Friends:
Breakthrough to the Truths eliminates a Mountain of Suffering!
The Blessed
Gotama
Buddha
once explained:
Bhikkhus & friends, see this little dust, I have taken up upon the nail of
my little-finger, what do you think is most: This tiny dust or this great
planet Earth? The Bhikkhus then responded:
Venerable Sir, this great planet Earth is much more, incomparable more...
The minute speck of dust is trifling, microscopic, negligible in
comparison.
The Blessed
Gotama
Buddha then pointed out:
Similarly and exactly so too, Bhikkhus & friends, is that Suffering, which
remains for a Noble Disciple trifling, microscopic, negligible in
comparison.
For
such
Noble One, who is consummated in view, who has broken through
to understanding the
4 Noble Truths,
the accumulated mass of Suffering,
that has been shattered & irreversibly eliminated is incomparable more...
The Suffering that remains to be experienced for such a Noble person,
is trifling, microscopic, & negligible in comparison, since there remains
only
a maximum of 7 more lives for such a Noble One, as he is one who actually
understands all this as it really, truly, essentially and assuredly indeed
is:
This
is Suffering;
Craving is the
Cause of Suffering;
No
Craving is
the
End of Suffering;
The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore, Bhikkhus & friends, exertion should be made Now to understand:
All This
is Suffering;
This Greedy Craving
is the
sole Cause of all Suffering;
No
Craving is
the
End of Suffering;
The Noble 8-fold Way Ends all Suffering,
Therefore should effort to fathom these
4 Noble Truths be made NOW!
Comment:
Seeing the Truths is thus equivalent to a saving release from gigantic
pain!
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya. [V:459-60]
section 56: Saccasamyutta.
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