Virtual Dhamma-Vinaya Vihara

Open monastery, laity practice area- [Öffentliches Kloster, Laienpraxisbereich] (vata assama) => Down to earth - [Ganz bodenständig] manussaloko => Topic started by: gus on October 05, 2018, 11:29:29 PM

Title: Down to earth
Post by: gus on October 05, 2018, 11:29:29 PM
As long as one sitting on the earth,
He will not fall down to earth
Title: Re: Down to earth
Post by: Dhammañāṇa on October 07, 2018, 08:41:07 PM
Total out of popularity, wanderer gus . Possible because people forget the cases and give falling other reasons, or even do not know that having been fallen when "wake up" on harder grounds.

How ever, this came to mind, possible useful:

Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammā-sambuddhassa

“If evil, unskillful thoughts — imbued with desire, aversion or delusion — still arise in the monk while he is paying no mind and paying no attention to those thoughts, he should attend to the relaxing of thought-fabrication with regard to those thoughts. As he is attending to the relaxing of thought-fabrication with regard to those thoughts, those evil, unskillful thoughts are abandoned and subside. With their abandoning, he steadies his mind right within, settles it, unifies it, and concentrates it. Just as the thought would occur to a man walking quickly, 'Why am I walking quickly? Why don't I walk slowly?' So he walks slowly. The thought occurs to him, 'Why am I walking slowly? Why don't I stand?' So he stands. The thought occurs to him, 'Why am I standing? Why don't I sit down?' So he sits down. The thought occurs to him, 'Why am I sitting? Why don't I lie down?' So he lies down. In this way, giving up the grosser posture, he takes up the more refined one. In the same way, if evil, unskillful thoughts — imbued with desire, aversion or delusion — still arise in the monk while he is paying no mind and paying no attention to those thoughts, he should attend to the relaxing of thought-fabrication with regard to those thoughts. As he is attending to the relaxing of thought-fabrication with regard to those thoughts, those evil, unskillful thoughts are abandoned and subside. With their abandoning, he steadies his mind right within, settles it, unifies it, and concentrates it.
Quote from: Vitakkasanthana Sutta, http://accesstoinsight.eu/en/tipitaka/sut/mn/mn.020.than