Friends:
There
are these three Mental Fermentations (Âsavas):
The Blessed Buddha
once said: Bhikkhus, there are these three mental fermentations. What three?
The mental Fermentation joined with sensuality..
The mental Fermentation linked with becoming..
The mental Fermentation associated with ignorance..
These
are the three mental fermentations.
The Noble
8-fold Way is to be developed for the direct experience of these three
fermentations,
for the full understanding of them, for their complete elimination, and for
their final overcoming,
abandoning and leaving all behind...…
Comment:
The mental
fermentation (āsava) linked with sensuality is the false assumption,
that sensing always
brings pleasure, while actually sensing associated with pain and neutral feeling, is
the most common!
The mental
fermentation associated with becoming is like wishing: May I become rich, famous,
and
praised, not noticing that any becoming inevitably is associated with death and thus
suffering too!
The mental Fermentation associated with ignorance is the misconceptions we
make by approximation:
Ex: We make the observation: The horizon is linear. Then we assume, project
& simplify by conceptual
generalization: 'The earth must be flat', which is a false mentally ‘brewed=fermented’
misconception…
For quite
a while many would chop off your head if you suggested anything else than that
error…
For Details on the 3 or 4 Mental Fermentations (āsava) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_7_Persons.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Final_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Uprooting_Ability.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Naturally_Radiant.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/aasava.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Proximate_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_VI.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Freed_from_Fermentation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:56] section 45: The Way. 163: The fermentations ...
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=948507
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/samyutta/index.html.
