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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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Dhammapada Illustration 206
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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:
Right view <[link]>
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,

The Burning Turban!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:08:00 UT

Friends:

Seeing the of all phenomena!

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

The Burning Turban!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:35:44 UT

Friends:

Seeing the of all phenomena!

The Burning Turban!

bhikk...@gmail.com (bhikkhu3) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:06:12 UT

Friends:

Seeing the of all phenomena!

The 8 Understandings...

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:19:09 UT

Friends:

Purification by Knowing and Seeing the Way!

Purification by knowledge & vision of the way comes by 8 understandings:
1: Understanding the momentary rise and fall of all states whatsoever.
2: Understanding the unavoidable dissolution of all phenomena whatsoever.
3: Understanding that appearance is terror, since it always entails

Il Poya: The coming Buddha Metteyya!

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:00:27 UT

Friends:

How to be a Real Buddhist through Observance?

Il Poya day is this full-moon day of November. This sacred day celebrates:
1: The Buddha <[link]>
Gotama <[link]> 's
declaration of the next Buddha