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Friends, <br> <p>LOSS <br> From affection springs sorrow (over loss). <br> From affection grows fear (of loss) <br> Wholly free from affection, there can be <br> no such sorrow and much less fear. <br> Dhammapada <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://what-buddha-said.net/images/Dhamma_Images/old/Dhammapada_212.jpg">[link]</a>&gt; <br> Illustration 212 Background <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/KN/Dhammapada.Verse_212.story.htm">[link]</a>&gt;

bhikkhu3 bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-15T22:13:54Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/19d214a8750a0277/e86d65893084248a?show_docid=e86d65893084248a

Friends: <br> <p>Inner Tranquillity is a Mental Power! <br> In what sense is calm a power? In the 1st jh <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Jhana_Absorption.htm">[link]</a>&gt; ana this mental <br> calm does not <br> waver even when attacked by the 5 <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_5_Mental_Hindrances.htm">[link]</a>&gt; mental

Jonathan Coppola jonathancopp...@gmail.com 2009-11-13T16:43:19Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/5e643a8dba9fcc69/eab03cedc9e3d88b?show_docid=eab03cedc9e3d88b

Friends, <br> HANKERING <br> Absorbed in distractions, <br> not paying appropriate attention, <br> giving up the goal, following the pleasant, <br> one comes to envy those, who exert right effort! <br> Dhammapada <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://what-buddha-said.net/images/Dhamma_Images/old/Dhammapada_209.jpg">[link]</a>&gt; <br> Illustration 209 Background <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/KN/Dhammapada.Verse_209_210_211.sto">[link]</a>

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Friends: <br> <p>Unique is Ânãpãnasati Breathing Meditation! <br> <p>Thus have I heard. At one time the Blessed One was living at Savatthi, in <br> the <br> palace of Migara's mother, in the Eastern Park, together with many very well <br> known elder disciples: Venerable Sariputta, Maha-Moggallana, Maha-Kassapa,

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Friends: <br> <p>Attaining 1 of the 4 Noble Fruits is Sublime! <br> Insight culminates in the moment of attaining the recluses sublime fruit: <br> A state tranquillizing all distress, its beauty from the Deathless draws... <br> Its calm from lack of fuzzy worldliness. Truly a sweet and clarified bliss! <br> It is a fountainhead, whose honey-sweet ambrosia emulates the deathless.

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Friends: <br> <p>Penetrating the 4 Noble Truths in 16 Aspects: <br> At the moment of penetrating the four noble truths, then the 4 truths are <br> penetrated to collectively as a single true reality in these sixteen <br> aspects: <br> 1: The 1st Truth: Suffering means painful oppression, affliction, &amp; torment! <br> 2: Suffering also means consequence of being constructed and conditioned..

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Friends: <br> ADVANTAGE <br> Even just to see a Noble is advantageous. <br> To live with the Noble is quite pleasant. <br> Pleasing it is to be free from fools. <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://what-buddha-said.net/images/Dhamma_Images/old/Dhammapada_206.jpg">[link]</a>&gt; <br> Dhammapada Illustration 206 <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://what-buddha-said.net/Canon/Sutta/KN/Dhammapada.Verse_206_207_208.sto">[link]</a>

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Friends: <br> <p>Emergence is directly knowing the Noble Way! <br> At the stream-entry <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sotaapanna.htm">[link]</a>&gt; moment - <br> right there &amp; then - as an internal light flash: <br> Right view &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_View.htm">[link]</a>&gt; <br> emerges from wrong view and from all defilements as seeing...

Jonathan Coppola jonathancopp...@gmail.com 2009-11-10T03:11:05Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/c6354d8233323990/909bd6059927ab76?show_docid=909bd6059927ab76

Friends, <br> SOURCE <br> Hunger is the worst pain. <br> The components of being: <br> Form, Feeling, Perception, <br> Construction &amp; Consciousness <br> is the primary source of all Suffering! <br> Knowing directly this fact fully is Nibbana <br> - The supreme Bliss! <br> Dhammapada <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://what-buddha-said.net/images/Dhamma_Images/old/Dhammapada_203.jpg">[link]</a>&gt;

bhikkhu3 bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-10T00:49:32Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/c680461f2ca19d47/bdb11ed41fe674a4?show_docid=bdb11ed41fe674a4

Friends: <br> <p>Purification by Knowledge &amp; Vision of the Way! <br> As one repeats, develops and cultivates that equanimity about constructions, <br> <p>faith becomes more resolute, energy better exerted, awareness much better <br> established, and mind better and deeper concentrated, as a consequence of, <br> that this equanimity around all phenomena &amp; formations grows more refined!

bhikkhu3 bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-08T22:13:44Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/924759b8a5012a26/bdb8897679cf88df?show_docid=bdb8897679cf88df

Friends: <br> <p>There are Three Gateways to Enlightenment! <br> <p>It is the 3 contemplations that produce the three gateways to Awakening! <br> These three gateways to liberation lead to the only outlet from the world: <br> <p>Seeing mainly impermanence leads the firm one to the signless liberation: <br> Seeing of all constructions as impermanent, limited in space, circumscribed

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Friends: <br> <p>Regarding all Phenomena with aloof Equanimity! <br> <p>When one has understood constructions by seeing the three characteristics in <br> <p>them and their voidness, then one can leave both terror &amp; delight by <br> becoming <br> indifferent and neutral to all states, taking them neither to be 'I' nor

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Friends: <br> <p>Catching the Snake when fishing for Pleasure! <br> <p>The Ancient Elders explained reflexion thus: <br> One sees all constructions as impermanent based on the following facts: <br> They are inconstant, momentary, non-continuous, temporary, limited by rise <br> and fall, disintegrating, unstable, perishable, transient, subject to

bhikkhu3 bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-05T22:39:32Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/027c50d1a98c00f1/f3947710d44e3735?show_docid=f3947710d44e3735

Friends: <br> <p>Knowing any kind of existence to be Danger! <br> <p>The Ancient Elders explained: <br> As one repeats, develops &amp; cultivates the understanding that appearance <br> is terror one cannot find any asylum, any safe shelter, any place to go to, <br> since there is no safe haven in any kind of becoming, generation, destiny,

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Friends: <br> <p>Knowing any Appearance to be as Total Terror! <br> <p>The Ancient Elders explained: <br> As one repeats the observation and contemplation of the unavoidable <br> dissolution <br> of all phenomena by their decay, gradual destruction, fall, breakup and <br> ultimate <br> ceasing, then all formations, all constructions, all kinds of becoming,