#All_actions_lead_to_dukkha:
- Breaking the five precepts leads to lower realms
- #Is_this_happiness_or_suffering? It's suffering
Even wholesome actions (puññābhisaṅkhāra):
- Giving (dāna) for human/deva happiness
- Keeping precepts (sīla)
These lead to the five aggregates (khandhas) - human or deva birth.
Does getting these khandhas free us from aging, sickness, death? No! #Where_does_it_end? In dukkha!
Even developing concentration (samādhi):
- The 40 meditation objects
- Jhānas leading to #āneñjābhisaṅkhāra (formless realm kamma)
- Still leads to becoming (bhava)
#From_the_perspective_of_the_Noble_Truths - it's all dukkha!
We must understand:
- The five aggregates
- The sense bases
- The elements
- The Four Noble Truths
- Dependent Origination
These teachings only come when a Buddha appears. We must investigate carefully!"
"Let's examine directly with the 'eyeglasses of wisdom' the Buddha gave us:
When we think we see a 'person':
#Do_we_see_a_person_or_just_color/form? Just rūpa.
When we touch what we think is a 'person':
#Do_we_find_a_person_or_just_sounds? Just sounds.
When we smell or taste:
#Do_we_find_a_person_or_just_sensations? Just sensations.
This is #rūpakkhandha.
When we feel with the body:
#Do_we_find_a_person_or_hot_and_cold? Just temperature (uṇha-tejo, sīta-tejo).
The knowing of these sensations:
- Not just one consciousness
- Includes feeling (vedanā)
- Perception (saññā)
- Mental formation (cetanā)
These four nāma-khandhas:
- Don't arise by themselves
- Not created by Brahmas
- Not created by an eternal god
- Not created by Vishnu
They arise from conditions:
- Two types of rūpa
- Kamma, citta, utu, āhāra
This is direct investigation of reality, seeing things as they truly are rather than how they appear conventionally."
"#Seeing_effects_arising_from_causes:
- Not a person, but five aggregates
- #What_we_find_is_not_beings_but_five_aggregates
When we see this:
- Identity view (sakkāya-diṭṭhi) falls away
- #Doubt_(vicikicchā)_ceases
- Āsavas of wrong view and ignorance end
The five aggregates:
- Form changes and breaks up
- Feeling, perception, formations, consciousness arise and pass
- #Do_we_find_aggregates_or_their_absence?
- Seeing impermanence is Path (magga)
#Working_with_the_Path:
- Path knowledge leads to Cessation (nirodha)
- #Nirodho_nibbānam
- When ignorance ceases, craving ceases
- Three rounds of dependent origination break
#When_Path_truth_enters_Nirodha_follows:
- Defilements cycle ceases
- Kamma cycle ceases
- Results cycle ceases
- This is Nibbāna
#Here_is_origin_and_suffering
#There_is_path_and_cessation
But remember:
#Until_we_hear_these_teachings
We must still make wholesome kamma
Otherwise #that_leads_straight_to_lower_realms"
