#How_to_contemplate_aggregates_and_truths (- When dealing with the world, while traveling, when riding in cars, isn't it good to contemplate the aggregates and truths? When flying in planes, isn't it good to contemplate aggregates and truths?
With your own mind, quietly, #you_need_to_carry_this_recitation. Same when riding ships. We need references for how to deeply reflect on these words.
Have you heard about Prince Janaka, a Bodhisatta of old, who observed eight precepts for seven days in the sea when his ship sank? You've heard how the deva Mechala rescued him, right?
All other people became fish food. Did they become fish food because they had precepts or because they didn't? Look there, #observing_precepts_is_virtue. Could the fish eat him?
If you contemplate this way and die in a plane crash, #wouldn't_you_reach_a_good_destination? If dying with path consciousness, you'd become a deva noble one. Even dying in a car crash. See how #wholesome_thoughts_enter?
But nowadays, people riding planes think scattered thoughts, and in cars they chat idly like popping corn or like cotton tree leaves falling.
Isn't it worth considering carrying this recitation? If you carry it always, isn't it taught as wholesome kamma? Is wholesome kamma unfortunate or fortunate? (Fortunate, Lord)
This is called #carrying_fortune. Strive to reach this state. It's good. Carrying wholesome kamma is called fortune, you see? But now people are carrying unwholesome things. #We_need_to_transform_our_wisdom.
