No
Agitation via
Detached
Release:
The Blessed Buddha
once said:
How, friends, is there
non-agitation through detached release?
Regarding this, friends, the educated normal person, who is a friend of a Noble
One, and who is clever, and well trained in his Dhamma, or who is a friend of a
Great Man, and is clever, and well trained in his Dhamma, avoids regarding form
as a self, he avoids regarding self as having form, he avoids regarding form as
if
inside any self, or any self as if inside any form! Then inevitably his body form
changes and decays. When this change and decay of his material form occurs,
his mind does not become occupied, or obsessed with this change
of just a form!
Therefore does no agitated mental state, arisen from worry over this changed
merely physical body form, remain obsessing his mind
squeezing it into sadness...
Because his mind is not obsessed,
then he is neither frightened, nor distressed,
nor anxious, and
via this detached non-clinging his inner agitation is all stilled!
He does not regard feeling as self ... perception as
self ... mental construction
as self ... consciousness as self, nor the self as possessing consciousness,
nor as
consciousness as if being inside any self, nor any the self as being 'inside'
any
consciousness ... When his consciousness momentarily changes
and alters, then
his mind does not become engaged with this
momentary change of consciousness.
Therefore does no agitated mental state, emerged from concern over
this changing
consciousness, remain obsessing his mind.. Because his mind is neither obsessed,
nor upset, nor troubled, nor uneasy with this, or any other
change whatsoever,
does this aloof and detached mind silence,
still, calm, and evaporate
all
his prior
agitations with this and that change.. It is exactly in this way, friends,
that there
is non-agitation
caused
by detachment, relinquishment, and absence of clinging.
Comment:
If the
5 clusters of Clinging are no
EGO, how can there ever be lost anything
whatsoever
from
such vacuum void! What was never there, cannot ever be lost!
More about this
freeing selfless anti-ego impersonality = No-self = Anattā:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
On
these
5 clusters of Clinging:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_are_the_5_Clusters_of_Clinging.htm
Source:
An Ocean of Dhamma!
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya
XXII (7); [III 16-9]
http://store.pariyatti.org/Connected-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1379.html
