Deus non alligatur. God is not bound. Nibbanam paramam sukham. Unbinding is the Highest Happiness. The Heart is Divinity. God is the primal radiance of Divinity. Nature is the primal manifestation of Divinity. The Buddha is the primal realization of Divinity. La ilaha il Allah. Allah is Complete Wholeness.

14 July 2007

The Four Awesome Truths

Cattari Ariya Saccani: The Four Awesome Truths

Rasa Ariya Sacca: The Awesome Truth of Rasa

Now this, monks, is the awesome truth of rasa: creation is rasa, existing is rasa, release is rasa; joy, laughter, pleasure, elation, and hope are rasa; compassion for the unbeloved is rasa; sympathetic joy for the loved is rasa; giving to others is rasa. In short, the five phenomenal realms are rasa.

Rasa Samudaya Ariya Sacca: The Awesome Truth of the Origination of Rasa

And this, monks is the awesome truth of the origination of rasa: the heart of love, that leads to greater acts of love, accompanied by fiery resolve and bright delight, enthusing now here and now there, desiring divine pleasure, desiring divine life, desiring divine energy.

Rasa Upachaya Ariya Sacca: The Awesome Truth of the Increase of Rasa

And this, monks, is the awesome truth of the increase of rasa: the constant brightening and strengthening, adherence, dedication, maintaining, and keeping of that heart of love.

Rasa Upachaya Gamini Patipata Ariya Sacca: The Awesome Truth of the Path Leading to the Increase of Rasa

And this, monks, is the awesome truth of the way of practice leading to the increase of rasa: precisely this awesome eight-full path: full view, full intention, full speech, full action, full work, full effort, full concentration, and full awareness.

[Inspired by the Four Noble Truths. The realization of dukkha is the realization of that very rasa at the heart of dukkha.]

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