314 LESSON Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta Setting the Wheel of Dhamma
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Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta: Setting the Wheel of Dhamma
in Motion
I have
heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying at Varanasi in the Game Refuge at Isipatana.
There he addressed the group of five monks:
“There are these two extremes that are not to be
indulged in by one who has gone forth. Which two? That which is devoted to
sensual pleasure with reference to sensual objects: base, vulgar, common,
ignoble, unprofitable; and that which is devoted to self-affliction: painful,
ignoble, unprofitable. Avoiding both of these extremes, the middle way realized
by the Tathagata β producing vision, producing knowledge β leads to calm, to
direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding.
“And what is the middle way realized by the
Tathagata that β producing vision, producing knowledge β leads to calm, to
direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to Unbinding? Precisely this Noble
Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right
livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. This is the
middle way realized by the Tathagata that β producing vision, producing
knowledge β leads to calm, to direct knowledge, to self-awakening, to
Unbinding.
“Now this, monks, is the noble truth of stress:[1]
Birth is stressful, aging is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow,
lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful; association with the
unbeloved is stressful, separation from the loved is stressful, not getting
what is wanted is stressful. In short, the five clinging-aggregates are
stressful.
“And
this, monks, is the noble truth of the origination of stress: the craving that
makes for further becoming β accompanied by passion & delight, relishing
now here & now there β i.e., craving for sensual pleasure, craving for
becoming, craving for non-becoming.
“And
this, monks, is the noble truth of the cessation of stress: the remainderless
fading & cessation, renunciation, relinquishment, release, & letting go
of that very craving.
“And
this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation
of stress: precisely this Noble Eightfold Path β right view, right resolve,
right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness,
right concentration.
“Vision
arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose
within me with regard to things never heard before: ‘This is the noble truth of
stress.’ Vision arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose,
illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before: ‘This
noble truth of stress is to be comprehended.’ Vision arose, insight arose,
discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to
things never heard before:’ This noble truth of stress has been comprehended.’
“Vision
arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose
within me with regard to things never heard before: ‘This is the noble truth of
the origination of stress’… ‘This noble truth of the origination of stress is
to be abandoned’ [2]
… ‘This noble truth of the origination of stress has been abandoned.’
“Vision
arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose
within me with regard to things never heard before: ‘This is the noble truth of
the cessation of stress’… ‘This noble truth of the cessation of stress is to
be directly experienced’… ‘This noble truth of the cessation of stress has
been directly experienced.’
“Vision
arose, insight arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose
within me with regard to things never heard before: ‘This is the noble truth of
the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress’… ‘This noble truth of
the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress is to be developed’…
‘This noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of stress has
been developed.’ [3]
“And,
monks, as long as this β my three-round, twelve-permutation knowledge &
vision concerning these four noble truths as they have come to be β was not
pure, I did not claim to have directly awakened to the right self-awakening
unexcelled in the cosmos with its deities, Maras, & Brahmas, with its
contemplatives & priests, its royalty & commonfolk. But as soon as this
β my three-round, twelve-permutation knowledge & vision concerning these
four noble truths as they have come to be β was truly pure, then I did claim to
have directly awakened to the right self-awakening unexcelled in the cosmos
with its deities, Maras & Brahmas, with its contemplatives & priests,
its royalty & commonfolk. Knowledge & vision arose in me: ‘Unprovoked
is my release. This is the last birth. There is now no further becoming.’”
That is
what the Blessed One said. Gratified, the group of five monks delighted at his
words. And while this explanation was being given, there
arose to Ven. KondaΓ±Γ±a the dustless,
stainless Dhamma eye: Whatever is subject to origination
is all subject to cessation.
And when
the Blessed One had set the Wheel of Dhamma in motion, the earth devas cried
out: “At Varanasi, in the Game Refuge at Isipatana, the Blessed One has
set in motion the unexcelled Wheel of Dhamma that cannot be stopped by priest
or contemplative, deva, Mara or God or anyone in the
cosmos.” On hearing the earth devas’ cry, the devas of the Four Kings’
Heaven took up the cry… the devas of the Thirty-three… the Yama devas… the Tusita devas… the Nimmanarati devas… the Paranimmita-vasavatti
devas… the devas of Brahma’s retinue took up the
cry: “At Varanasi, in the Game Refuge at Isipatana, the Blessed One has
set in motion the unexcelled Wheel of Dhamma that cannot be stopped by priest
or contemplative, deva, Mara, or God or anyone at all in the cosmos.”
So in
that moment, that instant, the cry shot right up to the Brahma worlds. And this
ten-thousand fold cosmos shivered & quivered & quaked, while a great,
measureless radiance appeared in the cosmos, surpassing the effulgence of the
devas.
Then the
Blessed One exclaimed: “So you really know, KondaΓ±Γ±a? So you really
know?” And that is how Ven. KondaΓ±Γ±a acquired the name AΓ±Γ±a-KondaΓ±Γ±a β
KondaΓ±Γ±a who knows.
1.
The
Pali phrases for the four noble truths are grammatical anomalies. From these
anomalies, some scholars have argued that the expression “noble
truth” is a later addition to the texts. Others have argued even further
that the content of the four truths is also a later addition. Both of these
arguments are based on the unproven assumption that the language the Buddha
spoke was grammatically regular, and that any irregularities were later
corruptions of the language. This assumption forgets that the languages of the
Buddha’s time were oral dialects, and that the nature of such dialects is to
contain many grammatical irregularities. Languages tend to become regular only
when being used to govern a large nation state or to produce a large body of
literature: events that happened in India only after the Buddha’s time. (A
European example: Italian was a group of irregular oral dialects until Dante
fashioned it into a regular language for the sake of his poetry.) Thus the
irregularity of the Pali here is no proof either for the earliness or lateness
of this particular teaching.
2.
Another
argument for the lateness of the expression “noble truth” is that a
truth β meaning an accurate statement about a body of facts β is not something
that should be abandoned. In this case, only the craving is to be abandoned,
not the truth about craving. However, in Vedic Sanskrit β as in modern English
β a “truth” can mean both a fact and an accurate statement about a
fact. Thus in this case, the “truth” is the fact, not the statement
about the fact, and the argument for the lateness of the expression does not
hold.
3.
The
discussion in the four paragraphs beginning with the phrase, “Vision
arose…,” takes two sets of variables β the four noble truths and the
three levels of knowledge appropriate to each β and lists their twelve
permutations. In ancient Indian philosophical and legal traditions, this sort
of discussion is called a wheel. Thus, this passage is the Wheel of Dhamma from
which the discourse takes its name.
POLITICS is Sacred with BEST PROMISING GOVERNANCE of UP CM
Mayawati Ji
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Monsoon session of both the Houses convened from
05 August 2011
Lucknow: 11 July 2011
The Cabinet has
decided to convene monsoon session of both the Houses from 5 August 2011. A
decision to this effect was taken at a cabinet meeting here today.
Hon’ble Chief Minister ji expresses profound grief
over demise of 24 persons in Fatehpur rail accident
Assistance of Rs. 1 lakh for dependents of
deceased, Rs. 50,000 for seriously wounded persons and Rs. 25,000 for persons
having minor injuries announced
Senior Minister Sri Swami Prasad Maurya and State Chief
Secretary
sent by Hon’ble Chief Minister ji for supervising relief and
rescue works
Lucknow:10 July 2011
The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms.
Mayawati ji has
expressed profound grief over the demise of 24
persons who died in a
rail accident that occurred in Fatehpur district
today. She has conveyed
her heartfelt condolences to the family members of
the deceased and
announced Rs. 1 lakh assistance for their
dependents. She also
announced Rs. 50,000 assistance for seriously
injured persons and Rs.
25,000 assistance for people suffering minor
injuries in the accident.
On getting the information about the accident, the
Hon’ble Chief
Minister ji sent senior minister Sri Swami Prasad
Maurya and Chief
Secretary Mr. Anoop Mishra to Fatehpur to
supervise relief and rescue
works. Both of them were supervising the same. Mr.
Maurya also met
the injured passengers in the district hospital
Fatehpur and inquired
about their well being. He inspected the medical
facilities being provided
to them too.
It may be recalled that the Kalka mail derailed
near Malwan
railway station in Fatehpur district today, in
which 24 passengers died
and around 180 passengers got injured. The injured
passengers have
been sent to district hospital Fatehpur, private
nursing homes and to
Kanpur for
treatment.
Hon’ble Chief Minister ji expresses profound grief
over demise of 38 persons in railway accident in Kanshiram Nagar
Assistance of Rs. 1 lakh for dependents of
deceased, Rs. 50,000 assistance for seriously wounded persons and Rs. 25,000
assistance for
persons having minor injuries announced
Senior Minister Sri Swami Prasad Maurya and Relief
Commissioner sent by Hon’ble Chief Minister ji supervising relief and rescue
works
Lucknow:07 July 2011
The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms.
Mayawati ji has
expressed profound grief over the demise of 38
persons who died in a
rail-bus accident that occurred at an unmanned
railway crossing in
Kanshiram Nagar district today. She has conveyed
her heartfelt
condolences to the family members of the deceased.
She announced Rs.
1 lakh assistance for the family members of the
deceased, Rs. 50,000
help for seriously injured persons and Rs. 25,000
assistance for people
suffering minor injuries in the accident. Besides,
she also sent Senior
Minister Sri Swami Prasad Maurya and Relief
Commissioner of Uttar
Pradesh to the site of accident to supervise
relief and rescue works. She
directed that the injured persons should be
provided proper treatment.
Mr. Maurya and Relief Commissioner, sent by the
Hon’ble Chief Minister
ji, were ensuring that the relief and rescue works
were being carried out
effectively.
On the directives of the Hon’ble Chief Minister
ji, the Chief
Secretary has written a letter to the Railway
Board to provide proper
compensation to the victims of the accident and
jobs to the family
members of the deceased. It was also requested to
convert unmanned
crossings into manned crossings.
It may be recalled that a bus carrying baratis collided with
Chhapara-Mathura Express at an unmanned railway
crossing in
Adhupura village in Kanshiram Nagar this morning.
As many as 38
people died and 33 others got injured in the
accident. The injured
persons were being treated at the Etah district
hospital. Three persons
having serious
injuries have been referred to Agra for treatment.
Hon’ble C.M. Grieved over death of CPI leader
Lucknow : 02 July2011
The Honβble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms.Mayawati
ji has expressed profound grief over the demise of freedom fighter, former
Union Minister and CPI leader Mr. Chaturanan Mishra.
In a condolence message, the Hon’ble Chief
Minister has conveyed deep sympathies and heartfelt condolences to the family
members of the deceased and prayed for peace to the departed soul.
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