Friends:



All outer conflict
is based on
inner conflict!


If there is no internal
mental conflict, then no
external social or physical
conflict is ever possible!


If all 'nodes' or 'individuals' in a
social network abides without conflict
this will be a sphere beyond!



Simple yet True !



What is a peacefull abiding ?

The void abiding is seeing & understanding that there
is only mind-&-form lacking both any inner self & any
outer substantiality. This is a peacefull abiding.

The signless abiding is with a mind unsettled on any
sensed object, sign, symbol or thought, seeing any
such occurence as terror. This is a peacefull abiding.

The desireless abiding is seeing the transience,
frustration & lack of Me-mine-or-Self inherent in
whatever form, whatever feeling, whatever experience,
whatever construction & whatever consciousness, thereby
loosing interest, desire & craving for them all.
This is a peacefull abiding.



What is abiding without conflict ?

The absorption of the 1st Jhana lacking the 5 mental
hindrances is an abiding without conflict.

The absorption of the 2nd Jhana where both directed &
sustained thought is stilled is an abiding without conflict.

The absorption of the 3rd Jhana where both happiness &
depression is absent is an abiding without conflict.

The absorption of the 4th Jhana where both pleasure & pain
is silenced is an abiding without conflict.

The infinitude of space where all experience of form,
sense reaction & difference of diversity is all quieted
is an abiding without conflict.

The infinitude of consciousness where all experience of
space & spatiality have ceased is an abiding without conflict.

The absorption into empty nothingness, void of any experience
of any consciousness is an abiding without conflict.

The neither-perception-nor-non-perception lacking even
experience of nothingness is an abiding without conflict.



Knowledge is these states being directly known.
Understanding is the act of understanding that.


Source:

The Path of Discrimination I (444-48)
Patisambhidamagga I [97-8]
Spoken by Sariputta.




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Samanera Samahita, Sri Lanka
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--
A saying of the Buddha from http://metta.lk/
And this becomes the beginning here for a wise Bhikkhu: sense-control,
contentment, restraint with regard to the Fundamental Code (patimokkha),
association with beneficent and energetic friends whose livelihood is pure.
Random Dhammapada Verse 375