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Soh Wei Yu
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In a reply to someone, my summary of four noble truths:
There is suffering -- All aggregates subjected to appropriation (I-me-mine appropriation) is suffering [not to be mistaken as 'life is suffering']
There is a cause of suffering -- craving rooted in ignorance, driving karmic actions and samsaric rebirths. Although there never is/was in truth an I, a self, sentient beings conceive of a self, of inherent existence where there is none due to ignorance, and this ignorance drives suffering.
There is an end to suffering -- Nirvana [cessation] is the end of craving, aggression and ignorance -- the ending of ignorance through wisdom (that realizes the emptiness of self) in turns end all appropriation to aggregates (no more I-me-mine appropriation), which doesn't lead to a vacant void but in the seen just the seen, with no you in terms of that like Bahiya Sutta
There is a path that ends suffering -- the noble eightfold path, which is summarised as the threefold training of sila/conduct, samadhi/meditative composure and equipoise, prajna/wisdom
I highly recommend this PDF -- the chapters on cessation and selflessness and all other chapters which deals with the path --
Measureless Mind
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Measureless Mind
Thematical description of the Buddhist path based on the Pali scriptures
https://www.scribd.com/document/274168728/Measureless-Mind
William LimWhy is "all aggregates subjected to appropriation" suffering?
Soh Wei Yu“Now
this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering,
aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with
what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is
suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five
aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
Soh Wei YuThe ending of appropriation is happiness:
“Therefore,
bhikkhus, whatever is not yours, abandon it; when you have abandoned
it, that will lead to your welfare and happiness for a long time. What
is it that is not yours? Material form is not yours. Abandon it. When
you have abandoned it, that will lead to your welfare and happiness for a
long time. Feeling is not yours. Abandon it. When you have abandoned
it, that will lead to your welfare and happiness for a long time.
Perception is not yours. Abandon it. When you have abandoned it, that
will lead to your welfare and happiness for a long time. Formations are
not yours. Abandon them. When you have abandoned them, that will lead to
your welfare and happiness for a long time. Consciousness is not yours.
Abandon it. When you have abandoned it, that will lead to your welfare
and happiness for a long time.
“Bhikkhus,
what do you think? If people carried off the grass, sticks, branches,
and leaves in this Jeta Grove, or burned them, or did what they liked
with them, would you think: ‘People are carrying us off or burning us or
doing what they like with us’?”—“No, venerable sir. Why not? Because
that is neither our self nor what belongs to our self.”—“So too,
bhikkhus, whatever is not yours, abandon it; when you have abandoned it,
that will lead to your welfare and happiness for a long time. What is
it that is not yours? Material form is not yours…Feeling is not
yours…Perception is not yours…Formations are not yours…Consciousness is
not yours. Abandon it. When you have abandoned it, that will lead to
your welfare and happiness for a long time.
