The 5 Lower Chains ... !!!

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There are these five Lower Mental Chains (Samyojana):

The Blessed Buddha once said: Bhikkhus, there are these five Lower Mental Chains. What five?1: The Mental Chain of belief in an own constant Identity (sakkāya-ditthi)...2: The Mental Chain of Sceptical Doubt (vicikicchā)...3: The Mental Chain of Clinging to Rules & Rituals (sīlabbata-parāmāsa)…4: The Mental Chain of Lust for Sensing (kāma-rāga)…5: The Mental Chain of Anger & Evil Will (vyāpāda)…These are the 5 Lower Mental Chains! The Noble 8-fold Way should be developed for the direct experience of these five Lower Mental Chains, for the full understanding and elimination of them, and for their final overcoming, abandoning and leaving all behind…This Noble 8-fold Way is developed for the breaking asunderthese five Lower Mental Chains!!!

Explanation:The Mental Chain of belief in Personal Identity is construing an internal constant ‘entity’ which remains ‘same’…The Mental Chain of Sceptical Doubt is the disbelief in the fact of the Buddha’s Perfect Self-Enlightenment…The Mental Chain of Clinging to Rules & Rituals is the blind superstition projecting efficacy into folly rituals…The Mental Chain of Lust for Sensing is the addiction to all seen, heard, smelt, tasted, touched, & cognized…The Mental Chain of Anger & Evil Will is all hate & derivatives such as aversion, irritation, opposition & rigidity…These Mental Chains bind beings to birth in the 5 lower worlds, where all beings are dominated by sense-desire!For details on How to Cut these Five Minor Mental Chains (Samyojana) see:Nibbana or non-return http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/Nibbana_or_non-return.htm

Source (edited extract):The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. Book [V:61] section 45: The Way. 179: The 5 Lower Mental Chains...

 

 

 

 

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