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W hat now is Right Attentiveness? […]
- But how does the disciple dwell in the contemplation of the body? There the disciple retires to the forest, to the foot of a tree, or to a solitary place, sits himself down, with legs crossed, body erect, and with attentiveness fixed before him.
With attentive mind he breathes in, with attentive mind he breathes out. When making a long inhalation, he knows: I make a long inhalation; when making a long exhalation, he knows: I make a long exhalation. When making a short inhalation, he knows: I make a short inhalation; when making a short exhalation, he knows: I make a short exhalation. Clearly perceiving the entire (breath-) body, I will breathe out: thus he trains himself. Calming this bodily function, (kaya-sankhara), I will breathe in: thus he trains himself; calming this bodily function, I will breathe out: thus he trains himself.


temple_buddhist quote 2496  | 
Digha Nikaya, 22 

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W hat now is Right Attentiveness?
- The only way that leads to the attainment of purity, to the overcoming of sorrow and lamentation, to the end of pain and grief, to the entering upon the right path and the realization of Nibbana, is the Four Fundamentals of Attentiveness. And which are these four?
There the disciple lives in contemplation of the Body, in contemplation of Feeling, in contemplation of the Mind, in contemplation of Phenomena, ardent, clearly conscious and attentive, after putting away worldly greed and grief.


temple_buddhist quote 2495  | 
Digha Nikaya, 22 

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W hat now is Right Effort? […]
-The effort of avoiding, overcoming,
Of developing and maintaining:
Such four great efforts have been shown
By him, the scion of the sun.
And he who firmly clings to them
May put an end to all the pain.


temple_buddhist quote 2494  | 
Anguttara Nikaya, IV. 14 

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W hat now is Right Effort? […]
-Truly the disciple, who is possessed of faith and has penetrated the Teaching of the Master, is filled with the thought; May rather skin, sinews and bones wither away, may the flesh and blood of my body dry up; I shall not give up my efforts so long as I have not attained whatever is attainable by manly perseverance, energy and endeavour! This is called right effort.


temple_buddhist quote 2493  | 
Majjhima Nikaya, 70 

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W hat now is Right Effort? […]
What now is the effort to develop?
There the disciple incites his will to arouse meritorious conditions, that have not yet arisen; and he strives, puts forth his energy, strains his mind and struggles.
Thus he develops the Elements of Enlightenment (bojjhanga), bent on solitude, on detachment, on extinction, and ending in deliverance, namely: Attentiveness, Investigation of the Law, Energy, Rapture, Tranquility, Concentration, and Equanimity.


temple_buddhist quote 2492  | 
Anguttara Nikaya, IV.13,14 (3) 

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I f, whilst regarding a certain object, there arise, account of it, in the disciple evil and demeritorious thoughts connected with greed, anger and delusion, then the disciple should, by means of this object, gain another and wholesome object. Or, he should reflect on the misery of these thoughts: Unwholesome truly are these thoughts! Blamable are these thoughts! Of painful result are these thoughts. Or, he should pay no attention to these thoughts. Or, he should consider the compounded nature of these thoughts.
Or, with teeth clenched and tongue pressed against the gums he should with his mind restrain, suppress and root out these thoughts; and in doing so, these evil and demeritorious thoughts of greed, anger and delusion will dissolve and disappear, and the mind will inwardly become settled and calm, composed and concentrated.


temple_buddhist quote 2491  | 
Majjhima Nikaya, 20 

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W hat now is the effort to overcome? There the disciple incites his mind to overcome the evil and demeritorious things, that have already arisen; and he strives, puts forth his energy, strains his mind and struggles.
He does not retain any thought of sensual lust, ill-will or grief, or any other evil and demeritorious states, that may have arisen; he abandons them, dispels them, destroys them, causes them to disappear.


temple_buddhist quote 2490  | 
Anguttara Nikaya, V 13,14 

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W hat now is the effort to avoid? There the disciple incites his mind to avoid the arising of evil, demeritorious things, that have not yet arisen; and he strives, puts forth his energy, strains his mind and struggles.
Thus, when he perceives a form with the eye, a sound with the ear, an odor with the nose, a taste with the tongue, a contact with the body, or an object with the mind, he neither adheres to the whole, nor to its parts. And he strives to ward off that, through which evil and demeritorious things, greed and sorrow, would arise, if he remained with unguarded senses; and he watches over his senses, restrains his senses.
Possessed of this noble Control over the Senses, he experiences inwardly a feeling of joy, into which no evil thing can enter.


temple_buddhist quote 2489  | 
Anguttara Nikaya, V 13, 14 

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W hat now is right Mindedness?
The thought free from lust.
The thought free from ill-will.
The thought free from cruelty.
This is called right mindedness.


temple_buddhist quote 2488  | 
Digha Nikaya, 22 

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A nd the action (kamma) that is done out of greed, anger and delusion (lobha, dosa, moha), that springs from them, has its source and origin there: this action ripens wherever one is reborn; and wherever this action ripens, there one experiences the fruits of this action, be it in this life, or the next life, or in some future life.


temple_buddhist quote 2487  | 
Anguttara Nikaya, III, 33 

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V erily, because beings, obstructed by delusion and ensnared by craving, now here, now there, seek ever-fresh delight, therefore it comes to ever-fresh rebirth.


temple_buddhist quote 2486  | 
Majjhima Nikaya, 43 

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O n Delusion (aviija) depend the (life-affirming) Activities (sankhara).
On the Activities depends Consciousness (nana: here, rebirth-consciousness in the womb of the mother).
On consciousness depends the Psycho-physical Combination (nama-rupa).
On the psycho-physical combination depends the Sixfold Sense-activity (chal-ayatana).
On the sixfold sense activity depends the Sensorial Impression (phassa).
On the sensorial impression depends Feeling (vedana).
On feeling depends Craving (tanha).
On craving depends Clinging to Existence (upadana).
On clinging to existence depends the Process of Becoming (bhava; here: kamma-bhava, or action process).
On the process of becoming depends Rebirth (jati).
On rebirth depends Decay and Death (jara-marana), sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair. Thus arises this whole mass of suffering. This is called the noble truth of the origin of suffering.

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Thus, through the entire fading away and extinction of this Delusion, the (life-affirming) Activities are extinguished. Through the extinction of the activities Consciousness (rebirth) is extinguished. Through the extinction of consciousness, the Psycho-physical combination is extinguished. Through the extinction of the psycho-physical combination, the sixfold Sense activity is extinguished. Through the extinction of the sixfold scnse-activity, the Sensorial Impression is extinguished. Through the extinction of the sensorial impression, Feeling is extinguished. Through the extinction of feeling, Craving is extinguished. Through the extinction of craving, Clinging to Existence is extinguished. Through the extinction of clinging to existence, the Process of Becoming is extinguished. Through the extinction of the process of becoming, Rebirth is extinguished. Through the extinction of rebirth, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair are extinguished. Thus takes place the extinction of this whole mass of suffering This is called the noble truth of the extinction of suffering.


temple_buddhist quote 2485  | 
Anguttara Nikaya, III, 61 

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I f now any one should ask: Have you been in the past, and is it untrue that you have not been? Will you be in the future, and is it untrue that you will not be? Are you, and is it untrue that you are not?-you ought to say that you have been in the past, and that it is untrue that you have not been ; that you will be in the future, and that it is untrue that you will not be; that you are, and that it is untrue that you are not.


temple_buddhist quote 2484  | 
Digha Nikaya, 9 

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T o say that the mind, or the mind-objects, or the mind consciousness constitute the Ego: such an assertion is unfounded. For an arising and a passing away is seen there; and seeing the arising and passing away of these things, one should come to the conclusion that one's Ego arises and passes away.


temple_buddhist quote 2483  | 
Digha Nikaya, 15 

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N ow, if someone should say that feeling is his Ego, he should be answered thus: There are three kinds of feeling; pleasurable, painful, and indifferent feeling. Which of these three feelings now do you consider as your Ego? At the moment namely of experiencing one of these feelings, one does not experience the other two. These three kinds of feeling are impermanent, of dependent origin, are subject to decay and dissolution, to fading away and extinction. Whosoever, in experiencing one of these feelings, thinks that this is his Ego, will, after the extinction of that feeling, admit that his Ego has come dissolved. And thus he will consider his Ego already in his present life as impermanent, mixed up with pleasure and pain subject to rising and passing away.


temple_buddhist quote 2482  | 
Digha Nikaya, 15 

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T he perfect One is free from any theory, for the Perfect One has understood what the body is, and how it arises, and passes away. He has understood what feeling is, and how it arises, and passes away. He has understood what perception is, and how it arises, and passes away. He has understood what the mental formations are, and how they arise, and pass away. He has understood what consciousness is, and how it arises, and passes away.


temple_buddhist quote 2481  | 
Majjhima Nikaya, 72 

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T herefore, I say, the Perfect One has won complete deliverance through the extinction, fading away, disappearance, rejection, and getting rid of all opinions and conjectures, of all inclination to the vainglory of I and mine.


temple_buddhist quote 2480  | 
Majjhima Nikaya, 72 

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N ow, in understanding wrong understanding as wrong, and right understanding as right, one practices Right Understanding; and in making efforts to overcome wrong understanding, and to arouse right understanding, one practices Right effort; and in overcoming wrong understanding with attentive mind, and dwelling with attentive mind in possession of right understanding, one practices Right Attentiveness. Hence, there are three things that accompany and follow upon right understanding, namely: right understanding, right effort, and right attentiveness.


temple_buddhist quote 2479  | 
Majjhima Nikaya, 117 

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W hat now is Right Understanding? […]
- The view that alms and offerings are not useless; that there is fruit and result both of good and bad actions; that there are such things as this life and the next life; that father and mother, as also spontaneously born beings (in the heavenly worlds) are no mere words; that there are in the world monks and priests, who are spotless and perfect, who can explain this life and the next life, which they themselves have understood: -this is called the Mundane Right Understanding, which yields worldly fruits and brings good results.


temple_buddhist quote 2478  | 
Majjhima Nikaya, 117 

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B ut those disciples, in whom these three fetters (Self-illusion, Skepticism and Attachment to Rule and Ritual) have vanished, they have all entered the Stream (sotapanna), have for ever escaped the states of woe, and are assured of final enlightenment.


temple_buddhist quote 2477  | 
Majjhima Nikaya, 22 

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I f there really existed the Ego, there would be also something which belonged to the Ego. As, however, in truth and reality, neither an Ego nor anything belonging to an Ego can be found, is it therefore not really an utter fool's doctrine to say: This is the world, this am I; after death I shall be permanent, persisting and eternal?


temple_buddhist quote 2476  | 
Majjhima Nikaya, 22 

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W hat now is Right Understanding? […]
- Or, when one understands that form, feeling, perception, mental formations and consciousness are transient, (subject to suffering and without an Ego) also in that case one possesses Right Understanding.


temple_buddhist quote 2475  | 
Samyutta Nikaya, 21 (5) 

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W hat now is Right Understanding?
- 1. To understand suffering; 2. To understand the origin of suffering; 3. To understand the extinction of suffering; 4. To understand the path that leads to the extinction of suffering. This is called Right Understanding.


temple_buddhist quote 2474  | 
Digha Nikaya, 22 

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G ive ear then, for the Immortal Is found. I reveal, I set forth the Truth. As I reveal it to you, so act! And that supreme goal of the holy life, for the sake of which sons of good families go forth from home to the homeless state: this you will, in no long time, in this very life, make known to yourself, realize and attain.


temple_buddhist quote 2473  | 
Majjhima Nikaya, 26 

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