An excellent article by Bhikkhu Bodhi. Based on a sutta in the Devaputta-samyutta.
It addresses the problem of mental dis-ease afflicting so many people - anxiety, worry, frustration, agitation, fear and so on.
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Addressing the unwanted three: Anxiety, fear and Shame and perhaps whatever else may be stirred up within you as you imagine yourself present at such a presentation. The presentation was not video-recorded so all you have to view is the powerpoint.
Wisdom is a morality that is not innate, but can only be got through experience. Everyone who is interested in trying new things and thinks about on the process has the ability to gain wisdom. By learning as much as you can examine your experiences and putting your knowledge to the test, you can become a wiser person.
We are multi-layered beings and what we are aware of in any moment, as we have known for a while now, is not all the information that is available to us, but only a very small chunk of it.
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You created this false version of yourself (ego), so no one could harm your real nature. You were saying to the world, “It’s not the real me that you are scolding – it’s a false version of me … ha ha to you.” Not a bad trick, except most of us never drop the coat of armor; we live our lives from the ego – forever reacting to fear (be it fear of intimate relationships, fear of money, fear of adventure, blah, blah, blah).
Why tackling a subject that has been turned upside down in so many books, conferences, etc.? What new things can I possibly say on the matter?
These were two questions that kept me from writing this, and yet, it didn’t give me peace—I went to sleep, and I woke up with the same words going round and round in my head: Fear and Ego. I don’t know if I’m going to say something new, but I’m surely going to put on paper my own thoughts and experience on the matter.
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2. surely find waves of anxiety, care, and worry running through and beneath this
ceaseless procession. Our tears and concerns need not assume vast
proportions, booming forth bold metaphysical decrees. But beneath the melody
of constantly changing thoughts, punctuating them like the thumping of the bass
in a jazz quintet, is the persistent throb of worry and care, the second rhythm of
the heart.
Subrahma underscores the predicament he faced -- the predicament faced by all
"unenlightened worldlings" -- by repeating the words "always" (niccam) in the first
two lines. This repetition is significant. It does not mean that every thought we
think is plagued by worry and dread, nor does it rule out the joy of successful
achievement, the pleasure of requited love, or courage in the face of life's
daunting challenges. But it does underscore the stubborn persistence of anxious
dread, which trails behind us like a gruffy mongrel -- growling when we cast a
backward glance, ready to snap at our heels when we're off guard.
Fear and anxiety haunt the corridors of the mind because the mind is a function
of time, a rolling glimmer of awareness that flows inexorably from a past that can
never be undone into a future that teases us with a perpetual, undecipherable
"not yet." It is just because the mind attempts to clamp down on the passage of
time, wrapping its tentacles around a thousand projects and concerns, that the
passage of time appears so formidable. For time means change, and change
brings dissolution, the breaking of the bonds that we have forged with so much
toil. Time also means the uncertainty of the future, plummeting us into
unexpected challenges and inevitable old age and death.
When Subrahma came to the Buddha with his urgent plea for help, he was not
seeking a prescription of Prozacs that would tide him through his next round of
business deals and his dalliance with celestial nymphs. He wanted nothing less
than total release from fear, and thus the Buddha did not have to pull any
punches with his answer. In four piquant lines he told Subrahma the only
effective way to heal his inner wound, to heal it with no danger of relapse:
"Not apart from awakening and austerity,
Not apart from sense restraint,
Not apart from relinquishing all,
Do I see any safety for living beings."
The ultimate escape from anxiety, the Buddha makes clear, is summed up in four
simple measures. The most decisive are "awakening" (bodhi) and
"relinquishment" (nissagga), wisdom and release. These, however, do not arise
in a vacuum but only as a consequence of training in virtue and meditation,
expressed here as restraint of the sense faculties and "austerity" (tapas), the
energy of contemplative endeavor. The entire programme is directed to digging
up the hidden root of anguish, which the existentialists, with all their philosophical
acumen, could not discern. That root is clinging. Asleep in the deep night of
ignorance, we cling to our possessions, our loved ones, our position and status;
and most tenaciously of all, we cling to these "five aggregates" of form, feeling,
perception, volitional activity, and consciousness, taking them to be permanent,
pleasurable, and a truly existent self.
To cling to anything is to aim at preserving it, at sealing it off from the ravenous
appetite of time. Yet to make such an attempt is to run smack up against the
fixed decree written into the texture of being: that whatever comes to be must
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3. pass away. It is not only the object of clinging that must yield to the law of
impermanence. The subject too, the one who clings, and the very act of clinging,
are also bound to dissolve, perish, and pass away. To sit back trying to shape a
world that will conform to our heart's desires is to fight against the inflexible law of
change. But try as we may there is no escape: the sonorous truth swells up from
the depths of being, and we can either heed its message or continue to stuff our
ears.
The cutting irony in the solution the Buddha holds out to Subrahma lies in the fact
that the prescription requires a voluntary assent to the act we instinctively try to
avoid. The final escape from anxiety and care is not a warm assurance that the
universe will give us a cheerful hug. It is, rather, a call for us to take the step that
we habitually resist. What we fear above all else, what causes the tremors of
anxiety to ripple through our heart, is the giving up of what we cherish. Yet the
Buddha tells us that the only way to reach true safety is by giving up all: "Not
apart from relinquishing all do I see any safety for living beings." In the end we
have no choice: we must give up all, for when death comes to claim us
everything we identify with will be taken away. But to go beyond anxiety we must
let go now -- not, of course, by a premature act of renunciation, which in many
cases might even be harmful or self-destructive -- but by wearing away the
clinging, attachment, and acquisitiveness that lie within as the buried root of fear.
This relinquishment of clinging cannot come about through the forcible rejection
of what we love and cherish. It arises from wisdom, from insight, from awakening,
from breaking through the deep dark sleep of ignorance. The sovereign remedy
is to see that right now, at this very moment, there is nothing we can truly claim
as ours, for in reality "All this is empty of self and of what belongs to self." Form,
feeling, perception, volition, and consciousness: all are to he given up by seeing
them as they really are, as "not mine, not I, not my self." To see the truth that all
conditioned things are impermanent, disintegrating, and bound to perish, is to
turn away from clinging, to relinquish all. And to relinquish all is to find ourselves,
not barren and empty-handed, but rich with the wealth of the noble ones. For one
without clinging, there is no fear, no tremor or agitation, no dark winds of anxiety.
The one without clinging is akutobhaya, one who faces no danger from any
quarter. Though dwelling in the midst of aging, sickness, and death, he has
reached what lies beyond aging, sickness, and death. Though the leaves fall and
world systems shimmer, he sees security everywhere.
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