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Open Dwelling Teaches Transience!

The Blessed One often praised Tree Roots as a dwelling place:
Secluded in mind and guarded well by deities one lives there
truly devoted without longing or urging for any city or house...
And when the tender leaves are seen, first bright carmine red,
then turning green, and finally to shades of yellow as they fall,
one relinquishes mistaken belief in permanence once and for all!
Tree roots is thus granted by him the One as a serene scene no
wise and clever one should reject at all, for study of rise & fall!
Visuddhimagga I 74, Vin I 58, 9Buddha Gautama

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Only Momentary Causes & Effects passes by...



Life, person, pleasure, pain, just these join in a conscious moment that flicks by.
Even gods, that live for 84.000 aeons, are not the same even for 2 such moments!
Ceased aggregates of those dead & alive are all alike, gone for never to return...
And those states and accumulations that break up meanwhile, and in any future,
have no traits different from those ceased before. All states are equally brief!
No world is born if consciousness is not produced! When consciousness is present,
then the world appears as living! When consciousness dissolves, the world is dead!
This is the highest sense, this concept of ever blinking re-becoming, can justify...
No store of broken states exist anywhere, & no future stock of states to come!
Those phenomena that are momentarily born balance like seeds on a needle point.
Fall and breakup of all states is surely foredoomed, even at their fleeting birth...
Those present states decay now, unmingled with those past states, just gone by.
They come from nowhere, break up, & then they inevitably go back to nowhere..
Reality flash in & then flash out, as a lightning in the sky... Not ever to be kept!
Even for a single moment, that has already passed the instant it is perceived!
Visuddhimagga 625, Nd I 42

Buddha Gautama

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Evident yet Subtle are the fine Facts of the Dhamma!


Dependent origination becomes evident, when really seeing & understanding:
When this exists, that also comes into being: The seed initiates the plant...
When this does not exist, that neither comes into being: No seed no plant...
Wrong view of annihilation becomes evident, when seeing and understanding:
All causes are connected with their resulting effect. Nothing just disappears!
Wrong view of eternity becomes evident, when seeing and understanding:
All states arise instantly as a new phenomena. They were not there before...
The characteristic of no-self becomes evident, when seeing & understanding:
That all states have no core and that their being depends on other conditions.
The characteristic of impermanence becomes evident, when understanding:
States rise & fall instantly. After having been, they do never ever exist again!
The characteristic of suffering becomes evident, when comprehending:
All liked phenomena rise and fall. Their inevitable loss is an oppressive pain.
When these several truths, all aspects of the dependent origination, have
become evident to the Buddhist disciple, then constructions appear to him
as perpetually renewed: So all these states, it seems, not ever having been,
come into existence and then immediately cease... Vism 632

Buddha Gautama

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The Lord Buddha

The Bodhisatta who awakens to the Four Noble Truths and becomes the Sammasambuddha, arises in the human world. Understanding well the harm of going to extremes, he develops the Middle Way. Destroying all defilements he gains Sammasambuddhahood. Not allowing his mind to be shaken by the eight worldly conditions, realizing the Truth and extinguishing the flames of samsara [suffering], he gains super-mundane bliss.

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What are the 5 Root Living Rules?



The Blessed Buddha once said to Anathapindika:
Whoever, householder, has not overcome five terrible evils, such one
is without morality, is without control and will be reborn in hell.
And what are those five terrible evils?
They are killing, stealing, sexual abuse, lying, and taking intoxicants.
But whoever has overcome these five terrible evils, such one is pure,
well controlled and will be reborn in a happy world.
One who is doing these 5 things, creates both present, and future
extreme misery, and will thus experience much mental pain & regret!
One who abstains from these 5 things produces neither any present,
nor any future misery, nor will he experience mental pain or grief.
Such terrible evil is thus eliminated by him and extinguished in him...



Whoever murders living beings,
Speaks words that are not true,
Takes what does not belong to him,
Seduces wives of other men,
And takes intoxicating drinks or drugs,
To which ever he/she strongly clings:
Anyone who does not shun these evils,
Is indeed without morality, with no purity!
And when his/her body once dissolves,
That blind fool will fall into deepest hell...
Who does never harm any being at all,
Who never utters any lie, or falsehood,
Who never takes what is not his or hers,
Nor seduces his/her neighbour's spouse,
Nor ever wishes in all his/her life
To drink intoxicating drinks or drugs
that causes carelessness and neglect
A human who shuns these five evils,
Is rightly called a virtuous human;
And when his/her body once dissolves,
This wise human rises heavenward.
Buddha Gautama

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Neither Agent, nor Actor, but only Impersonal Processes!






Question: Who is the Creator? Answer: Nobody is the Creator of anything!
Question: What then, is creating? Answer: Ignorance and Craving is creating!
Q: What is ignorance and craving creating? A: Ignorance and craving both creates Suffering!



Question: Who Perceives? Answer: Nobody perceives anything!
Q: What then, is perceiving? A: The process of perception itself perceives!
Q: What does perception perceive? A: Forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touches and thoughts!



Question: Who Feels? Answer: Nobody Feels anything!
Q: What then, is feeling? A: The process of feeling itself feels!
Q: What do Feeling feel? A: Feeling feels pleasure, pain and neutral indifference!



Question: Who is the Knower? Answer: Nobody is the Knower of anything!
Q: What then, is Knowing? A: The mental state of understanding itself knows!
Q: What is this state of knowledge knowing? A: Knowledge knows: Such is Suffering,
Such is the Cause of Suffering, Such is the End of all Pain, and the Way to End Suffering!





This subtle and profound core Buddhist doctrine of Anatta entails:
A: There is no 'Self' in here...
B: There is no 'Substance' out there...
C: Impersonal & void are all states & phenomena!
D: Ownerlessness is a universal characteristic of being!
E: Insubstantiality is a universal characteristic of matter!




No-Self = Internal Impersonality! Nobody home: Individuality is
an Empty village ...

The best way to comprehend No-Self (anatta) is to begin with observing and reflecting on
Impermanence (anicca) and Suffering (dukkha). Then eventually one comes to understand:
Whatever is always otherwise and never the same identical, cannot ever be an identity, a self...
Whatever is always ultimately suffering cannot be under the control of a self, since if it were,
then this self would by this very assumed control change it into something pleasant and happy.
But no self can do that, since it is not in full control. If a 'self' is not in control of even 'itself'
(fully autonomic) it cannot be a true self, but just conditions that play out cause and effects...
Buddha Gautama

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Understanding the 4 Truths is indispensable!



The Blessed Gotama Buddha once explained:
If anyone should ever postulate: "Without having made the breakthrough
to understanding: This is Suffering; Craving is the Cause of Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering; The 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
as it really is, I will make a final and complete end of all suffering!"
Then this is hopeless, impossible, impracticable, unachievable, and untrue!
Just as if anyone would build the second floor of a house without first
having built the first floor...
However if anyone should wish: "Having made this crucial breakthrough
to understanding: This is Suffering; Craving is the Cause of Suffering;
No Craving is the End of Suffering; The 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
as it really is, I will make a final and complete end of all suffering!"
Then this is realistic, possible, likely, promising, feasible, and realizable!
Just as if one first having built the first floor of a house easily could
build and add the second floor... Therefore should an effort be made
to really understand, see, comprehend and realize these 4 Noble Truths!

Buddha Gautama

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The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus and friends: There is this one contemplation, which when often practised
and developed leads to the complete turning away from the world, to detachment,
to stilling, to ceasing, to Peace, to final penetrating knowledge, to Enlightenment,
and thus to Nibbāna... Any Noble Disciple, who by gradual progress has understood
this refined Dhamma, often dwells in this state. Which is that unique contemplation?
It is reflecting over the ethic qualities of own moral purity exactly like this:
The Noble Disciple reviews and recollects his own morality (SÄ«la), which is unbroken,
immaculate, unspotted, unsoiled, productive of release, praised by the clever,
not stiff pride, which leads to concentration... Source: Anguttara Nikāya 6:10

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These 7 Contemplations leads to insight:

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1: Contemplation on Impermanence (anicca) overcomes the false perception of permanence...
2: Contemplation on Suffering (dukkha) overcomes the fake experience of happiness...
3: Contemplation on Selflessness (anatta) overcomes the self-deception of ego-identity...

4: Contemplation on Disgust (nibbidā) overcomes the deceitfulness inherent in all delight...
5: Contemplation on Disillusion (virāga) overcomes the illusion of the emerged appearance...
6: Contemplation on Ceasing (nirodha) overcomes the naivety of planning any origination...
7: Contemplation on Relinquishment (patinissagga) overcomes the violent panic of all clinging...

Buddha Gautama

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Seems I have made a new friend ,he is Keshini de Zoysa.

In the Blessed One's (the Buddha’s) City of Dhamma;

the encircling walls are morality,

the moats are conscience,

the ramparts over the city gates are knowledge,

the watch-towers are energy,

the pillars are faith,

the door-keepers are mindfulness,

the cross roads are the Suttantas,

the places where three or four roads meet is the Abhidhamma,

the law-court is the Vinaya,

the streetway is the foundations of mindfulness.”

Buddha Gautama
loong the messenger