Sparse and short pleasure, but long Tribulation!
 Buddha-Direct 3803: Just a Flash...
Friends:
Sparse and short pleasure, but long Tribulation!
Pleasures obtained by contact at the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or the mind all fade away and vanish instantly, right when their contact ceases! They are all: Like a drop of honey on the edge of a razor blade: Short joy, but much later pain! Like a show seen in a flash of lightening: Momentary and exceedingly brief... Like a drink made thin and tasteless: Dissatisfying, frustrating and disappointing! Like food all rotten inside or poisoned: Afflicting and causing many problems later! Like a baited hook: First juicy, later torturing and tormenting and finally fatal! Like an inner prison: Encaging, punishing, bonding, addicting and making fully mad! Like sleeping in an enemy's village: Dangerous, hazardous, treacherous and risky! Like a burning hollow tree: Agitated inside, feverish, frantic, and violently painful! Like a chain of dry naked bare bones: Not healing any hunger, without any nutrition! Like many days of drinking only salt water: Worsening any thirst and dehydrating! Please note the ceasing of sensation, whenever sensing and remember this danger! This is the primary hindrance to break, the first flood to cross: Sense-Desire!
As the blessed Buddha often pointed out:
Blissful is being without passions in this world, Blissful is the overcoming of all sense-desires! Udana II, 1 More on the folly vanity of desire for simple Sense Pleasure (Hedonism):http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/ http://What-Buddha-Said.net/
Just a Flash...
Have a nice & noble day!
-- Home: http://groups.google.com/ Related Site: http://What-Buddha-Said.net Message emails to: Buddha-Direct@googlegroups.com Edit your membership to unsubscribed, normal email, summary, digest or no email here: http://groups.google.com/ May all beings become thus Happy! Friendship is the GREATEST! Have a Nice Noble Day! Bhikkhu Samahita --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Buddha-Direct" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to Buddha-Direct+unsubscribe@ For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/
|
|
People (3)
Show details
| ||||||||||||||||||||
Comments
Post a Comment