MIND IS THE MAKER AND THE CREATOR

Mind is the Maker and the Creator!

The blessed Buddha once said:
Mind precedes and initiates all phenomena!
Mind is their chief, mind is their maker...
When one speaks or performs an action
with a mind, that is internally all pure,
then happiness and pleasure follows,
like a shadow that never departs...
Dhammapada 1

Difficult to detect and very subtle,
mind can seize and take up any object,
so let any wise being guard the mind,
for a guarded mind brings happiness...
Dhammapada 36

Neither mother, nor father, nor any other
family member can do greater good, both
for oneself and for others as well, than
the well directed & well controlled mind...
Dhammapada 43

What is Mind?
Mind is an ever repeating cycle sequence of:
Contact1 => Feeling1 + Perception1 => Intention1 => Attention1 redirected =>
New Contact2 => Feeling2 + Perception2 => Intention2 => Attention2 => etc.
Stilling this cycle produces Peace and Bliss! This serene Tranquillity is called:
Nibbāna!

More on the Magnificent Luminous Mind:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/In_Control.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Non-Control.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Mind_Reading.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Luminous_is_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Blazing_&_Bright.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Core_Duality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Magnificent_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Focusing_on_Mentality.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Omniscient_Quantum_Mind.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Immersing_the_Body_in_the_Mind.htm

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

Magnificent & Luminous is Mind!

karuna

Karunã: The Great Good Helper!

Karunā is feeling the pain of other beings, either partially or completely;

Possible translations:
1: Pity not from above: “I am better”, but as if in the other being’s shoes…
2: Compassion is OK, but that is difficult to reach up to for many beings…
3: Fellow feeling, sympathy, empathy, understanding are all OK, but somewhat
missing these essential points:

A: It is an inability to see and accept other being’s suffering and distress!
B: It is a deep desire to make others feel free, glad, happy and peaceful!
C: It is extended to and pervaded over many beings simultaneously…

The proximate cause of Karunā = pity is noticing other being’s helplessness.
The immediate effect of Karunā = pity is evaporation of all evil cruelty!

Pity (Karunā ) is one of the four divine and infinite dwellings (Brahmavihāra) :
Karuna_is_Pity, Endless Pity, Space_Compassion, What_is_Wrong,
Safe_Medicine, Great_Compassion, Compassionate_Pity,
How_to_Cure_Cruelty_and_Revengefulness

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

The Great Helper!

Some Fine Facts:

Some Fine Facts:

Only he is bright, who shines by himself!
What is good, is really ... Good!
What is excellent, is really ... Excellent!
What is perfect, is really ... absolutely Perfect!
A rose is a rose is a rose. ;-) And just that.

Canal makers direct the water.
Arrow makers straighten the shafts.
Carpenters plane the planks of wood.
The Clever Nobles train their Mind...
Dhammapada 80

Those who meditate regularly;
Those who endure enthusiastically;
Those who exert much right effort;
These wise ones attain Nibbāna:
The supreme Peace, the sublime Bliss.
Dhammapada 23

Health is the greatest gain!
Contentment is the finest treasure!
Certainty is the foremost helper!
Nibbāna is the highest Happiness...
Dhammapada 204

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Fabulously Fine Facts!

Contentment is the most supreme Treasure!

Contentment is the most supreme Treasure!

The Blessed Buddha often noted contentment as the highest treasure:
There is the case where a Bhikkhu is quite content with whatever old robe,
quite content with whatever old alms-food, quite content with whatever hut,
and quite content with whatever bitter medicine for curing sickness.
This Dhamma is for one, who is content, not for one who is discontent!
Thus was it said. And with reference to exactly this salient contentment
with whatever little one has, was this simple, serene modesty well spoken...
AN VIII 30

Contentment with whatever little one has!

How is a Bhikkhu content?
Just as a bird, wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden,
even so is he content with a single set of robes to protect his body and
begged alms-food to pacify his hunger. Wherever he goes, he takes only
these few simple necessities as robes, belt, bowl and razor along with him.
This is how a Bhikkhu is content...
DN 2

There is the case where a Bhikkhu is content with whatever old robe at all,
with whatever old alms-food at all, with whatever old hut at all. He speaks in
praise of being content with any old requisite at all. He does not, for the sake
of any requisite, do anything unsuitable or inappropriate. When not getting any
requisites, he is not troubled. When getting requisites, he just uses it without
being attached to it. He is not obsessed, but blameless, & seeing the drawbacks
and dangers of possessions, he realizes the escape from them. He does not,
on account of his contentment with any old requisite at all, exalt himself or
disparage others. Thus is he modest, clever, energetic, alert, & acutely aware!
This, Bhikkhus, is called a Bhikkhu standing quite firm in the ancient, original
lineage of the Noble Ones (Ariyavamsa)... AN IV 28

See also: About Forest Monks:
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/Wheels/wh083.pdf

Good are friends, when need arises.
Good is contentment with just what one has.
Good is merit done well, when life is at the end.
Good is the elimination of all Suffering!
Dhammapada 331

Solitude is happiness for one who is content,
Who has heard and clearly understands The Dhamma.
Harmlessness is happiness in all worlds!
Harmlessness held towards all breathing beings.
Udana 10

Therefore be capable, upright, and straight,
easy to instruct, gentle, and not proud,
content and easy to support with little,
with few duties, living simply and lightly,
with peaceful abilities, mastering all,
modest, and with no greed for support.
Do not do even a minor thing that the
wise and noble would later criticize.
Sutta Nipāta I, 8

More on Contentment (santutthi), which is caused by rejoicing mutual joy:
Cause of Contentment, Calm and Content!, Rejoicing_Bliss_is_Mudita

Contentment Causes Calm Cool Comfort!

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

DO GOOD

The GOOD!

Good is the arising of Insight.

Good is the avoidance of all Evil.

Good are friends, when a need arises.

Good is the state of the accomplished.

Good is a prior righteous life, when old.

Good is it, to leave behind all Suffering.

Good is contentment with just what one has.

Good is being a Father, a Mother, and a Bhikkhu.

Good is the stored merit well done at the moment of death.

Good is faith, when firmly established, & unshakable by doubt.

Yeah!

http://What-Buddha-Said.net/Canon/Sutta/KN/Dhammapada.Verse_331_333.story.htm

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

Not Clinging!

Completely Comprehending and Leaving All!

At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said this:
Bhikkhus, without directly knowing and completely comprehending The All,
without being disgusted with it and leaving it all behind, one is incapable of
irreversibly eliminating any suffering...
Without directly knowing & completely comprehending the eye, forms, ear,
sounds, nose, smells, tongue, tastes, body, touches, mind, ideas and all metal
states, any consciousness all forms of contact and whatever kind of feeling
arised caused by such sense-contacts, without becoming disgusted with it,
without relinquishing it all, and without letting it all go, one is incapable of
eradicating any suffering irreversibly...
This, friends, is that All, which without directly knowing, without completely
comprehending, without being disgusted by and without leaving, one remains
incapable of eliminating all suffering...

Comments:
The radical rationality of the Buddha-Dhamma here shines forth, wiping all
empty babble away! Since what is suffering? The five Clusters of Clinging
are suffering! Body, Feeling, Perception, Construction & Consciousness and
thus also the 6 senses, their 6 objects, and the 6 kinds of consciousnesses,
their 6 kinds of contact, and their 6 kinds of feeling are all suffering...
Why is all that suffering? Because all that is inherently impermanent and
thus always lost, decaying, and vanishing by itself right where it arised...


Clinging is an intense form of Craving. Craving is the Cause of Suffering!

Further sharp shots @ clinging to sensuality:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Source_of_All.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. Book IV [17-8]
The 6 senses 35. Thread on Complete Comprehension: Parijānāna Sutta (26)
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

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

Radical Release!

Detaching Release from all Internal & External:

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, desire and lust for any form, for any feeling, for any perception,
for any construction & for any consciousness is a corruption of the mind!
Desire and lust for the earth element: All that is Solid...
Desire and lust for the water element: All that is Fluid...
Desire and lust for the fire element: All that is Hot...
Desire and lust for the air element: All that is Moving...
Desire and lust for the space element: All that is 3-Dimensional and
Desire and lust for the consciousness element: All sense awareness itself,
is a corruption of the mind! When a Bhikkhu has overcome and left all
behind these mental corruptions, his mind seeks for inward withdrawal…
A mind prepared and enhanced by such renunciation becomes wieldy, fit,
focused and open for those subtle mental states, that are to be realized
only by direct experience and assured knowledge...

On the 5 clusters of clinging and the 4 elements:
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/II/The_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/What_is_Solidity.htm

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya SN 27:9-10 III 234
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

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

Not Agitated = Cool Calm!

Non-Agitation through detached Release:

The Blessed Buddha once said:
How, friends, is there non-agitation through detached release?
Regarding this, friends, the educated normal person, who is a friend of a Noble
One and who is clever and well trained in his Dhamma, or who is a friend of a
Great Man and is clever and well trained in his Dhamma, avoids regarding form
as self, he avoids regarding self as having form, he avoids regarding form as
inside any self, or any self as inside any form! Then inevitably his body form
changes and decays. When this change and decay of his material form occurs,
his mind does not become occupied or obsessed with this change of just a form.
Therefore does no agitated mental state, arised from worry over this changed
merely physical body form, remain obsessing his mind ...
Because his mind is not obsessed, then he is neither frightened, nor distressed,
nor anxious, and by this detached non-clinging his inner agitation is all stilled!
He does not regard feeling as self ... perception as self ... mental constructions
as self ... consciousness as self, nor the self as possessing consciousness, nor as
consciousness as being inside any self, nor any the self as being 'inside' any
consciousness ... When his consciousness momentarily changes and alters, then
his mind does not become engaged with this fast change of consciousness.
Therefore does no agitated mental state, born of concern over this changed
consciousness, remain obsessing his mind! Because his mind is neither obsessed,
nor upset, nor troubled, nor uneasy with this or any other change whatsoever,
then this aloof and detached non-clinging still, calm and evaporate all his prior
agitations! It is exactly in this way, friends, that there is non-agitation caused
by non-clinging.

Comment:
If the 5 clusters of Clinging are no EGO, how can there ever be lost anything
from such vacuum void! ;-) hihi:

More about this freeing selfless anti-ego impersonality = No-self = Anattā:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm


You can come as you like, but you pay as you go...!

Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya XXII (7); [III 16-9]
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 An Ocean of Dhamma!
On The 5 clusters of Clinging:
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm

Have a nice & noble day!

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

Not Agitated = Cool Calm!