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- Petals of Wisdom: Thoughts for
2001
Collected by
Ti.nh Tue^.
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- Desiring merit, in the good set
firm,
- Who cultivates the way to reach
the Deathless,
- He, winning to the essence of the
Norm,
- Rejoicing in destruction of the
taints,
- Quakes not to think: The Lord of
Death will come.
- (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 402;
The Book of the Kindred Sayings V, p. 344)
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Following after the good, hearing the Good
Norm, systematic attention to it and living in accordance with the precepts of the Norm.
These four conditions, if cultivated and made much of, conduce to realizing the fruits of
stream-winning. (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 411; The Book of the Kindred Sayings
V, p. 351)
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Monks, do ye practise concentration. The
monk who is concentrated knows a thing as it really is, This is Ill. This is the arising
of Ill. This is the ceasing of Ill. This is the practice that leads to the ceasing of Ill.
(Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 414; The Book of the Kindred Sayings V, p. 352)
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Monks, whatsoever recluses or brahmins in
time past or in future time or in present time have gained the highest wisdom in its
reality, all of them have done so by penetrating, as they really are, the four Ariyan
truths. (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 416; The Book of the Kindred Sayings V, p.
353)
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Devotion to the pleasures of sense, a low
practice of villagers, a practice unworthy, unprofitable, the way of the world (on the one
hand), and (on the other) devotion to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy and
unprofitable. By avoiding these two extremes the Tathagata has gained knowlede of that
middle path which giveth vision, which giveth knowledge, which causeth calm, special
knowledge, enlightenment, Nibbana. (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 420; The Book of the
Kindred Sayings V, p. 357)
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Verily it is this Ariyan eightfold way, to
wit: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right
mindfulness, right concentration. This, monks, is that middle path which giveth vision,
which giveth knowledge, which causeth calm, special knowledge, enlightenment, Nibba na. (Samyutta-Nikaya
V, p. 420; The Book of the Kindred Sayings V, p. 357).
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What is the Ariyan truth about Ill? Ill,
it should be said, is the six personal spheres of sense. What six? They are the
sense-sphere of the eye, of the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body, the mind. (Samyutta-Nikaya
V, p. 427; The Book of the Kindred Sayings V, p. 362).
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What is the Ariyan truth about Ill? Ill,
it should be said, is the fivefold factor of grasping: the grasping of body, of feeling,
of perception, of the activities, aof consciousness. (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 425; The
Book of the Kindred Sayings V, p. 362).
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What is
the Ariyan truth about the arising of Ill? It is that craving that leads back to rebirth,
along with the lure and the lust that linger longingly now here, now there: namely, the
craving for sensual delight, the craving to be born again, the craving for existence to
end. (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 425; The Book of the Kindred Sayings V, p. 361).
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What is
the Ariyan truth about the ceasing of Ill? Verily it is the utter passionless cessation
of, the giving up, the forsaking, the release from, the absence of longing for this
craving. (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 427; The Book of the Kindred Sayings V, p.
362).
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What is the Ariyan truth about the
practice that leads to the ceasing of Ill? Verily it is this Ariyan eightfold way, to wit:
Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right
mindfulness, right concentration. (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 427; The Book of the
Kindred Sayings V, p. 362).
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The Ariyan
truth of this is Ill, the Ariyan truth of this is the arising of Ill, the Ariyan truth of
this is the ceasing of Ill, the Ariyan truth of this is the practice that leads to the
ceasing of Ill have been pointed out by Tathagata. Therein are numberless shades and
variations of meaning. (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 430; The Book of the Kindred
Sayings V, p. 364f).
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- Who have not really seen the
fourfold Ariyan truth
- A long long road must wander on
thro’ many births.
- Clean gone is that which leads to
birth when these are seen;
- Tom up the root of Ill. There is
no more becoming.
- (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 433;
The Book of the Kindred Sayings V, p. 366).
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Ill, as an Ariyan truth, is to be fully
understood. The arising of Ill, as an Ariyan truth, is to be abandoned. The ceasing of
Ill, as an Ariyan truth, is to be realized. The practice that leads to its ceasing is to
be cultivated. (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 436; The Book of the Kindred Sayings
V, p. 369).
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Whose seeth suffering sees also the
arising, the ceasing of suffering and the practice that leads to the ceasing thereof.
Whoso seeth the arising of suffering sees also suffering, its ceasing and the practice
that leads thereto. Whoso seeth the ceasing of suffering sees also suffering, its arising
and the practice that leads to the ceasing thereof. Whoso seeth the practice that leads to
the ceasing of suffering, he also sees suffering, the arising of suffering and the ceasing
of suffering. (Samyutta-Nikaya V, p. 437; The Book of the Kindred Sayings V,
p. 369).
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