just some random thoughts.
For those who seek the pleasure of lustful physical sensations attached to the body and it's limited abilities to satify lust by eating, sex, scratching when itching and so on, this body may seem precious, beautiful. but they will come to know one day that it is not so. They will suffer from illness, old age and will be scared because this rotting corpes is dying.
For those who seek the pleasure of peace and serenity unattached to lustful bodily sensations, mindful and aware, aiming for the ultimate, the cessation of all wanting, of all thinking, the end of seeking any pleasure. they come to know that this body, may it be rotten and useless for the pupose of pleasures - but they should keep in mind that this body is the only and precious vehicle that allows a human being to go forth, to go beyond to get out of samsara. it should therefore, rotten and fragile as it is, treated with care and respect.
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path to truth - diary of a Buddhist nun
The Buddha said:
So hard to see, so very, very subtle, alighting wherever it likes: the mind. The wise should guard it. The mind protected brings ease.
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- Phalañānī
- former actrice and comedian for a long time quit stage and audience some years ago to live a peaceful and quiet life in a small village in spain. Actually i'm ordained as a theravada buddhist nun.
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Karania Metta Sutta
This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace: Let them be able and upright, Straightforward and gentle in speech, Humble and not conceited, Contented and easily satisfied, Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways. Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful, Not proud or demanding in nature. Let them not do the slightest thing That the wise would later reprove. Wishing: In gladness and in safety, May all beings be at ease. Whatever living beings there may be; Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, The great or the mighty, medium, short or small, The seen and the unseen, Those living near and far away, Those born and to-be-born — May all beings be at ease! Let none deceive another, Or despise any being in any state. Let none through anger or ill-will Wish harm upon another. Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart Should one cherish all living beings; Radiating kindness over the entire world: Spreading upwards to the skies, And downwards to the depths; Outwards and unbounded, Freed from hatred and ill-will. Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down Free from drowsiness, One should sustain this recollection. This is said to be the sublime abiding. By not holding to fixed views, The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision, Being freed from all sense desires, Is not born again into this world.
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