The 18 Principal Insights

Friends:

Understanding comes by the 18 principal insights:

1: Reflection on impermanence leaves the illusion of permanence,
2: Reflection on pain renounces the misapprehension of pleasure,
3: Reflection on no-self evaporates the imagination of a my-self,
4: Reflection on dispassion and disillusion abandons naive delight,
5: Reflection on disgust eradicates voracious and insatiable greed,
6: Reflection on ceasing desists from blind and initiating origination,
7: Reflection on relinquishment releases the lock of grasped clinging,
8: Reflection on fragility leaves the misconception of compact solidity,
9: Reflection on the breakup of all constructions shuts down accumulation,
10: Reflection on change corrects the deception of any lasting constancy,
11: Reflection on the signless eliminates the captivating appearance of a sign,
12: Reflection on the desireless diminishes the feverish urge within all craving,
13: Reflection on voidness erases the insistence on the self-deception: 'I am...',
14: Reflection on higher understanding uproots clinging to the fix idea of a core,
15: Reflection on direct knowledge & vision removes confused misinterpretation,
16: Reflection on danger extirpates false assumption of reliance on the unstable,
17: Reflection on resolute contemplation shelves the neglect of non-contemplation,
18: Reflection on turning away exterminates mistaken insistence on self-bondage...

More on Insight (Vipassanā):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Insight.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In_this_very_Life.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breathing_Calm_and_Insight.htm

Source: The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga.
An excellent if not legendary translation by Bhikkhu Ñanamoli.
Written by 'the Great Explainer' Buddhaghosa in 5th century AC:
http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/PathofPurification2011.pdf

The 18 Principal Insights!

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Friends: Understanding comes by the 18 principal insights: 1: Reflection on impermanence leaves the illusion of permanence, 2: Reflection on pain renounces the misapprehension of pleasure, 3: Reflection on no-self evaporates the imagination of a my-self, 4: Reflection on dispassion and disillusion abandons naive delight, 5: Reflection on disgust eradicates voracious and insatiable greed, 6: Reflection on ceasing desists from blind and initiating origination, 7: Reflection on relinquishment releases the lock of grasped clinging, 8: Reflection on fragility leaves the misconception of compact solidity, 9: Reflection on the breakup of all constructions shuts down accumulation, 10: Reflection on change corrects the deception of any lasting constancy, 11: Reflection on the signless eliminates the captivating appearance of a sign, 12: Reflection on the desireless diminishes the feverish urge within all craving, 13: Reflection on voidness erases the insistence on the self-deception: 'I am...', 14: Reflection on higher understanding uproots clinging to the fix idea of a core, 15: Reflection on direct knowledge & vision removes confused misinterpretation, 16: Reflection on danger extirpates false assumption of reliance on the unstable, 17: Reflection on resolute contemplation shelves the neglect of non-contemplation, 18: Reflection on turning away exterminates mistaken insistence on self-bondage... More on Insight (Vipassanā): http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Calm_and_Insight.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/In_this_very_Life.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Highway_to_Nibbana.htm http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Breathing_Calm_and_Insight.htm Source: The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga. An excellent if not legendary translation by Bhikkhu Ñanamoli. Written by 'the Great Explainer' Buddhaghosa in 5th century AC: http://what-buddha-said.net/library/pdfs/PathofPurification2011.pdf The 18 Principal Insights! Have a nice & noble day! Friendship is the *Greatest!* Bhikkhu Samāhita _/\_ ] http://What-Buddha-Said.net -- -- Related Buddhist site: http://What-Buddha-Said.net Group Home: http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said Edit your membership to unsubscribed, normal email, summary, digest or no email here: http://groups.google.com/group/What_Buddha_Said/subscribe May all beings become thus Happy! Friendship is the GREATEST! Have a Nice Day! Bhikkhu Samahita --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "What_Buddha_Said" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to what_buddha_said+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.


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