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Oblog: [O.01.13.24] Saturday, January 13, 2024

Authenticity

If you do not understand rebirth, you do not really have a grasp of the point of Buddhism or the meaning of pain. If you understand these things then you can see that this business of authenticity has been used in these times as a way of not facing the work involved in bringing this system into your life. The whole of this research called "modern linguistic analysis", EBT (Early Buddhist Texts), "stratification", etc., is invalidated with the idea that a person, maybe hundreds or thousands of years after the Buddha's death might remember a saying that was not recorded in the sutta collections. Comparing sutta with sutta means that one is to take the Dhamma, the instructions or advice as to how to achieve Nibbāna or some other good state, or as to how to eliminate some bad state, and to compare that message and its construction with those suttas that are in the already-formed collection. What lines up with Dhamma should be accepted; what does not line up with Dhamma should be put to the side.

 


 

Nibbāna is not the Bodhi Mind

Nibbāna is not an existing thing outside there waiting for you to attain it. This is something that is very difficult to see for the translators. Almost all of them (including Bhk. Thanissaro and Bhk. Bodhi) have settled for this existing thing and that is making them, essentially, into Mahāyana Buddhists discovering or reaching a Bodhi Mind.

Nibbāna comes into being for the individual. It is conditioned by the following of the Magga, but it is not own-made (saṇkhāraed).

Following the Magga is a path of not-doings. Not doing this or that, the thing that results is not-done, not saṇkhāred. Following the Magga, Nibbāna is born, but is not "made by the individual".

In AN 5.57, a parallel construction is put this way but the connection between "the path" and Nibbāna: is not made by the translators.

When one often reflects on being subject to aging, sickness, death, separation from the loved, and being the owner of one's kamma, the path comes into existence."

Bhk. Thanissaro:

When he/she often reflects on this, the [factors of the] path take birth.

Bhk. Bodhi:

"As he often reflects on this theme, the path is generated."

E.M. Hare:

"And while he often contemplates this thing, the Way comes into being"

Take birth. The path is generated. Comes into being. Not "is reached," "is discovered."

 


 

Oblog: [O.01.06.24] Saturday, January 06, 2024

anicca

This image was posted by a user named Gabby on Discuss and Discover, the Sutta Central discussion board. I would like to give credit to the creator, (he carved this word on a bar of soap) but cannnot post on that board. Anyway: credit to Gabby for a really clever way to teach the principle of anicca.

 


 

Oblog: [O.01.01.24] Monday, January 01, 2024

You eat, drink, consume, taste,
then:
dumping-out, pouring-out.

This is the outcome.

You love,
then ...

(What did you think?)

... ripening, brings about
grief and lamentation
pain and misery
and despair.

This is the outcome.

 

 

Devoted to seeing the signs of ugliness
then
seeing signs of the disagreeable
in the attractive
is established.

This is the outcome.

Living seeing change
in the six spheres of contact,
then,
the disagreeability of contact
is established.

This is the outcome.

Living seeing the coming and going
of the five bound-up stockpiles
then
the disagreeability of the bound-up
is established.

This is the outcome.

—AN 5.30

 


 

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