THE DAWNING OF TRUTHS
DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE TO BELIEVE(1)
By Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
| Buddha is father, Dhamma is mother, and Sangha is older siblings. (1) | ||
| Buddha can be anyone who Knows – Awakens – Flowers. (2) | ||
| No meaning of Nibbana has anything to do with death. (3) | ||
| Nibbana is gratis when Igo is abandoned. (4) | ||
| There is a meaning of Nibbana for ordinary folks (nibbuto). (5) | ||
| Nibbana right now (when mind is void) is called "samañika-nibbana" -- something you ought to be most interested in. (6) | ||
| Nibbana is to be found in the whirl of samsara. (7) | ||
| Nibbana is Igo dying before the body dies. (8) | ||
| Do work and live life with a mind empty of Igo. (9) | ||
| Every aspect of every level of every thing' depends solely upon mind. (10) | ||
| Mouth one way, heart the other1 -- the path of supreme happiness. (11) | ||
| Defilement and enlightenment – both are merely concocted-dhammas. (12) | ||
| With sati at contact (phassa) there's no way for dukkha to be born. (13) | ||
| There is a diamond in the toad's head – the knowledge taught by dukkha. (14) | ||
| Igo and Mygo -- our evil archenemies. (15) | ||
| Beyond the meaning of every kind of duality -- that's freedom. (16) | ||
| This business of good-evil, happiness-misery, and virtue-sin is not yet peace. (17) | ||
| In Buddhism, hell and heaven are right here at the senses. (18) | ||
| People who don't see the world are like birds who don't see the sky. (19) | ||
| The true source of happiness and misery is doing wrong or right regarding the law of idappaccayata (conditionality). (20) | ||
| Don't go eating meat or eating vegetables. It’s enough just to eat food that's harmless. (21) | ||
| Householder's Dhamma isn't for householders to sink and get mired into the householder's life, but for release from the householder's life. (22) | ||
| We can end hereditary castes, but the castes of our actions can never be done away with. (23) Not one of the Buddhas was enlightened at university. (24) | ||
| No Perfected Being (Arahant) is enlightened at university. (25) | ||
| Those who do good for heaven's sake ought to know that the Heavenly Ones must move on to a better birth in the human world. (26) | ||
| The word "religion" in its highest meaning is every type and level of means to survive. (27) | ||
| Even animals and plants must have a religion of their own sort, that is, a system of survival. (28) | ||
| Dhamma is difficult to teach because the language we use is insufficient. (29) | ||
| The word sankhara means "concoctions – concocting," not the body aged in order to die. (30) | ||
| Buddhism leads to knowing everything that pertains to life without causing dukkha. (31) | ||
| New Life is life in which the problems and questions about dukkha have faded and disappeared. (32) | ||
| Evil as well as good are purely despicable (in them is no peace). Whoever wants, peace must escape evil and escape good to be above sin and above virtue. (33) |
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