|
An ocean of tears"Which is greater, the tears you have shed while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time — crying & weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing — or the water in the four great oceans?... This is the greater: the tears you have shed... |
^^^^ |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
"Long have you (repeatedly) experienced the death of a mother. The tears you have shed over the death of a mother while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time — crying & weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing — are greater than the water in the four great oceans. |
^^^^^^ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
"Long have you (repeatedly) experienced the death of a father... the death of a brother... the death of a sister... the death of a son... the death of a daughter... loss with regard to relatives... loss with regard to wealth... loss with regard to disease. The tears you have shed over loss with regard to disease while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time — crying & weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing — are greater than the water in the four great oceans. |
^^^^^^ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
"Why is that? From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering on. Long have you thus experienced stress, experienced pain, experienced loss, swelling the cemeteries — enough to become disenchanted with all fabricated things, enough to become dispassionate, enough to be released." — SN 15.3 |
^^^^^ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This precious human birth"Monks, suppose that this great earth were totally covered with water, and a man were to toss a yoke with a single hole there. A wind from the east would push it west, a wind from the west would push it east. A wind from the north would push it south, a wind from the south would push it north. And suppose a blind sea-turtle were there. It would come to the surface once every one hundred years. Now what do you think: would that blind sea-turtle, coming to the surface once every one hundred years, stick his neck into the yoke with a single hole?"
| ^^^^^
|
"It would be a sheer coincidence, lord, that the blind sea-turtle, coming to the surface once every one hundred years, would stick his neck into the yoke with a single hole."
| ^^^^^
|
"It's likewise a sheer coincidence that one obtains the human state. It's likewise a sheer coincidence that a Tathagata, worthy & rightly self-awakened, arises in the world. It's likewise a sheer coincidence that a doctrine & discipline expounded by a Tathagata appears in the world. Now, this human state has been obtained. A Tathagata, worthy & rightly self-awakened, has arisen in the world. A doctrine & discipline expounded by a Tathagata appears in the world.
| ^^^^^^
|
"Therefore your duty is the contemplation: 'This is stress...This is the origination of stress...This is the cessation of stress...This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of stress.'" — SN 56.48
| ^^^^^
|
Why do we wander in samsara?"It's because of not understanding and not penetrating four things that we have wandered & transmigrated on such a long, long time, you & I. Which four?
| ^^^^^
|
"It's because of not understanding and not penetrating noble virtue that we have wandered & transmigrated on such a long, long time, you & I.
| ^^^^^^
|
"It's because of not understanding and not penetrating noble concentration that we have wandered & transmigrated on such a long, long time, you & I.
| ^^^^^^
|
"It's because of not understanding and not penetrating noble discernment that we have wandered & transmigrated on such a long, long time, you & I.
| ^^^^^^
|
"It's because of not understanding and not penetrating noble release that we have wandered & transmigrated on such a long, long time, you & I.
| ^^^^^
|
"But when noble virtue is understood & penetrated, when noble concentration... noble discernment... noble release is understood & penetrated, then craving for becoming is destroyed, the guide to becoming (craving & attachment) is ended, there is now no further becoming." — AN 4.1
| ^^^^^
|
See also:
| ^^^^^ Chủ biên và điều hành: TT Thích Giác Đẳng. |
Những đóng góp dịch thuật xin gửi về TT Thích Giác Đẳng tại giacdang@phapluan.com Cập nhập ngày: Thứ Sáu 08-11-2006 | Kỹ thuật trình bày: Minh Hạnh & Thiện Pháp
|
| |