Friends:
Nothing is Worth Clinging to!
A certain Bhikkhu once asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, how should one know and see, in order to eliminate all
ignorance and to facilitate the emergence of real and true knowledge?
Bhikkhu, when one has heard that:
Nothing
is worth clinging to,
then one directly knows everything! Having directly known everything,
one fully understands everything! Having fully understood everything,
one sees & regards all aspects, signs & phenomena quite differently:
As something
remote, as something alien, as something other, & neither
as something that is 'me' nor 'mine', nor as an 'I', a 'self, or an 'Ego'!
One regards the eye,
forms, visual consciousness,
eye-contact, feelings
& experiences caused seeing quite differently... As something remote...
One regards the ear,
sounds, auditory consciousness,
ear-contact, and
feelings & experiences by hearing differently... As something foreign...
One regards the nose,
all smells, olfactory consciousness,
nose-contact,
& smelled feelings & experiences differently. As something quite alien!
One regards the tongue, taste, gustatory consciousness,
tongue-contact,
tasted feelings & experiences differently... As something superficial...
One regards the body,
touch, tactile consciousness,
body-contacts and
touched feelings & experiences very differently... As something external!
One regards the mind, thought,
mental consciousness,
mental-contacts, &
thought feelings & experiences differently... As something all detached!!!
When, Bhikkhu, whoever knows & sees all signs thus, ignorance is left
behind by him and real and true knowledge has emerged...
| Detached
Alien Remoteness: |
Nothing
is worth clinging to! |
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Source:
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV
[50]
Section 35: On The 6 Senses. The Elimination of Ignorance:
80.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
Detached Alien
Remoteness: Nothing
is worth clinging to!
Updated:
26 Nov 2008
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