http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct This place is for the true Saddhamma spoken by the Buddha, his Awakened Disciples and preserved in the Pali Tipitaka Canon. Ultimate Master is the Buddha... Sublime Teaching is the Dhamma... Very Best Friend is the Noble Community of the Sangha... You are Warmly Welcome 2009-11-10T03:11:05Z Google Groups 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

bhikkhu3 bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-07T23:08:08Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/806dd6107b7d60fa/0ac9429f5672d9c3?show_docid=0ac9429f5672d9c3

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

bhikkhu3 bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-06T21:43:18Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/ff93264ceccf1dd2/483eba24222a9669?show_docid=483eba24222a9669

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,

bhikkhu3 bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-05T13:56:38Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/c26ff62e7082ac90/4324d2992b520269?show_docid=4324d2992b520269

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,

bhikkhu3 bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-04T02:08:00Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/21ad0020d86785da/42b603ff0723e50f?show_docid=42b603ff0723e50f

Friends: <br> <p>Seeing the of all phenomena! <br> <p>The Ancient Elders explained: <br> All past constructions &amp; all past formations, whether mental or material <br> have <br> dissolved, and they continue to break up into any future, just as they do <br> now! <br> Clearly observing the inevitable impermanence of all the present

bhikkhu3 bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-04T01:35:44Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/21ad0020d86785da/488da1faf1d17c02?show_docid=488da1faf1d17c02

Friends: <br> <p>Seeing the of all phenomena! <br> <p>The Ancient Elders explained: <br> All past constructions &amp; all past formations, whether mental or material <br> have <br> dissolved, and they continue to break up into any future, just as they do <br> now! <br> Clearly observing the inevitable impermanence of all the present

bhikkhu3 bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-04T03:06:12Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/21ad0020d86785da/0e2948689007f536?show_docid=0e2948689007f536

Friends: <br> <p>Seeing the of all phenomena! <br> <p>The Ancient Elders explained: <br> All past constructions &amp; all past formations, whether mental or material <br> have <br> dissolved, and they continue to break up into any future, just as they do <br> now! <br> Clearly observing the inevitable impermanence of all the present

Bhikkhu Samahita bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-02T23:19:09Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/6faffd4bc3816f32/088fd69a75bdef85?show_docid=088fd69a75bdef85

Friends: <br> <p>Purification by Knowing and Seeing the Way! <br> <p>Purification by knowledge &amp; vision of the way comes by 8 understandings: <br> 1: Understanding the momentary rise and fall of all states whatsoever. <br> 2: Understanding the unavoidable dissolution of all phenomena whatsoever. <br> 3: Understanding that appearance is terror, since it always entails

Bhikkhu Samahita bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-11-01T22:00:27Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/926450d776d7c60f/b619be4577b3490a?show_docid=b619be4577b3490a

Friends: <br> <p> How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance? <br> <p>Il Poya day is this full-moon day of November. This sacred day celebrates: <br> 1: The Buddha &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm">[link]</a>&gt; <br> Gotama &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/g/gotama.htm">[link]</a>&gt; 's <br> declaration of the next Buddha

Bhikkhu Samahita bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-10-31T23:44:16Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/6853d46949734a46/da5a43d2f2fb2173?show_docid=da5a43d2f2fb2173

Friends: <br> <p>Tranquillity is the way to Superhuman Delight! <br> Tranquillity <br> &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/III/Tranquillity_Passaddhi.htm">[link]</a>&gt; comes <br> due to insight. As he is sitting, whether by night or by day, <br> then he experiences neither fatigue, heaviness, rigidity, slowness, nor <br> sickness

Bhikkhu Samahita bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-10-30T23:17:50Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/fa185ed4301db36a/fdef4daa0178dcdd?show_docid=fdef4daa0178dcdd

Friends: <br> <p>Evident yet Subtle are the Facts of the Dhamma! <br> <p>Dependent &lt;<a target="_blank" rel=nofollow href="http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Cohesive_Co-Origination.htm">[link]</a>&gt; <br> origination becomes evident, when really seeing &amp; understanding: <br> When this exists, that also comes into being. The seed initiates the <br> plant... <br> When this does not exist, that neither comes into being. No seed no plant...

Bhikkhu Samahita bhikk...@gmail.com 2009-10-29T22:29:21Z http://groups.google.com/group/Buddha-Direct/browse_thread/thread/921c1694a5fe8e5c/ae7e367f4fd2761e?show_docid=ae7e367f4fd2761e

Friends: <br> Understanding comes by the 18 principal insights: <br> 1: Reflection on impermanence leaves the illusion of permanence, <br> 2: Reflection on pain renounces the misapprehension of pleasure, <br> 3: Reflection on no-self evaporates the imagination of a my-self, <br> 4: Reflection on dispassion &amp; disillusion abandons naive delighting,