Guest guest Posted May 15, 2005 Report Share Posted May 15, 2005 Friends: The Primary Self-Deception of a core Ego:Even when old & sick, the wise Elder Khemaka spoke this & therebymade himself & 60 listening bhikkhu friends fully awakened Arahats: Friends, I do not speak of 'I Am' as within form, nor do I speak of 'I Am' as outside or apart from form! I do not speak of 'I Am' as within feeling, nor do I speak of 'I Am' as outside or apart from feeling! I do not speak of 'I Am' as within experience, nor do I speak of 'I Am' asoutside or apart from experience! I do not speak of 'I Am' as within mental construction, nor do I speak of 'I Am' as outside or apart from mental construction! I do not speak of 'I Am' as within consciousness, nor do I speak of 'I Am' as outside or apart from consciousness! Friends, although the notion 'I Am' has still not been eliminated by me regarding these five clusters of clinging, yet I do not regard anythingamong them or within them as 'This I am...' ...Friends, even though a Noble Disciple has broken the five minor mental chains, eliminated the five lower fetters, still, regarding these five clusters of clinging, there remains in him a residual conceit 'I Am', there lingers a subtle desire for being: 'I Am' and there hang on a latent tendency to conceiving 'I Am', that has not yet been uprooted!Sometime later while he dwells contemplating the rise and fall of the 5clusters of clinging: 'Such is form, such is it's cause, such is it's ceasing; such is feeling, such is it's cause, such is it's ceasing; such is experience, such is it's cause, such is it's ceasing; such is mental construction, such isit's cause, such is it's ceasing; such is consciousness, such is it's cause, such is it's ceasing, is it's passing away... As he dwells thus contemplatingrise & fall in these five clusters of clinging, any residual conceit 'I Am',any remnant desire to 'I Am', & any latent tendency 'I Am', that had not yet been uprooted, this becomes uprooted & eliminated completely... Source: The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya III [130-1] Full Text: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/samyutta/sn22-089.htmlBook: http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507 PS: The causes of origin cause arising when they are present, while ceasing when they are absent: Cause of Body & Form is Food, past Ignorance, Lust for Form, and Action resulting in Form.Cause of Feeling is Contact, past Ignorance, Lust for Feeling, and Action resulting in Feeling.Cause of Experience is Contact, Ignorance, Lust for Experience, and Action resulting in Experience.Cause of Construction is Contact, Ignorance, Lust for Construction, & Action resulting in Construction.Cause of Consciousness is Name & Form, Ignorance, Lust for form, Action resulting in Consciousness. Friendship is the Greatest ! and the entire Noble Life... Bhikkhu Samāhita, Sri Lanka. http://groups.msn.com/DirectDhamma Buddha-Direct http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/TrueDhamma 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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