Guest guest Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 Friends: The expanse of attractive objects can never ever be filled! The Blessed Buddha once said:The eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body & the mind, Bhikkhus, is an ocean of attractive stimuli for any uninstructed ordinary person...It's stream of water consists of forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touches,and mental states, that all are seductive, gorgeous, alluring, agreeable, pleasing, enticing, tempting and tantalizing.... Here this entire world and it's devas, it's maras, and brahmas, this generation with it's recluses & priests, it's kings and normal people, almost all are submerged, being like an entangled & knotted coil of thread, like intertwined weeds, who all are unable to pass beyond this dimension of misery, these painful destinations, the lower worlds, this ocean of Suffering by repeated death, Samsara...One who withstands that mighty and strapping current consisting of forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touches, and mental states is said to have crossed this sensual ocean of the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body and the mind, with it's great waves, whirlpools, terrifying sharks, and demons! Crossed over, gone all beyond, such hero now stands safe on high ground... Having extinguished all attraction, aversion & blind ignorance,One has crossed this ocean so hard to cross with many dangers of terrifying sharks, scary whirlpools, waves & creepy demons... Such chain-breaker and death-forsaker, without accumulations,Has eliminated all Suffering by leaving all renewed existence...So transcended, he cannot ever be measured or recognized!!!I tell you, Bhikkhus: He has confused even the King of Death... Source (extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [157-8]Section 35 Salayatana: On The 6 Senses. The Ocean: Samudda 228-9. http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html PS: Please include the word Samahita in any comment, since then will my automatic mail filters pick it up and I will see it & respond!! Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. Friendship is the Greatest ... Let there be Calm & Free Bliss !!! http://What-Buddha-Said.net Buddha-Direct What_Buddha_Said Dhamma-Questions sent to my email are quite Welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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