Everything in this physical world is breaking and dissolving. Some sooner, others later, but surely our aggregates can't last for aeons and aeons, for they too fall under the same law and limit. So let's investigate to see our aggregates according to truth, before they break up. This is encompassing, all-around wisdom, ready clearly to see painful feeling coming on the scene.
All right then. Today we climb into the (boxing) ring. That's it. Today, we are going into the ring to see the realize the truth in accordance with Dhamma. We're certainly not going in there to fall down or collapse. When painful-feeling arises, that's pain's business, but the investigation of it belongs to mindfulness and wisdom. We are searching for the truth so how can we be knocked down. We don't do it for our downfall, but for victory and for penetrative insight. For the all-embracing realization of truth - of every aspect of truth within our heart. Victory will bring us freedom, and it's this that is 'the highest blessing'.
THE LORD SAID THAT:
"Nibbãnasacchikiriyã ca etam mangalamuttamam."
>>>> The realization of Nibbãna is the highest blessing.
So you can see that this is the way to go. Nibbãna is concealed because the heart is covered and obscured by defilements, craving and ignorance. This has to be cleared and put right by investigation and analysis to gain insight into the truth. It is the way to uncover and reveal all the things that have been hiden. It's called the way of realizing Nibbãna and seeing it clearly within the heart - here is the highest blessing. What can be any higher than this?
FROM HERE ON IT IS:
"Phutthassa lokadhammehi cittam yassa na kampati,
Asokam virajam khemam etam mangalamuttamam"
>>>> Whatever comes into contact, this heart is no longer shaken or upset.
Nothing can reach it or affect it.
This is the secure and blissfull heart - "khemam" - and it is the highest blessing. These two blessings that I've mentioned are found in the heart, and nowhere else. It is the heart that is the blessing, yet it can also become a bane.
Right at this moment, we are turning the malediction that has infiltrated our hearts into the benediction nibbãna sacchikiriyã. So then, let's open and clear all of this:
"tapo ca brahmacariyañca ariya saccã na dassanam"
here, tapo means the burning up of defilements. They sear the heart with their own heart so we must turn on them the dhamma-torch, which is mindfulness and wisdom. It's putting the heat on the defilements and burning them out.
Ariya saccã and dassanam are the realization of the Four Noble Truths: suffering is now fully understood by the heart; its cause is completely relinquished; the path is fully developed to its ultimate level of greater-mindfulness and wisdom. All that's left to say is, the cessation of suffering is now fully manifest.
This is what is meant by seeing the Truth of Dhamma, and the one who truly knows this is the one who reveals Nibbãna. This one is the heart that is no longer shaken and upset by all the worldly dhammas.
So then, shouldn't we try to reach the essential, the heart of the matter? As far as the aggregates and body go, well, we already have gone into that. It's the heart that really counts.
If anything should break up and come apart, well let it. That's the way the world goes along and it's been like that form time immemorial. We have followed that way for so long, dying and being born again and again... Continuing along the old high way.
This so-called 'highway' is really the common course of things, the way the world gets along. No one can block this path and all must follow it. Yet surely by now you are starting to have an inkling of the truth. What else can I say... I can't present anything more. Please take this up and examine it with care. Don't be careless and complacent.
Endeavouring for the realization of Nibbãna is the highest blessing
and one day it must definitely belong to the followers of the Lord Buddha, to those who determinedly strive on.
"MAY ALL BEINGS BE WELL AND HAPPY"
Sadhu..! Sadhu..! Sadhu..!
~BUDDHA'S REAL TEACHINGS
http://www.buddhasrealteachings.blogspot.com, but surely our aggregates can't last for aeons and aeons, for they too fall under the same law and limit. So let's investigate to see our aggregates according to truth, before they break up. This is encompassing, all-around wisdom, ready clearly to see painful feeling coming on the scene.
All right then. Today we climb into the (boxing) ring. That's it. Today, we are going into the ring to see the realize the truth in accordance with Dhamma. We're certainly not going in there to fall down or collapse. When painful-feeling arises, that's pain's business, but the investigation of it belongs to mindfulness and wisdom. We are searching for the truth so how can we be knocked down. We don't do it for our downfall, but for victory and for penetrative insight. For the all-embracing realization of truth - of every aspect of truth within our heart. Victory will bring us freedom, and it's this that is 'the highest blessing'.
THE LORD SAID THAT:
"Nibbãnasacchikiriyã ca etam mangalamuttamam."
>>>> The realization of Nibbãna is the highest blessing.
So you can see that this is the way to go. Nibbãna is concealed because the heart is covered and obscured by defilements, craving and ignorance. This has to be cleared and put right by investigation and analysis to gain insight into the truth. It is the way to uncover and reveal all the things that have been hiden. It's called the way of realizing Nibbãna and seeing it clearly within the heart - here is the highest blessing. What can be any higher than this?
FROM HERE ON IT IS:
"Phutthassa lokadhammehi cittam yassa na kampati,
Asokam virajam khemam etam mangalamuttamam"
>>>> Whatever comes into contact, this heart is no longer shaken or upset.
Nothing can reach it or affect it.
This is the secure and blissfull heart - "khemam" - and it is the highest blessing. These two blessings that I've mentioned are found in the heart, and nowhere else. It is the heart that is the blessing, yet it can also become a bane.
Right at this moment, we are turning the malediction that has infiltrated our hearts into the benediction nibbãna sacchikiriyã. So then, let's open and clear all of this:
"tapo ca brahmacariyañca ariya saccã na dassanam"
here, tapo means the burning up of defilements. They sear the heart with their own heart so we must turn on them the dhamma-torch, which is mindfulness and wisdom. It's putting the heat on the defilements and burning them out.
Ariya saccã and dassanam are the realization of the Four Noble Truths: suffering is now fully understood by the heart; its cause is completely relinquished; the path is fully developed to its ultimate level of greater-mindfulness and wisdom. All that's left to say is, the cessation of suffering is now fully manifest.
This is what is meant by seeing the Truth of Dhamma, and the one who truly knows this is the one who reveals Nibbãna. This one is the heart that is no longer shaken and upset by all the worldly dhammas.
So then, shouldn't we try to reach the essential, the heart of the matter? As far as the aggregates and body go, well, we already have gone into that. It's the heart that really counts.
If anything should break up and come apart, well let it. That's the way the world goes along and it's been like that form time immemorial. We have followed that way for so long, dying and being born again and again... Continuing along the old high way.
This so-called 'highway' is really the common course of things, the way the world gets along. No one can block this path and all must follow it. Yet surely by now you are starting to have an inkling of the truth. What else can I say... I can't present anything more. Please take this up and examine it with care. Don't be careless and complacent.
Endeavouring for the realization of Nibbãna is the highest blessing
and one day it must definitely belong to the followers of the Lord Buddha, to those who determinedly strive on.
"MAY ALL BEINGS BE WELL AND HAPPY"
Sadhu..! Sadhu..! Sadhu..!
~BUDDHA'S REAL TEACHINGS
http://www.buddhasrealteachings.blogspot.com
