BODHI-PAKKHIYA-DHAMMA- STUDY AND PRACTICE

//////////////////////bodhi-pakkhiya-dhamma [bodhi-pakkhiya-dhammaa]: "Wings to Awakening" 
seven sets of principles that are conducive to Awakening and that, according to the Buddha, form the heart of his teaching:
 [1] the four frames of reference (see satipatthana);
 [2] four right exertions (sammappadhana) the effort to prevent unskillful states from arising in the mind, to abandon whatever unskillful states have already arisen, to give rise to the good, and to maintain the good that has arisen; 
[3] four bases of success (iddhipada) desire, persistence, intentness, circumspection; 
[4] five dominant factors (indriya) conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, discernment; 
[5] five strengths (bala) identical with [4];
 [6] seven factors for Awakening (bojjhanga) mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, persistence, rapture (see piti), serenity, concentration, equanimity; and
 [7] the eightfold path (magga) Right View, Right Attitude, Right Speech, Right Activity, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration.



//////////////////APPAMADA- HEEDFULNESS- A LIFELONG AUDIT OF SELF


////////////////LIFELONG VIGILANCE


///////////////////PAIN- NOT GOOD, NOT BAD, NOT MINE, 


/////////////////////For one who desires
long life, health, beauty, heaven, & noble birth, — lavish delights, one after another — the wise praise heedfulness in performing deeds of merit. When heedful, wise, you achieve both kinds of benefit: benefits in this life, & benefits in lives to come. By breaking through to your benefit, you're called enlightened, wise.

/////////////////////WHEN U WALK, ONLY WALK

WHEN I SIT, ONLY SIT

////////////////////SPOON CAN BE IN SOUP FOR 100 YRS, BUT WILL NEVER TASTE THE FLAVOUR

/////////////////////SAMMAPPADHANA=4 RIGHT EFFORTS

1. effort to overcome or reject evil unwholesome acts that have arisen, or are in the course of arising;
2. effort to avoid (not only in this life but also in the lives that follow) the arising of unwholesome acts that have not yet arisen;  SNOWBALLING EFFECT
3. effort to arouse the arising of wholesome acts that have not yet arisen;

4/effort to increase and to perpetuate the wholesome acts that have arisen or are in the course of arising.

///////////////////////////////AD HOC CULTIVATED MISHMASH OF HABITS

 

///////////////////////////OVER 1K FOOD AUTOMATISM- FISH N CHIPS, TUB OF ICECREAM, WHOLE PIZZA, CHCKN PLATTER

/////////////////////////////COFTAS

//////////////////////////ANGER- U REACT TO A CAUSE

//////////////////////////////MINDFULNESS, NON ATTACHMNET AND CONTENTMENT

/////////////////////////SIMBA GRDN MEDITATION

/////////////////////////////There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ~ Henri Matisse 

////////////////////////////CONTENT, HUMBLE AND WISE

/////////////////////////COMPASSION, SYMPATHY AND EQUANINMITY

///////////////////////////////FLEXIBLE, TO LET GO 

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1. The non-arising of evil and unskillful qualities that have not yet arisen.
2. The abandonment of evil and unskillful qualities that have arisen.
3. The arising of skillful qualities that have not yet arisen.
4. The maintenance of skillful qualities that have arisen.

//////////////////"There is the case where a monk generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the sake of the non-arising of evil, unskillful qualities that have not yet arisen."

////////////////"He generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the sake of the abandonment of evil, unskillful qualities that have arisen.”

///////////////////He generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the sake of the arising of skillful qualities that have not yet arisen.”

//////////////////Four Foundations of Mindfulness which includes: 

1. Mindfulness of the Body (Kāya) – refers to your physical body

2. Mindfulness of Feelings (Vedanā) – refers to the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral sensations in your body

3. Mindfulness of the Mind (Citta) – refers to your consciousness

4. Mindfulness of Mental Objects (Dhamma) – refers to your thoughts and perceptions

//////////////////KAYA, VEDANA, CITTA, DHAMMA

////////////////IDDIPADHA

four bases of such power are concentration (samādhi) on:

• Intention or purpose or desire or zeal (chanda)
• Effort or energy or will (viriya)
• Consciousness or mind or thoughts (citta)
• Investigation or discrimination (vīmaṃsā)^[

/////////////////////////MIMANSA= DISCRIMINATION

/////////////////////////A/W MATURE DTH- BOOK OVER

///////////////////////////NVR NVR NVR GV UP

///////////////////////////TOUGH- ABT TO HAVE A BREAKTHRU- FATE- ATO-BCFTOD

//////////////////////////5 FACULTIES=indriya is frequently encountered in the context of the "five spiritual faculties" (Pali: pañc' indriyāni):

1. faith or conviction or belief (saddhā)
2. energy or persistence or perseverance (viriya)
3. mindfulness or memory (sati)
4. concentration or focus (samādhi)
5. wisdom or understanding or comprehension (pañña).

/////////////////////////5 STRENGHTS= faculties and powers are two aspects of the same thing.

1. Faith (saddha) - controls doubt
2. Energy/Effort/Persistence (viriya) – controls laziness
3. Mindfulness (sati); - controls heedlessness
4. Concentration (samādhi) - controls distraction
5. Wisdom/Discernment (pañña, prajña) – controls ignorance

/////////////////////////////Seven Factors of Enlightenment (Pali: satta bojjhaṅgā or satta sambojjhaṅgā; Skt.: sapta bodhyanga) are:

• Mindfulness (sati) i.e. to remember the Dhamma.
• Investigation (dhamma vicaya) of the Dhamma.
• Energy (viriya)

• Joy or rapture (pīti)

• Relaxation or tranquility (passaddhi) of both body and mind
• Concentration (samādhi) a calm, one-pointed state of concentration of mind^[1]
• Equanimity (upekkha), to be able to face life in all its vicissitudes with calm of mind and tranquility, without disturbance, with dispassion and detachment.

This set of seven enlightenment factors is one of the "Seven Sets" of "Enlightenment-related states" (bodhipakkhiyadhamma

////////////////MIND IS CAUSE , BODY IS THE EFFECT

////////////////QUIETITUDE OF EQUANIMITY= VIPASSANA

//////////////////////8 FOLD PATHS=

WISDOM=1. Right View 2. Right Intention

ETHICAL CONDUCT=3. Right Speech 4. Right Action5. Right Livelihood

MENTAL DVPT=6. Right Effort7. Right Mindfulness8. Right Concentration

////////////////////////FOOD AUTOMATISM- COUNT 1-3-5

////////////////////////////WISDOM IS SORTING OUT YR MIND, EXPERIENCE, ADDICTION, SUFFERINGS

///////////////////"He generates desire, endeavors, activates persistence, upholds & exerts his intent for the maintenance, non-confusion, increase, plenitude, development, & culmination of skillful qualities that have arisen: This, monks, is called right effort."

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Effort to eradicate the already prevailing akusalas.

Effort to prevent new akusalas from arising.

Effort to acquire new kusalas.

Effort to develop the already prevailing kusalas.