Those who have even a tiny sense
about deep Buddhist teachings, may have already noticed that there are many
replicas of Buddhism teachings. There is this quite popular opinion about
Buddhism that "One can do anything without clinging to anything after the
awakening or Nibbana!" and do all the stuffs which includes in the rat
race!
When someone says "One can
do anything without clinging to anything after the awakening or Nibbana!"
and keep encouraging you to keep continue the rat race by the name of
deep Buddhist teaching, you should at least investigate the facts of Buddhism!
Various opinions about the
"Liberation - Nibbana - Moksha - Salvation" were always there and
will be there. A Samma Sambuddha is a one who happened to this world once
a time and explaining about the actual liberation by opening to the path of
real "Truth". And this becomes a very difficult and very deep
teaching to understand for most of beings. So, what happen is that we
keep continue to believe what we believe all those time as the
"truth" and mistaken it for the actual "TRUTH". We
just believe Samma Sambuddha also shown another version of what we believe as
"truth". That's why it says in the Buddhist teachings "one
should have a deep investigative nature, and develop certain level of wisdom to
understand beyond what we believe as truth!" Then only, you could
dive in to the deep teachings!
So, as a beginning then we must
at least develop our investigative nature by going through the facts.
Remember, just as a beginning only! Then what we get about the character named
"Siddartha Gauthama" who introduce the Buddhist teachings to the
world in this Buddha Sasana? A prince who gave up all the luxurious life
style as a prince... and his extremely beautiful wife and the kid... and gave
up everything pleasurable as a lay person.
As the person who introduce the
real liberation for those who have mistaken it for something else, is the best person to say this phrase of "One can do anything
without clinging to anything after the awakening or Nibbana!" and keep
encouraging you to keep continue to do the rat race isn't it?
But did the blessed one do
so? Have you ever seen anywhere that the blessed one encourage anyone by
saying "I can do anything because I am awakened... so, I'm planning to go
back to the kingdom and do the needful as a king... I prefer going back to the
royal meal as I now have no attachments to anything... I can wear anything now
coz I'm free from attachments... I can go back to work as a husband and a true
father because now I can love anyone without attaching to them... So, let me
explain that path of liberation where you can enjoy all the pleasures in lay
life and at the same time can enjoy the awakening... let's do the needful to
have a pleasurable lay life... let's keep doing what we can easily do as lay
people... let's makes kids... let's have some sex... let's have some political
views and build a better place for everyone..."
Have you ever heard of such a
Buddhism? Yes, currently this kind of a Buddhism is getting quite
popular!
If this is the kind of liberation
one could achieve, the blessed one could have NOT recommended the precepts or
the Disciplinary rules to those who have entered to the monkhood or practicing
the path of nibbana right? The blessed one could have said; "Oh
bhikkhus, please do build proper places and keep maintaining them... ask for
the lay people to support for what you are doing and ask for money and other
donations because you can do it without any attachments... please do share the
extra things with lay people and keep support them by pleasing them... and do
actively advice the politicians and keep doing the political stuffs to make a
better place because you can do anything without attaching to it with this kind
of a deep understanding... etc... etc.." Do you think the main root
of Buddhist teachings, the blessed one have encouraged others like this?
NO!!! Not even a
single true disciple of Buddhism has encouraged such a method. Not even
the true lay disciples have encouraged such stupidity! Because anyone
with a tiny wisdom have the true sense of the true nature of this rat race.
They know how exhausting and how meaningless is this. They have a sense
of a trap called the existence!
The blessed one said "If
there is a desire for life and living, this thing called liberation is
impossible for such"! The blessed one did not encourage anyone to
have a pleasurable life and maintain the life style perfectly, so that one can
think about liberation after solving all the problems in life. So, be
wise my dear dhamma friends!
Do not try to fall for the
easy awakenings! Because that will definitely awaken you for another deep
sleep. There is nothing like "having a pleasurable lay life call nibbana" in true Buddhism. It's true a worm enjoys his pile of dung as a
treasure. That's its pleasure. and that's the liberation for
it! In another way "freedom of desires” not the Freedom from
desires!
The wise beings don’t do things
just because that's the easy way or that because seems right thing to do. The wise beings always look deeper in to the matter no matter how difficult it
is to understand and explore what is unknown for them. So, defilements
are one of the most difficult subject to understand. But the wise beings never
give up on understanding them profoundly. coz that's the root of
existence filled with loads of suffering and reasons to suffering in various
ways! Defilements creates the various possibilities of suffering and drag
us deep in to the pit hole! So, even when you decided to overcome
these you again trap by the name of liberation like we discuss here.
There are these differences
one should realize as "staying in certain life style and becoming a
one" For example; you can stay in the lay life but not becoming a lay
being. you have to become an ascetic or a priest in your mind and act like one
even as a person who chose to spend the time in the lay life style" You
can become an ascetic or enter to the monkhood as a priest, monk or nun by
changing in to robs and alms bowl but you can still be a lay being by doing and
encouraging the lay stuffs. So, you have to become an ascetic or a priest in
your mind even though you chose to spend the time in the monastic life as a
monk or nun"
So, there is this difference of changing the outer appearance and life style but still clinging and attracted to the worldly meaningless lifestyle. So, one should be careful not to become such a being who fight for freedom of desires! Always remember to be a wise disciple! Have a blessed time by exploring what type of a "freedom fight" you have within!
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