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Explanation of the Seventh Stage Part 4
Meeting the Buddha is like finding a pure gem, but being unable to receive the taste of the good Dhamma which gives rise to profit and gain is like intending to keep the gem for use in the next life...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Short Aphorisms
The following are the sayings of some of the wisest of men, which are put down in order that one may clearly see the way to go:
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Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Short Aphorisms Part 2
7 The belief that we ourselves exist, and that other things belong to us, are, in the ultimate sense (paramattha), both wrong notions, because one cannot find nor come to know either of them...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Short Aphorisms Part 3
16 Liberation [Moksha] is understood to be the attainment of the unchanaing, in which there is no Self [Atta and Atman] and no Aggregates...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Short Aphorisms Part 4
25 If a person seen the image in the distance but recognises it as an image which is due to the water...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Advice
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Explanation of the Sixth Stage Part 3
The Characteristic-of-Impermanence then becomes apparent In other words, when the Citta has become steady or fixed, it will see the Citta which is unsteady (or impermanent)...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Sixth Stage Part 6
When one has stopped thoughts in the three times, knowledge still remains, and its nature is quite stable...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Sixth Stage Part 7
The Aggregates as Oneself and the Aggregates Correctly Understood
Concerning the truth of suffering it arises and ceases within the Aggregates which are on their own Do not becom involved with them; beware of the cause of suffering, for it will in due course give rise to suffering; therefore leave them alone...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Sixth Stage Part 8
8 Understanding-as-Equanimity-for-All-Formations (Sankhar-Upekkha-Nana)...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Sixth Stage Part 9
Then one attains the following four states leading to Transcendental Consciousness:
1 Preparatory (Parikamma)...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Seventh Stage
Base Seven is the way to assess the result on one’s Citta due to following the Path (Magga) The Path is the actions which one performs; the result (Phala), is the reaping of the reward...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Seventh Stage Part 2
1 The “Stream-Winner” (Sotapanna), takes refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha (Ti-Saranฺa-Gamana), and the Moralities, and dispenses with five unhealthy types of the Citta as follows:
a) Four types of the Citta connected-with-opinion (Ditฺtฺhi-Sampayutta-Citta), which lead one to do evil deeds, and which arise from the Root-of-Greed (Lobha-Mula)
b) One type of the Citta with Doubt-and-Uncertainty (Vicikiccha), which arises from the Root-of-Delusion (Moha-Mula)...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation Of The Seventh Stage Part 3
One who practises correctly does not cling tightly to things, because all things (Dhamma) have the quality of Non-Self...
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Explanation of the Sixth Stage Part 4
Similarly, the ear with sounds, is the form-aggregate and the consciousness which arises from them is the mind-aggregate...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Advice
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Explanation of the Sixth Stage Part 5
Similarly, the ear with sounds, is the form-aggregate and the consciousness which arises from them is the mind-aggregate...
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Explanation of the Third Stage
The third stage is concerned with Insight (Vipassana), which leads one to, become free from the present conditions...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Third Stage Part 2
Knowledge which comes from the world, enters into us all the time This knowledge arises from attachment to the conventions which are popular in the world...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Third Stage Part 3
When one does this, one may get a temporary freedom, but only to the extent of freedom from the Corruption-of-Sense’ Desires (Kamasava)...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Third Stage Part 5
Those who are in the process of gaining freedom are sub-divided into several stages; these being:
Both these attain these states by
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Explanation of the Fifth Stage Part 4
When one does good deeds, the cause is good and the result is consequently fortunate
The three types of wisdom which overcome the above type of grasping, are:
a) Wisdom based on Learning (Sutamayapanna),1 which may come from reading books or from listening to the discourses of one who has already understood (Sabbannubuddha)...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Advice
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Explanation of the Fifth Stage Part 3
If one who practises Dhamma, understands clearly that seizing hold of the aggregates is wrong action, he then sees value only in letting go of them...
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Explanation of the Fifth Stage Part 5
3 Grasping after Sense Desires...
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Explanation of the Sixth Stage
Why is the sixth Stage necessary Because of grasping (Upadana), for until this is overcome, one’s training is not finished, But when one has, got rid of grasping, one has come to the end of the practice...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Sixth Stage Part 2
For the first of the above types of wisdom, which arises due to investigation, to be successful quickly, one must have the support of previously developed knowledge, which arises from wisdom-based-on-learning...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Combating Mara During Samadhi Practice
Why can people not sit longer in Samadhi practice Guarding the moralities practising Samadhi and using Wisdom to investigate the formations are all good...
Author: Arjanyai - Category: Religion
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Explanation of the Fourth Stage
If the aspirant (Yogavacara) who is doing the practice knows that his Citta has become free, ana if at that time he has Reviewing-Knowledge (Paccavekkhana-Nanฺa), his Citta does not expand...
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Explanation Of The Fourth Stage Part 2 - Root Causes Which Give Rise To The Formations
From what do the formations come When one investigates their root causes, they are found to come from four things; these being:
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Explanation of the Fourth Stage Part 3 - The Method of Withdrawing From Feeling
This is so, because greed, hate and delusion when they arise, do so within the mind If one has let go of the mind, then one has cut off the root-cause of the defilements...
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Explanation of the Fifth Stage
For the fifth stage, one must just concentrate one’s attention the upon the Heart-Base, but this has a different meaning from that previously considered...
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Explanation of the Fifth Stage Part 2
Fire is hot and we soon let go of it Then why does everybody aavoid the extinction of the aggregates...
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