Reply To: Understanding of Anicca

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Lal
Keymaster

Pathfinder wrote: 

“I have been thinking about how Bahiya gained enlightenment after one verse:

“Ditte Ditta Mattañ Bhavissathi ,

  Suthe Sutha Mattañ Bhavissathi,

  Mute Muta Mattañ Bhavissathi,

  Viññāte Viññāta mattañ Bhavissathi”

“Where there is seeing, there is only the seeing

  Where there is hearing, there is only the hearing,

  Where there is feeling, there is only the feeling,

  Where there is cognizing, there is only the cognizing.”

Here, there is no mention of rebirth, suffering, 4 noble truths, paticca samuppada, kamma, tilakkhana, and no mention that things are subject to changes. Which made me think that all these are not required at the bare minimum, one just has to understand that there is nothing more to the sense we perceive, and not create any more “mind made thoughts”. “

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The Buddha declared that Ven. Bahiya was the “highest in wisdom” among the disciples of the Buddha. 

  • Explanation of the deep meanings embedded in those verses requires many. many posts. Rebirth, suffering, 4 noble truths, paticca samuppada, kamma, tilakkhana, are all embedded in those verses.
  • I hope to make that connection in the new series of posts: “Meditation – Deeper Aspects.” The second post just posted, “Loka Sutta – Origin and Cessation of the World” explains why it is critical to pay attention to sensory inputs: seeing, hearing, etc.
  • Our attachments to this world are triggered by sensory inputs. That is why the Loka sutta says it is the origin of the world. Once one understands how such attachments are triggered by “distorted sanna” it will be easier to avoid such attachments. That is why the Loka sutta says the arising of the world can be stopped by stopping the rebirth process by attaining Arahanthood.
  • When the Buddha talks about the “cessation of the world,” he does not refer to destroying the physical world with an uncountable number of stars and planets, which is impossible. He means the cessation of the world for a given person. Once an Arahant dies, there is no rebirth anywhere in this world of 31 realms; that is the “cessation of the world” for that Arahant.