Directly Knowing All Phenomena

[Ted]

Hello, everyone !

This message replaces the previous one that was posted earlier today.
(I deleted it because it did not sound right.)
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Direct knowledge is not mentally fabricated or concocted by craving,
wrong views or ignorance (lobha/tanha, ditthi/avijja). When direct
knowing arises, all properties (the four dhatus in a body and
outside), all sense media and the sensed objects, aggregates and
phenomena are seen as they truly are with no detachment.
Only when all things (the 201 dhammas) are directly known,
understanding in a trainee (sekha = any ariyan below the arahant
level) starts to develop and becomes matured into comprehension
(pari~n~naa). He will relinquish everything, including Nibbana
(Unbinding).
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"A monk who is a trainee — yearning for the unexcelled relief from
bondage, his aspirations as yet unfulfilled — directly knows earth as
earth. Directly knowing earth as earth, let him not conceive things
about earth, let him not conceive things in earth, let him not
conceive things coming out of earth, let him not conceive earth as
'mine,' let him not delight in earth. Why is that? So that he may
comprehend it, I tell you.

"He directly knows water as water... fire as fire... wind as wind...
beings as beings... the seen as the seen... the heard as the heard...
the sensed as the sensed... the cognized as the cognized... singleness
as singleness... multiplicity as multiplicity... the All as the All...

"He directly knows Unbinding as Unbinding. Directly knowing Unbinding
as Unbinding, let him not conceive things about Unbinding, let him not
conceive things in Unbinding, let him not conceive things coming out
of Unbinding, let him not conceive Unbinding as 'mine,' let him not
delight in Unbinding. Why is that? So that he may comprehend it, I
tell you.

"A monk who is a Worthy One, devoid of mental fermentations — who has
attained completion, finished the task, laid down the burden, attained
the true goal, destroyed the fetters of becoming, and is released
through right knowledge — directly knows earth as earth. Directly
knowing earth as earth, he does not conceive things about earth, does
not conceive things in earth, does not conceive things coming out of
earth, does not conceive earth as 'mine,' does not delight in earth.
Why is that? Because he has comprehended it, I tell you.

"He directly knows water as water... He directly knows Unbinding as
Unbinding. Directly knowing Unbinding as Unbinding, he does not
conceive things about Unbinding, does not conceive things in
Unbinding, does not conceive things coming out of Unbinding, does not
conceive Unbinding as 'mine,' does not delight in Unbinding. Why is
that? Because he has comprehended it, I tell you.

MN 1 Mulapariyaya Sutta
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.001.than.html

Best wishes.
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[Ted]

Hi, all -

My apology for a typo even after the correction and retyping.

Incorrect : When direct knowing arises, all properties (the four

dhatus in a body and outside), all sense media and the sensed objects,
aggregates and phenomena are seen as they truly are with no
detachment.

Corrected: When direct knowing arises, all properties (the four dhatus

in a body and outside), all sense media and the sensed objects,

aggregates and phenomena are seen as they truly are with detachment.

Best wishes.
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[Tep Sastri]

Hello Everyone!

You may recall the Buddha's special Teaching given to the Noble Disciple Moggallana about "full comprehension" of all dhammā [sabbaṃ dhammaṃ parijānāti], see  AN 7.58. 

"There is the case, Moggallana, where a monk has heard: 'All phenomena are unworthy of attachment.'

Having heard that all phenomena are unworthy of attachment, he fully knows all things.

Fully knowing all things, he fully comprehends all things."  [So sabbaṃ dhammaṃ abhiññāya, sabbaṃ dhammaṃ parijānāti]

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Fully comprehending the All (internal & external sense media), then whatever feeling the monk experiences, he will develop the four-fold anupassanā 

on impermanence, dispassion, cessation, and relinquishment with regard to that feeling.

[ Aniccānupassī viharati, virāgānupassī viharati, nirodhānupassī viharati, paṭinissaggānupassī viharati ]

That Four-fold Anupassanā is exactly the Fourth Tetrad of the Ānāpānasati Sutta

Best wishes.

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