What_Buddha_Said 1322: Source of What?

Friends:

The 12 Sense Sources produce Suffering!

1: The eye is a source of Suffering...
2: Forms are a source of Suffering...
3: The ear is a source of Suffering...
4: Sounds are a source of Suffering...
5: The nose is a source of Suffering...
6: Scents are a source of Suffering...
7: The tongue is a source of Suffering...
8: Flavours are a source of Suffering...
9: The body is a source of Suffering...
10: Tangibles are a source of Suffering...
11: The mind is a source of Suffering...
12: Mental phenomena are a source of Suffering...

Why so?
Because, whether they give rise to a pleasant, painful or a neutral feeling
and experience, then this will always change, fade away, be lost & vanish...
This change takes place even at the very moment of the experience itself!
Sensing is the soil in which all greed and craving takes root and grows...
Like the chronic morphinist can neither understand, nor accept, that to
become clean, without using drugs, is better and more happy on long-term,
even so can the habitual hedonist, delighting in any sense pleasure, neither
understand nor accept, that renunciation and withdrawal from all sense
experience is far better, trustable, and more blissful on the long term...
Urging for sense pleasure, one only gains  ever more frustration and pain!
Neither seeing, nor knowing any other happiness, the hedonist always runs
headlong back to rebirth, ageing, decay, sickness, death and Suffering...
Again and again, life after life, again and again, universe after universe!!!
Like a rat in a carrousel, blinded by ignorance and bound by craving, do
beings, in this awful round of rebirth called Samsara, suffer repeatedly...

More on Suffering = Dukkha
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Origin_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Contemplating_Suffering_2.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm

More on the 12 Sense Sources (The 12 Ayatana): 
Mistaken_Reference, The_Fisherman's_Hook, Guarding_the_Sense_Door,
The_Source_of_All, Sour_Sense_Sources, Hands_and_Feet,
Things_that_can_be_clung_to...

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What_Buddha_Said 1321: I am Not!

Friends:

The Ego-concept is a Mental Catastrophe!

The blessed Buddha once pointed out: 
Bhikkhus, these ideas: "I am...", "I am this...", "I will be...", "I shall not be...",
"I shall be of such form", "I shall be formless...", "I will experience such...",
"I will not experience...", "I shall be neither percipient nor non-percipient...",
are all self-deceptions, are all conceited fantasies, are all whimsy illusions,
are all agitated excitations, are escalated proliferations & are all inflated,
vain & narcissistic self-love, leading to egotism, puffed pride & arrogance!
Such self-deceptions are all diseases, such ego-conceits are all tumours,
such egocentric phantasms are all internal, and agonizing hooks in the mind!
Therefore, bhikkhus & friends, you should train yourselves in this very way:
We will dwell with a mind unperturbed by any "I exists..." conceiving...
We will dwell with a mind purified of any "I am this/that" self-deception...
We will dwell with a mind uninvolved in any "I will be this or that" illusion...
We will dwell with a mind without any "I shall not be this/that" agitation...
We will dwell with a mind devoid of any "I will have such a form" fantasy...
We will dwell with a mind cleaned of any "I shall be formless" escalation...
We will dwell with a mind empty of "I will experience such" proliferation...
We will dwell with a mind cleared of any "I will not experience" excitation...
Since these ideas are all self-deceptions, conceited fantasies, illusions,
agitated excitations, escalated proliferations, and are all inflated, vain &
narcissistic self-centred ego-love, leading to egotism, pride & arrogance...
Self-deceptions are all mental diseases! Ego-conceits are puffed inflations!
Egocentric phantasms are internally agonizing & painful hooks in the mind,
which incur inestimable future suffering!!! The cure is understanding the
absolute selflessness of all things, whether they are internal or external...
Thus should you train yourselves...

Comment: This inherent and somewhat hidden "ego-idea", which may seem
innocent, is the core cause of all egoism, asocial behaviour, crime, conflicts
and even wars! Therefore is it extremely advantageous to repeatedly try
to understand this absolute truth:
Sabbe Dhamma Anatta: All Phenomena are without any Self!
However counter-intuitive, puzzling, paradoxical & strange it seems initially!

More on Anti-Egoism:http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/I-dentification.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No_Agent_is_Inside.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Solo_Self-Deception.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Reference.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Selfless_and_Harmless.htm

Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya. Book IV 202-3
The 6 senses section 35: Thread on The sheaf of barley. (248)
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html

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I am Not!

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What_Buddha_Said 1320: The Seed of all Good!

Friends:

   The Saving Aspects of Morality?

The Primary Aspect of Morality is:
Composing internal consistency in all behaviour…

The Dual Aspects of Morality are:
Keeping the rules and avoiding wrongdoing…
Good behaviour and mental purification…
Good intention and complete self-control…
Dependent on prompting or own initiative…
Limited in extent or unlimited in extent…
Temporary & feeble or lifelong & stable…
Ordinary=Mundane or Supramundane=Noble…

The Triple aspects of Morality are:
Low, or medium, or superior…
Giving first priority to oneself, or to the world, or to the Dhamma…
Clung to, or not clung to, or naturally & spontaneously maintained…
Pure, or impure, or dubious and doubtful…
The learner’s, the learned’s, or the neither-learner-nor-learned’s…

The Quadruple aspects of Morality are:
Leading to falling, to stagnation, to distinction, or to penetration…
That of Bhikkhus, or Bhikkhunis, or novices, or the laity…
Being natural, customary, necessary, or caused by prior events…
Regarding the rules, the sense doors, livelihood, or the requisites…

The Fivefold aspects of Morality are:
Limited, unlimited, completed, detached, and tranquillized purity…
Intending, refraining, controlling, leaving, and non-transgression…
These are the various inherent aspects of Morality…

Source: The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga.
Written by 'the great explainer' Ven. Buddhaghosa in 5th century AC.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=771100

More on this basic first cause of all Good: Morality (Sīla)! 
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Happy_Habit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/What_is_Virtue.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/immaculate_virtue.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Best_Protection.htm
http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/V/The_Good_Disciple.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Five_Basics.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Best_Buddhist_Praxis.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sila_Contemplation.htm

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Morality is the Seed of all Good!

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