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[nancydeandrade]

Let go of expectations and attachments to the way you believe life should be and you'll find your inner guidance. Trust the flow, things happen for a reason. Suffering is optional and it comes from not accepting what is. Let go. #buddhasaidso #lifeisworthliving #healingfromwithin #lettinggo (at The Dana Hotel)

[wearedancingthoughts-blog]

Monks, for anyone who says, ‘In whatever way a person makes kamma, that is how it is experienced,’ there is no living of the holy life, there is no opportunity for the right ending of stress. But for anyone who says, ‘When a person makes kamma to be felt in such & such a way, that is how its result is experienced,’ there is the living of the holy life, there is the opportunity for the right ending of stress.” — AN 3:99 In other words, there is a tendency for a certain type of kamma to lead to a certain type of result, but the intensity of that result is not a fixed thing. It is also influenced by a factor of present kamma: one’s state of mind at the moment when a particular instance of past kamma ripens.

“Paradox Of Becoming” by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

[wearedancingthoughts-blog]

§ 2. Ven. Ananda: “This word, ‘becoming, becoming’—to what extent is there becoming?” The Buddha: “If there were no kamma ripening in the sensuality property, would sensuality-becoming be discerned?” Ven. Ananda: “No, lord.” The Buddha: “Thus kamma is the field, consciousness the seed, and craving the moisture. The consciousness of living beings hindered by ignorance & fettered by craving is established in/tuned to a lower property. Thus there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. “If there were no kamma ripening in the form-property, would form becoming be discerned?” Ven. Ananda: “No, lord.” The Buddha: “Thus kamma is the field, consciousness the seed, and craving the moisture. The consciousness of living beings hindered by ignorance & fettered by craving is established in/tuned to a middling property. Thus there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. “If there were no kamma ripening in the formless-property, would formless-becoming be discerned?” Ven. Ananda: “No, lord.” The Buddha: “Thus kamma is the field, consciousness the seed, and craving the moisture. The consciousness of living beings hindered by ignorance & fettered by craving is established in/tuned to a refined property. Thus there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. This is how there is becoming.” — AN 3:76 ............................. § 7. “Where there is no passion for the nutriment of physical food, where there is no delight, no craving, then consciousness does not land there or grow. Where consciousness does not land or grow, name-&-form does not alight. Where name-&-form does not alight, there is no growth of fabrications. Where there is no growth of fabrications, there is no production of renewed becoming in the future. Where there is no production of renewed becoming in the future, there is no future birth, aging, & death. That, I tell you, has no sorrow, affliction, or despair. [Similarly with the nutriment of contact, intellectual intention, and consciousness.] - SN 12:64 As that outline shows, becoming constitutes a sense of self-identity located in a particular world. The contours of that self and that world are determined by a combination of old kamma and new; their location is determined by an act of craving and desire.

“Paradox of Becoming” by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

[wearedancingthoughts-blog]

"There is, Ananda, one thing which, when developed and cultivated, fulfills four things; and four things which, when developed and cultivated, fulfill seven things; and seven things which, when developed and cultivated, fulfill two things." "But, venerable sir, what is the one thing which, when developed and cultivated, fulfills four things; and the four things which, when developed and cultivated, fulfill seven things; and the seven things which, when developed and cultivated, fulfill two things?" "Concentration by mindfulness of breathing, Ananda, is the one thing which, when developed and cultivated, fulfills the four establishments of mindfulness. The four establishments of mindfulness, when developed and cultivated, fulfill the seven factors of enlightenment. The seven factors of enlightenment, when developed and cultivated, fulfill true knowledge and liberation."

In The Buddha’s Words by Bhikkhu Boddi

[wearedancingthoughts-blog]

The stream of tears that you have shed as you roamed and wandered through this long course, weeping and wailing because of being united with the disagreeable and separated from the agreeable—this alone is more than the water in the four great oceans. For a long time, monks, you have experienced the death of a mother; as you have experienced this, weeping and wailing because of being united with the disagreeable and separated from the agreeable, the stream of tears that you have shed is more than the water in the four great oceans.

Gotama Buddha