Reply To: Sabbe Sankhara

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Lal:

Perhaps the following is relevant to what Siebe is trying to convey.If it is not, please treat seperately.

For myself, the hard bit, not so much to understand, but to accept, is that even doing good is in the long run a hindrance and must be abandoned.

That is of course from my standpoint. Others may have gone beyond the irresistible urge to do and yearn for ‘the most good’ to those they are attached to and to all others in a general, universal sense (AND DOES THIS CONSTITUTE DASA AKUSAKA, OR LOBHA EVEN TO A DEGEE?)- they have reached where the Metta is exclusively universal. And |I am not there yet.

As I read Siebe, what I think he means is that when a Buddha or Arahant or even anyone else with the gati to do good and distributes Metta all around, he does that automatically, meaning HE HAS NO CHOICE. If you do something because you have no choice, then where is the merit? If you have a choice to choose between loving and hating and you choose to love, that has merits, it is noble. But where you cannot do otherwise, where is the virtue of it? This is what I think he means.

The way I see it one works for one’s good gati for lifetimes to attain. So the merit is there. Then one acts ‘automatically’, subconsciously in other words, because he has dispelled all wrong. True, he has no choice. He is UNABLE even to do wrong now. He can only do good. But AT THAT STAGE, HAVING ATTAINED THAT STAGE, all that is done away with.

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