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Contemplating the Qualities of the Buddha!

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:09:50 UT

Friends:

The 10 Contemplations
<[link]> are Daily
Buddhist Routine!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus & friends: There is one contemplation which when often practised
and much developed leads to the complete turning away from the world, to

Contemplating the Qualities of the Dhamma!

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:48:01 UT

Friends:

The 10 Contemplations
<[link]> are Daily
Buddhist Routine!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus & friends: There is one contemplation, which when often practised
and developed leads to the complete turning away from the world, to

Contemplating own Generosity!

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:21:18 UT

Friends:

The 10 <[link]>
Contemplations <[link]>
is Buddhist Routine!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus & friends: There is one contemplation, which when often
practised and developed leads to the complete turning away from

Don't be a Blind Turtle!

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:27:18 UT

Friends:

Precious yet often wasted is this Human Opportunity!

The Blessed Gotama <[link]>
Buddha <[link]> once
explained:
Bhikkhus & friends, imagine a single floating ring drifting in the great

Rejoicing Joy!

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Tue, 14 May 2013 22:00:16 UT

Friends:

Mutual Joy cures all vicious Envy & Jealousy!

Thinking about the dear companion can be the proximate cause for Mutual Joy,

where one rejoices in another being's success... One thus rejoicing in
another's
fortune is called a 'boon companion', for he is constantly glad: He laughs

Anything Whatsoever...

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:28:21 UT

Friends:

The 3 Stigmata are Universal Characteristics!

Any form, materiality or body whatsoever, whether past, future or present,
internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, far or near is
only
impermanent, painful and not-self: these are 3 kinds of deep comprehension.

Metta is like a Mother's Love ..

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Sun, 12 May 2013 22:50:31 UT

Friends:

Mettã is likened to a Mother's Love:

The Blessed Buddha once said:
As a mother would, even with risk for her own life, protect her only child,
so let us cultivate immeasurable loving-kindness towards all living beings!

On this mighty Friendly Goodwill (Mettā <[link]> ):

Distractions Disturb Delight!

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:03:18 UT

Friends:

How to stop recurring Distracting Thoughts?

1: Redirect attention to a different advantageous object:
Like when driving out a coarse peg from a piece of wood, using a fine peg,
one can substitute and thereby replace :
A: Desire for living forms with thinking about a disgusting rotting

Harmlessness & Tolerance is the Best Protection!

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:40:56 UT

Friends:

Harmlessness & Tolerance Protects all Beings!

The Blessed Buddha was a great friend of tolerance & harmlessness:

I am a friend of the footless,
I am a friend of the bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed.
May not the footless harm me,

Noting the Dissolution..

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:15:39 UT

Friends:

The 8 Advantages of contemplating Dissolution:

When one continually notes the breakup of all constructions, then
contemplation
of Dissolution grows strong & habitual! This brings these 8 advantages into
being:

1: Elimination of false view of permanence, constancy & eternal

Nothing really is...

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:44:09 UT

Friends:

How to Cross Samsara by a Meditation Object?

The venerable Upasiva once requested the Buddha
<[link]> :
Sir, I am alone, dependent, helpless, I can neither cross the flood of sense
desire,
nor the flood of becoming, nor the flood of ignorance, nor the flood of

Some Safe Medicine!

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:40:38 UT

Friends:

The Evaporator of all Evil States of Mind!

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus and Friends: Once the mental release by infinite Friendliness
has been developed, frequently practised, firmly established, expanded,
made a vehicle, foundation, and brought to full perfection, then it will

Perfectly Self-Enlightened ...

bhikkhu.samah...@what-buddha-said.net (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Sun, 05 May 2013 23:05:33 UT

Friends:

What does Perfectly Self-Enlightened Mean?

The Blessed Buddha <[link]>
once said this:

Those who do not understand Suffering
<[link]>
Who do not know how Suffering comes into being,

The Uncreated Singular Sameness!

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:42:17 UT

Friends:

How is the Unconditioned State?

The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, the absence of all greed, all hate, and all ignorance:
This, friends, is called the Uncreated, the Unconditioned, the Uninclined,
the Unattracted, the Unmanifested, the Infinite, the absolute Freedom,

Help and Goals ..

bhikk...@gmail.com (Bhikkhu Samahita) — Fri, 03 May 2013 22:43:31 UT

Friends:

The Golden Buddhist Life Standards 4!
The golden Buddhist's life standards make harmony for oneself and others.
This layman's code of discipline = (gihi-vinaya) organize social
relationships
so that they produce a society of happy beings being in sweet harmony...

Law 4: Helping all beings achieve their advantageous goals!