Friends:
Seeing the past Causes & their present Effects!
Once when the Venerable
Anuruddha was dwelling at
Savatthi
in
Jeta's Grove,
in
Anāthapindika's Park, a number of Bhikkhus went
to
the Venerable
Anuruddha & exchanged polite
greetings with him.
Then they sat down & asked the Ven.
Anuruddha: Venerable
Sir:
What has the Venerable Anuruddha developed & cultivated so
that
he has attained to his famous greatness of direct knowledge?
It is, friends, because I have developed and cultivated these four
Foundations of Awareness
that I have won great direct
knowledge.
What four? Here, friends, I dwell constantly contemplating upon:
The
Body as a formed group, neither as me, lasting nor pleasure!
The
Feelings
as passing sensations, neither as mine, nor pleasure!
The
Mind
as temporary mentalities, neither as I, nor as any soul!
All
Phenomena
as mental states neither as substance nor any real!
while eager,
clearly comprehending,
& fully
aware, thereby removing
all desire & frustration rooted in this world!
It is, friends, because
I have developed & cultivated these
Four
Foundations of Awareness
that I have become empowered with the suprahuman forces: With
the
divine eye,
which is purified & surpasses the human, I see beings
passing away and being reborn,
as inferior or superior, beautiful or
ugly, fortunate & unfortunate,
and I understand how beings travel
on in accordance with their
actions (=kamma)
thus: The beings who
misbehaved bodily, verbally & mentally, who reviled the Noble Ones,
held wrong view, and did
actions based on their wrong view, with the
break-up of their body, right
after death, they have been
reborn in
a state of
misery, in a painful
destination, in the lower worlds, even
in hell! But these other beings
who engaged in good behaviour bodily,
verbally and mentally, who did
not revile the Noble Ones, who held
right view, and undertook actions
based on this right view, with the
break-up of their body, after death, they are reborn in
a superior
and happy destination, even a divine world!
Thus with the
divine eye,
which is purified and surpasses the human, I see beings passing away
and being reborn, inferior and superior, beautiful & ugly, fortunate
and unfortunate, and I understand how beings are reborn
and fare
on in this round all in accordance with their past
kamma
(behaviour).
Source (edited extract):
The
Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta
Nikāya.
[V:305]
section 52: Anuruddha. Thread 23: The Divine Eye!
About
Abhiññā:
The
6 suprahuman forces, higher powers, or supernormal knowledge's see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/abhinna.htm
About
Kamma:
The
accumulation of intentional causes, which may have spurious effects see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Kamma_and_Fruit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Kamma_is_improvable.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Inevitable_Consequences.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rebirth.htm
About
the Divine Eye:
The
Dibba-Cakkhu see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Divine_Eye.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/dibba_cakkhu.htm
Buddha once said:
It is kamma that separates beings into inferiority and superiority!
MN iii 203
On folly longing after
a now unreal past, that has passed never ever to return:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No_Nostalgia.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/At_All_Times.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Seing_the_Past.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hidden_Horror.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Seing_Past_Lives.htm
Seeing the past Causes and present Effects!
