Re: Iddhipada Vibhanga Sutta

Thank you for sharing your throughts, hamduru.

I will be doing the annotated of the Canki Sutta is due course, like a
delicious cake I am waiting to feast on leisurely. It is a very beautiful
Sutta.

Maha Cattariisaka Sutta I have done but yet to upload to the Dharmafarer
Website.

It's good you shown concern for the environment, too, and also share what
you know with others. We need more practising bhikshus to be with us.

Most bhikshus I meet over the last 30-40 years are simply put "richer" than
I am, but are not really interested in the True Dharma. So Buddhism has
become one of the most anarchic religions arounds.

The weapons of mass destruction we use may not be bombs, but they are more
silently destructive: political correctness and the ignoble silence when we
see suffering, injustice and ignorance around us.

(Recently a dear blind lay Dharma teacher I know fell and died simply
because people around him did not really take care for him well enough
despite the teachings he has given. The worst part was we were advised not
to speak of the "real" reason. I cannot fathom why: my tears welled up over
such "face-saving callousness" we Buddhists are becoming famous for.)

Many are forgetting the Buddha and the True Dharma.

Still, we can work for at least stream-winning in this life itself: this is
possible, and we only need to aspire and constantly prractice the perception
of impermanence.

The secret of awakening today lies in the simple and humble words of the
Okkanti Vagga (S 25).

May we spread the simple secret of awakening to those who have faith and
ears.

Namaste,

Piya Tan

On 3/3/07, joseph <jothiko@...> wrote:
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com <Pali%40yahoogroups.com>, "Piya Tan"
> <dharmafarer@...> wrote:
> >
> > The passage refers to a balanced approach to meditation:
>
> Dear Piya
>
> In CankiSutta (m.n. 95) there is a description of the path:
> (1)Dhammanijjhànakkhantiyà sati chando jàyati.
> (2)Chandajàto ussahati. Ussahitvà tulayati. Tulayitvà pahadati.
> (3)Pahitatto samàno kàyena ceva paramasaccaü sacchikaroti.
> (4)Pa¤¤àya ca naü ativijjha passati
>
> seems to be about the (1-4, respectivly) IddhiPadaa.
>
> ussahi is `general application of effort' ( Tr. Bhikkhu Bodhi),
> as it is connected with Sila it refers to 'aatapi, satima,
> sampajano'.
>
> padahi is connected with the path, and the above three are now
> 'SamaVayamo, SamaSati, SamaDitthi' as these three 'circle' the other
> path limbs.
> (mahacatarisakasutta m.n. 117)
>
> But we are concerned mainly with `tulayati'.
> Wheighting (PED),
> Scrutinizing (Bhikkhu Bodhi)
> ` balance' is definitely right.
>
> These two Sutaa are framed in terms of `Samadhi' as that way their
> audiences will not be able to reject it on traditional or formal
> grounds.
>
> p.s. 1 tried my best about the spelling.
>
> p.s. 2 A Bhikkhu, south east of Lanka, mostly in forests,
> Kataragama`s NyanaSala (!) is overseas for me.
>
> p.s, 3 but they are building a new airport in Tissa Maharama,
> so all, elephants and bird sanctuaries, are doomed,
> visit or file a protest or something
> before this ancient pollution free piece of old Buddhism will get air
> drop.
>
> Metta
> Jothiko
>
>
>


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