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Heedfulness | Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging ...
§49. "Monks, mindfulness of death—when developed & pursued—is of great fruit & great benefit. It gains a footing in the Deathless, has the Deathless as its final end. And how is mindfulness of death developed & pursued so that it is of great fruit & great benefit, gains a footing in the Deathless, and has the Deathless as its final end?
AN 6:19 Maraṇassati Sutta | Mindfulness of Death (1)
The Blessed One said, "Mindfulness of death, when developed & pursued, is of great fruit & great benefit. It gains a footing in the deathless, has the deathless as its final end. Therefore you should develop mindfulness of death." When this was said, a certain monk addressed the Blessed One, "I already develop mindfulness of death."
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A Refuge from Death; A collection of 20 Dhamma talks, chants, sutta readings and guided meditations for listening as one approaches death. Full set zip; 1 Chant: The Four Dhamma Summaries; 2 Dhamma Talk: Expand Your Mind; 3 Chant: The Five Recollections; 4 Sutta Reading: The Five Recollections (Anguttara Nikaya 5.57) 5 Meditation: Guided Breath ...
AN 6:20 Maraṇassati Sutta | Mindfulness of Death (2)
Mindfulness of Death (2) Maraṇassati Sutta (AN 6:20) I have heard that at one time the Blessed One was staying near Nādika in the Brick Hall. There he addressed the monks, "Monks, mindfulness of death—when developed & pursued—is of great fruit & great benefit. It gains a footing in the deathless, has the deathless as its final end.
Advice | Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging, Illness ...
Death §82. At that time, Nakula's father the householder was diseased, in pain, severely ill. Then Nakula's mother said to him: "Don't be worried as you die, householder. Death is painful for one who is worried. The Blessed One has criticized being worried at the time of death.
Contents | Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging, Illness ...
Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging, Illness, Death, & Separation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
MN 102 Pañcattaya Sutta | Five & Three
Notes. 1. MN 137 indicates that perceptions of multiplicity deal with the six senses, whereas perceptions of singleness form the basis of the four formless attainments.. 2. This is apparently equivalent to the formless attainment of the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness, which MN 106 classes as imperturbable. AN 10:29 has this to say about the consciousness-totality:
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The Mirror of Insight : The Buddha as Strategist, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 28, 2020) A short explanation of the Buddha's teachings on the topic of insight and how those teachings should be strategically applied in practice. Included is an analysis of the different meanings of the word, saṅkhāra, fabrication, and the various ways in which fabrications are viewed, used, and ...
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Following Ajaan Funn's death in 1977, Ajaan Suwat stayed on at the monastery to supervise his teacher's royal funeral and the construction of a monument and museum in Ajaan Funn's honor. In the 1980's Ajaan Suwat came to the United States, where he established four monasteries: one near Seattle, Washington; two near Los Angeles; and one ...
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Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection | A Chanting Guide
Death is unavoidable. Sabbehi me piyehi manāpehi nānā-bhāvo vinā-bhāvo. I will grow different, separate from all that is dear & appealing to me. Kammassakomhi kamma-dāyādo kamma-yoni kamma-bandhu kamma-paṭisaraṇo.
Mindfulness of Death | A Meditator's Tools : A Study Guide
Mindfulness of Death § 41. "Now, based on what line of reasoning should one often reflect… that 'I am subject to death, have not gone beyond death'? There are beings who are intoxicated with a (typical) living person's intoxication with life.
PDF Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging, Illness, Death ...
death, and separation, as reminders for heedfulness and diligence in the practice. The central passage here is a set of five recollections, in which recollection of aging, illness, death, and separation forms a background for a fifth recollection: the power of one's actions to shape one's experience. In other words, the first four ...
Introduction | Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging ...
(3) The third section contains passages that use aging, illness, death, and separation, as reminders for heedfulness and diligence in the practice. The central passage here is a set of five recollections, in which recollection of aging, illness, death, and separation forms a background for a fifth recollection: the power of one's actions to ...
DN 15 Mahā Nidāna Sutta | The Great Causes Discourse
From birth as a requisite condition, aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of stress. Aging-&-Death "'From birth as a requisite condition comes aging-&-death.' Thus it has been said. And this is the way to understand how from birth as a requisite condition ...
PDF 190909 Choices Now & at Death
Choices Now & at Death September 9, 2019 All phenomena are rooted in desire. It's one of the basic principles in the Buddha's teachings, and it applies to your meditation right now. Make sure you desire the right things. Different desires will come up, some of them wanting to stay with the breath, some of them wanting to wander off.
PDF With Each & Every Breath - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
illness, aging, and even death are a lot easier to handle when the mind has developed the skills fostered by meditation. So even if you don't make it all the way to total freedom from stress and suffering, meditation can help you to handle your sufferings more skillfully—in other words, with less harm to yourself and the people around you.
Glossary | Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging, Illness ...
Māra: Death and temptation personified. Nāga: (1) A magical serpent; (2) a great elephant; (3) a human being of admirable nobility and strength. Nibbāna: Literally, the "unbinding" of the mind from passion, aversion, and delusion, and from the entire round of death and rebirth. As this term also denotes the extinguishing of a fire, it ...
PDF 200508 Practicing Meditation to Perform at Death
reasons why we call it practicing meditation, because when death comes you're going to have to perform. And you don't want to suddenly suffer from performance anxiety. You want to know what you're doing. You have to be mindful, you have to be alert, and you have to be ardent, all the way to the end, even as the body is falling apart.
Dedicating Merit | Meditations8 : Dhamma Talks
Shortly after he left Wat Makut, Maha Khwan was found stabbed to death, and then nobody would live in the building after his death, for fear of the ghost. A couple of years later, Ajaan Fuang was invited back to Wat Makut to teach meditation, and found himself back in the second story of the same building.
SN 12:20 Paccaya Sutta | Requisite Conditions
Aging-&-death are dependently co-arisen phenomena: inconstant, fabricated, dependently co-arisen, subject to ending, subject to passing away, subject to fading, subject to cessation. "Birth is a dependently co-arisen phenomenon.…
Affirming the Truths of the Heart | Noble Strategy
Think back for a moment on the story of the young Prince Siddhartha and his first encounters with aging, illness, death, and a wandering forest contemplative. It's one of the most accessible chapters in the Buddhist tradition, largely because of the direct, true-to-the-heart quality of the young prince's emotions.
Introduction to the Dhammapada
The work as a whole elaborates on this distinction, showing in more detail both the path of the wise person and that of the fool, together with the rewards of the former and the dangers of the latter: the path of the wise person can lead not only to happiness within the cycle of death and rebirth, but also to total escape into the Deathless ...
MN 63 Cūḷa Māluṅkyovāda Sutta | The Shorter Exhortation to ...
'After death a Tathāgata both exists & does not exist' … 'After death a Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist,' there is still the birth, there is the aging, there is the death, there is the sorrow, lamentation, pain, despair, & distress whose destruction I make known right in the here & now.
MN 87 Piyajātika Sutta | From One Who Is Dear
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery. Now at that time a certain householder's dear & beloved little son, his only child, had died. Because of his death, the father had no desire to work or to eat.
MN 122 Mahā Suññata Sutta | The Greater Discourse on Emptiness
This is called one following the holy life who is undone with the undoing of one who leads the holy life. He has been struck down by evil, unskillful qualities that defile, that lead to further becoming, are troublesome, ripen in pain, and lead to future birth, aging, & death. Such is the undoing of one who leads the holy life.
MN 130 Devadūta Sutta | The Deva Messengers
In Asian Buddhist kingdoms, there was a custom that when a king was sentencing a criminal to death or to be tortured, he would not actually express the sentence, but would simply fall silent. The Commentary counsels that if a student asks not to hear the description of hell (which follows from this point), a teacher should teach the student ...
SN 15:3 Assu Sutta | Tears
"Long have you (repeatedly) experienced the death of a mother. The tears you have shed over the death of a mother while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time—crying & weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing—are greater than the water in the four great oceans.
MN 75 Māgaṇḍiya Sutta | To Māgaṇḍiya (Excerpt)
With the cessation of birth then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of this entire mass of suffering & stress." When this was said, Māgaṇḍiya the wanderer said, "Magnificent, Master Gotama!
SN 22:86 Anurādha Sutta | To Anurādha
When this was said, Ven. Anurādha said to the wandering sectarians, "Friends, the Tathāgata—the supreme man, the superlative man, attainer of the superlative attainment—being described, is described otherwise than with these four positions: The Tathāgata exists after death, does not exist after death, both does & does not exist after ...
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Advice | Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging, Illness ...
Death §82. At that time, Nakula's father the householder was diseased, in pain, severely ill. Then Nakula's mother said to him: "Don't be worried as you die, householder. Death is painful for one who is worried. The Blessed One has criticized being worried at the time of death.
SN 12:2 Paṭiccasamuppāda Vibhaṅga Sutta | An Analysis of ...
"Now which aging-&-death? Whatever aging, decrepitude, brokenness, graying, wrinkling, decline of life-force, 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, disappearance, dying, death, completion of time, break up of the aggregates ...
Ud 5:10 Panthaka Sutta | Cūḷa Panthaka
he goes where the King of Death. can't see. Note. 1. There's a slight paradox in this verse in that the word for "steady" (ṭhita) can also mean "standing." Thus when the body is steady and unmoving, it is "standing" regardless of its posture. ...
Mindfulness of Death | A Meditator's Tools : A Study Guide
Mindfulness of Death § 41. "Now, based on what line of reasoning should one often reflect… that 'I am subject to death, have not gone beyond death'? There are beings who are intoxicated with a (typical) living person's intoxication with life.
SN 22:99 Gaddūla Sutta | The Leash (1)
He is set loose from form, set loose from feeling… from perception… from fabrications… set loose from consciousness. He is set loose from birth, aging, & death; from sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs. He is set loose, I tell you, from suffering & stress."
SN 56:42 Papāta Sutta | The Drop-off
They drop over the drop-off of aging… the drop-off of death… the drop-off of sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. They are not totally released from birth, aging, death, sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs. They are not totally released, I tell you, from suffering & stress.
SN 12:35 Avijjāpaccaya Sutta | From Ignorance as a ...
Staying near Sāvatthī … (the Blessed One said,) "From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications.…From birth as a requisite condition, then aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of stress & suffering."
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The Mirror of Insight : The Buddha as Strategist, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 28, 2020) A short explanation of the Buddha's teachings on the topic of insight and how those teachings should be strategically applied in practice. Included is an analysis of the different meanings of the word, saṅkhāra, fabrication, and the various ways in which fabrications are viewed, used, and ...
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15 Death Is Normal; 14 Putting the Mind to Good Use; 13 Don't Overlook the Little Things; 11 Bringing a Feeling into the Present; 10 Awareness & the Body; 09 Unnecessary Words; 08 A Single Plan; 07 The Ways of the World; 06 A Standard of Quality; 05 Look Inside; 04 Your Best Protection; 03 The Choice Not to Run; May 2015; Full month zip; 09 ...
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AN 6:20 Maraṇassati Sutta | Mindfulness of Death (2)
Mindfulness of Death (2) Maraṇassati Sutta (AN 6:20) I have heard that at one time the Blessed One was staying near Nādika in the Brick Hall. There he addressed the monks, "Monks, mindfulness of death—when developed & pursued—is of great fruit & great benefit. It gains a footing in the deathless, has the deathless as its final end.
SN 12:15 Kaccānagotta Sutta | To Kaccāna Gotta
From birth as a requisite condition, then aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of stress & suffering. "Now from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications.
MN 131 Bhaddekaratta Sutta | An Auspicious Day
death. There is no bargaining. with Mortality & his mighty horde. Whoever lives thus ardently, relentlessly. both day & night, has truly had an auspicious day: 1. So says the Peaceful Sage. "'Monks, I will teach you the summary & exposition of one who has had an auspicious day': Thus it was said, and in reference to this was it said." ...
MN 87 Piyajātika Sutta | From One Who Is Dear
I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery. Now at that time a certain householder's dear & beloved little son, his only child, had died. Because of his death, the father had no desire to work or to eat.
SN 12:65 Nagara Sutta | The City
From the cessation of birth, then aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Thus is the cessation of this entire mass of stress. Cessation, cessation.' Vision arose, clear knowing arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before. ...
DN 22 Mahā Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta | The Great Establishing of ...
The Great Establishing of Mindfulness Discourse Mahā Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (DN 22) Introduction. Satipaṭṭhāna—the establishing (upaṭṭhāna) of mindfulness (sati)—is a meditative technique for training the mind to keep mindfulness firmly established in a particular frame of reference in all its activities.The term sati is related to the verb sarati, to remember or to keep in mind.
AN 3:66 Kālāma Sutta | To the Kālāmas
"'If there is a world after death, if there is the fruit & result of actions rightly & wrongly done, then this is the basis by which, with the break-up of the body, after death, I will reappear in a good destination, a heavenly world.' This is the first assurance he acquires.
SN 41:3 Isidatta Sutta | About Isidatta
"Venerable sir, concerning the various views that arise in the world—'The cosmos is eternal' or 'The cosmos isn't eternal'; 'The cosmos is finite' or 'The cosmos is infinite'; 'The soul and the body are the same' or 'The soul is one thing, the body another'; 'A Tathāgata exists after death' or 'A Tathāgata ...
Itivuttaka | suttas on dhammatalks.org
Buddhist suttas from the Itivuttaka translated by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.
Freedom from Fear | The Karma of Questions
Although aging, illness, and death follow inevitably on birth, delusion doesn't. It can be prevented. If, through thought and contemplation, we become heedful of the dangers it poses, we can feel motivated to overcome it. However, the insights coming from simple thought and contemplation aren't enough to fully understand and overthrow delusion.
6 : Food for Rebirth | The Truth of Rebirth
Where there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging, & death, together, I tell you, with sorrow, affliction, & despair…. "[Similarly with the nutriment of (sensory) contact, the nutriment of intellectual intention, and the nutriment of (sensory) consciousness.]"
AN 5:49 Kosala Sutta | The Kosalan
The Kosalan Kosala Sutta (AN 5:49) This discourse gives the Buddha's recommendations for dealing with grief. The passage discussing eulogies, chants, etc., is a reference to funeral customs designed to channel the feelings of the bereaved in a productive direction.
MN 36 Mahā Saccaka Sutta | The Longer Discourse to Saccaka
Just as a palmyra cut off at the crown is incapable of further growth, in the same way in the Tathāgata the effluents that defile, that lead to renewed becoming, that give trouble, that ripen in stress, and lead to future birth, aging, & death have been abandoned, their root destroyed, made like a palmyra stump, deprived of the conditions of ...
MN 82 Raṭṭhapāla Sutta | About Raṭṭhapāla
Even with your death we would not want to be separated from you, so how could we—while you're alive—give our permission for you to go forth from the household life into homelessness?" Then Raṭṭhapāla, not getting his parents' permission to go forth from the household life into homelessness, lay down right there on the bare floor ...
AN 4:126 Mettā Sutta | Goodwill (2)
At the break-up of the body, after death, he reappears in conjunction with the Devas of the Pure Abodes. This rebirth is not in common with run-of-the-mill people. "Again, there is the case where an individual keeps pervading the first direction [the east]—as well as the second direction, the third, & the fourth—with an awareness imbued ...
AN 9:39 Deva Sutta | The Devas (About Jhāna)
Notes. 1. The text here has antamakāsi—"has put an end to"—which does not fit the context as well as the reading, andhamakāsi—"has put in the dark"—found in the parallel passage in MN 25, so I have followed the latter reading here.. 2. The interpretation of this image here differs from that in MN 25 and MN 26, both of which state that the monk puts Māra in the dark upon ...
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MN 72 Aggi-vacchagotta Sutta | To Vacchagotta on Fire — The Buddha explains why he doesn't answer speculative questions about the world, the self, and the fate of an awakened person after death. He concludes with two similes—the extinguished fire and the boundless sea—to indicate how an awakened person lies beyond the categories of ...
PDF The Seeds of Karma - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
painful death, there are plenty of natural causes or accidents that will provide an opportunity for that karma to bear fruit. But if you decide to oppress that person economically or bring about his painful death, that bad karma now becomes yours. 9. Don't people believe in karma just because they want the universe to
SN 3:4 Piya Sutta | Dear
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Dear Piya Sutta (SN 3:4) Near Sāvatthī. As he was sitting to one side, King Pasenadi Kosala said to the Blessed One: "Just now, lord, while I was alone in seclusion, this train of thought arose in my awareness: 'Who are dear to themselves, and who are not dear to themselves?'
PDF With Each & Every Breath - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
illness, aging, and even death are a lot easier to handle when the mind has developed the skills fostered by meditation. So even if you don't make it all the way to total freedom from stress and suffering, meditation can help you to handle your sufferings more skillfully—in other words, with less harm to yourself and the people around you.
AN 5:34 Sīha Sutta | To General Sīha (On Giving)
"And further, at the break-up of the body, after death, one who is generous, a master of giving, reappears in a good destination, a heavenly world. And the fact that at the break-up of the body, after death, one who is generous, a master of giving, reappears in a good destination, a heavenly world: This is a fruit of giving in the next life."
Talking about Nirvana
The statements in verses 17 and 18 seem to be drawn from SN 22:85-86, or versions of those suttas in other early Canons, in which the Buddha argues that because the Blessed One can't be defined even in this lifetime ("currently"), he can't be described as existing, not existing, both, or neither, after death.Now, because the MMK is a shorthand summary of arguments, we don't know ...
Dhamma-Vinaya | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
It would be better that your penis be stuck into a pit of burning embers, blazing and glowing, than into a woman's vagina. Why is that? For that reason you would undergo death or death-like suffering, but you would not on that account, at the break-up of the body, after death, fall into a plane of deprivation, a bad destination, a lower realm ...
AN 10:93 Diṭṭhi Sutta | Views
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Views Diṭṭhi Sutta (AN 10:93) I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery.
Breath, Tranquility, & Insight | Gather 'Round the Breath
Think about death. It can happen at any time. Are you prepared for it? Suppose that the Buddha is right, that death is followed by new birth, because of the birthing habits the mind has all along. In other words, it grabs onto every piece of clinging and craving that can take it someplace. So how can you expect that the mind won't do that at ...
The Path of Concentration & Mindfulness | Noble Strategy
The Path of Concentration & Mindfulness. Many people tell us that the Buddha taught two different types of meditation—mindfulness meditation and concentration meditation.
AN 3:71 Mūluposatha Sutta | The Roots of the Uposatha
Twelve such months make a year. Five hundred such heavenly years constitute the life-span among the Devas of the Four Great Kings. Now, it is possible that a certain man or woman—from having observed this uposatha endowed with eight factors—on the break-up of the body, after death, might be reborn among the Devas of the Four Great Kings.
AN 4:252 Pariyesanā Sutta | Searches
Being subject himself to death, he seeks (happiness in) what is subject to death. Being subject himself to defilement, he seeks (happiness in) what is subject to defilement. These are four ignoble searches. "Now, these four are noble searches. Which four? There is the case where a person, being subject himself to aging, realizing the ...
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SN 42:3 Yodhājīva Sutta | To Yodhājīva (The Professional ...
But if he holds such a view as this: 'When a professional warrior strives & exerts himself in battle, if others then strike him down & slay him while he is striving & exerting himself in battle, then with the breakup of the body, after death, he is reborn in the company of devas slain in battle,' that is his wrong view.
PDF 200508 Practicing Meditation to Perform at Death
reasons why we call it practicing meditation, because when death comes you're going to have to perform. And you don't want to suddenly suffer from performance anxiety. You want to know what you're doing. You have to be mindful, you have to be alert, and you have to be ardent, all the way to the end, even as the body is falling apart.
Sn 4:14 Quickly
Notes. 1. On objectification-classifications and their role in leading to conflict, see Sn 4:11 and the introduction to MN 18.The perception, "I am the thinker" lies at the root of these classifications in that it identifies oneself as a being.
SN 12:38 Cetanā Sutta | Intention
There being a support, there is a landing of consciousness. When that consciousness lands and grows, there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. When there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair.
SN 12:46 Aññatara Sutta | A Certain Brahman
"From birth as a requisite condition, then aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of stress & suffering. "Now from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications.
AN 2:18 Ekaṁsena Sutta | Categorically
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Categorically Ekaṁsena Sutta (AN 2:18) Then Ven. Ānanda went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side.
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Sn 3:8 The Arrow — Death and loss are inevitable, but grief is not. Sn 3:9 Vāseṭṭha — Is one worthy of respect because of one's birth, or because of one's actions? Sn 3:10 Kokālika — A follower of Devadatta slanders Ven. Sāriputta and Ven. Moggallāna and, after suffering a painful disease, falls into hell.
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When this was said, Ven. Anurādha said to the wandering sectarians, "Friends, the Tathāgata—the supreme man, the superlative man, attainer of the superlative attainment—being described, is described otherwise than with these four positions: The Tathāgata exists after death, does not exist after death, both does & does not exist after ...
Titlepage | Good Heart, Good Mind
Good Heart, Good Mind The Practice of the Ten Perfections Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)
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Attacked by death is the world, surrounded by aging, beset by the arrow of craving, always obscured by desire. Attacked by death is the world, & encircled by aging, constantly beaten, with no shelter, like a thief sentenced to punishment. They encroach like masses of flame, these three: death, aging, & illness. There's no strength to confront ...
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At death, the earth (in the body) returns to and merges with the (external) earth-substance. The fire returns to and merges with the external fire-substance. The liquid returns to and merges with the external liquid-substance. The wind returns to and merges with the external wind-substance. ...
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The Doctor's Diagnosis | Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on ...
"And what is death? Whatever deceasing, passing away, breaking up, disappearance, dying, death, completion of time, break up of the aggregates, casting off of the body, interruption in the life faculty of the various beings in this or that group of beings, that is called death.
SN 41:3 Isidatta Sutta | About Isidatta
"Venerable sir, concerning the various views that arise in the world—'The cosmos is eternal' or 'The cosmos isn't eternal'; 'The cosmos is finite' or 'The cosmos is infinite'; 'The soul and the body are the same' or 'The soul is one thing, the body another'; 'A Tathāgata exists after death' or 'A Tathāgata ...
SN 22:22 Bhāra Sutta | The Burden
Perhaps the most useful lesson to draw from the history of this controversy is the one that accords with the Buddha's statements in MN 72, where he refuses to get involved in questions of whether a person has a live essence separate from or identical to his/her body, or of whether after death there is something of an arahant that exists or ...
MN 1 Mūlapariyāya Sutta | The Root Sequence
Because he has known that delight is the root of suffering & stress, that from coming-into-being there is birth, and that for what has come into being there is aging & death. Therefore, with the total ending, fading away, cessation, letting go, relinquishment of craving, the Tathāgata has totally awakened to the unexcelled right self-awakening ...
SN 1:20 Samiddhi Sutta | About Samiddhi
The devatā, assuming that Ven. Samiddhi is denying himself human sensuality for the sake of a reward after death, uses this phrase to describe human sensuality. Ven. Samiddhi, who has tasted the deathless, uses the same phrase to describe his actual goal: unbinding. The devatā's inability to understand the meaning of Ven. Samiddhi's words ...
SN 56:11 Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta | Setting the Wheel ...
"Now this, monks, is the noble truth of stress 1: Birth is stressful, aging is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful; association with the unbeloved is stressful, separation from the loved is stressful, not getting what is wanted is stressful.
Five Strengths | ePublished Dhamma Talks : Volume III
A life and a death that cut through all the confusing issues that distract us and go right to the point, the point of learning how not to create suffering anymore. In this way, this path starts from some very basic exercises, some very basic teachings and trainings, but it goes on to accomplish a lot.
AN 10:48 Dasa Dhamma Sutta | Ten Things
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Ten Things Dasa Dhamma Sutta (AN 10:48) "There are these ten things that a person gone forth should reflect on often.
AN 10:20 Ariyāvāsa Sutta | Dwellings of the Noble Ones
Dwellings of the Noble Ones Ariyāvāsa Sutta (AN 10:20) I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying among the Kurus. Now there is a town of the Kurus called Kammāsadhamma.
An Invitation to the Devas | A Chanting Guide
Blessings An Invitation to the Devas. To be used when chanting in the Magadha style: Samantā cakkavāḷesu. Atr'āgacchantu devatā.. Saddhammaṁ muni-rājassa
SN 47:13 Cunda Sutta | About Cunda (Ven. Sāriputta's ...
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. About Cunda (Ven. Sāriputta's Passing Away) Cunda Sutta (SN 47:13) On one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery.
SN 44:4 Sāriputta-Koṭṭhita Sutta | Sāriputta and Koṭṭhita (2)
When asked if the Tathāgata does not exist after death… both exists and does not exist after death… neither exists nor does not exist after death, you say, 'That too has not been declared by the Blessed One: "The Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist after death."' Now, what is the cause, what is the reason, why that has not ...
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Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Khp 5. Maṅgala Sutta — Protection. I have heard that at one time the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery.
SN 12:51 Parivīmaṁsa Sutta | Investigating
"As he is investigating, he discerns: 'The aging-&-death that arises in the world as many different kinds of suffering & stress has birth as its cause, birth as its origination, birth as its source, birth as what brings it into play. When birth exists, aging-&-death exists. When birth does not exist, aging-&-death doesn't exist.'
Appendix Two: Non-Udāna Exclamations | Udāna
With the cessation of birth then aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of this entire mass of suffering & stress.'" SN 22:55 Exclamation (Udāna Sutta)
The Ballad of Liberation from the Khandhas | A Heart ...
and really dreaded death. He truly wanted. release from aging & mortality. Then one day he came to know the truth, abandoning the cause of suffering & compounded things. He found a cave of wonders, of endless happiness, i.e., the body. As he gazed throughout the cave of wonders, his suffering was destroyed, his fears appeased.
Ups & Downs | Gather 'Round the Breath
I saw a chart recently of a famous golfer and the winnings he had earned over the past ten years or so. And it wasn't a nice, smooth line. It didn't gradually rise, and rise, and rise, and rise.
AN 3:53 Dvejana Sutta | Two People (2)
This world is on fire with aging, illness, & death. With the world thus on fire with aging, illness, & death, any restraint of body, speech, & intellect practiced here will be one's shelter, cave, island, & refuge after death in the world beyond." ...
MN 14 Cūḷa Dukkhakkhandha Sutta | The Lesser Mass of Stress
Having engaged in bodily, verbal, and mental misconduct, they—on the break-up of the body, after death—re-appear in the plane of deprivation, the bad destination, the lower realms, in hell. Now this drawback too in the case of sensuality, this mass of stress in the future life, has sensuality for its reason, sensuality for its source ...
MN 72 Aggi-vacchagotta Sutta | To Vacchagotta on Fire
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. To Vacchagotta on Fire Aggi-vacchagotta Sutta (MN 72) I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery.
AN 5:129 Parikuppa Sutta | In Agony
This discourse lists the five grave deeds that are said to prevent one's chances of attaining any of the noble attainments in this lifetime. People who commit them fall—immediately at the moment of death—into hell. No help from outside is able to mitigate the sufferings they will endure in hell, and thus they are said to be incurable.
AN 9:39 Deva Sutta | The Devas (About Jhāna)
Notes. 1. The text here has antamakāsi—"has put an end to"—which does not fit the context as well as the reading, andhamakāsi—"has put in the dark"—found in the parallel passage in MN 25, so I have followed the latter reading here.. 2. The interpretation of this image here differs from that in MN 25 and MN 26, both of which state that the monk puts Māra in the dark upon ...
Reconciliation, Right & Wrong | Purity of Heart
"It's a cause of growth in the Dhamma and Vinaya of the noble ones when, seeing a transgression as such, one makes amends in accordance with the Dhamma and exercises restraint in the future."—
DN 9 Poṭṭhapāda Sutta | About Poṭṭhapāda
'The soul is one thing and the body another' … 'After death a Tathāgata exists' … 'After death a Tathāgata does not exist' … 'After death a Tathāgata both exists & does not exist' … 'After death a Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist' I have taught and declared to be a not categorical teaching.
SN 44:9 Kutūhalasālā Sutta | The Debating Hall
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. The Debating Hall Kutūhalasālā Sutta (SN 44:9) Then Vacchagotta the wanderer went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, exchanged courteous greetings with him.
AN 7:51 Abyākata Sutta | Undeclared - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
"'The Tathāgata exists after death'—this craving-standpoint, this perception-standpoint, this product of conceiving, this product of elaboration, this clinging-standpoint: That's anguish. 1 'The Tathāgata doesn't exist after death': That's anguish. 'The Tathāgata both does and doesn't exist after death': That's anguish.
MN 9 Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta | Right View
Whatever deceasing, passing away, breaking up, disappearance, dying, death, completion of time, break up of the aggregates, casting off of the body, interruption in the life faculty of the various beings in this or that group of beings, that is called death. This aging & this death are called aging & death.
Trading Candy for Gold | Noble Strategy
That means giving top priority to the mind. Material things and social relationships are unstable and easily affected by forces beyond our control, so the happiness they offer is fleeting and undependable. But the well-being of a well-trained mind can survive even aging, illness, and death. To train the mind, though, requires time and energy.
AN 10:95 Uttiya Sutta | To Uttiya
To Uttiya Uttiya Sutta (AN 10:95) Then Uttiya the wanderer went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, exchanged courteous greetings with him. After an exchange of friendly greetings & courtesies, he sat to one side.
SN 2:19 Uttara Sutta | Uttara the Deva's Son
The Buddha: "Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span. For one swept to old age. no shelters exist. Perceiving this danger in death, one should drop the world's bait
SN 22:99 Gaddūla Sutta | The Leash (1)
He is set loose from form, set loose from feeling… from perception… from fabrications… set loose from consciousness. He is set loose from birth, aging, & death; from sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs. He is set loose, I tell you, from suffering & stress."
The Five Hindrances | The Craft of the Heart
The Five Hindrances. 1. Kāma-chanda: sensual desires; an attraction to sensual objects. For the mind to be attracted to sensual objects, a sensual defilement such as passion must first arise within the mind, followed by longing, and then the sense of attraction for a sensual object.
On Denying Defilement | Beyond All Directions
On Denying Defilement. The concept of defilement (kilesa) has a peculiar status in modern Western Buddhism. Like traditional Buddhist concepts such as karma and rebirth, it has been dropped by many Western Buddhist teachers.
SN 12:52 Upādāna Sutta | Clinging
From birth as a requisite condition, then aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origin of this entire mass of suffering & stress. "Now, in one who keeps focusing on the drawbacks of clingable phenomena, craving ceases. From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging/sustenance.
A Gift of Dhamma | Still, Flowing Water: Eight Dhamma Talks
A public talk given on October 10, 1977, addressed to the parents of a monk who had come from France to visit their son.
Titlepage | Noble Warrior : A Life of the Buddha
Noble Warrior A Life of the Buddha Compiled from the Pāli Canon by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) & Khematto Bhikkhu (Isaac Ospovat)
SN 3:25 Pabbatopama Sutta | The Simile of the Mountains
As aging & death are rolling in on you, what else should be done but Dhamma-conduct, right conduct, skillful deeds, meritorious deeds?" That is what the Blessed One said. Having said that, the One Well-Gone, the Teacher, further said this:
The Roots of Buddhist Romanticism | Purity of Heart
The awakened person then follows a path "that can't be traced," but is incapable of transgressing the basic principles of morality. Such a person realizes that the question, "What is my true identity?" was ill-conceived, and knows from direct experience the total release from time and space that will happen at death.
The Integrity of Emptiness | Purity of Heart
The Integrity of Emptiness. For all the subtlety of his teachings, the Buddha had a simple test for measuring wisdom. You're wise, he said, to the extent that you can get yourself to do things you don't like doing but know will result in happiness, and to refrain from things you like doing but know will result in pain and harm.
MN 141 Sacca-vibhaṅga Sutta | An Analysis of the Truths
"And what is death? Whatever deceasing, passing away, breaking up, disappearance, dying, death, completion of time, break-up of the aggregates, casting off of the body, interruption in the life faculty of the various beings in this or that group of beings, that is called death.
SN 12:69 Upayanti Sutta | Rises
Birth rising causes aging-&-death to rise. "Monks, the great ocean ebbing causes the large rivers to ebb. The large rivers ebbing cause the little rivers to ebb. The little rivers ebbing cause the large lakes to ebb. The large lakes ebbing cause the little lakes to ebb.
AN 5:49 Kosala Sutta | The Kosalan
The Kosalan Kosala Sutta (AN 5:49) This discourse gives the Buddha's recommendations for dealing with grief. The passage discussing eulogies, chants, etc., is a reference to funeral customs designed to channel the feelings of the bereaved in a productive direction.
AN 4:237 Ariyamagga Sutta | The Noble Path
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. The Noble Path Ariyamagga Sutta (AN 4:237) "Monks, these four types of kamma have been directly known, verified, & announced by me.
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6 : Food for Rebirth | The Truth of Rebirth
Where there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging, & death, together, I tell you, with sorrow, affliction, & despair…. "[Similarly with the nutriment of (sensory) contact, the nutriment of intellectual intention, and the nutriment of (sensory) consciousness.]"
The Pursuit of True Happiness | ePublished Dhamma Talks ...
The practice of the Buddha's teaching can been called the serious pursuit of true happiness, with the emphasis on the serious and the true.Serious not in the sense of grim but in the sense of sincere, unwilling to settle for anything less than genuine.True here means a happiness that doesn't change, a happiness that doesn't let you down. This is why so many of the Buddha's teachings ...
Taking the Eight Precepts | A Chanting Guide
The Request: Mayaṁ bhante, ti-saraṇena saha aṭṭha sīlāni yācāma.. Venerable Sir, we request the Three Refuges & the Eight Precepts. Dutiyam-pi mayaṁ bhante…
MN 137 Saḷāyatana-vibhaṅga Sutta | An Analysis of the Six ...
An Analysis of the Six Sense-Media Saḷāyatana-vibhaṅga Sutta (MN 137) Introduction. Despite the abstract format of this discourse, it deals with an emotional topic: the source of emotions, the use of the emotions in the course of the practice, and the ideal emotional state of a person who has completed the path and is fit to teach others.
MN 66 Laḍukikopama Sutta | The Quail Simile
"Suppose a quail were snared by a rotting creeper, by which it could expect injury, captivity, or death, and someone were to say, 'This rotting creeper by which this quail is snared, and by which she could expect injury, captivity, or death, is for her a weak snare, a feeble snare, a rotting snare, an insubstantial snare.'
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Birth & Death | Straight from the Heart : Thirteen Talks ...
Birth & Death. People come with questions—some of which I can remember—and everyone has the question that's waiting right at the barn door: Is there a next world after death? The next world, who goes on to the next world: These sorts of things aren't any one person's issue. They're an issue for all of us who are carrying a burden.
Beyond Death | The Heightened Mind
Beyond Death. Undated. Every human being falls under the same conditions. In the beginning we're born, then in the middle we change, and in the end we fall apart and die. Death is something no one aspires to, and yet no one can escape it. We all have death at the end of our path. Thinking about death gives rise both to benefits and to harm.
SN 12:65 Nagara Sutta | The City
From the cessation of birth, then aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Thus is the cessation of this entire mass of stress. Cessation, cessation.' Vision arose, clear knowing arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before. ...
All About Change | Purity of Heart
All About Change. Change is the focal point for Buddhist insight—a fact so well known that it has spawned a familiar sound bite: "Isn't change what Buddhism is all about?"
AN 10:93 Diṭṭhi Sutta | Views
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Views Diṭṭhi Sutta (AN 10:93) I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery.
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SN 12:38 Cetanā Sutta | Intention
There being a support, there is a landing of consciousness. When that consciousness lands and grows, there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. When there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair.
DN 22 Mahā Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta | The Great Establishing of ...
The Great Establishing of Mindfulness Discourse Mahā Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (DN 22) Introduction. Satipaṭṭhāna—the establishing (upaṭṭhāna) of mindfulness (sati)—is a meditative technique for training the mind to keep mindfulness firmly established in a particular frame of reference in all its activities.The term sati is related to the verb sarati, to remember or to keep in mind.
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Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging, Illness, Death, & Separation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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MN 82 Raṭṭhapāla Sutta | About Raṭṭhapāla
Even with your death we would not want to be separated from you, so how could we—while you're alive—give our permission for you to go forth from the household life into homelessness?" Then Raṭṭhapāla, not getting his parents' permission to go forth from the household life into homelessness, lay down right there on the bare floor ...
Sn Introduction
1. Many of the issues raised by brahmanical teachings—such as racism, classism, the best use of wealth and status, and the desire to secure well-being both now and after death—are still very much alive. 2. The brahmans, along with the noble warriors, were the educated elite of ancient India.
Khandha Paritta | A Chanting Guide
Khandha Paritta The Group Protection. Virūpakkhehi me mettaṁ. Mettaṁ Erāpathehi me. Chabyā-puttehi me mettaṁ. Mettaṁ Kaṇhā-Gotamakehi ca. I have goodwill for the Virupakkhas, the Erapathas, goodwill for the Chabya descendants, & the Black Gotamakas.
SN 12:19 Bāla-paṇḍita Sutta | The Fool & the Wise Person
Headed for a body, he is not entirely freed from birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. I tell you, he is not entirely freed from stress & suffering. "The ignorance with which the wise person is obstructed, the craving with which he is conjoined, through which this body results: That ignorance has been abandoned ...
Sn 2:6 The Dhamma Life
a monk of this sort, after death, comes to suffering. Just like a cesspit, full, used for many years, one of this sort, befouled, would be hard to clean. Monks, whoever you know. to be like this, depending on homes, evil in his desires, evil in his resolves, evil in behavior & range, ...
Breath Meditation: Seven Steps | A Chanting Guide
Meditation Breath Meditation: Seven Steps. There are seven basic steps: 1. Start out with three or seven long in-&-out breaths, thinking bud- with the in-breath, and dho with the out.
DN 2 Sāmaññaphala Sutta | The Fruits of the Contemplative Life
At death, the earth (in the body) returns to and merges with the (external) earth-substance. The fire returns to and merges with the external fire-substance. The liquid returns to and merges with the external liquid-substance. The wind returns to and merges with the external wind-substance. The sense-faculties scatter into space.
Readings | Karma Q &A
Through having adopted & carried out such actions, on the break-up of the body, after death, he/she reappears in a good destination, a heavenly world. If, on the break-up of the body, after death—instead of reappearing in a good destination, a heavenly world—he/she comes to the human state, then he/she is long-lived wherever reborn.
Sn 3:12 The Contemplation of Dualities
through birth & death, again & again, in this state here. or anywhere else, that destination is simply through ignorance. This ignorance is a great delusion. whereby they have wandered-on. a long, long time. While beings immersed in clear knowing. don't go to further becoming.
SN 3:9 Yañña Sutta | Sacrifice
Sacrifice Yañña Sutta (SN 3:9) At Sāvatthī. Now on that occasion a great sacrifice had been arranged for King Pasenadi Kosala. Five hundred bulls, five hundred bullocks, five hundred cows, five hundred goats, & five hundred rams had been led to the pillar for the sacrifice.
SN 56:46 Andhakāra Sutta | Darkness
They don't drop into the darkness of aging, don't drop into the darkness of death, don't drop into the darkness of sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. They are totally released from birth, aging, death, sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs. They are totally released, I tell you, from suffering & stress.
A Heart Released | A Heart Released: The Teachings of Phra ...
A Heart Released § 1. Practice is what keeps the true Dhamma pure. The Lord Buddha taught that his Dhamma, when placed in the heart of an ordinary run-of-the-mill person, is bound to be thoroughly corrupted (saddhamma-paṭirūpa); but if placed in the heart of a Noble One, it is bound to be genuinely pure and authentic, something that at the same time can neither be effaced nor obscured.
AN 4:41 Samādhi Sutta | Concentration
Notes. 1. For more on the first development of concentration, see AN 5:28.. 2. For more on the second development of concentration, see SN 51:20 and AN 5:28.. 3. For more on the third development of concentration, see MN 118, MN 149, SN 54:8, and AN 8:70. MN 111 and MN 121, which discuss the perceptions and feelings that arise and disappear on shifting from one level of concentration to ...
MN 118 Ānāpānasati Sutta | Mindfulness of Breathing
Mindfulness of Breathing Ānāpānasati Sutta (MN 118) I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī in the Eastern Monastery, the palace of Migāra's mother, together with many well-known elder disciples—Ven. Sāriputta, Ven. Mahā Moggallāna, Ven. Mahā Kassapa, Ven. Mahā Kaccāna, Ven. Mahā Koṭṭhita, Ven. Mahā Kappina, Ven. Mahā Cunda, Ven ...
AN 5:179 Gihi Sutta | The Householder
who's abandoned birth & death, completed the holy life. put down the burden, done the task. effluent-free, gone beyond all dhammas, through lack of clinging unbound: Offerings to this spotless field. bear an abundance of fruit. But fools, unknowing, ...
AN 9:35 Gāvī Sutta | The Cow
But these beings—who were endowed with good conduct of body, speech, and mind, who did not revile the noble ones, who held right views and undertook actions under the influence of right views—with the break-up of the body, after death, have re-appeared in a good destination, a heavenly world.'
Introduction: The Authenticity of the Pāli Suttas
This is called a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views. Bound by a fetter of views, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person is not freed from birth, aging, & death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. He is not freed, I tell you, from stress.
Ud 5:10 Panthaka Sutta | Cūḷa Panthaka
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Ud 5:10 Cūḷa Panthaka (Panthaka Sutta) I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī at Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery.
SN 44:7 Moggallāna Sutta | With Moggallāna
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. With Moggallāna Moggallāna Sutta (SN 44:7) Then Vacchagotta the wanderer went to Ven. Mahā Moggallāna and, on arrival, exchanged courteous greetings with him.
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For those overcome by death, gone to the other world, father cannot shelter son, nor relatives a relative. See: Even while relatives are looking on, wailing heavily, mortals are. one. by. one. led away. like cows to the slaughter. In this way is the world afflicted. with aging & death, and so the enlightened don't grieve, knowing the way of ...
SN 44:8 Vacchagotta Sutta | With Vacchagotta
"They assume consciousness to be the self, or the self as possessing consciousness, or consciousness as in the self, or the self as in consciousness. That is why, when asked in this way, they answer that 'The cosmos is eternal' … or that 'The Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist after death.'
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The Prison World vs. the World Outside | Straight from the ...
The Prison World vs. the World Outside. Our mind, if we were to make a comparison with the world, is a perpetual prisoner, like a person born in jail who lives in jail, behind bars, with no chance to get out to see the outside world—someone who has grown from childhood to adulthood entirely in a prison cell and so doesn't know what there is outside; someone who has seen pleasure and pain ...
AN 4:124 Jhāna Sutta | Mental Absorption (2)
At the break-up of the body, after death, he reappears in conjunction with the Devas of the Pure Abodes. This rebirth is not in common with run-of-the-mill people. "Again, there is the case where an individual… enters the second jhāna… the third jhāna… the fourth jhāna… He regards whatever phenomena there that are connected with ...
SN 12:61 Assutavā Sutta | Uninstructed
"'From birth as a requisite condition, then aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of stress & suffering. "'Now from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications.
Home Schooling Your Inner Children | Gather 'Round the Breath
You've probably seen those signs in national parks that say: Leave only footprints, take only memories. But when you leave here, I hope you take more than memories.
Perennial Issues | The Karma of Questions
Perennial Issues. Toward the end of World War II, Aldous Huxley published an anthology, The Perennial Philosophy, proposing that there is a common core of truths to all the world's great religions. These truths clustered around three basic principles: that the Self is by nature divine, that this nature is identical with the divine Ground of Being, and that the ideal life is one spent in the ...
Khuddaka Nikāya | suttas on dhammatalks.org
Khuddakapāṭha This, the first book in the Khuddaka Nikāya (Collection of Short Discourses), appears to have been designed as a primer for novice monks and nuns. In nine short passages it covers the basic topics that one would need to know when beginning Buddhist monastic life; many of the passages also serve as useful introductions to Buddhist practice in general.
MN 29 Mahā Sāropama Sutta | The Longer Heartwood Simile ...
"Monks, there is the case where a certain son of good family, out of conviction, goes forth from the home life into homelessness, (thinking,) 'I am beset by birth, by aging-&-death, by sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs, beset by stress, overcome with stress. Perhaps the end of this entire mass of stress might be discerned!'
Talking about Nirvana
The statements in verses 17 and 18 seem to be drawn from SN 22:85-86, or versions of those suttas in other early Canons, in which the Buddha argues that because the Blessed One can't be defined even in this lifetime ("currently"), he can't be described as existing, not existing, both, or neither, after death.Now, because the MMK is a shorthand summary of arguments, we don't know ...
After the Awakening | Noble Warrior : A Life of the Buddha
From birth as a requisite condition, then aging-&-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of suffering & stress. Now from the remainderless fading and cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications.
Meditation in Daily Life | With Each & Every Breath
1) Killing any person or animal. 2) Stealing (i.e., taking something belonging to someone else without that person's permission) 3) Having illicit sex (i.e., with a minor or with an adult who is already in another relationship or when you are already in another relationship). 4) Telling falsehoods (i.e., misrepresenting the truth)
SN 35:74 Gilāna Sutta | Ill (1)
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Ill (1) Gilāna Sutta (SN 35:74) Near Sāvatthī. Then a certain monk went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side.
AN 3:34 Nidāna Sutta | Causes
Causes Nidāna Sutta (AN 3:34) An action (kamma) performed by an arahant bears no kammic fruit. This sutta explains why. * * * "Monks, these three are causes for the origination of actions.
Thig 13:5 Subhā the Goldsmith's Daughter
constraining, the bondage of death, maddening, deceptive, agitating the mind. It's a net cast by Māra. for the defilement of living beings: with endless drawbacks, much pain, great poison, giving little enjoyment, creating conflict, drying up the good side [of the mind].
AN 6:61 Parāyana Sutta | The Further Shore
"Which, friends, is the first side? Which is the second side? What is in-between? Who is the seamstress?" When this was said, a monk said to the elder monks, "Contact, friends, is the first side, the origination of contact the second side, and the cessation of contact 2 is in between. Craving is the seamstress—for craving stitches one to the production of this or that very becoming.
After-work Meditation | Gather 'Round the Breath
So we don't have to worry about hell after death. Focus on the hell that you put yourself into right now. So ask yourself not what other people did to you in the course of the day, but what did you do? It's like that woman who wanted to train her son to think. So at the end of the school day, she didn't ask him, "What did you learn?"
Mindfulness Defined | Head & Heart Together
Mindfulness Defined. In recent years, the world has been awash in a flood of books, articles, teachings, and courses that promote two theories about the practice of mindfulness (sati). The first theory is that the Buddha employed the term mindfulness to mean bare attention: a state of pure receptivity—nonreactive, nonjudging, noninterfering—toward physical and mental phenomena as they make ...
SN 42:2 Tālapuṭa Sutta | To Tālapuṭa the Actor
But if he holds such a view as this: 'When an actor on the stage, in the midst of a festival, makes people laugh & gives them delight with his imitation of reality, then with the breakup of the body, after death, he is reborn in the company of the laughing devas,' that is his wrong view.
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At death, the earth (in the body) returns to and merges with the (external) earth-substance. The fire returns to and merges with the external fire-substance. The liquid returns to and merges with the external liquid-substance. The wind returns to and merges with the external wind-substance. ...
