Knowing any kind of existence
to be Danger!
The Ancient Elders
explained:
As one repeats, develops & cultivates the understanding that
all appearance
is a 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,
station, or abode. Nowhere whatsoever - except in Nibbāna - is there
even
one single stable and lasting formation, or construction, that one can place
hope in, or hold on to: Since as the Blessed Buddha succinctly pointed out:
The 3 kinds of becoming appear like charcoal pits full of glowing coals, the
four primary
elements like hideous venomous snakes (SN IV
174), the five
clusters like murderers with raised weapons (SN
IV 174), the six internal
sense
sources like an empty village, the six kind of external
sense objects
like village-raiding robbers (SN IV 174-75),
the
7 stations of consciousness
and the
nine abodes of beings as if burning, blazing and glowing with the 11
fires (see
SN IV 19). Thus do all
phenomena appear as a huge mass of
danger
destitute of substance or satisfaction, like a tumour, or a disease, or a
dart,
a calamity, a distressing affliction, like a knot of suffering (see
MN I 436)..
Visuddhimagga
647
On the
inherent Danger
(Ādinavā)
in all Being in Existence:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Experiencing_Danger.htm
