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The following is to accompany the audio lecture Suffering and the View:
The Four Noble Truths
"It is through not understanding, not realizing four things, that I, Disciples, as well as you, had to wander so long through this round of rebirths. And what are these four things? They are the Noble Truth of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Extinction of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Path that leads to the Extinction of Suffering." - Buddha Gautama ShakyamuniTypes of Suffering
- Suffering of suffering: mental and physical pain which is suffered by all beings.
- Suffering of change: impermanence.
- Suffering of conditioning: psychophysical aggregates = contaminated actions and delusions.
"Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position, like a bough, which, bent down too forcibly, rebounds with corresponding vigor." - H.P.Blavatsky
“You are liberated when your delusions and contaminated karmic actions are exhausted.” - Nagarjuna
Through mindfulness we experience Interbeing
which means everything is in everything else.
Therefore, one should know that Perfect Understanding
is a great mantra, is the highest mantra,
is the unequalled mantra, the destroyer of all suffering,
the incorruptible truth. This is the mantra:
Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.
(the meaning of this Mantra is as follows: Proceed, Proceed, Proceed Beyond, Thoroughly Proceed Beyond, be founded in enlightenment )
- The Buddha in the Prajnaparamita Sutra ("Heart Sutra")
The Path
- View
- Meditation
- Action
And what is Right View? It is the knowledge of suffering, the knowledge of the origin of suffering, the knowledge of the cessation of suffering, and the knowledge of the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering. This is what is called Right View. – Buddha, from the Mahasatipaythana Sutra
The Noble Eightfold Path
| 1. Right View | Wisdom (View) |
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| 3. Right Speech | Ethical Conduct (Action) |
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| 5. Right Livelihood | ||
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| 6. Right Effort | Mental Development (Meditation) |
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| 7. Right Mindfulness | ||
| 8. Right Concentration |
That which one feels in the deepest part of one’s own Being is the only thing that can experience directly that which does not belong to time.
That which suffers on this side of the river, here in the Wheel of Samsara, is what suffers…
That which is on the other side of the river is that which does not belong to time… that is that… and you do not know it.
The Being of the Being is beyond the I, in the Garden of Love, in that which does not belong to time…
The Being of the Being is very far from the body, far from the affections and of the mind…
What one feels in one’s heart, the pain which afflicts one at a given moment, has it’s root in time.
That which has nothing to do with time is always on the other side of the river.
Real plenitude, authentic happiness, is found on the other side of the river.
Families arise in time. They are lost in time, they are always subjective, unconscious and suffer much.
Groups of human appear and disappear in time; they are corpses that live.
Those shadows of the past are phantoms, who cry, who project themselves towards the future through the alley of the present.
Many conflicts exist among those shadows of time.
What is behind ourselves in the interior of the interior is the Being…
Only the Being of the Being can experience the Truth directly.
The myself is on this side of the river.
The Being is on the other side of the river.
The myself is what is worth nothing. It is perishable.
The Being is the imperishable, that which is always new.
The myself is complicated, unconscious and painful.
The Being is simple, happy, and conscious.,
The myself is a knot that we have to untie.
The Being is perfect plenitude.
The diverse circumstances of life do not exist beyond time.
To feel what one should feel, what nobody understands what is unknown by he who feels what is not worth feeling, is in reality Being awake.
Behind the sentiment that one considers to be so real (which is not real) there is another sentiment that people do not understand.
The authentic happiness of the Being horrifies the ego…
That which is felt in the Being causes pain to the ego.
The Being and the ego are incompatible. They are like water and oil; they can never mix.
- Samael Aun Weor
Hallmarks of Correct View
- All conditioned existence is impermanent.
- All deluded experiences are suffering.
- All phenomena are empty and lack self-identity.
- Liberation is true peace.
The View is the wisdom of the Void. – Milarepa
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