Guest guest Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 Hi All, Got an interesting email. Hope all of you can relish this. Regards, Srinivas. The Gradual Way to Release: Question: What is the purpose & advantage of Good Behaviour ? Answer: Freedom from Regrets, Remorse & Bad Consciousness ! Q: What is the purpose & advantage of absence of Regrets ? A: Gladness is emerging in absence of regret & remorse ! Q: What is the purpose & advantage of Gladness ? A: Gladness produces quite Enraptured Joy ! Q: What is the purpose & advantage of Enraptured Joy ? A: Mind satisfied by enraptured joy enters Tranquillity ! Q: What is the purpose & advantage of calm Tranquillity ? A: Serene Happiness follows such calm Tranquillity ! Q: What is the purpose & advantage of Serene Happiness ? A: Absorbed Concentration is caused by Serene Happiness ! Q: What is the purpose & advantage of Absorbed Concentration ? A: Understanding subtle phenomena is an effect of Concentration ! Q: What is the purpose & advantage of profound Understanding ? A: Fading of Attraction & Aversion is enabled by Understanding ! Q: What is the purpose & advantage of Fading of Attraction & Aversion ? A: Mental Release through vision & direct knowledge of Nibbana !!! In Happy Peace dwells the Freed Mind. Even among the uneven... Source: Anguttara Nikaya: The numerical saying of the Buddha: ---- With all his attachments cut, with the mind's urge all stilled, calm, serene and happy is he, for he has attained peace of mind. Samyutta Nikaya I, 212 ---- Wonderful it is to train the mind, so swiftly moving, seizing whatever it wants. Good is it to have a well-trained mind, for a well-trained mind brings happiness. Dhammapada 35 ------------------------------- Buddhism, Modern Science & Cosmology: Modern cosmology have recently found out that the universe is not in a steady state but undergoes periodic expansion (big bang) and contraction. The blessed Buddha told of this > 2500 !!! years ago: He said " He recalls to mind his various temporary states in days gone by - one birth, or two or three or four or 5 births, 10 or 20, 30 or 50, a 100 or a 1000 or a 100.000 births, through many cycles of cosmic contraction & cosmic expansion... Now there comes a time, friends, when, sooner or later, after the lapse of a long, long period of contraction, this world-system passes away. And when this happens beings have mostly been reborn in the World of Radiance, and there they dwell made of mind, feeding on joy, radiating light from themselves, traversing the air, dwelling in glory; and thus they remain for a long, long period of time. Now there comes also a time, friends, when, sooner or later, this universe begins to re-evolve by expansion. Digha Nikaya 1: Brahma-Jala Sutta Time & space are not universal! Albert Einstein presented the special & general relativity theory almost a hundred years ago. Still the philosophical implications is only known by a very few mathematicians. Mainly Einstein's relativity theory points out that time & locality in space cannot be regarded independent if the observer & object is moving fast relative to each other. Differently moving observers will experience different speeds of time even when using the same watches. They will disagree on the order of different events. A 'Universal' time do not exist: Buddha also told about this > 2500 years ago … : 'Bhikkhus, 50 human years is one night & day to the four guardian gods. 500 of those divine years are the life span of the four guardian gods. … Bhikkhus, 1600 human years is one night and day to the gods with power over other's creations. 16 thousand of those divine years are the life span of these gods.' (Paranimmita-vasavatti-devas) Anguttara Nikaya III.71: Matter is quanta of discrete events! Another implication of both Einstein's theory & also of quantum mechanics is that matter cannot be regarded to be continuously existing in time nor in space. A movement of a body is therefore absolutely speaking events of disappearance in one place & its rearising in the next place. This process is though so incredible fast, that we experience it as continuous existence. Exactly so do the Higher Buddha-Dhamma ie: The Abhidhamma consider movement of matter to be serial vanishing & re-arising in adjacent locations... So modern Science even regarding physical phenomena (rupa) is not so 'Modern' after all!!! Most seem to rediscovering of what was known already 2 millenniums ago but ignored & forgotten as usual... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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