general views & opinions.
These 6 things are to be considered and remembered both for individual & for social Harmony...

Comments: So that we can sleep with open doors and dance with the children in our arms :-)
buddha gautama

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Buddha ,once said :Knowledge can be an obstacle to knowledge.

loong
Mahayana Buddhist

This is definitely something I have had to work on understanding throughout my path, especially because I am such a big reader and thinker. I have had to learn when the intellectual and philosophical knowledge aids my path and when it clouds it. It is easy to fool ourselves into thinking we are awakening when really we are just accumulating mental concepts. There are many stories of students who have had to work through this block.

DearLisa,

I have been thinking for about an hour,the following:
What good is a dictionnary on a shelf?

loong
still learning

To all or none,
Just received by Banthe:
Think not lightly of good, saying, "It will not return to me."
Since: Drop by drop is the water pot filled with rain!
Likewise, the wise one, gathering it little by little,
fills himself with an advantageous accumulation...
Dhammapada 122

loong the messenger

To all or none,
again by Banthe,on Impermanence

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Aniccānupassanam bhāvento niccasaññam pajahati...
By developing the contemplation of Impermanence
(Anicca), one overcomes perception of permanence...


The anytime, everywhere, & for everybody directly observable facts are:

All states will pass...
All things will vanish...

All formations are unstable...

All mountains crumble into nothing...
All memories are lost like tears in rain...

Nothing remains static without change...

All buildings & homes collapse into dust...
All phenomena are of a nature to breakup...

All moments momentarily cease never to return...
All Universes implodes into pointless singularity...
All phenomena are momentary & thus temporary...
All bodies grow old, decrepit, fall & finally rotten...
All worldly happiness & pleasure changes & are lost...
All beings grow old, sick, ugly, dement, smelling & die...
All forms of form will decay, deteriorate & fall apart...
All constructions - physical as mental - arises & ceases...
There is no lasting permanence anywhere except Nibbāna...

Buddha Gautama

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Text by Banthe on dhukka

Friends:

Seeing the Transience of all Phenomena Releases the Mind!



The Blessed Buddha once said:
What, Ānanda, is the experience of the transience in all constructions?
It is when the Bhikkhu feels horror, disgust, and repulsing repugnance with
all formations, with all constructions, with all phenomena, with all things...
This itself is the very experience of the transience of all constructions...

Instantly, inevitably and invariably: All States break up, fade away & vanish...
Buddha Gautama