Friends:
By constructing what does one Tumble Down the Abyss?
Once, a certain not very well-known
Bhikkhu asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir: What is the steepest & most frightening abyss for
downfall?
The Blessed Gotama Buddha then pointed out:
Bhikkhu: All those ascetics & priests, who do not understand as it
really is:
This is Suffering; This is Causing Suffering; This is the End of
Suffering;
This is the Way leading to the End of Suffering, they delight in
forming
intentions, that lead to birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation,
pain, grief
& despair. Delighting in forming such intentions, they generate &
accumulate
volitional mental constructions, that indeed induce & set off
rebirth, aging,
death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief & despair. Unaware of
having thus
produced their own painful future, they tumble down the abyss of
rebirth,
aging, & death, tumble down the abyss of sorrow, lamentation,
pain, grief,
and they tumble down the abyss of utter despair. They are
therefore not
freed from this rebirth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain,
grief &
not freed from despair... I tell you: They are not freed from
Suffering!!!
However those ascetics & priests who do understand the 4 Noble
Truths
they do not delight in forming intentions, and therefore do they
neither
generate nor accumulate volitional mental constructions inducing
rebirth,
aging, death, sorrow, pain, grief & despair. They are freed from
rebirth!
I tell you: They are thereby freed from all future Suffering
whatsoever!
Concise Comment:
Any intention that accumulates as the kammic cause of future
rebirth,
thereby also includes the cause of future mortality & thus
Suffering!!!
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha. Samyutta Nikaya. [V:449-50]
section 56: Saccasamyutta. Thread 42: The Abyss ...
Forming Intention
is thus the real Abyss!
