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**wonceinee** · 06-11-2010, 12:19 AM

The beauty of the Buddha's liberative teachings is that, once one sees them, there is no longer clinging to self-clinging speculations:

"Bhikkhus, you who know thus and see thus, would your mind run to the past: 'Was I in the past or was I not in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past? Having been what, what did I become?'" "No, venerable sir." "Bhikkhus, would you who know and see thus, run to the future: 'Will I be in the future, or will I not be in the future? What will I be in the future? How will I be in the future? Having been what, what will I become?'" "No, venerable sir." "Bhikkhus, would you who know and see thus have doubts about the present: 'Am I, or am I not? What am I? How am I? Where did this being come from? Where will it go?'" "No, venerable sir."

Indeed -- having seen the Dhamma, why would one ever want to crawl into the cesspool of superstition again?

06-11-2010, 12:19 AM	#7
wonceinee Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	The beauty of the Buddha's liberative teachings is that, once one sees them, there is no longer clinging to self-clinging speculations: "Bhikkhus, you who know thus and see thus, would your mind run to the past: 'Was I in the past or was I not in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past? Having been what, what did I become?'" "No, venerable sir." "Bhikkhus, would you who know and see thus, run to the future: 'Will I be in the future, or will I not be in the future? What will I be in the future? How will I be in the future? Having been what, what will I become?'" "No, venerable sir." "Bhikkhus, would you who know and see thus have doubts about the present: 'Am I, or am I not? What am I? How am I? Where did this being come from? Where will it go?'" "No, venerable sir." Indeed -- having seen the Dhamma, why would one ever want to crawl into the cesspool of superstition again?
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