398 LESSON 08 10 2011
Dvayatanupassana
Sutta The Noble One’s Happiness
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Dvayatanupassana Sutta:
The Noble One’s Happiness
(excerpt)
translated from the Pali
by
John D. Ireland
Alternate translations: Olendzki (excerpt) | Thanissaro
…
“See
how the world together with the devas has self-conceit for what is not-self.
Enclosed by mind-and-body it imagines, ‘This is real.’ Whatever they imagine it
to be, it is quite different from that. It is unreal, of a false nature and
perishable. Nibbana, not false in nature, that the Noble Ones[1]
know as true. Indeed, by the penetration of the true, they are completely
stilled and realize final deliverance.
“Forms,
sounds, tastes, scents, bodily contacts and ideas which are agreeable, pleasant
and charming, all these, while they last, are deemed to be happiness by the
world with its devas. But when they cease that is agreed by all to be
unsatisfactory. By the Noble Ones, the cessation of the existing body[2]
is seen as happiness. This is the reverse of the outlook of the whole world.
“What
others call happiness, that the Noble Ones declare to be suffering. What others
call suffering, that the Noble Ones have found to be happiness. See how
difficult it is to understand the Dhamma! Herein those without insight have
completely gone astray. For those under the veil (of ignorance) it is obscured,
for those who cannot see it is utter darkness. But for the good and the wise it
is as obvious as the light for those who can see. Even though close to it, the
witless who do not know the Dhamma, do not comprehend it.
“By
those overcome by attachment to existence, those who drift with the stream of
existence, those in the realm of Mara, this Dhamma is not
properly understood. Who other than the Noble Ones, are fit to fully understand
that state, by perfect knowledge of which they realize final deliverance, free
from defilements?”[3]
…
Notes
1.
The Noble Ones or ariya
are the Buddhas and their disciples.
2.
The “existing
body” (sakkaya) is a term for the five aggregates as objects of
grasping.
3.
Anusava; the defilements or asava,
literally “out-flows,” are dissipations of energy in the form of
sensual desire, becoming (the perpetuation of existence), views and ignorance
and are the same as the four “floods” mentioned earlier. One who has
destroyed the defilements (khinasava) is another name for an arahant or
Perfected One.
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