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Drop of Dhamma Delight!
Friends:
No Need:
Friends, for the virtuous one, correctly
behaving, completed in morality, there is no need to wish:
“May I enjoy a clear conscience”, since the right action, of correct
behaviour completed by
purifying morality, naturally results in the arising of a clear
conscience.
Friends, for the moral one of clear
conscience, there is no need to wish: “May gladness pervade me”,
since any clear conscience spontaneously is followed by the appearance of
joyous
gladness!
Friends, for the glad one there is no
need to wish: “May rapture thrill me”,
since gladness automatically excites exalted rapture.
Friends, for the enraptured one there is
no need to wish: “May calm tranquillity still me”,
since rapture inherently simply evaporates all urge and frustrated
restlessness.
Friends, for one dwelling in serene
tranquillity there is no need to wish: “May pleasure perfuse me”,
since abiding calmly in tranquil ease all by itself, makes one delight in
pleasure.
Friends, for one perfused by pleasure
there is no need to wish: “May I be absorbed in concentration”,
since a mind filled with pleasure effortlessly & smoothly condenses into a
single focused unification!
Friends, for one concentrated there is no
need to wish: “May I understand reality as it actually develops”,
since the undistracted concentrated mind efficiently penetrates phenomena &
causes as they really are.
Friends, for one knowing & seeing reality
there is no need to wish: “May disgusted disillusion detach me”,
since seeing reality & knowing how it always becomes, induces detachment by
disgusted disillusion.
Friends, for one detached by disillusion
there is no need to wish: “May I realize final mental release
through absolute knowledge & vision”, since such disgusted disillusion, friends,
naturally, readily, easily,
essentially & characteristically culminates in the matchless, unsurpassable &
supreme releasing liberation
by complete knowledge & vision. Yeah, so mighty is morality!
Source: The Numerical
Sayings of the Buddha: Anguttara Nikaya V 2-3
Natural Bliss!
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