notes on the Dhamma

90 second video. when pet dog was let out of house for a few minutes to go to the bathroom, two coyotes attacked and chomped the small dog. enter his friend the black cat to save the day. mudita  : rejoicing in skillful Dharmas ✅ one rejoices in virtuous, skillful Dharmas in oneself, in others, or both in oneself and others. * virtuous skillful Dharma can be a bodily action, a verbal action, or mental action (if you're a mind reader you can rejoice in virtuous thoughts someone is thinking or about to think). * The skillful Dharma can be from the past, present, or future. * an action that deliberately avoids unskillful Dharmas, is also a skillful Dharma. * the person one is observing performing virtuous Dharma is typically, but not necessarily experiencing joy. Example: someone does an action because "it's the right thing to do", but they feel pain instead of joy. ✅ Mudita is nearly synonymous or the immediate precursor to pamojja and pīti in the seven awakening factor...

  SN 46.55 Saṅgārava: With Saṅgārava      SN  46.55  - SN 46.55 Saṅgārava: With Saṅgārava          SN  46.55.1  - (kāma-rāga: sensual desire ↔ color dyes)          SN  46.55.2  - (byāpāda: ill will ↔ boiling water)          SN  46.55.3  - (thina-middha: sloth and torpor ↔ moss and algae)          SN  46.55.4  - (uddhacca-kukkucca: restlessness and remorse ↔ windblown agitated water)          SN  46.55.5  - (vici-kiccha: skeptical doubt ↔ muddy cloudy water)          SN  46.55.6  – (1. kāma-rāga: mind free of sensual desire)          SN  46.55.7  – (2. byāpāda: mind free of ill will)          SN  46.55.8  – (3. thina-middha: mind free of sloth and torpor)          SN  46.55.9  – (4. uddhacca-kukkucca: mind free of restlessness and remorse)          SN  46.55.10  – (5. vici-kiccha: mind free of skeptical doubt)        ...

  SN 46.4 SN 46.7 SN 46.11 SN 46.12 SN 46.17 SN 46.29 SN 46.55 SN 46.55 5 hindrances illustrated with simile of bowl of reflective water

  SN 8.4 Ānanda: Ānanda [Teaches Vaṅgīsa How to Destroy Lust] (2023  SP-FLUENT  translation by  frankk‍ ) ekaṃ samayaṃ āyasmā ānando One time, Venerable Ānanda, sāvatthiyaṃ viharati dwelled at Sāvatthī jeta-vane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. in Jeta’s-Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s Park. atha kho āyasmā ānando Then Venerable Ānanda, pubbaṇha-samayaṃ nivāsetvā Put on his robe before noon. patta-cīvaram-ādāya with bowl and robe taken, sāvatthiṃ piṇḍāya pāvisi he entered Sāvatthī for alms, āyasmatā vaṅgīsena pacchāsamaṇena. with Venerable Vaṅgīsa walking behind. tena kho pana samayena āyasmato vaṅgīsassa Now at that time Venerable Vaṅgīsa anabhirati uppannā hoti, had dis-satisfaction arise. rāgo cittaṃ anuddhaṃseti. Lust degraded his mind. atha kho āyasmā vaṅgīso Then the Venerable Vaṅgīsa, āyasmantaṃ ānandaṃ said to Venerable Ānanda gāthāya ajjhabhāsi — through verse: (verse️) ♦ “kāma-rāgena ḍayhāmi, I burn with sensuality and lust. cittaṃ me pari-ḍayhati. My mind is completely on f...

In SN 22.59 Anatta-lakkhana sutta,  the famous second discourse the Buddha ever gave, where the first 5 original monks while listening to the Buddha teach not self of the 5 aggregates,  become arahants.  That sutta didn't explicitly mention the terms jhāna, upekkha (7th of 7 awakening factors), vitakka (verbal thought in a communicable language) operating as they heard the  Buddha teach anatta in a communicable verbal language,  hearing sounds of that teaching,  decoding sounds into vitakka (thinking verbal thoughts in a communicable language), realizing nirvana with upekkha (factor of 4th jhāna and 7th awakening factor) during the Buddha's talk. But other -suttas do explicitly mention those jhāna samādhi related terms. This sutta, SN 22.95 (95 is the inverse of 59), features 5 similes for the 5 aggregates. But it's also explicitly using the terms for upekkha and jhāna to develop insight and realize nirvana. I don't believe any other translators render upek...