I'm sorry Bikkhu, I missed any references to sources? Should we assume these are all your words each day, (your, in the conventiional sense naturally)and if so, have you written books? Maybe we can read them if you tell us where to buy? I personally like discussions here rather than vague mystical ..prayers? Which actually rarely make little sense at all to me, just one opinion.. dn ps "do, be, do, be, do, be,.. doobee doobee doo!" -Kurt Vonnegut
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 9:47 am, [email protected] wrote: > > There is 1 message in this issue. > > Topics in this digest: > > 1. Input 'I'-dentification... > From: "Bhikkhu Samahita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:27:31 +0600 > From: "Bhikkhu Samahita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Input 'I'-dentification... > > Friends: > > Overwhelmed, fooled & deceived by simple Sensing! > > Touched by contact, while blinded by ignorance, the unlearned and > untrained ordinary person conceives this false & fatal assumption: > 'By my eye, ear, nose, tongue and body I clearly sense this & that! > Therefore: "I am"! I perceive this & that: Therefore "Do I Exist".! > I feel this & that: Therefore: "These feelings are mine and me".....! > I experience this & that: Therefore: "These experiences I am"......!' > > Then he proliferates this self-deception even further by breeding: > "I am this eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind right here & now!" > "I always was & have been this eye, ear, nose, tongue, body & mind!" > "In the future, I will be this eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and > mind!" > "I am this form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness!" > "I was this form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness!" > "I will be form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness!" > Thereby consolidating the false & constructed notion of a stable Ego! > > Finally he externalizes this non-existent entity 'Me' by comparing > it: > "I am equal to this and that...", and "I am better than this and > that...", > "I am worse than this and that...", thereby creating first egoism, > then > pride and arrogance, and moreover detrimental feeling of > inferiority... > > Clinging to this hypothetical 'I'-idea, which he mistakes for real, > he > becomes desperate, when whatever it is, he identifies with, changes, > decays, becomes otherwise, fades away and finally disappears... > He is terrified by the thought: "It is 'I' & 'Me' who changes, > decays, > becomes otherwise, fades away and finally disappears..." So big is > the > power of this unnoticed idea, that it produces fear, anxiety & > horror!!! > > There arises no such great panic, when one understands it as it > really is: > The six inputs by the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind are not > mine, > this is not what I am, this neither is nor belongs to my or any other > self! > This form, feeling, perception, construction & consciousness is not > mine, > this is not what I am, this neither is nor belongs to my or any other > self!!! > > Fundamentally releasing from an invisible prison is such > understanding... > > ________________________________________________________ > PS: Please include the word Samahita in any comment, since then > will my automatic mail filters pick it up and I will see it & > respond!! > Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. > > Friendship is the Greatest ... > Let there be Calm & Free Bliss !!! > > http://www.What-Buddha-Said.org/ > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Buddha-Direct > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/What_Buddha_Said > Dhamma-Questions sent to my email are quite Welcome. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Current Book Discussion: Appreciate Your Life by Taizan Maezumi Roshi Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
