The Other Side ... !!!

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Friends:

Running up and down the beach does not take you Across!

The Blessed Buddha once said:

Bhikkhus, these 8 things, when cultivated and refined, lead to going beyond from this near shore, right here, to the far shore beyond all. What eight?

 

Right View (sammā-ditthi)Right Motivation (sammā-sankappa)Right Speech (sammā-vācā)Right Action (sammā-kammanta)Right Livelihood (sammā-ājīva)Right Effort (sammā-vāyāma)Right Awareness (sammā-sati)Right Concentration (sammā-samādhi)

 

These 8 things, when cultivated and refined, lead to going beyond from this near shore, right here, to the far shore beyond. This is what the Blessed Buddha said. The Well-Gone-One, this supreme Teacher, then added this:

 

Few humans cross to that sublime far shore beyond.

Mostly, people just run up & down along this barren bank!

 

Those whose praxis is like this even & exact Dhamma,

Will pass beyond the State of Death in quiet harmony!

 

Having left all the dark and evil doing, any intelligence

Seeks the luminous bright light by leaving this buzzand by going forth into solitary silent homelessness.

 

Secluded from lust he experiences unworldly bliss

Owing nothing, the wise & clever man thereby cleans himself of all these mental taints and defilements.

 

Mentally well evolved by the links to enlightenment,

Delighting in non-clinging and relinquishment of all,

Such luminous ones with the taints all eliminated,

Are fully quenched even right here in this world.

Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:24] section 45: The Way. 34: Gone to the other side ... http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

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