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🔗📝 collection of notes on MN 128

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● MN 128 - 🔗🔊 23m, Upak-kilesa: minor defilements:

        MN 1281 – (monks at Kosambi quarreling, Buddha tells them to stop)
            MN 1281.5 - (verse)
        MN 1282 – (they didn’t listen so Buddha left)
            MN 1282.1 – (Buddha encourages monk Baghu)
            MN 1282.2 – (Park keeper tries to keep Buddha out, which means Buddha has shaved head and looks like regular monk, not those modern Buddha statues with solid gold skin tone and pineapple tumor growing out of his head)
            MN 1282.3 – (Buddha then visits Anuruddha, Nandiya, and Kimbila)
            MN 1282.4 - (3 of them live in harmony and assiduously)
            MN 1282.5 – (they are assiduous by keeping noble silence and only discussing Dharma once every 5 days)
        MN 1283 – (ñāṇa-dassana: knowledge and vision)
            MN 1283.0 - (11 hindrances instead of usual 5)
            MN 1283.1 – (uk1: vicikicchā: doubt, same as 5niv#5)
            MN 1283.2 – (uk2: a-manasi-kāro: lack of attention, loss of focus)
            MN 1283.3 – (uk3: thina-middhaṃ: sloth & torpor, same as 5niv#3)
            MN 1283.4 – (uk4: chambhitattaṃ: terror ↔ simile travel on highway, robbers jump you)
            MN 1283.5 – (uk5: uppilaṃ: excitement ↔ simile like finding 5 treasures)
            MN 1283.6 – (uk6: duṭṭhullaṃ: discomfort/heaviness)
            MN 1283.7 – (uk7: acc-āraddha-vīriyaṃ: excessively aroused vigor ↔ simile of gripping quail too tightly it dies)
            MN 1283.8 – (uk8: ati-līna-vīriyaṃ: excessively lax vigor ↔ simile of gripping quail too softly it escapes)
            MN 1283.9 – (uk9: abhijappā: longing)
            MN 1283.10 – (uk10: nānatta-saññā: diversity of perceptions [that arise through 6 sense doors] )
            MN 1283.11 – (uk11: ati-nij-jhāyitattaṃ: excessive jhāna focus)
        MN 1284 - (unlimited light, unlimited perception of forms)
            MN 1284.1 – (see light + no forms, or no light + forms. Why?)
            MN 1284.2 – (because I focused on one or the other)
            MN 1284.3 – (perceived limited light and saw limited forms, or ♾️light and ♾️forms. Why?)
            MN 1284.4 – (because samādhi is limited or unlimited)
        MN 1285 - (3 way samādhi: fulfills 7 awakening factors and 4 jhānas)
        MN 1286 - (the 6th knowledge of 6ab is arahant-ship)


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MN 128 seeing light (obhāsa) and material-form (rūpa) "visions" is not breath nimitta for entering Vism. "Jhāna". Clearing up this myth once and for all.



EBT jhāna vs. VRJ (Vism. redefinition of jhāna): How does subtle ethereal pleasure body imply 5 senses being shut off?









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