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Self confidences

Bhikkhus, the Thus Gone One endowed with these four self confidences acknowledges leadership in gatherings, roars the lion's roar and declares the Teaching. What four?

To the one who acknowledges rightful enlightenment, these things are not enlightened: `There is no recluse, brahmin, a god, Màra, Brahma or anyone in the world, who could refute, this rightfully.' Seeing there is no possibility for this, I abide peacefully without fear and with self confidence.

To the one who acknowledges the destruction of desires, these desires are not destroyed, `There is no recluse, brahmin, a god, Màra, Brahma or anyone in the world, who could refute, this rightfully.' Seeing there is no possibility for this, I abide peacefully without fear and with self confidence.

They that pursue these things declared as obstructions are no obstructions[1], `There is no recluse, brahmin, a god, Màra, Brahma or anyone in the world, who could refute, this rightfully.' Seeing there is no possibility for this, I abide peacefully without fear and with self confidence.

The teaching for the ending of unpleasantness, when logically concluded does not lead to the rightful ending of unpleasantness. `There is no recluse, brahmin, a god, Màra, Brahma or anyone in the world, who could refute, this rightfully.' Seeing there is no possibility for this I abide peacefully without fear and with self confidence. Bhikkhus, the Thus Gone One endowed with these four self confidences acknowledges leadership in gatherings, roars the lion's roar and declares the Teaching.

The various controversial points on which recluses and brahmins hang,
Do not occur to the Thus Gone, confident of all controversies.
He that sees penetratingly through the eye of the Teaching
Upholds it, through compassion for all

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Thanks Sampath

       ขอตั้งจิต อธิษฐาน ผ่านเว็บไซต์....จารึกไว้ ให้งดงาม ตามวิถี

    เพื่ออวยพร ปีใหม่ ใส่ความดี.....ฝากไว้ที่ วินโดว์ไลฟ์ ในคำกลอน   

    อันปีเก่า ผ่านไป ใครถูกผิด......อย่าได้คิด กังวน จนทอดถอน

    ให้นึกถึงสัจธรรมตามขั้นตอน..แล้วค่อยผ่อนคลายทุกข์เป็นสุขแทน

     ปีใหม่นี้ ขอให้มี แต่ความสุข...นิราศภัย ไร้ทุกข์ เป็นสุขแสน

     จงพออยู่พอกินทุกดินแดน....โดยยึดแก่นปรัชญาว่าพอเพียง.          

                                พระมหาน้อม  นมการี  ประพันธ์

          “Training the heart to attain happiness is the way that all the Buddhas proclaimed to be the right and true way. When our hearts never have time to rest and attain calm, they are not fundamentally different from those of animals. But when our hearts rest, relax and receive training, we will be able to see the harmful affects of thinking and imagining, and turbulence they cause in the heart. Then we will come to see the value of a calm heart. Once we have attained a state of mental calm, we will have reached the first stage of Dhamma, which will lead us steadily onwards. In other words, we will have a firmly established faith in the principles of Dhamma.”

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Thanks  Sampath  a Srilankan Buddist