Guest guest Report post Posted October 28, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > October 28, 2004 > > > O house-builder, you are seen! > You will not build this house again. > For your rafters are broken and your ridgepole > shattered. > My mind has reached the Unconditioned; > I have attained the destruction of craving. > > Dhammapada 154 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted October 29, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > October 29, 2004 > > > If you fear pain, if you dislike pain, > don't do an evil deed in open or secret. > If you're doing or will do an evil deed, > you won't escape pain: > it will catch you even as you run away. > > Udana V, 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted October 30, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > October 30, 2004 > > > One should do what one teaches others to do; > if one would train others, > one should be well controlled oneself. > Difficult, indeed, is self-control. > > Dhammapada 159 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted October 31, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > October 31, 2004 > > > With good will for the entire cosmos, > cultivate a limitless heart: > Above, below, & all around, > unobstructed, without hostility or hate. > > Sutta Nipata I, 8 > Mail - You care about security. So do we. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted October 31, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > October 31, 2004 > > > One truly is the protector of oneself; > who else could the protector be? > With oneself fully controlled, > one gains a mastery that is hard to gain. > > Dhammapada 160 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 1, 2004 this is a very beautiful set of lines the buddha uttered upon attaining nirvana or nibbana. it needs to be understood more carefully. who is the house-builder here? which house is he talking of? what ridgepole was this? what is the unconditioned? when the buddha attained nibbana, to understand this we need to know what he said before this. i dont remember the excat words, but somewhat know what it amounts to: " i have been running death after death for all these lifetimes just to attain this. " the beauty that lies in the words, can be understood, when one tries to understand what the buddha meant here. the house that buddha was talking abt were the five aggregates: form, feelings, perceptions, mental constructions, consciousness.(in sum it is the body or the loka - buddhist meaning) none of these is the self. but is erroneously thought to be the self by all of us. it is these five aggregates that take different forms in each birth or lifetime. when the knowledge that these five aggregates are but temporary and therefore stressful arises, one gets dispassioned from them and thus renounces them. the knowledge that the self is none of the five aggregates which in turn arises through the knowledge of their impermanence (the anicca and anatta doctrines which are the very same as the neti, neti approach of) is called vidya or panna (prajna). the earlier erroneous conception of self that the buddha had, which we all have was due to ignorance or avijja (avidya). when he attained to nibbana, the buddha discarded all ignorance and therefore all that is conditioned by perception in the realm of ignorance. thus the house-builder was avidya. when this avidya vanishes like a broken rafter lost in a river, all that remains is the unconditioned awareness and awakeness. what else is there to be? what does one point to and say " that is me " or " this is soul " ? the effect of the past mental formations (prarabdha or sankhara) is what keeps the body and the mind intact, otherwise this person wud hv died at the moment of enlightenment. hence the enlightened being having renounced all avidya and having reached the unconditioned, " lives in this body " (so to say), without effort or sorrow (for he knows that everything is momentary) as long as his (impermanent and hence ever shrinking) mental formations (or prarabdha) is existing. hence he reached the unconditioned (not condtioned by perception in the realm or ignorance, or was perfectly awake and enlightened). such is the beauty of enlightenment. (ironically some find this scary, for it appears very lonely. but it is the truth. it always stands out, separate from all else) we must all strive for this very enlightenment. attain the destruction of all craving. -balaji advaitajnana , Tony O'Clery <aoclery> wrote: > > --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords@p...> > wrote: > > > Daily Words of the Buddha > > October 28, 2004 > > > > > > O house-builder, you are seen! > > You will not build this house again. > > For your rafters are broken and your ridgepole > > shattered. > > My mind has reached the Unconditioned; > > I have attained the destruction of craving. > > > > Dhammapada 154 > > > > > > Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 1, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 1, 2004 > > > Easy to do are things > that are bad and harmful to oneself. > But exceedingly difficult to do > are things that are good and beneficial. > > Dhammapada 163 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 2, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 2, 2004 > > > Some recluses and brahmins, so called, > Are deeply attached to their own views; > People who only see one side of things > Engage in quarrels and disputes. > > Udana VI, 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 2, 2004 how true!! -balaji advaitajnana , Tony O'Clery <aoclery> wrote: > > --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords@p...> > wrote: > > > Daily Words of the Buddha > > November 2, 2004 > > > > > > Some recluses and brahmins, so called, > > Are deeply attached to their own views; > > People who only see one side of things > > Engage in quarrels and disputes. > > > > Udana VI, 4 > > > > > > Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 3, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 3, 2004 > > > Happy indeed we live, > friendly amidst the hostile. > Amidst hostile men > we dwell free from hatred. > > Dhammapada 198 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 4, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 4, 2004 > > > Those who are devoted to the Dhamma made known by > the Noble Ones > are unsurpassed in speech, thought and action. > They are established in peace, gentleness and > concentration, > and have reached the essence of learning and wisdom. > > Sutta Nipata II, 9 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 5, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 5, 2004 > > > One should give up anger, renounce pride, > and overcome all fetters. > Suffering never befalls him > who clings not to mind and body and is detached. > > Dhammapada 221 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 5, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 5, 2004 > > > One should give up anger, renounce pride, > and overcome all fetters. > Suffering never befalls him > who clings not to mind and body and is detached. > > Dhammapada 221 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 6, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 6, 2004 > > > Overcome the angry by non-anger; > overcome the wicked by goodness; > overcome the miser by generosity; > overcome the liar by truth. > > Dhammapada 223 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 7, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 7, 2004 > > > Make an island unto yourself! > Strive hard and become wise! > Rid of impurities and cleansed of stain, > you shall not come again to birth and decay. > > Dhammapada 238 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 8, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 8, 2004 > > > He has broken the cycle, > attained freedom from desire. > The dried-up stream no longer flows. > The cycle, broken, no longer turns. > This, just this, is the end of misery. > > Udana VII, 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 9, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 9, 2004 > > > Just as rust arising from iron > eats away the base from which it arises, > even so, their own deeds > lead transgressors to states of woe. > > Dhammapada 240 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 10, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 10, 2004 > > > Difficult is life for the modest one > who always seeks purity, > is detached and unassuming, > clean in life, and discerning. > > Dhammapada 245 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 11, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 11, 2004 > > > One who destroys life, utters lies, > takes what is not given, > goes to another man's wife, > and is addicted to intoxicating drinks -- > such a man digs up his own root even in this world. > > Dhammapada 246-7 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 12, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 12, 2004 > > > Know this, O good man: > evil things are difficult to control. > Let not greed and wickedness > drag you to protracted misery. > > Dhammapada 248 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 13, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 13, 2004 > > > A man is not versed in Dhamma > because he speaks much. > He who, after hearing a little Dhamma, > realizes its truth directly > and is not heedless of it, > is truly versed in the Dhamma. > > Dhammapada 259 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 14, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 14, 2004 > > > He is not noble who injures living beings. > He is called noble because > he is harmless towards all living beings. > > Dhammapada 270 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 15, 2004 --- Pariyatti Book Service <dailywords wrote: > Daily Words of the Buddha > November 15, 2004 > > > There are those who do not realize > that one day we all must die. > But those who do realize this > settle their quarrels. > > Dhammapada 6 Check out the new Front Page. www. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 15, 2004 advaitajnana , Tony O'Clery <aoclery> wrote: > > > > > > He is not noble who injures living beings. > > He is called noble because > > he is harmless towards all living beings. > > > > Dhammapada 270 Namaste, There is no point in violating Ahimsa, hurting any sentient being, and then prattling on about being a devotee of Ramana, or any other Guru. The intellectual step is not the first, action is required to stop committing himsa and Steya. Devotion to Ramana or any other guru cannot be used as a bulwark or excuse to cover one's violations of these parts of ashtanga yoga. I cannot come and steal something from you, car, land, or whatever and then say 'I'm doing good, I'm a devotee of such and such and we have meetings or do translations etc.'..........IMO...TONS..Tony. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted November 15, 2004 advaitajnana , " Tony OClery " <aoclery> wrote: advaitajnana , Tony O'Clery <aoclery> wrote: > > > > > > He is not noble who injures living beings. > > He is called noble because > > he is harmless towards all living beings. > > > > Dhammapada 270 Namaste, There is no point in violating Ahimsa, hurting any sentient being, and then prattling on about being a devotee of Ramana, or any other Guru. The intellectual step is not the first, action is required to stop committing himsa and Steya. Devotion to Ramana or any other guru cannot be used as a bulwark or excuse to cover one's violations of these parts of ashtanga yoga. I cannot come and steal something from you, car, land, or whatever and then say 'I'm doing good, I'm a devotee of such and such and we have meetings or do translations etc.'..........IMO...TONS..Tony. --- End forwarded message --- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
