Clinging to Possessions always entails Misery!

The Buddha encouraged relinquishing possessions thereby ending suffering:
Those who are greedy and needy for cherished things cannot ever end grief,
sorrow, and miserliness. Seeking security the recluse therefore relinquishes
all possessions and wanders forth into homelessness. Dwelling withdrawn and
remote, secluded in senses, he finds it agreeable not to show himself anywhere!
Not dependent upon anything, the sage finds nothing pleasant or unpleasant.
Neither possessiveness, nor lamentation, nor what is seen or heard or thought
clings to his mind, just as water cannot ever cling to a lotus-leaf...
Sutta-Nipāta 809-812 Edited excerpt.



More on Clinging (Upādanā) which is an intensified quite painful form of craving:What are the 5 Clusters of Clinging, Cool Calm, Stilling Clinging, Shaking_off_Evil
The_Terror_of_Being, Clinging_to_the_notion_I_Am, The_4_kinds_of_Clinging.

Without Possessions!

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The self-created EGO-Tunnel!

http://youtu.be/pFiR-U1FriQ

Brain, bodily awareness, and the emergence of a conscious self: these entities and
their relations are explored by German  philosopher and cognitive scientist Metzinger.
Extensively working with neuroscientists he has come to the conclusion that, in fact,
there is no such thing as a "self" -- that a "self" is simply the content of a model
created by our brain - part of a virtual reality we create for ourselves. He will share
his thoughts on consciousness, the self and talk about the concept of the Ego-Tunnel.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger:

(*1958 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is currently Professor of Theoretical Philosophy
at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz In 2009, he published a popular book,
"The Ego Tunnel -- The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self", New York: Basic Books)

On the No-Self (Anatta) Doctrine, Selflessness, Soullessness and Anti-Egoism:

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Not_Yours.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Ego-Projection.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Sandcastles.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Double_Problem.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Egoless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/We_Are_Not.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Changing_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Empty_of_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Self-less_Anatta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Divorced_Freedom.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Uprooting_Egoism.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/anatta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Refence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Deed_without_Doer.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/No_Being_No_Person.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Without_Controversy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Reference.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Who_is_the_Creator.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Solo_Self-Deception.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No_Agent_is_Inside.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Smoke_of_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-'I'-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Just_Passing_Bubbles.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Anatta_Doctrine.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Not_Who_but_What.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Selfless_Camera.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Invisible_Impersonality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Selfless_and_Harmless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Input_'I'-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Input_'I'-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/No-Agent_but_Dependence.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Identity_View.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Identity_View.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Egolessness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Neither_Agent_nor_Actor.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Who_or_what_is_the_Agent.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_Fact_of_No-Self_Anatta.htm

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/First_I-dentification_then_Enmity.htm

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Without Clinging one is Liberated!

The disciple Bhadrāvudha once asked the Blessed Buddha:
How can one release all clinging?
By dispelling all craving, thereby all clinging is also released, because craving
causes clinging! Thus do absence of craving result in absence of clinging said
the Blessed One. Bhadrāvudha, where-ever above, below, across, and also in
between: Whatever beings grasp and cling to in the world, by that very thing
is they followed to death... Attaching to anything, means attaching to death!
Therefore, knowing this, seeing people clinging even in panic to the realm of
death, any aware & alert Bhikkhu would neither grasp, nor cling to anything
in the entire world. Seeing all those people, who habitually are very attached  
to many worldly things and thus clinging to death's realm, he stills all craving.
By stilling all craving, all clinging is relinquished. No wanting means no clutch!
Sutta-Nipāta 1101-04 Edited excerpt.

 

Comment:
While dwelling detached the later ordained Bhadrāvudha became an arahat!

More on this catastrophic Clinging (Upādanā):
What are the 5 Clusters of Clinging, Cool Calm, Stilling Clinging, Shaking_off_Evil
The_Terror_of_Being, Clinging_to_the_notion_I_Am, The_4_kinds_of_Clinging.

Without Clinging!

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Without desires, cravings or doubts!

 

The venerable Todeyya once asked the Blessed Buddha:
"One who has cooled all sense desire, cut all craving, and overcome all doubts, 
is there any higher release for him?"
"In whom no sensual pleasures dwell, Todeyya, said the Blessed One, and for
whom no craving exists, and who has crossed over all doubts, for such one is
there no other higher release..." Todeyya then further asked:
"Is he without longings, or is he hoping? Does he possess final understanding,
or is he still seeking understanding? Please explain this to me, Sakyan with
universal vision, so that I may recognize a true sage."
"He is without longings, he is not hoping for anything. He does indeed possess
complete understanding. He is not searching for anything. In this very way,
Todeyya, recognize the sage: He possesses nothing, he is neither attached to
any form of sense pleasure, nor to any form of existence. He is all silenced!"
Sutta-Nipāta 1088-91 Edited excerpt.
 

Comment:
While dwelling on these answers the venerable Todeyya became an arahat!

The Awakened Arahats just looks upon all in equanimity as if from above...
More on these Worthy and Awakened Arahats:

The_Worthy_Arahat, Arahat Qualities, Best among Gods & Men,
Withdrawn_&_Accomplished, The Sage, Gentle_and_Controlled,

Without Doubts!

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Avoiding all Controversies allows inner Peace!

The brahmin Māgandiya asked the Buddha about how to find inner peace:
Mental purity is neither caused by particular views, nor by learning, nor by
knowledge, nor even by perfect morality. Neither by absence of right view,
missing learning, lack of knowledge, or tainted morality, not by that either!
Discarding all these oppositions, detached, calmed, independent, one stops
longing for any form of existence... Whoever thinks himself equal, superior,
or inferior, he will dispute on that account! But the imperturbable one does
not enter any self-deceit! Since for such one, there is no I-Me-Self or Ego
how much less can there then ever be any equal, inferior or superior I-Ego!
Leaving home, wandering homeless, not making acquaintances in any village,
free from desire for sensual pleasures, showing no preferences, such sage
will never engage in any controversy. One who really knows does not become
proud because of any particular view, learning, thought, or experience, for
he is not tied to, influenced by, or led by any of these momentary illusions..
He is completely released through his understanding. But those who cling to
certain experiences and particular views wander about causing controversy!
Sutta-Nipāta 839-842-844-846-847 Edited excerpt.

Commentary:
This true speech made Māgandiya and his wife never-returners (Anāgāmins).

More on selfless  impersonality, ego-lessness, the No-Self fact (Anattā):Ego-Projection, Who_or_what_is_the_Agent, Anatta No Self, The Egoless,
I-dentification, The Anatta Doctrine, No_Agent_is_Inside, We_Are_Not,
Empty_of_What, Neither_Agent_nor_Actor, Experiencing_Egolessness,
The_Smoke_of_Self, Input_'I'-dentification, No-Agent_but_Dependence,
Anti-EGO-Tool, Non-'I'-dentification, Uprooting_Egoism, Prison_of_Pride,
Mistaken_Reference, Solo_Self-Deception, Invisible_Impersonlatity,
Empty_of_What?, Who_is_the_Creator, Not_Who_but_What, 
Self-less_Anatta, No_Being_No_Person, Deed_without_Doer.

Without Controversy!

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Released by Disengaged Non-identification!

At Savatthi The Buddha once said:
All form is transient, all feeling is transient, all perception is transient,
all mental constructions are transient, all consciousness is transient...
This transience is suffering! What is suffering is no-self! What is no-self
should be seen as it really is with correct understanding in this very way:
"All this is not mine, cannot be mine, this I am not, this is not my self!"...
When one sees and understands this thus, as it really is with correct and
penetrating understanding, then one maintains no views on what is past.
When one maintains no more views regarding the past, then one neither
maintains any views about the future. When one has relinquished all hopes
regarding the future, then one is not being possessed by stubborn clinging!
Having no trace of immovable clinging left, the mind becomes disillusioned
regarding all form, all feeling, all perception, all mental constructions, and
all consciousness. By that it is released from the 3 mental fermentations
through detached non-clinging... By being released, the mind is all silenced!
By being thus stilled, the mind becomes content... Being content, it is not
agitated anymore... Being thus unagitated, one indeed attains Nibbāna!
Right there and then, one instantly understands: Ended is this process of
rebirth, this Noble Life has been lived, done is all what had to be done,
there is no state beyond this...

More on this nicely ballanced Equanimity (Upekkhā):
Even is Equanimity, The 7 Links to Awakening, Exquisite_Equanimity,
Unshakable Equanimity, Equanimity Upekkha, Serene Equanimity & Beyond,
Feeding Equanimity, Empty Equanimity, High_and_Alert, What_is_Wrong,
Safe_Medicine, Serene_Equanimity, Divorced_Freedom, Tatra-Majjhatta,

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya III 55-58
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

Not Agitated…

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The Fourfold Prime Advantage:

A deity once asked the Buddha:
What is good, when one is old?
What is good, when established?
What is a human's finest treasure?
What is hard for robbers to steal?
The blessed Buddha answered:
Morality is good, even when one is old!
Conviction is good, when firmly established!
Understanding is any human's finest treasure!
Merit well done is impossible for robbers to steal!

Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya I [39-40]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

The 4-Fold Advantage!

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How can one experience Ceasing of all Pain?

The blessed Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus, the concentration won by Awareness by Breathing, when developed
and frequently cultivated, is of great fruit and results in a big advantage...
And how, Bhikkhus, is concentration by Awareness by Breathing developed and
cultivated so that it is of great fruit and advantage?
Bhikkhus, when one have gone to the forest, or to the root of a tree, or to an
empty hut, there one sits down cross-legged, having straightened one's body
and back, and set up awareness around the nostrils, then just plainly aware of
that breathing itself one breathes in, & just solely aware of only that breath
in itself, one breathes out...
Breathing in long, one knows, notes and understands: I inhale long!
Breathing out long, one knows, notes and understands: I exhale long!
... ... ... (steps 2-15) ... ... ...
One trains thus: Contemplating relinquishment, I will breathe in!
One trains thus: Contemplating relinquishment, I will breathe out!
Therefore, if such friend feels a pleasant feeling, then he understands through
his prior training in breathing meditation:
It is impermanent; it should neither be clung to nor delighted in...
If he feels a painful feeling, then he indeed also understands:
It is impermanent; it should neither be clung to nor engaged in...
If he feels a neutral feeling there and then he also understands:
It is impermanent; it should neither be clung to nor involved in...
Whether he feels a pleasant feeling, or a painful feeling, or a  neutral feeling,
he feels it as if detached from it, and as something remote, and alien...
If he feels a feeling terminating with the body, then he understands:
If feel a feeling terminating at the same time as this body...
If he feels a feeling terminating with life, then he understands:
I feel a feeling terminating at the same time as this life...
He then understands: With the break-up of this frame of a body, following
the exhaustion of life, all that is felt, and all sensed, not being delighted in,
will turn cold right there and then... Just as, bhikkhus, an oil lamp burns in
dependence on the oil and the wick, and with the exhaustion of the oil and the
wick the flame ceases to burn through lack of fuel, exactly so too, Bhikkhus,
when such a Bhikkhu feels a feeling terminating with the body or with life...
Then he understands: With the break-up of this  fragile frame of a body,
following the exhaustion of life, all that is felt, all that is sensed, by not being
delighted in, by not being clung to, will cool down & cease right there & then!

This sublime (Ānāpāna-sati)  technique is used by all Buddhas at Awakening:
Ānāpānasati text and commentary, 1_Producing_4, Four_Fulfilling_Seven,
Breathing_Calm_and_Insight, The_LAMP_I, Experiencing_the_Breath,
The_LAMP_IV, Awareness_by_Breathing, Peaceful_and_Sublime_on Spot,
The_LAMP_III, Unique_Thing_Awareness_by_Breathing,
Magnificent_Meditation.

On the formless (ārupa) Jhānas and Ceasing: Nirodha-samāpatti:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/9_Stillings.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/jhaana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/n_r/nirodha_samaapatti.htm

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. [V:319-20]
section 54: Ānāpānasamyutta. Thread 8: The simile of the Lamp!

  Stilling by Breathing!

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