Friends:
WITHDRAWAL:
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Withdrawal is Removal of Misery
Withdrawal is Extraction of Disease.
Withdrawal is Pulling out the splinter of Pain.
Withdrawal is Retraction from Danger.
Withdrawal is Renunciation of Ill.
Withdrawal is Letting Go of what is Burning.
Withdrawal is Turning Away from what appears Attractive.
Withdrawal is Seclusion from what seems Delicious.
Withdrawal is Clearing of the Captivating Illusion.
Withdrawal is Waking Up from the Enchanting Trance.
Withdrawal is Breaking of the Enslaving Addiction.
Withdrawal is Protection of what is Entrapping.
Withdrawal is Giving Up what is Detrimental.
Withdrawal is Discharge of the Infested.
Withdrawal is Breaking out of the Prison.
Withdrawal is Release from the Suffering.
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The household life is a cramped way choked with dust.
To leave it is like coming out into the free space of open air.
It is not easy for one who lives at home to live the Noble life
completely perfect and pure, bright as mother-of-pearl. Surely
I will now shave off my hair & go forth into homelessness.
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Only Misery Arises.
Only Misery Ceases.
Nothing good is thus
lost by leaving it all.
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If one gains an infinite ease by leaving a minor pleasure,
the clever one should swap the luminous for the trifling
sensual pleasure by leaving this latter boredom behind.
Dhammapada 290
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Lust, I say, is a great flood; it is a whirlpool sucking one down,
a constant longing, seeking a hold, continually in operation;
difficult to cross is this morass of sensual desire.
A sage does not deviate from the good, steady.
A recluse stands on firm ground, secluded;
withdrawn from all, he is truly called calmed & silenced.
Having actually experienced the Dhamma he is independent.
He behaves right and does not envy anyone here nor there.
He who has left behind pleasure arised from sensing,
an attachment difficult to cut off, is freed of both melancholy &
any longing since he has cut across the stream and is released.
Sutta Nipata IV.15
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Just as a tree, though cut down,
sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut,
even & exactly so, until the craving that lies latent
is completely rooted out & eliminated without remnants,
misery grows up again ever and again.
Dhammapada 16
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Infatuated with lust, impassioned & obsessed,
they are caught in their own self-created net,
like a spider, which spins it's own web!
Cutting through the Wise & Noble Friend go free,
Without longing, without greed, leaving all misery behind.
Dhammapada 347
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Let the past be past.
Relinquish the future.
Let the present be just as it is.
Having so gone to the far shore of being,
mind is freed from all attachments,
from any substrate of existence &
Never returns again to birth, aging, or death.
Dhammapada 348
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Any being who becomes stirred by attraction,
who is agitated by desire & dominated by lust,
directs only mind towards objects of pleasure ...
Thereby craving increases & the chains of this
prison grows ever stronger!
Dhammapada 349
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Any being that cools down all desires
by being alert & ever aware of the inherent danger,
directing attention only to the disgusting aspects
of all phenomena, such one eliminates craving and
thereby wears down & breaks the chains of this prison.
Dhammapada 350
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The one who has reached the end perfected,
is fearless, free of craving, desireless & unclinging.
Such one has broken the hooks of being and is in
the final phase, wearing the last frame.
Dhammapada 351
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Blissful is solitude for one who is content, learned & know the True Dhamma.
Blissful is harmlessness towards all breathing beings without exception.
Blissful is freedom from any sensual urge whatsoever.
Yet, the supreme bliss, is the withdrawal of the abysmal conceit I am!
Udana Inspiration: II 1
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Withdraw, as the man newly freed from prison
does not wish himself back in prison.
The Basket of Conduct, Cariyapitaka
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The Bodhisatta once as the King Culasutasoma gave up his kingdom.
Knowing this withdrawal to be an advantageous victory he remembered:
A mighty kingdom I possessed as if it was dropped into my hands.
Yet all this tantalizing might I let fall without any even slight
trace of clinging.
This was my perfection of Withdrawal.
Jataka no. 525
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Withdrawal is the third perfection (parami)
Come On Now !
This One is the third one to adopt, practice,
develop, refine, & perfect resolutely:
Renounce & retire from the entanglement &
thereby in perfection grow then you can
the absolute of Wisdom come to know.
Jataka Nidana (introduction)
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Sincerely,
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A saying of the Buddha from
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Riches ruin the foolish, but not those in quest of the Beyond (Nibbana).
Through craving for riches the ignorant man ruins himself as (if he were
ruining) others.
Random Dhammapada Verse 355