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Today's text taken at random is from the book The Way Of MINDFULNESS by Soma Thera.

The Mindfulness of the aspirant to the Highest Goal of Liberation,from suffering reminds me of Virtue,Concentration,and Wisdom,which constitute the possessions of the Good Life in the Dispensation of the BUDDHA. The value of the recollective activity of Mindfulness is seen in the increasing awareness of the essentials of holy living in the aspirant's Mind,and the growing strenght of purpose for realising thede within himself.
Above that stands Mindfulness as an activity that takes care of the Mind and protects it.It is compared to a wagoneer who ties the oxen to the wagon''s yoke,greases the axle and drives the wagon ,making the oxen go gently.In this activity Mindfulness looks tothe smooth working and movement of the mind and takes notice of the process both skilfull and not takinf place in the consciousness.

loong

To all or none,

From the book by Soma Thera ,THE WAY OF MINDFULNESS,.Text taken at random

In its more complex form s it is the selective and integretive action of the Mind.The selective activity has been compared to the work of the chief Advisor of the King.As the adviser is instrumental in distinguishing the good from the bad ,and in
getting the good,and avoiding the bad ,so Mindfulness distinguishes the worthy from the unworthy things,avoids the unworthy and obtains the worthy."
This text follows the text in the last post before.

loong

To all or none
Text taken randowly in a book by Soma Thera"The way of Mindfull
ness"

"Integrating Mindfulness sees all lacks and deficiencies ,brings in the needed qualities and suitably applies them.It is called the highest wisdom of Mindfull
ness[arama satinepakka],and constitutes the core of the Mindfyulness that is included in the real way of the Way factor of Mindfulness,and of the Enlightenment Factor of Mindfulness.It is Right Mindfulness n the full sense of the term"

loong
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To all or none,

text taken at random in a book written by Soma Thera from sri-lanka
titled The Way of Mindfulness.

"This Middle Way of Mindfulness is clearly not based on revelation .dogmas,nor vacuous beleifs like those in in a Supreme Creator God and an Eternal Soul,irrational in the extreme.What is irrational
is not the Teaching of the Buddha though t be found in buddhist scripturesOn the contrary ;Whatever is well said is the Word of the
Buddha ,";even when it is not the master's own utterance ,because the Blessed One acknowledges truth wherever and by whosoever spoken

I thought I was crazy with ny capital letters,this master is surely inflamed.

loong


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N.B. One thing I am not in accord with the writer is the criticism
of other;s beleifs.I know he is from Sri-Lanka but still ,The Dharma specifies ,not to criticize others ways or beleifs.

To all or none,

Text taken at random from "The way of Mindfulness" by Master
Soma Thera from sri-lanka.

SATTANAM VISUDDHIYA=:For the purification of beings :For the cleansing of beings soiled by the stains of lust,hatred and delusion,and the defilements of covetise,called lawless greed and so forth.All reach the highest purity after abandoning mental taints.By way of physical taints,however,there is no cleansing of impurities taught in the Dhamma.

By the Great Seer it was not said
That through bodily taints men became impure.
Or by the washing of the body they became pure.
By the Great Seer it was declared
That through mental taints men become impure,
And through the cleansing f the mind they become pure.

Accordingly it is said "mentaltaints soil beings;mental cleaning sanctifies them*****

loong
like a flower part of the Universe