Hello dear Nina,

here are the five conditions to be memorised. Like John, we practice them
quite regularly. Is the chanting on negligence the one I join here (Khamaa
yaacana)? It can be very useful in a community... There are two other
variants that are used in different conditions.

The English translations I provide are only tentative. We use them for
retreaters, but they are quite impermanent, any one who wishes to comment
please do. It would help us.

Mettaa-cittena.

Gabriel Jiivasattha


--- nina van gorkom <nilo@...> wrote:

> If you have time I would like to know about the 5 things to be reflected
>on daily. There is no hurry.
> I am delighted with the one on negligence, good for memorizing also.

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Abhi.nha-pacc'avekkha.na(.m)
( Pañca abhi.nha'm pacc'avekkhitabba .thaanaa )
Five conditions on which to regularly meditate
In: Ti'pi.taka, Sutta-Pi.taka, Anguttara-Nikaaya, Pañcaka Nipaata, Sutta 57
(Upajjhatthana Sutta). The last paragraph is also found in MN 135.

Handa maya'm abhi.nha-pacc'avekkha.na-paa.thaa'm bha.naame se.

Jaraa-dhammom'hi
jara'm an'atîto ('ti)
abhi.nha'm pacc'avekkhitabba.m.

Byaadhi-dhammom'hi
byaadhi'm an'atîto ('ti)
abhi.nha'm pacc'avekkhitabba.m.

Mara.na-dhammom'hi
mara.na'm an'atîto ('ti)
abhi.nha'm pacc'avekkhitabba.m.

Sabbe'hi me piye'hi manaape'hi
naanaa-bhaavo vinaa-bhaavo ('ti)
abhi.nha'm pacc'avekkhitabba.m.

Kamma's-sakom'hi kamma-daayaado
kamma-yoni kamma-bandhu kamma-pa.ti'sara.no
ya'n kamma'n karissaami kalyaa.na.m vaa paapaka.m vaa
tassa daayaado bhavissaami ('ti)
abhi.nham pacc'avekkhitabba.m.

Evam amhehi abhi.nha'm pacc'avekkhitabba.m.


Now let us now recite the text of what requires the highest contemplation.

I am getting older by my very nature,
senescence is ineluctable,
this must constantly be recollected.

I shall experience disease by my very nature,
disease does happen,
this must constantly be recollected.

I am going to die by my very nature,
death is ineluctable,
this must constantly be recollected.

All that I cherish, all that matters to me
shall change and disappear,
this must constantly be recollected.

My deeds belong to me, I am accountable for them,
I spring from them, I am bound to them and they support me,
and whether good or bad
I shall take their consequences;
this must constantly be recollected.

These realities we shall regularly contemplate (reflect over, on).
( On all this we shall regularly meditate. )

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Khamaa Yaacana
Asking for Tolerance

Kaayena vaacaa (va) cittena (vaa)
also: Kaayena vaacaaya (va) cetasaa (vaa)
also: Kaayena vaacaay'uda cittena vaa
also: Kaayena vaacaaya (va) maanasaa (vaa)
pamaadena mayaa-kata.m
accaya'n khama me Bhante,
bhuuri-paññaa Tath'aagata.

Kaayena vaacaa cittena
pamaadena maayaa-kata.m
accaya'n khama me Dhamma,
san'di.t.th'ika a'kaal'ika.

Kaayena vaacaa cittena
pamaadena maayaa-kata.m
accaya'n khama me San'gha,
su-pa.ti'panna an'uttara

Iminaa puñña-kammena
maa me baala-samaagamó
sata.m samaagamó hótu
yaava Nib'baana-pattiyaa.


By deeds, speech or thought,
I may have been heedless;
forbear my shortcoming O Profoundly Kind,
who have come to Reality through deep insight.

By deeds, speech or thought,
I may have been heedless;
may my shortcoming be imperceptible within Dhamma,
immanently visible and transcending time.

By deeds, speech or thought,
I may have been heedless;
forbear my shortcoming O Congregation,
incomparable by your sane practice.

May my deeds be virtuous and meritorious,
so that I never join the foolish
but rather the wise,
till I attain to Nibbâna.


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( a'niccaa vata san'khaaraa )
"impermanent are structural processes"
"instables sont les flux structurels"
Siddhârtha (Siddhaartha) Gautama Buddha
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