Dependent on Contact ... !!!

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Aloof from urge for pleasant Feeling peace prevails!

The Blessed Buddha once said to some very sick bhikkhus: A bhikkhu should await his time aware and clearly comprehending...This is our instruction to you!!! While a bhikkhu lives in this way, aware & clearly comprehending, enthusiastic, keen, & determined, if there arises in him a pleasant feeling, then he understands this: 'There has arisen in me a pleasant feeling. Now that is dependent, not independent. Dependent on what? Dependent on just this contact!But this contact is impermanent, conditioned, dependently arisen...So when the pleasant feeling has arisen in dependence on a contact,that is impermanent, conditioned, dependently arisen, how could it everthen itself be permanent?' He dwells in this way always contemplating the impermanence of contact and of pleasant feeling, and he considers the inevitable vanishing, fading away, ceasing, & the therefore necessary relinquishment of all constructions. While he dwells thus, the underlying tendency to lust for contact & pleasant feeling is gradually eliminated... He understands: With the breakup of this body, at the exhaustion of this fragile life, any feeling, all that is felt, neither being hankered after, nor clung to, will cool down right there...

 

Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book IV [214]section 36: Feeling. Vedanā. The Sick-Ward. 8.http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

 

 

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