How can one realize the Deathless Here and Now?
The Blessed Buddha once
said:
Bhikkhus, there are these
Four
Foundations of Awareness. What four?
When a Bhikkhu keenly contemplates:
1: The mere form within
all Body...
2: The mere reaction within all Feeling...
3: The
mere mood within all Mind...
4: The mental state within all Phenomena..
while always acutely aware
& clearly comprehending, he thereby removes
any
urge, envy, jealousy, frustration and discontent rooted in this world...
While contemplating the body as mere form, feeling as mere reaction, mind
as mere mood and all
phenomena as momentary mental states, whatever lust,
desire and craving he has
for any form, for any feeling, for any mentality, &
for whatever other phenomena, that very desire is abandoned & eliminated
right there and then! When desire is eliminated, the
Deathless element itself
is realized...
Details On Foundations
of Awareness (Sati):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/What_is_Right_Awareness.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Awareness_Sati.htm
More on this dual
Desire
(Chanda):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Fire_of_Sense-Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Desire_as_Way_to_Force.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Obstructing_Corruption.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Desireless_is_Deathless.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Two_kinds_of_Desire.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Colourful_but_Muddy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/chanda.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Charcoal_Pit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Desire_&_Lust.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Just_a_Flash.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Why_Not.htm
Source of reference (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:
181-2] 47 The Foundations of Awareness: 37 Desire..
