Foregone Conclusions
Introduction
One more shot at this, this time in some detail with the entire focus being on making the underlying meaning comprehensible to us (American English Speaking) today (Monday, July 14, 2003 12:11 PM).
Relax! Do not try to force this into a linear (time-bound) structure. This is how it is for the Arahant, one who is "akalika:" not bound up in this Time stuff.
This is not intended to be all-enclusive.
Given this,
the result is that
cut down this
to cut down that
Given:
Not Seeing that:
I. Whatsoever can be called "This"[1] is inherently painful[2];
That is:
Birth is inherently painful
Aging is inherently painful
Sickness is inherently painful
Death is inherently painful
Grief and Lamentation are inherently painful
Pain and Misery are inherently painful
and Despair is inherently painful
Association with what is not liked is inherently painful
Not Getting what is wished for is inherently painful
In a word:
The 5-Dimensional Stockpiles of Existence
Anything that has materialized is inherently painful
Sense Experience is inherently painful
Perception is inherently painful
The Made Personal is inherently painful
Individualized Consciousness[3] is inherently painful
Or stated another way:
The All
The Eye and Sights are inherently painful
The Ear and Sounds are inherently painful
The Nose and Scents are inherently painful
The Tongue and Tastes are inherently painful
The Body and Touches are inherently painful
The Mind and Ideation are inherently painful
Or stated another way:
The Six Great Elements
Earth (or Solidity) is inherently painful
Water (or Liquidity) is inherently painful
Fire (or Heat) is inherently painful
Wind (or Motion) is inherently painful
Space is inherently painful
Individualized Consciousness is inherently painful
II. That Pain is the result of Thirst:
A. For Pleasure;
For Pleasurable Materializations
For Pleasurable Sense Experiences
For Pleasurable Perceptions
For A Pleasurable personal world
Made by identification with the intent to create pleasure[4] with actions of body and the resulting attachment of an idea of "Me" or "My" to the consequences
Made by identification with the intent to create pleasure with actions of word-thought and speech and the resulting attachment of an idea of "Me" or "My" to the consequences
Made by identification with the intent to create pleasure with actions of mind and the resulting attachment of an idea of "Me" or "My" to the consequences
For Pleasurable States of Individualized Consciousness
Consciousness of Pleasurable Sights
Consciousness of Pleasurable Sounds
Consciousness of Pleasurable Scents
Consciousness of Pleasurable Tastes
Consciousness of Pleasurable Touches
Consciousness of Pleasurable Thoughts
B. For Living;
In worlds characterized by Sensual Indulgence
Indulgence in Sights
Indulgence in Sounds
Indulgence in Scents
Indulgence in Tastes
Indulgence in Touches
Indulgence in Thoughts
Hell Worlds
Ghost Worlds
Demonic Worlds
Animal Worlds
Human Worlds
Lower Godly Worlds
In worlds characterized only by Materiality
The Realm of the Gods of Radiance
The Realm of the Gods of Luminescence
The Realm of the Gods of Abundant Fruit
In worlds characterized by Non-Materiality
The Realm of the Gods of Non-Percipience
The Realm of Limitless Space
The Realm of Limitless Consciousness
The Realm of No-Thing to be Had There
The Realm of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception
C. For Unliving; Re-Living; and More-living;
III. That the eradication of Thirst results in the Eradication of Pain:
That is, eradication of thirst
A. For Pleasure;
1. For Pleasurable Materializations
2. For Pleasurable Sense Experiences
3. For Pleasurable Perceptions
4. For A Pleasurable personal world
a. Made by identification with the intent to create pleasure with actions of body and the resulting attachment of an idea of "Me" or "My" to the consequences
b. Made by identification with the intent to create pleasure with actions of word-thought and speech and the resulting attachment of an idea of "Me" or "My" to the consequences
c. Made by identification with the intent to create pleasure with actions of mind and the resulting attachment of an idea of "Me" or "My" to the consequences
For Pleasurable States of Individualized Consciousness
Consciousness of Pleasurable Sights
Consciousness of Pleasurable Sounds
Consciousness of Pleasurable Scents
Consciousness of Pleasurable Tastes
Consciousness of Pleasurable Touches
Consciousness of Pleasurable Thoughts
B. For Living;
In worlds characterized by Sensual Indulgence
Indulgence in Sights
Indulgence in Sounds
Indulgence in Scents
Indulgence in Tastes
Indulgence in Touches
Indulgence in Thoughts
Hell Worlds
Ghost Worlds
Demonic Worlds
Animal Worlds
Human Worlds
Lower Godly Worlds
In worlds characterized only by Materiality
The Realm of the Gods of Radiance
The Realm of the Gods of Luminescence
The Realm of the Gods of Abundant Fruit
In worlds characterized by Non-Materiality
The Realm of the Gods of Non-Percipience
The Realm of Limitless Space
The Realm of Limitless Consciousness
The Realm of No-Thing There
The Realm of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception
C. For Unliving; Re-Living; and More-living;
IV. That The Way to end Thirst is this Aristocratic Multidimensional High Way:
A. High Thesis:
1. Whatsoever can be called "This" [Repeat I] is Pain;
2. That Pain is the result of Thirst [Repeat II]:
3. That the end of Thirst [Repeat III] results in the End of Pain; and
4. That the way to end Thirst is this Aristocratic Multidimensional High Way:
High Thesis [Repeat IV: A-H — Infinite Loop]
High Principles
High Talk
High Works
High Lifestyle
High Self Control
High Mind
High Serinity
B. High Principles:
1. Dumping, Giving up, Letting Go, Renunciation
2. Non-Harm; non physical injury
3. Non-Deviation from The Way [Repeat IV: A-H — Infinite Loop]
C. High Talk:
Abstention from Untrue Speech
Abstention from Harmful/Cruel Speech
Abstention from Talk about what is not-Dhamma [by inference: only talk about The Way: Repeat IV: A-H — Infinite Loop]
D. High Works:
Abstention from Deceitful Works
Abstention from Harmful/Cruel Works
Abstention from Works that deviate from The Way [Repeat IV: A-H — Infinite Loop]
E. High Lifestyle:
Making a Lifestyle of identifying the components of one's behavior in accordance with The Way [Repeat IV: A-H — Infinite Loop] and discarding those elements found to deviate from that.
F. High Self Control:
1. Exerting Energy to Restrain those components of one's behavior
a. Made by Identification with the intent to create pleasure with Actions of Body
b. Made by Identification with the intent to create pleasure with Actions of Word-Thought and Speech
c. Made by Identification with the intent to create pleasure with Actions of Mind
that are present in the here and now that are not in accordance with The Way [Repeat IV: A-H — Infinite Loop]
2. Exerting Energy to Refrain from those components of one's behavior [Repeat F:1:a-c] that are present in the here and now that are not in accordance with The Way [Repeat IV: A-H — Infinite Loop]
3. Exerting Energy to Obtain those components of behavior [Repeat F:1:a-c] that are not present in the here and now that are in accordance with The Way [Repeat IV: A-H — Infinite Loop] , and
4. Exerting Energy to Retain those components of one's behavior [Repeat F:1:a-c] that are present in the here and now that are in accordance with The Way [Repeat IV: A-H — Infinite Loop] .
G. High Mind
1. Living in a Body, Live Overseeing the Body ardently developing
a. Penetrating Knowledge
i. of one's own body
a1. seeing how it comes to be
b1. seeing how it comes to end
c1. seeing how it comes to be only to come to end
ii. of external bodies
a1. seeing how they come to be
b1. seeing how they come to end
c1. seeing how they come to be only to come to end
iii. of one's own and external bodies
a1. seeing how they come to be
b1. seeing how they come to end
c1. seeing how they come to be only to come to end
iv. developing just sufficient attention to establish the conscious awareness that "Such is the Nature of Body"
b. and Release — such that one is able
i. To Let go of one's Angry [Deviating from The Way], Downbound, Longing [Thirst — Repeat II] and Misery [Pain — Repeat I] — To Exercise Self Control [Repeat High Self Control]
ii. To rising above it all [Repeat High Lifestyle],
iii. While being Watchful and Diligent [= High Minding Repeat G], and
iv. Minding [Repeat G],
v. Reviewing (by way of High Thesis — Repeat A], and
vi. Calming Down (by way of High Getting High — Repeat H)
vii. Overcoming any Thirst [Repeat II] that may appear
viii. Bound up bound up in nothing at all in the world [="This"]
c. By Minding the Breathing
d. By Minding the Positioning of the Body
e. By Minding the Actions of the Body
f. By Minding the Foulness of the Components of the Body
g. By Minding the Composition of the Body in terms of the Four Great Elements
h. By Minding the Mortality of the Body by comparison with the various states of decay of a Dead Body.
2. Living in a the Senses, Live Overseeing the Senses ardently developing
a. Penetrating Knowledge
i. of one's own senses
a1. seeing how they come to be
b1. seeing how they come to end
c1. seeing how they come to be only to come to end
ii. of external senses
a1. seeing how they come to be
b1. seeing how they come to end
c1. seeing how they come to be only to come to end
iii. of one's own and external senses
a1. seeing how they come to be
b1. seeing how they come to end
c1. seeing how they come to be only to come to end
iv. developing just sufficient attention to establish the conscious awareness that "Such is the Nature of the Senses"
b. and Release — such that one is able
i. To Let go of one's Angry [Deviating from The Way], Downbound, Longing [Thirst — Repeat II] and Misery [Pain — Repeat I] — To Exercise Self Control [Repeat High Self Control]
ii. To rising above it all [Repeat High Lifestyle],
iii. While being Watchful and Diligent [= High Minding Repeat G], and
iv. Minding [Repeat G],
v. Reviewing (by way of High Thesis — Repeat A], and
vi. Calming Down (by way of High Getting High — Repeat H)
vii. Overcoming any Thirst [Repeat II] that may appear
viii. Bound up bound up in nothing at all in the world [="This"]
c. By minding the Pleasant Sensations Downbound to the World
d. By minding the Unpleasant Sensations Downbound to the World
e. By minding the Not-Unpleasant-but-not-Pleasant Sensations Downbound to the World
f. By minding the Pleasant Sensations Not Downbound to the World
g. By minding the Unpleasant Sensations Not Downbound to the World
h. By minding the Not-Unpleasant-but-not-Pleasant Sensations Not Downbound to the World
3. Living in a the Emotions, Live Overseeing the Emotions ardently developing
a. Penetrating Knowledge
i. of one's own Emotions
a1. seeing how they come to be
b1. seeing how they come to end
c1. seeing how they come to be only to come to end
ii. of external Emotions
a1. seeing how they come to be
b1. seeing how they come to end
c1. seeing how they come to be only to come to end
iii. of one's own and external Emotions
a1. seeing how they come to be
b1. seeing how they come to end
c1. seeing how they come to be only to come to end
iv. developing just sufficient attention to establish the conscious awareness that "Such is the Nature of the Emotions"
b. and Release — such that one is able
i. To Let go of one's Angry [Deviating from The Way], Downbound, Longing [Thirst — Repeat II] and Misery [Pain — Repeat I] — To Exercise Self Control [Repeat High Self Control]
ii. To rising above it all [Repeat High Lifestyle],
iii. While being Watchful and Diligent [= High Minding Repeat G], and
iv. Minding [Repeat G],
v. Reviewing (by way of High Thesis — Repeat A], and
vi. Calming Down (by way of High Getting High — Repeat H)
vii. Overcoming any Thirst [Repeat II] that may appear
viii. Bound up bound up in nothing at all in the world [="This"]
c. By minding the heart full of lust
d. By minding the heart free of lust
e. By minding the heart full of anger
f. By minding the heart free of anger
g. By minding the low-mind
h. By minding the high-mind
i. By minding the narrow-mind
j. By minding the broad-mind
k. By minding the closed-mind
l. By minding the open-mind
m. By minding the less than superior mind
n. By minding the mind that is nothing less than superior
o. By minding the unbalanced mind
p. By minding the balanced mind
q. By minding the unliberated mind
r. By minding the free mind
4. Living in a the Dhamma, Live Overseeing the Dhamma ardently developing
a. Penetrating Knowledge
i. of the Dhamma as it applies to one's self
a1. seeing how Dhamma applies as things come to be
b1. seeing how Dhamma applies as things come to end
c1. seeing how Dhamma applies as things come to be only to come to end
ii. of the Dhamma as it applies to the external
a1. seeing how Dhamma applies as things come to be
b1. seeing how Dhamma applies as things come to end
c1. seeing how Dhamma applies as things come to be only to come to end
iii. of the Dhamma as it applies to one's own and external Emotions
a1. seeing how Dhamma applies as things come to be
b1. seeing how Dhamma applies as things come to end
c1. seeing how Dhamma applies as things come to be only to come to end
iv. developing just sufficient attention to establish the conscious awareness that "Such is the Nature of the Dhamma"
b. and Release — such that one is able
i. To Let go of one's Angry [Deviating from The Way], Downbound, Longing [Thirst — Repeat II] and Misery [Pain — Repeat I] — To Exercise Self Control [Repeat High Self Control]
ii. To rising above it all [Repeat High Lifestyle],
iii. While being Watchful and Diligent [= High Minding Repeat G], and
iv. Minding [Repeat G],
v. Reviewing (by way of High Thesis — Repeat A], and
vi. Calming Down (by way of High Getting High — Repeat H)
vii. Overcoming any Thirst [Repeat II] that may appear
viii. Bound up bound up in nothing at all in the world [="This"]
c. By Minding the Dhamma by way of the Bindups
d. By Minding the Dhamma by way of The Five Dimensional Stockpile of Existence
e. By Minding the Dhamma by way of the Realm of the Senses
f. By Minding the Dhamma by way of the Seven Dimensions of Self-Awakening
g. By Minding the Dhamma by way of the Four Aristocratic Truths.
H. High Serenity/High Getting High
Abandoning the Bindups
Find a Solitary Place
Get Focused by Minding [Repeat G]
Find Enjoyment in the Peace and Calm of Solitude and by that enter into and abide in The First Burning
From there Enter into the Empty
The Pointless
The Signless
Abandon Thinking
Get Focused by Minding Serenity/HighGetting
Find Enjoyment in Serenity/HighGetting and by that enter into and abide in the Second Burning
From there Enter into the Empty
The Pointless
The Signless
Abandon Enjoyment and enthusiasm
Get Focused by Minding Ease
Find Ease and by that enter into and abide in the Third Burning
From there Enter into the Empty
The Pointless
The Signless
Abandon Ease
Get Focused on Detachment
Find Detachment and by that enter into and abide in the Fourth Burning
From there Enter into the Empty
The Pointless
The Signless
the Result is
Own-making Co-Founding: the making of the personal world by identification with intentional acts of mind, speech and body where the intention is to create pleasant sensations for one's self;[5] which result is experienced according to the previous store of pleasant, unpleasant, or not unpleasant but not pleasant previously set up kammic consequences attributable to the "life-stream" known as "so-and-so" together with whatever other mental and material substances (nama/rupa: earth, water, fire, wind, space and consciousness; the eye and sights, the ear and sounds, the nose and scents, the tongue and tastes; the body and touches, the mind and thoughts; material substances, sense experiences, perceptions, own-made co-foundings, and consciousness) are required to form the picture (world) that conveys those sensations.
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Given Own-Making Co-Founding:
Identification with the intent to create:
Pleasant Sights
Pleasant Sounds
Pleasant Scents
Pleasant Tastes
Pleasant Touches, or
Pleasant Mental States
by way of acts of Mind (intent, wishing, scheming, willing), acts of speech, or acts of body,
the Result is Recognition (re-cognition, Individualized Consciousness, Self-awareness).
Conscious awareness of the amalgam created by the intent of the individual, the opportunity given by that intent to the scope of the pleasant, unpleasant, or not unpleasant but not pleasant kammic results available to the individual, and the other materials available for the creation of the results, set rolling by the intent, experienced as conscious awareness of what is thought of as "My":
I. Seeing
II. Hearing
III. Scenting
IV. Tasting
V. Touching
VI. Thinking
Given Recognition (re-cognition, Individualized Consciousness, Self-awareness)
of what is considered to be "My" Seeing, Hearing, Scenting, Tasting, Touching, and Thinking,
the Result is Identified Things:
The identification (names) given to sights, sounds, scents, tastes, touches, and ideas together with their corresponding material manifestations.[6]
Given Identified Things
the Result is Recognition (re-cognition, Individualized Consciousness, Self-awareness)
Given Recognition
the Result is The Six-fold Sense Spheres
Given the Six-fold Sense Spheres
the Result is Contact
Given Contact
the Result is Sense Experience
Given Sense Experience
the Result is Thirst
Given Thirst
the Result is Getting Involved
Given Getting Involved
the Result is Living
Given Living
the result is Birth
Given Birth
the result is Aging and Death
Grief and Lamentation
Pain and Misery
and Despair
Given Aging and Death, Grief and Lamentation, Pain and Misery and Despair
the Result is Seeking
Given Seeking
The Result is Hearing Dhamma
Cut Down Not Seeing
Cuts Down Own-making
Cut Down Own-Making
Cuts Down Recognition
Cut Down Recognition
Cuts Down Identified Things
Cut Down Identified Things
Cuts Down Consciousness
Cut Down Consciousness
Cuts Down the Six-fold Sense Spheres
Cut Down the Six-fold Sense Spheres
Cuts Down Contact
Cut Down Contact
Cuts Down Sense Experience
Cut Down Sense Experience
Cuts Down Thirst
Cut Down Thirst
Cuts Down Getting Involved
Cut Down Getting Involved
Cuts Down Living
Cut Down Living
Cuts Down Birth
Cut Down Birth
Cuts Down Aging and Death
Grief and Lamentation
Pain and Misery
and Despair
Given Hearing Dhamma
the Result is Testing the Truth
Given Testing the Truth
the Result is Evaluating Results
Given Evaluating Results
the Result is Trusting Dhamma
Given Trusting Dhamma
the Result is Effort at Self-Control
Given Effort at Self-Control
the Result is Mental Preparation
Given Mental Preparation
the Result is Serenity/Getting High together with Seeing by way of Dhamma
Given Serenity/Getting High together with Seeing by way of Dhamma
the Result is Disgust (no-taste for) for all the things of the World
Given Disgust
the Result is Detachment
Given Detachment
the Result is Freedom
Given Freedom
the Result is Knowledge of Freedom
[1] Being whatever has resulted from this Not Seeing. See: "Own-Making"
[2] "inherently" because there are many things which are passing fair (distortion of old term): pleasant for a short time but bring pain on ending.
[3] Viññāṇā: Individualized Consciousness. "Individualized" means in any way or form held to belong to a self (whether human or God, self or soul, whether single or multiple, universal or diverse, high or low), to have come to be, or to endure over time.
[4] Being the intent of every intentional act, including those intended to inflict pain on others, to attain Nibbāna by the creation of sensations which are not unpleasant but not pleasant; and to just waste time with no specific idea of creating pleasure or pain, etc. Don't quibble.
[5] Consciousness informed by an idea of self or "own-ness." The result of Own-making Co-founding conditioned by any point of view other than High View. Since one who saw and was able to completely act in accordance with High View would not "Own-make, Co-found" at all, this means any Own-made or Co-founded thing, which is another way of saying: "This." This statement is made conditionally this way by me to account for the phenomena of the Streamwinner, Once Returner, and Non-Returner who do "see" High View in principle, but who could be said to have "blind spots" resulting in painful consequences.
[6] In this system, and in Indian thought generally, "thoughts" are considered "things" objects.
References:
Saṃyutta Nikāya, II: #65: Nagaram, pp 104
PTS: The Book of the Kindred Sayings, II #65: The City, Mrs. Rhys Davids, trans, pp72
WP: The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, I, II The Book of Causation #65: The City, Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans, pp600
ATI: Saṃyutta Nikāya, XII.65 Nagara Sutta The City Translated from the Pāḷi by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
BD: The Lost Citadel, olds translation of SN II.#65: Nagara
