#Path to Enlightenment

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The Quest for Buddhism (79)

Seven sets of thirty-seven qualities - The Thirty-Seven Dharma Practices conducive to Enlightenment

Within these seven sets of bodhi-related qualities, there is listed a total of thirty-seven repetitious and interrelated qualities ( sattatimsa, literally “37 bodhipakkhiya dhamma”) which conducive to Enlightenment.

It is divided into seven sections [see below]:

4 establishments/presences of mindfulness:

Mindfulness of the body

Mindfulness of feelings

Mindfulness of mental states

Mindfulness of mental qualities

4 right exertions/efforts/strivings:

Effort for the preventing of unskillful states to arise

Effort for the abandoning of the already arisen unskillful states

Effort for the arising of skillful states

Effort for the sustaining and increasing of arisen skillful states

4 bases of spiritual power:

Intention or will (chanda, chanda)

Effort (viriya, vīrya)

Consciousness (citta, citta)

Skill of Analysis (vimamsa, minamsa)

5 Strengths:

Conviction

Effort (viriya, vīrya)

Mindfulness (sati, smrti)

Concentration/Unification (samādhi, samādhi)

Wisdom (paññā, prajñā)

7 Factors of bodhi:

Mindfulness (sati, smrti)

Investigation (dhamma vicaya, dharmapravicaya)

Effort (viriya, vīrya)

Joy (pīti, prīti)

Tranquillity (passaddhi, praśrabdhi)

Concentration/Unification (samādhi, samādhi)

Equanimity (upekkhā, upeksa)

Noble 8fold Path

Right Understanding

Right Intention

Right Speech

Right Action

Right Livelihood

Right Effort/Energy

Right Mindfulness

Right Concentration/Unification

仏教の探求 (79)

七科三十七道品 (しちかさんじゅうしちどうほん)〜悟りを開くための37の修行法

三十七道品 (さんじゅうしちどうほん) または三十七菩提分法 (さんじゅうしちぼだいぶん��う、巴: ｻｯﾀｰﾃｨﾑｻ(37の意)ﾎﾞｰﾃﾞｨﾊﾟｯｷｬｰ･ﾀﾞﾝﾏ)とは、パーリ語経典長部の大般涅槃経 (だいはつねはんぎょう、巴: ﾏﾊｰﾊﾟﾘﾆｯﾊﾞ-ﾅ･ｽｯﾀ(ﾝﾀ))、漢訳の中阿含経(ちゅうあごんきょう、梵: ﾏｰディﾔｰﾏ･ｱｶﾞﾏ、巴: ﾏｯｼﾞﾏ･ﾆｶｰﾔ)などに説かれた、仏教において悟りに至るための三十七の修行法のこと。

四念住・四正断・四神足・五根・五力・七覚支・八正道の七科に分かれる [以下参照]:

四念住 (四念処)・四種の観想

身念住（体をあるがままに観察する）

受念住（受をあるがままに観察する）

心念住（心をあるがままに観察する）

法念住（法をあるがままに観察する）

四正断(四正勤)・四つの努力

已生悪断（すでに生じた悪は除くように）

未生悪令不生（いまだ生じてない悪は生じないように）

未生善令生（いまだ生じていない善は生ずるように）

已生善令増長（すでに生じた善は増すように）

四神足 (四如意足)・四つの自在力

欲（すぐれた瞑想を得ようと願う）

精進（すぐれた瞑想を得ようと努力する）

念（すぐれた瞑想を得ようと心を集中する）

思惟（すぐれた瞑想を得ようと智慧をもって思惟観察する）

五根・五つの能力

信根

精進根

念根

定根

慧根

五力・五つの行動力

信力

精進力

念力

定力

慧力

七覚支・七つの悟りを構成するもの

念（身・受・心・法の状態を観察、気をつけていること）- マインドフルネス

択法（法を調べること）

精進（努力）

喜（修行を実践することで生まれる喜び）

軽安（心身の軽やかさ）

定（心を集中して乱さない）

捨（対象への執着がない状態）

八正道・八つの正しい行い

正見（正しい見解）

正思惟（正しい考え）

正語（正しい言葉）

正業（正しい行為）

正命（正しい生業）

正精進（正しい努力）

正念（正しい念慮、気づき）

正定（正しい集中

[pratchettquotes]

It's a strange thing about determined seekers-after-wisdom that, no matter where they happen to be, they'll always seek that wisdom which is a long way off. Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

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[your-heart-is-a-treasure]

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

[loveiszen]

Happiness: A Fool’s Errand

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.” ― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

Last night I was up, a lot. Thoughts filled my head.. were they anxious? Maybe... but they serve their purpose as I prepare for another change I had not planned for but something I must do if I ever want to get to where I’m headed: happiness. 

When I broke away from the cycle that had me so desperately UNhappy, I did it because I owed it to myself to TRY to carve out something else, something better and I owed it to the little girl that had hoped and dreamed the world for me. 

The thing I didn’t realize is that once you start down a path of great change, you become awakened to so much that you can no longer “let slide” the things you would have as your previous self AND this sets you on a journey that seems never-loving-ending. 

Of course, I knew things would not be easy, how could they be when I’d be building my life, and my self again from the pieces that fell around me and the new ones I’d pick up on my pilgrimage to ??? Happiness... I think.

There have been happy, joyous, wonderful moments in my life I wish I had bottled so I could take them like a shot just to remind myself that they do exist and that all this is worth it.

I’m tired... of growth, learning, boundary setting and resetting, and of making changes. I’m angry, so angry at the terrible people I have come and continue to come across in life and the way they’ve grabbed onto me and drained me, and hurt me with no consequence to them. I’m exhausted and I want a break but, as always, the universe has other plans. 

Plans that I’m excited for. Plans that are unfolding that I have laid the groundwork for. I keep telling myself “It’s not time to rest, it’s time to work.” It’s time to dream and move in the world the way I was meant to do. It’s time to support that little girl and the woman you are today to realize the hopes and dreams they’ve held in their heart.

I’d be lying if I said I haven’t wondered, often, if I’ve spent too much time longing for something that may not even exist for me. I can’t explain it, but I don’t feel like I’m where I’m meant to be, yet. This can’t be it. 

When I get “there” maybe I will find that happiness IS just an illusion and this is as good as it gets for me, OR and hear me out... maybe, just maybe, I will find the happiness and love that I so deserve. Maybe I’ll start to move in the world with grace, freedom and joy and for that I will continue reaching for tomorrow, today, and everyday I will be the Fool. 

thank-you for reading my ramblings! love ya!

- Liz

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Are you aware of where your sadness comes from?

Or do you just run with the pain

Saying and doing things that later cause you shame

Playing the blame game, pointing fingers left & right

Not knowing which battles you should or shouldn’t pick

Not knowing when to back down from a fight

Regret brews in your solar plex

Of those you gave parts of yourself to

Through the action of sex

Swapping energies with negative entities

Till eventually they corrupted me

Leaving me

Bleeding

Furiously

My negative thoughts leaking uncontrollably out into the world...

But I’m just one, singular girl

A woman scorned

Yet I crave to be reborn

& freed from the darkness in me that desperately craves a space in the depths of my soul

Every moment the demons grow closer, I can feel the body growing cold...

WAKE UP!

He yells at me as he looks over me

- Unplugged.

The war has just begun.

Naami Soya

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What this is

I’ve needed a place for a while I could be anonymous and talk about my sort of college student navigating life, love (or lack there of), spirituality, emotional dysfunction and the trying to mend all of it,

So here we go.

[your-heart-is-a-treasure]

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

[thehealingdance]

the time is now

not tomorror, or next week, on when the workday is over, or when the baby is in bed, or when you've finally found the Right Partner, or when you've lost weight, or whatever you tell yourself

the time is now

or never

[awakenlng369]

#Awakening369 #Enlightenment #IAM

[tufilo]

Caminos.

¿Realmente existe un objetivo universal válido en éste vida?¿Todos queremos lo mismo? A la primera pregunta le digo que no. A la segunda, un rotundo sí.

En el caso de la primera, sabemos que en la sociedad que vivimos hay un único camino considerado correcto, una única ruta por la cual conducir, como si fuese que, en caso de tomar otro camino, no llegarías a destino. Esto no es cierto, existen carreteras como gotas en el mar, como individuos en el mundo.

Veamos: digamos que existe un jóven cuya madre espera que obtenga su título universitario, a los meses encuentre su trabajo ideal, más tarde se mude con su novia/o al nuevo departamento que compraron con sus ahorros, para que años después lleguen los nietos y nietas, que quizás sean el nuevo faro de la familia.

Puede funcionar, sí, pero no para todo el mundo. Digamos que la vida "correcta", lo que se espera de nosotros, no siempre coincide con nuestra personalidad, nuestros anhelos, o filosofía de vida. Por otro lado, la vida de aventura, de dormir en el piso, de bañarse con agua fría, tampoco es deseable por todos. Y no está mal.

No te sientas mal por no poder complacer a todo tu alrededor, eso es un problema de ellos, no tuyo. Si hay algo que me enseñaron los libros y la ahora llamada "inteligencia emocional", es que únicamente puedo controlar mis propias decisiones y emociones. Ese es mi problema, y tengo dos opciones: 1) hacerme cargo de ellos, accionar al respecto de acuerdo a mis propias convicciones; 2) no hacer nada o peor; 3) moverme, hacer algo, pero teniendo en cuenta las direcciones de los demás.

Que alguien se sienta preocupado por vos, que sienta que el camino que tomaste no es el mejor, es problema de esa persona, es algo que no podés controlar.

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[christopherjbanks86]

There have been many things that I have learned about myself in the recent years. There have been a few epiphanies and self-realizations. I have come to so many life-changing conclusions. I learned to do things that I have never done before. I have realized things about myself that I did not know before. I learned to love myself more than I ever have. I have a new perspective on life. I have learned to love myself, above all else. I have learned that sometimes self-care and self-love is the most essential care and love you can have, even above what you feel for others. That I think for myself, I do not go with the crowd or care what is popular. I learned that I am not a follower. I am a leader, and I choose to lead my own life. I do not need a leader or to follow anyone. However, I also realize that a true leader knows when to allow others to lead. 

 My mind is the most important thing I have. My entire body revolves around it and is there for the protection and function of the brain. The eyes, ears, nose, and sense of touch give a level of consciousness/awareness to the brain. The brain is the most powerful organ in the human body. Every organ can receive a transplant, except the brain. I say all of this to say that the mind is a terrible thing to waste. 

 The mind envisions our world and portrays our reality. At this point in my life, I realize that peace of mind, inner peace, and a healthy mind —mental health— is the most important thing one can have in this world. I choose never to lose myself in anyone. To never forget who I am. To keep my independence or at least some level of independence. To remember who I am before a relationship, so I can remember who I am after one. To learn to let go. To do what it takes to keep my happiness and peace of mind, even if that means I must bring sadness and sorrow to others: To keep my inner peace and inner happiness.