Cling no more to this "world"...

If you see an object just as an object, if you hear a sound just as a sound...(apply the same to the other senses) without "feeding" them to the mind too much...with practice the "grasp"* gets weaker and eventually you cling no more to this "world."** Then you are free. This is the end of suffering.


* grasping here is the craving (see lables)
**world here is the six senses (see labels)

How does "The Noble Eightfold Path" becomes an integral part of the meditator...

Reality as it is becomes the right view of the meditator. Thinking of it as it is becomes the right thought. Awareness of it as it is becomes the right awareness. Concentration on it as it is becomes the right concentration. Actions of the body and speech* are then aligned to reality as it is. In this way the meditator develops and is fulfilled.

- Majjhima Nikaya

It is amazing to see how "The Noble Eightfold Path" becomes an integral part of the meditator...

1. Right View
2. Right Intention (Translated as "Right Thought" above)
3. Right Speech
4. Right Action
5. Right Livelihood
6. Right Effort
7. Right Mindfulness (Translated as "Right Awareness" above)
8. Right Concentration

*Actions of the body and speech are # 3, 4, 5, and 6

He disperses all delusion -- as the rising of the sun, the dark

Greed causes harm.
Greed provokes the mind.
People don't realize itas a danger born from within.
A person, when greedy,doesn't know his own welfare;
when greedy,
doesn't see Dhamma.
Overcome with greed,
he's in the dark, blind.
But when one, abandoning greed,
feels no greed

for what would merit greed,

greed gets shed from him -- like a drop of water off a lotus leaf.

Aversion causes harm.
Aversion provokes the mind.
People don't realize itas a danger born from within.
A person, when aversive,
doesn't know his own welfare;
when aversive,
doesn't see Dhamma.
Overcome with aversionhe's in the dark, blind.
But when one, abandoning aversion,
feels no aversion

for what would merit aversion,
aversion drops away from him -- like a palm leaf from its stem.

Delusion causes harm.
Delusion provokes the mind.
People don't realize itas a danger born from within.
A person, when deluded,doesn't know his own welfare;
when deluded,
doesn't see Dhamma.
Overcome with delusionhe's in the dark, blind.
But when one, abandoning delusion,
feels no delusion

for what would merit delusion,
he disperses all delusion -- as the rising of the sun, the dark.

Itivuttaka 50-99
The Group Of Threes
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

The body you cannot recycle but the mind...

Our only refuge is the Buddha Dhamma.. Sooner or later we are all going to perish. That is the reality. Body you cannot recycle... But the mind "in good condition" (well trained) can be of good use.