Meditation Center Venezia

06/11/2021

=Weary of suffering=

"All conditioned phenomena are impermanent",
All conditioned phenomena are dukkha (suffering)"
All conditioned phenomena are without self";
when one sees this with Insight-wisdom, one becomes weary of dukkha (i.e., the khandhas).
This is the Path to Purity.

-Dhammapada verse 277, 278, 279

18/10/2021

=The Awakened Mind=

For one who is awake,
Whose mind isn’t overflowing,
Whose heart isn’t afflicted
And who has abandoned both merit and demerit, Fear does not exist.

Dhammapada, Verse 22

14/10/2021

=Health=

Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Dhammapada, verse 204

08/10/2021

=Peace=

There's no fire like passion,
no loss like anger,
no pain like the aggregates,
no ease other than peace.

Dhammapada, verse 202

28/09/2021

=Let it Go=

“Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.”

- Dhammapada, verse 348

01/06/2021

= Begin with Seclusion =

“Quite secluded from sense desires, secluded from unprofitable things he enters upon and dwells in the first jhāna, which is accompanied by applied and sustained thought with happiness and bliss born of seclusion”

- Buddhaghosa, Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)

29/05/2021

= Breaking the chain =

“In the context of Insight, nibbāna receive the usual schematic definition of being the destruction of raga, dosa, moha; the end of suffering; the absence of rebirth; the breaking of the chain of conditioned coproduction (praticcasamuppāda) which define the phenomenal existence; the unconditioned (asankhata), unmade (akata), unborn (ajāta), deathless (amata), state of eternal bliss in which the enlightened man fully know and understand the three fold characteristic (tilakkhana) of all conditioned things”

-Buddhaghosa, Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)

25/05/2021

=Concentrated Person=

“Understanding has the characteristic of penetrating the individual essences of states. Its function is to abolish the darkness of delusion, which conceals the individual essences of states. It is manifested as non-delusion. Because of the words, ‘One who is concentrated knows and sees correctly’ its proximate cause is concentration”

- Buddhaghosa, Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)

23/05/2021

=The door to non-death=

“Fully knowing all of the world, The wise one, by awakening, has opened the door to non-death, which safely reaches Nibbana.” (MN 34, 1. 225)

07/03/2021