Reply To: Post On Five Aggregates and Tilakkhaṇa – Introduction

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Lal
Keymaster

Yes. This is the key point: “Comprehension of the anicca nature is different”

We are used to thinking about worldly things as “good” and “bad.”
– What the Buddha pointed it that just trying to do “good” will not keep us away from the rebirth process. “Good deeds” WILL get us rebirths in “good realms.” So, we MUST do good deeds.
– But the problem is that the mind CAN BE tempted to do “bad things.” That happens especially when one is born into a “bad environment” meaning bad family, bad friends, etc.
– We know that a child born into a “bad environment” has a high probability of ending up a criminal or drug addict.

That is really the “hidden suffering” pointed out by the Buddha.
– What we perceive as “good” is not “absolute.” It CANNOT be kept that way.
– So, if we do good deeds, we may be born a Deva. If we cultivate jhana, we may be born a Brahma. But those lives come to an end, and then we have no idea what will happen next.
– Furthermore, even if one lives a perfect life in this life, one may have bad kamma from previous lives waiting to bring a bad birth. That is part of anusaya.

As long as there is hidden anusaya, temptation to do “bad” (and the possibility of a bad rebirth) WILL BE there.

Those anusaya (hidden defilements) will be removed from a mind only when that picture becomes clear.
– That is when one “sees” the “anicca nature.”