Happy is teaching of the True Dharma

“sukho buddhanam uppado sukha saddhammadesana”

Happy is birth of the Awakened Ones. Happy is teaching of the True Dharma.

What Buddha taught before 2060 years more appropriate today even more clearly visible. If we could cultivate peace of our mind we will be able see this clearly, we may be able to enjoy it joyfully.  What he saw and realized is so deep, he compassionately emphasized it and encouraged us, to make diligent effort to see this Dhamrma as it would be the greatest bliss. Patiently read and absorb what he taught us and be a diligent practitioner.

“‘I tell you, the ending of the mental fermentations depends on the first jhana. ‘Thus it has been said. In reference to what was it said? There is the case where a monk, secluded from sensuality, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters & remains in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born of seclusion, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. He regards whatever phenomena there that are connected with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness, as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a disintegration, an emptiness, not-self. He turns his mind away from those phenomena, and having done so, inclines his mind to the property of deathlessness: ‘This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.’

“Suppose that an archer or archer’s apprentice were to practice on a straw man or mound of clay, so that after a while he would become able to shoot long distances, to fire accurate shots in rapid succession, and to pierce great masses. In the same way, there is the case where a monk… enters & remains in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born of seclusion, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. He regards whatever phenomena there that are connected with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness, as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a disintegration, an emptiness, not-self. He turns his mind away from those phenomena, and having done so, inclines his mind to the property of deathlessness: ‘This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.’ … ” (AN-Jhana Sutta)

Deat Friends of Dhamma, this is the gift of Dhamma I like to offer you on this Day.

With thought of metta

Bhante Kondañña