When there is No Need for anything at All:
The Buddha said on the
need for Bliss:
Friends, for the virtuous one, correctly
behaving, completed in morality, there is no need to wish:
“May I enjoy a clear conscience”, since the right action, of correct
behaviour, completed by purifying morality,
naturally results in the arising of a clear
conscience.
Friends, for the moral one of clear
conscience, there is no need to wish: “May gladness pervade me”,
since any clear conscience spontaneously is followed by the appearance of
joyous
gladness!
Friends, for the glad one there is no
need to wish: “May rapture thrill me”,
since gladness automatically excites
an exquisitely exalted rapture.
Friends, for the enraptured one there is
no need to wish: “May calm tranquillity still me”,
since rapture inherently
simply evaporates any urge of needy frustrated
restlessness.
Friends, for one dwelling in serene
tranquillity there is no need to wish: “May happiness perfuse me”,
since abiding calmly in tranquil ease all by itself, makes one delight in
silently smiling happiness.
Friends, for one perfused by happiness
there is no need to wish: “May I be absorbed in concentration”,
since a mind filled with
happiness effortlessly, and smoothly condenses into a
single focused unification!
Friends, for one concentrated there is no
need to wish: “May I understand reality as it actually develops”,
since the undistracted concentrated mind efficiently penetrates
any phenomenon, and causality as it really is.
Friends, for one knowing and seeing reality,
there is no need to wish: “May disgusted disillusion detach me”,
since seeing reality
and knowing how it always becomes, induces released detachment by
disgusted disillusion...
Friends, for one detached by disillusion
there is no need to wish: “May I realize final mental
relinquishment
through absolute knowledge
and vision”, since such disgusted disillusion, friends,
naturally, readily, easily,
essentially, and characteristically culminates in the matchless, unsurpassable
and
supremely releasing liberation
by complete knowledge and vision. Yeah, so mighty is
verily this life-blood morality (sīla)!
The Buddha on more
Bliss:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Buddha_on_Bliss.htm
Source:
The Numerical
Sayings of the Buddha: Anguttara Nikāya V 2-3
