The 9 Supreme Persons!

There are these 9 Superior and Noble Persons!

1: The perfectly self-awakened Buddha...	(Sammāsambuddho)
2: The solitary self-awakened Buddha...	(Paccekasambuddho)
3: The one released both ways...	(Ubhatobhāgavimutto)
4: The one released by understanding...	(Paññavimutto)
5: The body-witness of direct experience...	(Kāyasakkhī)
6: The view-winner of straight comprehension...	(Ditthipattto)
7: The one released by faith...	(Saddhāvimutto)
8: The one guided by Dhamma...	(Dhammānusārī)
9: The one guided by faith...	(Saddhānusārī)

More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Types.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Four_Personalities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ideal_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Persons_similar_to_Trees.htm

Source:
The 4th Abhi-Dhamma Book: The Personality Concept: Puggala-Paññatti.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130096

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Some 4-fold Characterizations of Personalities!

There are these 4 types of Human Personality:
1: One possessed by Greed, Desire, and Lust...
2: One possessed by Hate, Anger, and Aversion...
3: One possessed by Confusion, Doubt & Ignorance...
4: One possessed by Pride, Conceit, and Arrogance...

1: One who has learned little, but who does not act upon it...
2: One who has learned little, who does indeed act upon it...
3: One who has learned much, but who does not act upon it...
4: One who has learned much, who does indeed act upon it...

1: One drifting along with the stream, driven by craving...
2: One going against the stream of ordinary convention...
3: One remaining stuck in the middle of deep stagnation...
4: One who has reached the far shore and now dwells in fruition...

1: One who attains calm, but not insight...
2: One who attains insight, but not calm...
3: One who attains neither calm, nor insight...
4: One who attains both calm and insight...



More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Types.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Four_Personalities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ideal_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Persons_similar_to_Trees.htm

Source:
The 4th Abhi-Dhamma Book: The Personality Concept: Puggala-Paññatti. 25-27
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130096

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Friendship is the Greatest!
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net

The 4 Personalities!

The 4 Personalities!

Some 4-fold Characterizations of Personalities!

There are these 4 types of Human Personality:
1: One possessed by Greed, Desire, and Lust...
2: One possessed by Hate, Anger, and Aversion...
3: One possessed by Confusion, Doubt & Ignorance...
4: One possessed by Pride, Conceit, and Arrogance...

1: One who has learned little, but who does not act upon it...
2: One who has learned little, who does indeed act upon it...
3: One who has learned much, but who does not act upon it...
4: One who has learned much, who does indeed act upon it...

1: One drifting along with the stream, driven by craving...
2: One going against the stream of ordinary convention...
3: One remaining stuck in the middle of deep stagnation...
4: One who has reached the far shore and now dwells in fruition...

1: One who attains calm, but not insight...
2: One who attains insight, but not calm...
3: One who attains neither calm, nor insight...
4: One who attains both calm and insight...



More on Buddhist Personality Analysis:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Human_Types.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Nine_Supremes.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Four_Personalities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ideal_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Persons_similar_to_Trees.htm

Source:
The 4th Abhi-Dhamma Book: The Personality Concept: Puggala-Paññatti. 25-27
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=130096

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Friendship is the Greatest!
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What is the Cause of Mental Purity?

What is the Cause of Defilement & Purification?

Venerable Mahāli once asked the Buddha:
But, Venerable Sir, what is the causing condition of mental defilement?
By what reason, do beings become mentally defiled and degraded?
The Buddha then explained:
If, Mahali, this form, this feeling, this perception, this construction and
this consciousness were exclusively suffering, immersed only in frustration,
soaked solely in trouble and if it were not also sometimes soaked in pleasure,
beings would not become enamoured with it. But since this form, this feeling,
perception, construction & this consciousness is also occasionally pleasurable,
immersed now and then in pleasure, soaked momentarily in delight & it is not
soaked only & always in pain, beings become enamoured & enthralled with it!
By being enamoured with it, they are captivated by it and obsessed with it...
By being captivated by it and obsessed with it, they are defiled & degraded!
This, Mahali, is the causing condition for the mental defilement of beings...
By this reason, do beings become mentally defiled & detrimentally degraded!


Mental Defilement veils the light of the mind by obscuring it!

But, Venerable Sir, what is the causing condition of mental purification?
By what reason, do beings become mentally purified & released?
The Buddha then explained:
If, Mahali, this form, this feeling, this perception, this construction &
this consciousness were exclusively pleasurable, immersed only in pleasure,
soaked solely in satisfaction, and if it were not also quite soaked in suffering,
beings would not become disgusted with it. But because form, feeling, perception,
construction & consciousness is also pain, immersed in distress, soaked in agony,
and it is not soaked only in pleasure, beings are disgusted with it. Being disgusted,
they experience disillusion and through this disillusion, they are mentally purified!
This, Mahali, is the causing condition for the mental purification of beings...
By this reason, do beings become mentally purified and happily released!



More on mental purification:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mental_Purity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Ability_Purification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_7_Purifications.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_purpose_of_purification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_stages_of_Purification.htm

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya III 69-71
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Buddha said: Naturally the mind is pure and luminous all around!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/AN/AN.I.8-10.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_mind

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Friendship is the Greatest!
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--

The inevitably Decay...

All is by Nature inherently & inevitably Decaying & Vanishing!

At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said:
Bhikkhus, All is by nature subject to birth... All is by nature subject to ageing...
All is by nature subject to decay & sickness... All is by nature subject to death...
All is by nature subject to trouble... All is by nature subject to corruption...
All is by nature subject to destruction... All is by nature subject to vanishing...
All that is by nature subject to emergence, is also by nature subject to ceasing...
And what, Bhikkhus, is this All, that is by nature subject to birth, ageing, decay,
sickness, death, trouble, corruption, destruction, vanishing, ever arising & ceasing ?
The Eye ... Forms ... Eye-consciousness ... Eye-contact... Whatever feeling arised
caused by eye-contact, that is by nature subject to ever arising and ceasing...
The Ear ... Sounds ... Auditory-consciousness ... Ear-contact...
The Nose ... Smells ... Olfactory-consciousness ... Nose-contact...
The Tongue ... Tastes ... Gustatory-consciousness ... Tongue-contact...
The Body ... Touches ... Tactile-consciousness ... Body-contact...
The Mind ... Thoughts ... Mental-consciousness ... Mind-contact... & whatever feeling
arised caused any contact, that is by nature subject to ever arising and ceasing...
Understanding this, the intelligent noble disciple becomes disgusted with this All ...
Being thus disgusted produces disillusion... This disillusion induces a mental release!
When detached, the mind remains unagitated! Being utterly imperturbable one attains
Awakening right there & then instantly understands: This mind is irreversibly freed!
Repeated rebirth is ended, this Noble Life is completed, done is what should be done,
there is no state beyond, ever after or even surpassing this ...



More on impermanence, inconstancy, and transience (Anicca)
Anicca (Impermanence) According to Theravada (Bhikkhu Ñanamoli)
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/various/wheel186.html
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Transient_formations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Perceiving_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Impermanence_Anicca.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Internal_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_External_Transience.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Impermanence_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Universal_Transience.htm

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. Book IV 27-28
The 6 senses section 35. Thread on Birth: Jāti Sutta (33-4)
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Watch and think:

Watch and think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THIODWTqx5E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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Agitation never helps!

Sweet is Verbal, Bodily and Mental Silence!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Kāyamunim vācāmunim,

manomunimanāsavam,

munim moneyyasampannam.

Āhu ninhātapāpakam.

Silent in body, silent in speech,

silent in mind, without agitation,

blessed with silence is the sage.

Such One is truly washed of evil.
Itivuttaka 3.67

SILENCED
If silent as a broken bell,
such one is close to Nibbana,
and far away from arrogance.
Dhammapada 134

More on this sweetly silenced Tranquillity (Passaddhi):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Calm.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Forest_Bliss.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Silenced.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Tranquillity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samāhita _/\_ ]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net

Friendship is the Greatest!

Without Ego, Friendship can even be Infinite:

The Blessed Buddha said of this beautiful Friendship (Kalyānamittatā):
By this following method, Ananda, it may be understood how the entire
Holy & Noble Life is sole good friendship, good companionship, and good
comradeship: By relying upon me as a good friend, Ananda, beings subject
to birth are freed from birth, ageing beings are freed from their ageing,
beings subject to disease are cured from illness, beings subject to death
escape death, and beings subject to sorrow, lamentation, pain, & desperate
despair are freed from this grief, pain, frustration and endless Suffering!
Therefore, Ananda it may be emphasized, how this entire Noble Life is all
based on good friendship, beautiful amity, and benevolent harmony...

Comments:
Selfless friendship is the most deep, genuine, sincere and sweet!
Why so? It is not limited or tainted by any egoistic self-interest,
which otherwise interferes, as soon as an assumed 'self' suspects
even minor overstepping of its perceived territorial 'my' domain..
If there is no self present, how can it ever be possessive? ")



The Blessed Buddha often emphasized: Sabbe Dhammā Anattā...
All states are selfless, egoless, ownerless, & void of any core "I"-dentity!

More on this very best good within beautiful friendship (Kalyānamittatā):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Buddha_on_Noble_Frienship.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Selfless_Friendship_is_Sweetest.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/All_Embracing_Kindness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Infinite_Friendliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_Friendliness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/United_in_Harmony.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Good_Friend.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Goodwill_Encore.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Good-Will_Again.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Bon_Benevolence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_&_Bright.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Good_Friendship.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Friendliness_Frees.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Unique_Unity.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kalyanamitta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya 3(18): [I 88]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

If animals despite differences can display so beautiful inter-species
friendship so more should we humans be kind towards all beings!

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samāhita _/\_ ]
http://What-Buddha-Said.net