Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts

Monday, February 23, 2009

More rewards of stream-winner, here-and-now...


In a stream-winner, five forms of fear & animosity are stilled:

1. "When a person takes life, then with the taking of life as a requisite condition, he produces fear & animosity in the here & now, produces fear & animosity in future lives, experiences mental concomitants of pain & despair; but when he refrains from taking life, he neither produces fear & animosity in the here & now nor does he produce fear & animosity in future lives, nor does he experience mental concomitants of pain & despair: for one who refrains from taking life, that fear & animosity is thus stilled.

2. "When a person steals...(the rest of the paragraph is same as above)

3, "When a person engages in illicit sex... (the rest of the paragraph is same as #1)

4. "When a person tells lies...(the rest of the paragraph is same as #1)

5. "When a person drinks distilled & fermented drinks that cause heedlessness, then with the drinking of distilled & fermented drinks that cause heedlessness as a requisite condition, he produces fear & animosity in the here & now, produces fear & animosity in future lives, experiences mental concomitants of pain & despair; but when he refrains from drinking distilled & fermented drinks that cause heedlessness, he neither produces fear & animosity in the here & now nor does he produce fear & animosity in future lives, nor does he experience mental concomitants of pain & despair: for one who refrains from drinking distilled & fermented drinks that cause heedlessness, that fear & animosity is thus stilled.

"These are the five forms of fear & animosity that are stilled."

AN 10.92

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

"Recycling' in this samsara


The "very core" of the real problem which binds us to this samsara and gets us "off track" from our path is the the greed, hatred, delusion, and fear. This leads to our continued "recycling' in this samsara.




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Agati Sutta -Off Course