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01 2012 LESSON 489 Today is FULL MOON Day of the First Lunar Month WISH YOU ALL
A BUDDHIST HAPPY NEW YEAR MAY YOU BE EVER HAPPY, WELL AND SECURE
MAY YOU LIVE LONG
MAY ALL SENTIENT AND NON-SENTIENT BEINGS BE EVER HAPPY
MAY YOU BE ALWAYS HAVE CALM, QUIET, ALERT,ATTENTIVE AND
EQUANIMITY MIND WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT
EVERYTHING IS CHANGING Dhammapada Verse 31 Annatarabhikkhu Vatthu
Appamadarato
bhikkhu1
pamade bhayadassi2 va
samyojanam anum thulam
daham aggiva gacchati.
Verse
31: A bhikkhu who takes delight in mindfulness and sees danger in negligence,
advances like fire, burning up all fetters, great and small.
Train in acts of merit
that bring long-lasting bliss β develop giving, a life in tune, a mind of
good-will. Developing these three things that bring about bliss, the wise
reappear in a world of bliss unalloyed.
Verse 31. The Heedful
Advance
The
bhikkhu liking heedfulness,
seeing fear in heedlessness,
advances as a conflagration
burning fetters great and small.
Explanation:
The monk, as the seeker after the truth, is frightened of mindlessness because
he knows that if one is unmindful, one is caught up in the unending suffering
of samsara. Therefore, he forges ahead diligently, and mindfully burning away
those bonds that fetter people to worldliness.
Dhammapada Verse 31
Annatarabhikkhu Vatthu
Appamadarato
bhikkhu1
pamade bhayadassi2 va
samyojanam anum thulam
daham aggiva gacchati.
Verse
31: A bhikkhu who takes delight in mindfulness and sees danger in negligence,
advances like fire, burning up all fetters, great and small.
1. appamadarato
bhikkhu: a bhikkhu who takes delight in mindfulness, i.e., in the practice
of Tranquillity and Insight Development.
2. pamade
bhayadassi: seeing danger in negligence, i.e., negligence which would lead
to continued existence in the round of rebirths (samsara).
The
Story of A Certain Bhikkhu
While
residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (31) of this book,
with reference to a certain bhikkhu.
A
certain bhikkhu, after obtaining a subject of meditation from the Buddha, went
to the forest to meditate. Although he tried hard he made very little progress
in his meditation practice. As a result, he became very depressed and
frustrated. So, with the thought of getting further specific instructions from
the Buddha, he set out for the Jetavana monastery. On his way, he came across a
big blazing fire. He ran up to the top of a mountain and observed the fire from
there. As the fire spread, it suddenly occurred to him that just as the fire
burnt up everything, so also Magga Insight will burn up all fetters of life,
big and small.
Meanwhile,
from the Gandhakuti hall in the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha was aware of
what the bhikkhu was thinking. So, he transmitted his radiance and appeared to
the bhikkhu and spoke to him. “My son,” he said, “you
are on the right line of thought; keep it up. All beings must burn up all
fetters of life with Magga Insight.”
Then
the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:
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Verse 31: A bhikkhu who |
At the
end of the discourse that bhikkhu attained arahatship then and there.
Β§ 60.
{Iti 3.11; Iti 51}
This
was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: “There are these
three grounds for meritorious activity. Which three? The ground for meritorious
activity made of giving, the ground for meritorious activity made of virtue,
and the ground for meritorious activity made of development [meditation]. These
are the three grounds for meritorious activity.”
Train in acts of merit
that bring long-lasting bliss β develop giving, a life in tune, a mind of
good-will. Developing these three things that bring about bliss, the wise
reappear in a world of bliss unalloyed.
UP govt starts draping statues of Mayawati, elephant
2012-01-08 22:10:00
Last Updated: 2012-01-08 23:56:09
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Respected
Chief Election Commissioner,
Cover
all statues of elephants with the trunks raised above which does not represent
BSPβs electon symbol? In that case why not Vinayakβs who became famous after
drinking milk be also draped? Elephants neither wear clothes nor eat papers
like the donkeys. Why not bicycles be draped? And the lotus which is the National flower be banned and
draped?What about the Hand ? should it not be draped like a leporβs hand.This
hand has stoped the progress of the downtrodden.Unless the babus hands are
greased no work moves. It not only takes bribes but also puts the money in
Foreign Banks.Drugs are peddeled by this very same hand and used for rubbing
ganja.is doneand Mayawati? Sparing all congress leaders in Western UP.Will this be implemented
at the earliest as the matter was related to the model code of conduct,? The
idea is that no one should get political mileage,ensuring βlevel playing fieldβ
in the upcoming state assembly elections.
VOICE
OF SARVAJAN
[Bahujan-forum]
FW: A Letter To Our Election Commissioner
FROM:
Β·
Deepankar
TO:
Sunday, 8 January 2012 1:51 PM
http://www.beingcynical.com/2012/01/letter-to-our-election-commissioner.html
A Letter To Our Election Commissioner
Posted by Cynical in
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Dear Mr. S.Y. Quraishi
& Team,
Let me first thank you
for providing the much needed fun quotient on a dull
weekend like yesterday. When everything seems going bad for us as a nation,
which also includes us getting badly thrashed in Australia, your jumbo shocker
for Mayawati bridged the missing humor for sure. I can’t just explain you guys
how badly I wished, I could have seen the face of that lady when she heard the
news for the first time.
β¦..today everyone knows the in-and-out of the CEC office and most important,
its power. From that `Main Politicians Ko Kachha Chabata Hun’ Safal
advertisement of Sessan to the frequent loo visits of Navin Chawala during
important election preparatory meets to update his bosses in 10 Janpath, 7
Racecourse or somewhere in Italy or wherever; the long journey you guys have
made is commendable. β¦. I have some concerns regarding your latest out of the
world decision regarding UP and it’s upcoming election and hence thought of
clearing the unwanted air of confusion that surrounds me.
You know what Mr. Quraishi? After yesterday my perception towards your office
has changed a little. Now I wonder if we really require an election
commissioner
in our country. If at all yes, then is it mandated by our constitution that
schoolboys should run this institution. The ghastly part of the drama yesterday
was the spokesperson of CEC office defending the decision taken to cover all
elephants and Mayawati statues till the elections are over. Really? It is
something similar like Tatas coming up with a shit called Nano and then
defending it as world-class in its segment.
Cover all statues of elephants and Mayawati? Heavens why? β¦ Elephants? Why
cover elephants? Elephants don’t wear clothes? Do they? Just because elephants
are the poll symbols for BSP, you can’t order them to be covered. Then why
spare others? Let’s order to cover all the lotuses (if they are that rampantly available),
ask people to lock their cycles
in their garage and order people to wear gloves as we can’t chop them off as
they ultimately would need their fingers to cast the vote. Does this
proposition
sound logical Mr. Quraishi? If not then I beg for some answer from you for
having this selective amnesia for Mayawati and BSP.
β¦ the decision of yours
to give the Luckhnow residents β¦ looks a little
political. Even though your job involves and revolves around politics and
politicians, you guys are expected to remain as apolitical as Sarad Pawar
(anyway, he was never related to anything except loot money) to cricket, still
being the head of ICC. But No; as it seems Navin Chawala has left a strong
legacy of his political bootlicking qualities and there are jokers in CEC
office
who still take dictations from bosses in power during their once in every ten
minutes loo break.
I know Mr. Quraishi, your
deliberations. I know how this election is important
to one Yuvraj of a party to showcase that he can achieve something after
camping
in that state for last one year; sleeping in the mosquito infected SC/ST huts
as
part of his regular gimmickry and pillion riding a bike multiple times to throw
tantrums like mass rape and mass grave in Bhatta-Parsaul. I know how a good
performance (more than what the Sydney test was for Virat Kohli) in this
election is important for the political career of that gentleman. I know there
is a motor mouth who wants to save his own ass and that can only be possible by
an improved performance in UP elections for Congress. But it doesn’t anyway
mean
you start chopping the ethics and values of your institution from the middle as
if you were the chief of the vasectomy team of Sanjay Gandhi. If at all
anything, the funny decision of yours showed that the CEC doesn’t remain that
sacrosanct as we believed it to be and you guys washed of your hands on the
hard
earned reputation quicker than Sanjeev Nanda washed his BMW.
Hope this is one of the odd decisions taken in haste to please few, which would
duly be rectified in the course of time and we won’t be surprised by some joke
crackers in CEC ever. If our parliament and our democracy are the pillars of
our
nation, you guys are the caretaker of it. Hope you value the importance of a
gardener for the garden as he certainly doesn’t cover the roses with polythene
sheets for fear of stealing and destroys the beauty of the garden just because
it is Valentine’s Day. Hope we have still got mature heads to run the engine
room of the world’s largest democracy.
On a lighter note β Pray Sarha Palin doesn’t get the news of your decision or
else Americans would have an embarrassing situation if she comes up with a
demand to cover all donkeys during next American elections. By the way, what
the
hell is wrong with your official website http://www.eci.nic.in ? It is even
slower than the fastest delivery of Venkatesh Prasad. That is just not done, as
we want our CEC office to be fast, furious, ferocious and crisp in every sphere,
which also includes a faster download of their shit on the cyber space. Don’t
we?
Warm Regards
- Someone who hasn’t ever missed casting his vote
MAY YOU LIVE LONG
MAY ALL SENTIENT AND NON-SENTIENT BEINGS BE EVER HAPPY
MAY YOU BE ALWAYS HAVE CALM, QUIET, ALERT,ATTENTIVE AND
EQUANIMITY MIND WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT
EVERYTHING IS CHANGING