Avoiding all Controversies allows inner Peace!
The brahmin
Māgandiya asked the
Buddha about how to find inner peace:
Mental purity is neither caused by particular views, nor by
learning, nor by
knowledge, nor even by perfect morality. Neither by absence of
right view,
missing learning, lack of knowledge, or tainted morality, not by
that either!
Discarding all these oppositions, detached, calmed, independent,
one stops
longing for any form of existence... Whoever thinks himself
equal, superior,
or inferior, he will dispute on that account! But the
imperturbable one does
not enter any self-deceit! Since for such one, there is no
I-Me-Self or Ego
how much less can there then ever be any equal, inferior or
superior I-Ego!
Leaving home, wandering homeless, not making acquaintances in
any village,
free from desire for sensual pleasures, showing no preferences,
such sage
will never engage in any controversy. One who really knows does
not become
proud because of any particular view, learning, thought, or
experience, for
he is not tied to, influenced by, or led by any of these
momentary illusions..
He is completely released through his understanding. But those
who cling to
certain experiences and particular views wander about causing
controversy!
Sutta-Nipāta 839-842-844-846-847
Edited excerpt.
Commentary:
This true speech made
Māgandiya and his wife never-returners (Anāgāmins).
More on selfless
impersonality, ego-lessness, the No-Self fact (Anattā):
Ego-Projection,
Who_or_what_is_the_Agent,
Anatta No Self,
The Egoless,
I-dentification,
The Anatta Doctrine,
No_Agent_is_Inside,
We_Are_Not,
Empty_of_What,
Neither_Agent_nor_Actor,
Experiencing_Egolessness,
The_Smoke_of_Self,
Input_'I'-dentification,
No-Agent_but_Dependence,
Anti-EGO-Tool,
Non-'I'-dentification,
Uprooting_Egoism,
Prison_of_Pride,
Mistaken_Reference,
Solo_Self-Deception,
Invisible_Impersonlatity,
Empty_of_What?,
Who_is_the_Creator,
Not_Who_but_What,
Self-less_Anatta,
No_Being_No_Person,
Deed_without_Doer.
Without Controversy!
Have
a
nice
&
noble
day!
Friendship is the
Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samāhita
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