The Practice and The Results of Aryan Bhikkhus

The complete works of an upasaka (non-monk buddhist) are:
1. He comes to buddhist groups to hear Dhamma sermons.
2. He fully practices basic five precepts.
3. He promotes humanity works, he encourages himself and others to be good, he promotes three jewels to others.
Below is the practice and the results of aryan bhikkhus.

I. The practice of stream-entry:
- Practicing awareness on breathing.
- Realizing nonself of everything.
- Realizing the Buddhadhamma as the path to liberation..

The result of stream-entry:
- The mind never choose anyone other than a Buddha as one's foremost Dhamma teacher. 
- The mind cannot think cannot think about doing traditions, but only do necessary things (appamada), things that relate to liberation..
- The mind choose to focus on Satipatthana (place for vipassana/contemplation), Kammatthana (place for jhanas/meditation), and Mushin (place for mokuso/transcendent meditation), rather than becoming a traditionalist.

II. The practice of once-returning:
- Practicing kayanupassana.
- Practicing vedananupassana.
- Practicing cittanupassana.

The result of once-returning:
- His life aggregates become like this: Ideas, Neutralfeelings, Apperception, Consciousness, Body.

III. The practice of non-returning:
- Practicing kayanupassana.
- Practicing vedananupassana.
- Practicing cittanupassana.
 
The result of non-returning:
- His life aggregates become like this: Ideas, Consciousness, Body. 

IV. The practice of perfect bhikkhu:
- Practicing kayanupassana.
- Practicing vedananupassana.
- Practicing cittanupassana.
- Practicing Dhammanupassana.
- Practicing mokuso.

The result of perfect bhikkhu.
-  His life aggregates become like this when he has jhana 10 with residue: Dhammakaya (Noble Eightfold Path).
-  He doesn't have foundation for future rebirth when he has jhana 10 without residue: Unborn.

See related article in here.

Discourse on The Human Mind (II):Ceasing Proliferation

Having no bound with ideas, feelings, apperception, consciousness, earth, water, fire, air, one is a Buddha.

Don't feed on ideas, cause it will proliferate and lead to more samsara.
Don't feed on feelings, cause it will proliferate and lead to more samsara.
Don't feed on apperception, cause it will proliferate and lead to more samsara.
Don't feed on consciousness, cause it will proliferate and lead to more samsara.
Don't feed on flesh or skin, cause it will proliferate and lead to more samsara.
Don;t feed on liquid, cause it will proliferate and lead to more samsara.
Don't feed on breath, cause it will proliferate and lead to more samsara.
Don;t feed on body metabolism, cause it will proliferate and lead to more samsara.

Act according Dhamma, don't intend to do something, even if it is nonself. But do something when you aware it is good, correct, beneficial for you and others, and approved by the aryan monks.


There are monks, and there are aryan monks. Monks are same like commoners, full of flaws, the difference is they practice to be flawless.
While aryan monks means monks that has attain fruit of holiness.

The consciousness of nonself (jhana 7/Brahma) is not enough for a monk. He must also have:
- the consciousness of nonself's consciousness (jhana 8)
- the ceasing of that nonself's consciousness (jhana 9)
- the absense of becoming wether it is self or nonself (Nibbana).

In case one wonder, what should he do after he practice The Mindfulness on Aggregates correctly, and how to avoid quiet and bored feeling that happens when you do that, here is some points:

- Having no-mind, doesnt mean you dont do anything. You still do something, what you do? Take a look at Noble Eightfold Path doc in files. So one practicing the way of life itself, instead of doing what mind says.

- You feel so quiet, empty, and useless? That is actually one stage of arupa jhana meditative mind, and you just need to proceed more by spark your intelligence which is the practice of Noble Eightfold Path.

- Most will find it getting bored, and quit buddhism. Next days he only lives as a buddhist philosopher, not a buddhist. This is because he follows part of his dislike feelings. There are times when one do the practice of watching aggregates, having his dislike feeling strenghten. He should not believe in this, and continue the practice till the feeling neutral, and even till he is emotionless (in this emotionless state you will meet the condition of being empty and useless like I said above).
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There are two kind of boredoms:
1. Boredom as the hindrance when trying to meditate.
2. Thought still exist and says "I am bored" when you reach jhana 7, this because you used to live for purposes. Don't believe in purposes, its only gods' domain.

There are three lifestyle:
1. One lives for his desires, he identifies the self as whatever he want in life. This is ordinary human's life.
2. One lives for his purposes, this is jhana 4 meditative mind person. If he dies in this mental state he reborn as one of gods.
3. One lives for Dhamma, this is jhana 7-8 meditative mind person. If he dies in this state he reborn as one of Gods.
All of these are not good enough to be achieved because it still seek for becomings, even that purest becoming as God.

One thing that left that is the supreme way to achieved is one lives as the Dhammakaya or body of Dhamma, which means, he doesn;t have any mind:
- to live (as human).
- to get rid of physical body (so can reborn as god).
- to be sometime appear and sometime not (so can reborn as God).
- to be intelligence (so he can reborn as Sammasambuddha in next new earth).
But his activity is only to do Eightfold Noble Path daily, by using it just a raft only, so he won't reborn as anything, he free forever as a Buddha.
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How to work in daily life without proliferating like commoners? Easy. Just aware your domain as a monk. What is your domain as a monk? Any experience must arrives through satipatthana. Other than that just domain of demons. (Makkata Sutta).
How to work in daily life without proliferating like commoners? Easy. Just aware your domain as a monk. Example: When you create a group called lingo learning center, you should add word "for monks". So it sparks such awareness in you that "I learn english only to smooth my way as Dhamma teacher," or "I learn english only to read more dhamma books in english and to talk to my westerner friends."

Without guarding the mind, its the same you let untrained mind controlling you. It gives you many wild ideas upon working on an object; to seek money, and then to seek family, and then kids, and you trapped in samsara again.
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There is no freewill since eveything already predetermined by previous mind determinations, believing in freewill will contradict the anatta doctrine too. So, sometime, a being, because of his past activities he got compassion for mankind so he doesnt want to be a Buddha.
Being triggered by his past experience he decides to be Sammasambuddha. I also met one monk in this life who dedicate his life to be sammasambuddha. Ofcourse not as Metteyabuddha, but after that, in new earth. He cannot learn to be correct, why? If he try to be be correct he will become a Buddha in near time. So what he does daily is only performing many forms of gift (Dana) to all beings.

10 Benefits of Being a Recluse

10 benefits of being a recluse:

1. Solitude's delight: For instance, for slaves and farmers, freedom from servitude resulting in being "content with the simplest food and shelter, delighting in solitude" as well as the veneration of others.

2. Virtue's pleasure: "The monk ... consummate in virtue sees no danger anywhere from his restraint through virtue. Endowed with this noble aggregate of virtue, he is inwardly sensitive to the pleasure of being blameless."

3. Simplicity's contentment: "Wherever he goes, he takes only his barest necessities along. This is how a monk is content."

4. Mental calm: With mindfulness and alertness (see sampajanna), a monk cleanses his mind of covetousness, ill will and anger, sloth and drowsiness, restlessness and anxiety, and doubt (see the Five Hindrances).

5. Jhanic bliss: He attains the four jhanic states which are associated with the permeating of his body with rapture, pleasure, equanimity, and a pure, bright awareness.

6. Insight knowledge: "With his mind thus concentrated, purified, and bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant, malleable, steady, and attained to imperturbability — the monk directs and inclines it to knowledge and vision. He discerns: 'This body of mine is endowed with form, composed of the four primary elements, born from mother and father, nourished with rice and porridge, subject to inconstancy, rubbing, pressing, dissolution, and dispersion. And this consciousness of mine is supported here and bound up here.'"

7. Supernatural powers: "Having been one he becomes many; having been many he becomes one. He appears. He vanishes. He goes unimpeded through walls, ramparts, and mountains as if through space. He dives in and out of the earth as if it were water. He walks on water without sinking as if it were dry land. Sitting cross-legged he flies through the air like a winged bird. With his hand he touches and strokes even the sun and moon, so mighty and powerful.... He hears — by means of the divine ear-element, purified and surpassing the human — both kinds of sounds: divine and human, whether near or far."

8. Mind reading: He can discern in others states of consciousness such as those with or without passion, lust, delusion, concentration, etc. (see the Satipatthana Sutta regarding mindfulness of the mind).

9. Three knowledges: He can recollect past lives, see the rebirth of other beings, and knows the ending of suffering and the fermentations of sensuality, becoming and ignorance.

10. Release from samsara: "His heart, thus knowing, thus seeing, is released from the fermentation of sensuality, the fermentation of becoming, the fermentation of ignorance. With release, there is the knowledge, 'Released.' He discerns that 'Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for this world.'"