Nibbana - right here & now - in this very life or Non-return ... !!!

May 7, 2005

Friends:

How to Cut the Five Minor Mental Chains :

Friends, how do one cut the 5 minor mental chains of:

Identity and personality belief.

Sceptical doubt in the Buddha.

Superstitious clinging to rule & ritual.

Greed, desire, lust and attraction.

Hate, anger, irritation, & aversion.

In whatever situation or mental state one enters, whether high or low,whether fine or foul, whether subtle or gross, whether far or near,one knows, notes, reflects and remembers the facts exactly like this:'Whatsoever herein is form, feeling, experience, mental construction, & bare consciousness, all this is impermanent, transient, passing, unstable,decaying, and vanishing; all this is miserable, painful, ill, a thorn, a tumour,a disaster, a torture, and a burning pit; all this is remote, alien, impersonal,ownerless, void of stable substance & keepable entity, completely empty ofany self-ego-me-I-mine-identity-or-personality...'One thereby directs mind away from those unsafe phenomena and turns it towards the freedom of the Deathless Dimension: Nibbâna like this: 'But this is peace, the supreme stilling of all construction, the relinquishing of all acquisition, the sublime release of all clinging, the calming of all craving,disgust, disillusion, ceasing of all noise, perception & sensation, Nibbâna...'Firmly established in this safe mode of reflection, one either eliminates themental fermentations completely and thus attains Nibbâna - here and now -in this very life, or if not that, then one is reborn spontaneously in the pure abodes, the pure lands, the pure realms, the pure spheres, of light matter,where one clears the 5 lower fetters - the 5 minor mental chains - & attainsNibbâna from there, without ever returning to this world from that level...

The Moderated Speeches by the Buddha. Majjhima Nikaya 64 [i 435-7]http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=25072Xhttp://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/majjhima/index.html

PS: The 'Pure Land' (SukhaVati) Buddhism of today may thus have begun from what the Buddha early & originally called 'The Pure Abodes' (SuddhaVasa):http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/loka.html#rupa

Friendship is the Greatest ! and the entire Noble Life...

Bhikkhu Samāhita, Sri Lanka.

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