Experiencing
Danger
removes false Complacency
of
Safety!
The
Blessed Buddha once said:
What, Ananda, is the experience of Danger?
Here the Bhikkhu considers thus: Truly, this body is prone to sickness, full
of
countless painful Dangers. Many kinds of suffering arise in this body, such
as:
Diseases of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, head, mouth, tooth-ache, pneumonia,
asthma, colds, angina, fever, belly ache, fainting, diarrhoea, kidney failure,
cholera, leprosy, arthritis, psoriasis, tuberculosis, epilepsy, anaemia,
scabies,
ring-worm, psychosis, bilious jaundice, diabetes, strokes & palsy, cancer,
piles,
boils, fistulas, diseases brought about by cold, heat, starvation, disturbed
or
failing excretion, disharmonic living, climatic changes, environmental
pollution,
accidents, social unrest, stress, violence or due to
kamma! Thus does he
live
while regularly experiencing the inherent Danger of having a physical body.
This is the experience of Danger.
The experience of Danger is one of the 18
principal insights:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_18_Principal_Insights.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rough_Realism.htm
The rewards are:
1: Realistic sensation of acute urgency.
2: Disables risky
reliance on what is neither safe,
nor lasting.
3: Complete cure of the naive intoxication of youth, beauty, and success!
Source (edited
extract):
The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha.
Anguttara Nikāya AN
10:60, AN V 108ff.
Girimananda Sutta
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an10/an10.060.than.html
