251 LESSON 08 05 2011 Bhikkhu Sutta The Monk and Satta Sutta A Being FREE ONLINE eNālandā Research and Practice UNIVERSITY and BUDDHIST GOOD NEWS letter to VOTE for BSP ELEPHANT for Social Transformation and Economic Emancipation to attain Ultimate B

251 LESSON 08 05 2011 Bhikkhu Sutta The Monk and Satta Sutta A Being  FREE ONLINE eNālandā Research and Practice UNIVERSITY and BUDDHIST GOOD NEWS letter  to VOTE for BSP ELEPHANT for Social Transformation and Economic Emancipation to attain Ultimate Bliss-Through http://sarvajan.ambedkar.org

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LESSON 251

Bhikkhu Sutta: The Monk

Translator's note: Some people have said that the Buddha's teachings on the aggregates constitute his analysis of what we truly are; and that because the aggregates are impermanent and interdependent, we have an impermanent, interdependent self. This sutta, however, shows that we can be analyzed into the aggregates only if we feel obsession or attachment for them. If we don't feel these things, there's no way we can be measured, classified, or defined.

At Savatthi. Then a certain monk went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there, he said to the Blessed One: "It would be good, lord, if the Blessed One would teach me the Dhamma in brief such that, having heard the Dhamma from the Blessed One, I might dwell alone, secluded, heedful, ardent, & resolute."

"Monk, whatever one stays obsessed with,[1] that's what one is measured by. Whatever one is measured by, that's how one is classified. Whatever one doesn't stay obsessed with, that's not what one is measured by. Whatever one isn't measured by, that's not how one is classified."

"I understand, O Blessed One! I understand, O One Well-gone!"

"And how, monk, do you understand the detailed meaning of what I have said in brief?"

"If one stays obsessed with form, lord, that's what one is measured by. Whatever one is measured by, that's how one is classified.

"If one stays obsessed with feeling...

"If one stays obsessed with perception...

"If one stays obsessed with fabrications...

"If one stays obsessed with consciousness, that's what one is measured by. Whatever one is measured by, that's how one is classified.[2]

"But if one doesn't stay obsessed with form, lord, that's not what one is measured by. Whatever one isn't measured by, that's not how one is classified.

"If one doesn't stay obsessed with feeling...

"If one doesn't stay obsessed with perception...

"If one doesn't stay obsessed with fabrications...

"If one doesn't stay obsessed with consciousness, that's not what one is measured by. Whatever one isn't measured by, that's not how one is classified. [3]

"Lord, this is how I understand the detailed meaning of what you have said in brief."

"Good, monk. Very good. It's good that this is how you understand the detailed meaning of what I have said in brief.

"If one stays obsessed with form, monk, that's what one is measured by. Whatever one is measured by, that's how one is classified.

"If one stays obsessed with feeling...

"If one stays obsessed with perception...

"If one stays obsessed with fabrications...

"If one stays obsessed with consciousness, that's what one is measured by. Whatever one is measured by, that's how one is classified.

"But if one doesn't stay obsessed with form, monk, that's not what one is measured by. Whatever one isn't measured by, that's not how one is classified.

"If one doesn't stay obsessed with feeling...

"If one doesn't stay obsessed with perception...

"If one doesn't stay obsessed with fabrications...

"If one doesn't stay obsessed with consciousness, that's not what one is measured by. Whatever one isn't measured by, that's not how one is classified.

"This is how the detailed meaning of what I have said in brief should be seen."

Then the monk, delighting in and approving of the Blessed One's words, got up from his seat and bowed down to the Blessed One, circled around him, keeping the Blessed One to his right, and departed. Then, dwelling alone, secluded, heedful, ardent, & resolute, he in no long time reached & remained in the supreme goal of the holy life for which clansmen rightly go forth from home into homelessness, knowing & realizing it for himself in the here & now. He knew: "Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for the sake of this world." And thus he became another one of the arahants.

Satta Sutta: A Being

Translator's note: A number of discourses (among them, SN 35.191; AN 6.63) make the point that the mind is fettered, not by things like the five aggregates or the objects of the six senses, but by the act of passion & delight for them. There are two ways to try to cut through this fetter. One is to focus on the drawbacks of passion & delight in & of themselves, seeing clearly the stress & suffering they engender in the mind. The other is to analyze the objects of passion & delight in such a way that they no longer seem worthy of interest. This second approach is the one recommended in this discourse: when the Buddha talks of "smashing, scattering, & demolishing form (etc.) and making it unfit for play," he is referring to the practice of analyzing form minutely into its component parts until it no longer seems a fit object for passion & delight. When all five aggregates can be treated in this way, the mind is left with no conditioned object to serve as a focal point for its passion, and so is released — at the very least — to the stage of Awakening called non-return.

I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi at Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's monastery. Then Ven. Radha went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: "'A being,' lord. 'A being,' it's said. To what extent is one said to be 'a being'?"

"Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for form, Radha: when one is caught up[1]there, tied up[2] there, one is said to be 'a being.'[3]

"Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for feeling... perception... fabrications...

"Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for consciousness, Radha: when one is caught up there, tied up there, one is said to be 'a being.'

"Just as when boys or girls are playing with little sand castles:[4] as long as they are not free from passion, desire, love, thirst, fever, & craving for those little sand castles, that's how long they have fun with those sand castles, enjoy them, treasure them, feel possessive of them. But when they become free from passion, desire, love, thirst, fever, & craving for those little sand castles, then they smash them, scatter them, demolish them with their hands or feet and make them unfit for play.

"In the same way, Radha, you too should smash, scatter, & demolish form, and make it unfit for play. Practice for the ending of craving for form.

"You should smash, scatter, & demolish feeling, and make it unfit for play. Practice for the ending of craving for feeling.

"You should smash, scatter, & demolish perception, and make it unfit for play. Practice for the ending of craving for perception.

"You should smash, scatter, & demolish fabrications, and make them unfit for play. Practice for the ending of craving for fabrications.

"You should smash, scatter, & demolish consciousness and make it unfit for play. Practice for the ending of craving for consciousness — for the ending of craving, Radha, is Unbinding."

POLITICS is SACRED with GOOD GOVERNANCE

KARNATAKA STATE BSP  Welcomes Behanji Ms Mayawati on 5th June 2011. All the State/Dist./Assembly and Sector and Office Bearers will attend the Camp which is first of its kind in the Country.

Karnataka BSP Co-ordinator Dr. Ashok Siddharth MLC, is instrumental and effective in cementing all the forces like Manyawar  Kanshiran Ji explained the importance of the camp that will be addressed by Behanji Ms Mayawati to both B1 and B2 which is first of its kind in the entire Country. He explained that Manyawar Kanshiramji fulfilled the dream of Baba Saheb Dr. BR Ambedkar in cementing the society for the welfare and happiness of the entire society. Mr. Marasandra Muniyappa President Kar. BSP, Mr. N. Mahesh Convenor, KAR.BSP, Mr. Gopinath, Vice-President Kar. BSP and Koramangala Muniyappa explained the elaborate arrangements being  made for the success of the event.

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MAY YOU BE EVER HAPPY, WELL AND SECURE
MAY YOU LIVE LONG
MAY ALL SENTIENT AND NON-SENTIENT BEINGS BE EVER HAPPY
MAY YOU BE ALWAYS HAVE CALM, QUIET, ALERT,ATTENTIVE AND 
EQUANIMITY MIND WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT
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KARNATAKA STATE BSP  Welcomes Behanji Ms Mayawati on 5th June 2011. All the State/Dist./Assembly and Sector and Office Bearers will attend the Camp which is first of its kind in the Country.

Karnataka BSP Co-ordinator Dr. Ashok Siddharth MLC, is instrumental and effective in cementing all the forces like Manyawar  Kanshiran Ji explained the importance of the camp that will be addressed by Behanji Ms Mayawati to both B1 and B2 which is first of its kind in the entire Country. He explained that Manyawar Kanshiramji fulfilled the dream of Baba Saheb Dr. BR Ambedkar in cementing the society for the welfare and happiness of the entire society. Mr. Marasandra Muniyappa President Kar. BSP, Mr. N. Mahesh Convenor, KAR.BSP, Mr. Gopinath, Vice-President Kar. BSP and Koramangala Muniyappa explained the elaborate arrangements being  made for the success of the event.

FOR Mayawati govt for farmers  in state

Jagatheesan Chandrasekharan (Bengaluru) 
3 mins ago (12:54 PM)

The officials held several rounds of talks with the farmers to resolve issues. Ninety-nine per cent of the demands of the farmers were addressed and it was only a fraction of farmers and youth, equipped with illegal firearms, who were being misled by Mr. Tewatia, the DGP said. Whereas policemen Manbir Singh and Manohar Singh were killed as a â€Å"hostage drama†in Bhatta Parsaul village in Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh turned violent on Saturday. While Director General of Police Karamveer Singh said here that the police managed to secure the release of the kidnapped persons, driver Jitendra and supervisors Durgesh Bharadwaj and Niranjan Singh. After taking the three UPSRTC employees hostage, farmers led by Mr. Tewatia reportedly refused to interact with the Noida district officials. District Magistrate of Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida) Deepak Agarwal, Superintendent of Police S.N. Singh and several others, including six policemen, were injured in firing and brick-batting.

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MAY YOU BE EVER HAPPY, WELL AND SECURE
MAY YOU LIVE LONG
MAY ALL SENTIENT AND NON-SENTIENT BEINGS BE EVER HAPPY
MAY YOU BE ALWAYS HAVE CALM, QUIET, ALERT,ATTENTIVE AND 
EQUANIMITY MIND WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT
NOTHING IS PERMANENT