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End clinging, and be FEARLESS!

jonathancopp...@gmail.com (Jonathan Coppola) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:22:15 UT

Friends,

LOSS
From affection springs sorrow (over loss).
From affection grows fear (of loss)
Wholly free from affection, there can be
no such sorrow and much less fear.
Dhammapada
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Calm Power!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:13:54 UT

Friends:

Inner Tranquillity is a Mental Power!
In what sense is calm a power? In the 1st jh
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calm does not
waver even when attacked by the 5
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Practice the most NOBLE AIM of life!

jonathancopp...@gmail.com (Jonathan Coppola) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:43:19 UT

Friends,
HANKERING
Absorbed in distractions,
not paying appropriate attention,
giving up the goal, following the pleasant,
one comes to envy those, who exert right effort!
Dhammapada
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Magnificent Meditation!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:12:50 UT

Friends:

Unique is Ânãpãnasati Breathing Meditation!

Thus have I heard. At one time the Blessed One was living at Savatthi, in
the
palace of Migara's mother, in the Eastern Park, together with many very well
known elder disciples: Venerable Sariputta, Maha-Moggallana, Maha-Kassapa,

The Noble Fruit!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:53:22 UT

Friends:

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

The 16 Aspects!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:49:09 UT

Friends:

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

Follow the wise to FREEDOM!

jonathancopp...@gmail.com (Jonathan Coppola) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:22:49 UT

Friends:
ADVANTAGE
Even just to see a Noble is advantageous.
To live with the Noble is quite pleasant.
Pleasing it is to be free from fools.
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Entry Emergence!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:49:14 UT

Friends:

Emergence is directly knowing the Noble Way!
At the stream-entry
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right there & then - as an internal light flash:
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emerges from wrong view and from all defilements as seeing...

Sweet nectar is spiritual excellence!

jonathancopp...@gmail.com (Jonathan Coppola) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:11:05 UT

Friends,
SOURCE
Hunger is the worst pain.
The components of being:
Form, Feeling, Perception,
Construction & Consciousness
is the primary source of all Suffering!
Knowing directly this fact fully is Nibbana
- The supreme Bliss!
Dhammapada
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Immaculate Integrity!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:49:32 UT

Friends:

Purification by Knowledge & Vision of the Way!
As one repeats, develops and cultivates that equanimity about constructions,

faith becomes more resolute, energy better exerted, awareness much better
established, and mind better and deeper concentrated, as a consequence of,
that this equanimity around all phenomena & formations grows more refined!

The 3 Gateways...

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:13:44 UT

Friends:

There are Three Gateways to Enlightenment!

It is the 3 contemplations that produce the three gateways to Awakening!
These three gateways to liberation lead to the only outlet from the world:

Seeing mainly impermanence leads the firm one to the signless liberation:
Seeing of all constructions as impermanent, limited in space, circumscribed

Divorced Freedom!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:08:08 UT

Friends:

Regarding all Phenomena with aloof Equanimity!

When one has understood constructions by seeing the three characteristics in

them and their voidness, then one can leave both terror & delight by
becoming
indifferent and neutral to all states, taking them neither to be 'I' nor

Catching the Snake!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:43:18 UT

Friends:

Catching the Snake when fishing for Pleasure!

The Ancient Elders explained reflexion thus:
One sees all constructions as impermanent based on the following facts:
They are inconstant, momentary, non-continuous, temporary, limited by rise
and fall, disintegrating, unstable, perishable, transient, subject to

All Being is Danger!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:39:32 UT

Friends:

Knowing any kind of existence to be Danger!

The Ancient Elders explained:
As one repeats, develops & cultivates the understanding that appearance
is terror one cannot find any asylum, any safe shelter, any place to go to,
since there is no safe haven in any kind of becoming, generation, destiny,

Total Terror...

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:56:38 UT

Friends:

Knowing any Appearance to be as Total Terror!

The Ancient Elders explained:
As one repeats the observation and contemplation of the unavoidable
dissolution
of all phenomena by their decay, gradual destruction, fall, breakup and
ultimate
ceasing, then all formations, all constructions, all kinds of becoming,