Cugetari din Dharma

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"We tend to think that pleasantness and unpleasantness are characteristics that exist from the side of the object,
but in reality whether we experience an object as pleasant or unpleasant depends entirely upon our karma."

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"In the Sutras, Buddha says:
The fully ripened effects of actions ripen not on soil or stones, but only on consciousness.

This is because only consciousness has feelings, and only with feelings can we experience the ripened effects of actions.

Virtuous actions result in pleasant feelings,
non-virtuous actions in unpleasant feelings, and
neutral actions in neutral feelings."

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"The function of contaminated feelings is to act as the basis for the three poisons - attachment, hatred, and ignorance.

Contaminated pleasant feelings induce attachment,
contaminated unpleasant feelings induce hatred, and
contaminated neutral feelings induce ignorance.

In Guide to the Bodhisnttva's Way of Life Shantideva says:
Because of feeling, craving develops.


When ordinary beings develop pleasant feelings they develop craving, or attachment.

Similarly, their unpleasant feelings induce anger, and their neutral feelings induce ignorance.

By closely watching our mind we can observe these automatic reactions occurring almost continuously."

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"Contaminated feelings are like moisture germinating the seeds of delusion that we have carried from previous lives.

Uncontaminated feelings
Foe Destroyers have eradicated the seeds of delusion from their mental continuum and so even when they develop intensely pleasant feelings they do not develop desirous attachment.

Being free from self-grasping, their feelings are uncontaminated and so they cannot be the cause of delusions.


All contaminated feelings are objects to be abandoned."

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"Buddhas have only pleasant feelings." (uncontaminated)

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"There is a twofold division of feelings from the point of view of their uncommon dominant condition:
1.Bodily feelings
2.Mental feelings

Bodily feelings are feelings associated with the five sense consciousnesses.

They are generated in dependence upon a sense power possessing form.

Mental feelings are feelings associated with mental consciousness, which arise in dependence upon a mental power."

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"There is a twofold division of feelings from the point of view of their nature:
1.Contaminated feelings
2.Uncontaminated feelings

Contaminated feelings are feelings conjoined with self-grasp*ing, and uncontaminated feelings are feelings conjoined with wisdom directly realizing emptiness.

Until we attain the path of seeing, most of our feelings are contaminated feelings."

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"It is easy to generate a wish to abandon unpleasant feelings, but to generate a wish to abandon contaminated pleasant and neutral feelings we need a very good understanding of the nature of samsara.

Both contaminated feelings and contaminated discriminations are key links in the chain that binds us to samsara.

Contaminated discriminations identify objects as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral; and contaminated feelings experience them in these ways.

Contaminated feelings then give rise to the three poisons, which in turn lead us to perform contaminated actions, the principal causes of rebirth in samsara.

As mentioned earlier, it is because feelings and discriminations are so import*ant that when Buddha explained the five aggregates he selected them from among the 51 mental factors and designated them each as a separate aggregate."

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"According to Dharma, laziness is any mind that is disinclined to engage in virtuous activities, not just attachment to physical ease and sleep.

There is no more important spiritual task than to eliminate laziness.

Suppleness is the direct opponent to laziness.

With suppleness, virtuous activities such as contemplation or meditation become a pleasure and there is no reluctance to engage in them.


The serviceability of the mind, which is called 'suppleness', is one of the main benefits that come from concentration.

Although at present we have a certain degree of concentration when we meditate, it is relatively weak and short-lived, and so the suppleness it produces is subtle and difficult to recognize; but as our concentration becomes stronger and more stable our suppleness will also improve.


It is not just the intensity of suppleness that is important, for suppleness must also be firm and long-lasting.

If we have suppleness that lasts for twenty-four hours a day we shall always find it easy to engage in virtuous actions because we shall never become physically or mentally tired; and we shall always be delighted to listen to, contemplate, and meditate on Dharma teachings.

With this joy in Dharma practice we shall find no difficulty in accomplishing the five paths, the ten grounds, and the realizations of the two stages of Tantra."

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"Fericiti facatorii de pace caci ei vor mosteni imparatia cerurilor."

Pacea adevarata poate fi "facuta" doar atunci cand este eliminata orice tensiune in procesul cognitiei, cand cele 'trei sfere ale cunoasterii' sunt eliberate prin realizarea directa a naturii lor: subiect, obiect, proces cognitiv.