Friends:
Belief in an Ego is the Strongest Bondage linking to Death!
At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha said:
Bhikkhus, the uninstructed ordinary person regards form as self, or self as
possessing a form, or form as inside self, or self as inside a frame of
form...
This, bhikkhus, is called an uninstructed ordinary person, who is bound by
bondage to form, who is bound by inner and outer bondage, who neither
sees the near shore nor the far shore, who grows old in bondage, who dies
in bondage, who goes from this world to the next other world in bondage...
Such one regards feeling, perception, mental construction & consciousness
as self or self as having feeling, perception, construction & consciousness,
or feeling, perception, construction & consciousness as being inside a self,
or a self as hidden inside feeling, perception, construction &
consciousness!!!
Such one, Bhikkhus, is called an uninstructed ordinary person who is bound by
bondage, by clinging, by inner chains to feeling, perception, mental
construction,
and consciousness... Such one, Bhikkhus, bound by both inner & outer bondage,
who neither sees this near shore nor the far shore, who grows old in bondage,
who dies in bondage, will pass on in bondage to the next world still in
bondage!!!
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya 22:117 III 165
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html
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