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The Recollection of the Buddha, the Dhamma, the Sangha

15/09/2010 17:57

"There is the case where the disciple of the noble ones recollects the Tathagata, thus: 'Indeed, the Blessed One is an arhat, a perfect buddha, consummate in knowledge and conduct, well-gone, knower of the world, an unexcelled leader for those to be tamed, the Teacher of devas and humans,...

D- Consciousness: liberated

29/07/2010 17:15

(…) If a monk abandons lust for the property of form... for the property of feeling... for the property of perception... for the property of fabrications... for the property of consciousness, then owing to the abandoning of lust, the support is cut off, and consciousness is unestablished....

A- The general Formula

26/07/2010 15:03

There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones notices: When this is, that is. From the arising of this comes the arising of that. When this isn't, that isn't. From the cessation of this comes the cessation of that. (...) Idha gahapati ariyasāvako itipaṭisaṃcikkhati: ''iti...

Intention

24/06/2010 18:00

' Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech, & mind.' AN 6.63 Nibbedhika Sutta: Penetrative (…) Cetanāhaṃ bhikkhave kammaṃ vadāmi, cetayitvā kammaṃ karoti kāyena vācāya manasā (…) Cetanā (nom. sg.) ahaṃ = I bhikkhave (voc. pl.)...

I am the Owner of my Actions

24/06/2010 17:39

‘I am the owner of my actions , heir to my actions, born of my actions have my actions as relative, as refuge. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.’ (...) AN 5.57 Upajjhatthana Sutta: Subjects for Contemplation (...) 'Kammassakomhi kammadāyādo kammayoni...

F- What is Contact?

24/06/2010 16:28

And what is the origination of the world? Dependent on the eye and forms there arises eye-consciousness. The meeting of the three is contact. (…) Katamo ca bhikkhave, lokassa samudayo?Cakkhuñca paṭicca rūpe ca uppajjati cakkhuviññāṇaṃ. Tiṇṇaṃ saṅgati phasso.(...) SN 12.44 Loka Sutta:...

C- Disentchantement, Dispassion, Liberation

24/06/2010 16:11

The instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with form, disenchanted with feeling, disenchanted with perception, disenchanted with fabrications, disenchanted with consciousness. Disenchanted, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion, he is fully liberated. With full ...

B- 20 Kinds of View of a Self

23/06/2010 21:11

"An uninstructed worldling — who has no regard for noble ones, is unskilled or undisciplined in their Dhamma; who has no regard for persons of integrity, is unskilled and undisciplined in their Dhamma — assumes form to be the self, or the self as possessing form, or form as in the self, ...

E- The 12 Links explained

22/06/2010 20:03

Now what is aging and death? Whatever aging, decrepitude, brokenness, grayness of hair, wrinkling, decline of life, weakening of the faculties of the various beings in this or that group of beings, that is called aging. Whatever deceasing, passing away, breaking up,...

A second Definition of the Aggregates

04/06/2010 17:02

"And why do you call it 'form'? Because it is afflicted,thus it is called 'form.' Afflicted with what? With cold and heat, hunger and thirst, with the touch of flies, mosquitoes, wind, sun, and reptiles. Because it is afflicted, it is called form. And why do you call it 'feeling'? Because it...