Deceiving Sensuality: Empty of Happiness!
The Blessed
Buddha
explained all the phenomena of existence as a pain:
Whoever delights in forms, feelings, perceptions, mental constructions,
and in whatever kind of consciousness, also delights in plain Suffering!
Whoever delights in Suffering, cannot ever be freed from Suffering...
I tell you: So is it really!
SN 22:29
Delight is a Mixed and Camouflaged state!
Delight is
Craving mixed with & covered by the happiness of satisfaction!
Craving is the cause of Suffering! (So indeed is the
2nd Noble Truth!)
Therefore is Delight also camouflaged suffering! Deadly is Delight!
Why so? Because it makes one seek back for more delight!
This seeking itself is - in the death-moment - the very cause of rebirth!
When there is birth, there will also be death! Thus: Delight makes Death!
Beings are devoured by delight! Again and again! Decoy Delight!
INAPPROPRIATE
Why laugh? Why party?
Always is this world burning!
Why
when in darkness do you not seek light?
How can you find delight and
folly laughter
Where there is burning without end?
In the deepest darkness
are
you wrapped!
Why do you not seek for the light?
Dhammapada 146
THE FRAGILE FRAME
See this painted puppet, one big mass of sores,
a diseased frame of skin drawn upon bones,
once possessing many evil thoughts, a thing much
regarded & beloved, yet of neither stable,
nor ever lasting nature ... Look at this puppet here,
well rigged up, a heap of oozing sores, piled up,
Diseased, and full of greediness,
Unstable, and impermanent!
Dhammapada 147
ONLY A FORM
This body is worn out, a fragile form, a nest of disease,
a rotting mass of deception since its life
surely ends,
always, and inevitably ending only in Death ...
Devoured by old age is this
empty frame,
A prey to sickness, weak and frail;
Into pieces breaks this putrid body,
All life must truly end in death!
Dhammapada 148
Blissful
is freedom
from any sensual urge whatsoever!
Udana – Inspiration: II – 1
Comment:
Yes there is pleasure in the world. But it always goes away &
thus turns
into pain!
Taking delight means urging back here by rebirth, and therefore also more death!
All This - whatsoever - is Suffering: Such is the 1st Noble Truth:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Sour_Sense_Sources.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Seeking_Delight.htm
