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**johnbeller** · 08-04-2011, 09:46 PM

...a Buddhist prescriptive for dealing with change I try to contemplate...when a leaf falls off the tree and when someone dear to myself goes distant/dies, why does my mind not show the same equanimity and detachment for both?
Perhaps because I have not seen the drawback of invested interests of grasping & attachment?
I haven't pursued that theme? I haven't understood the reward of equanimity & detachment? I haven't familiarized myself with it?

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....041.than.html
"So it is, Ananda. So it is. Even I myself, before my Awakening, when I was still an unawakened Bodhisatta, thought:
'Renunciation is good. Seclusion is good.' But my heart didn't leap up at renunciation, didn't grow confident, steadfast, or firm, seeing it as peace. The thought occurred to me: 'What is the cause, what is the reason, why my heart doesn't leap up at renunciation, doesn't grow confident, steadfast, or firm, seeing it as peace?'
Then the thought occurred to me: 'I haven't seen the drawback of sensual pleasures; I haven't pursued [that theme]. I haven't understood the reward of renunciation; I haven't familiarized myself with it.
That's why my heart doesn't leap up at renunciation, doesn't grow confident, steadfast, or firm, seeing it as peace.' For your perusal & reading

The Chant of Metta

08-04-2011, 09:46 PM	#8
johnbeller Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 488 Senior Member	...a Buddhist prescriptive for dealing with change I try to contemplate...when a leaf falls off the tree and when someone dear to myself goes distant/dies, why does my mind not show the same equanimity and detachment for both? Perhaps because I have not seen the drawback of invested interests of grasping & attachment? I haven't pursued that theme? I haven't understood the reward of equanimity & detachment? I haven't familiarized myself with it? http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipit....041.than.html "So it is, Ananda. So it is. Even I myself, before my Awakening, when I was still an unawakened Bodhisatta, thought: 'Renunciation is good. Seclusion is good.' But my heart didn't leap up at renunciation, didn't grow confident, steadfast, or firm, seeing it as peace. The thought occurred to me: 'What is the cause, what is the reason, why my heart doesn't leap up at renunciation, doesn't grow confident, steadfast, or firm, seeing it as peace?' Then the thought occurred to me: 'I haven't seen the drawback of sensual pleasures; I haven't pursued [that theme]. I haven't understood the reward of renunciation; I haven't familiarized myself with it. That's why my heart doesn't leap up at renunciation, doesn't grow confident, steadfast, or firm, seeing it as peace.' For your perusal & reading The Chant of Metta
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