CELIBACY IS THE FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH.

Without CELIBACY one can be mentally and physically healthy. But one cannot come the the perfect health in mind and body without celibacy.

One may be physically fit and healthy, but if he want to come to the perfection in the physical fitness and health, he must become celibate.

One may have a healthy mind, but if he want to come to the perfect healthy mind of Samadi, he must have celibacy.

One may be having physical illness and if he want to cure oneself fast and sure, he must become celibate.

One may be sufferings from mental stress and agitations, and if that one becomes celibate, he would become happy and confident.

On the contrary, when one becomes more fit and healthy in body and mind, he would become less lustful.

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RATTLING OF THE APPLIED AND SUSTAINED THINKING BY THE TENDENCIES.

After subduing the distractive thinking in Anger, Desires, Lust, Ego and in Ignorance (Ideas and Opinions) plus in Neutral Thoughts, one applies a 'thought', to be with the 'Attention on the breathing', a 'thought about the breathing'. Then he continues to maintain the 'applied thought', thus avoiding all other thoughts he subdued.

This 'Applied and Sustained thought' about the breathing helps to keep the attention on the breathing, making the practitioner of the Bhavana to know the each and every 'in and out breathing' in two ways, when he detects the breathing by the Attention.

First, the Attention is payed to the breathing to Cognize the Breathing. Then the Cognization of the breathing is translated to the 'Applied and Sustained thought' of the Breathing, thus 'knowing' the breathing as thought as well, and the Attention 'knows' this 'thought' too. Hence, the attention 'knows' the breathing by cognization as well as it knows the breathing by subsequent 'Applied and Sustained thought'. 

One may find this 'Applied and Sustained thought' is getting rattled at the beginning.
That is, it is getting wavered, pulled to this side or to that side. This happens due to the 'tendencies' of the subdued thinking of Anger, Desires, Lust, Ego and in Ignorance (Ideas and Opinions) plus Neutral Thoughts. They are trying to manifest again. Once, the practitioner realizes the effect of these 'tendencies' of Anger, Desires, Lust, Ego and in Ignorance (Ideas and Opinions) plus Neutral Thoughts, which are trying to manifest, those 'tendencies' can be put way. Thus one comes to the 'Applied and Sustained thought' in honesty, wanting only to be with the 'Applied and Sustained thought', but not desiring to think anything else, in accordance with the tendencies. This means the Attention on the Breathing and the attention on the 'Applied and Sustained thought' are unified, and one comes to the First Jhanic Samadi.

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THE TRUTH OF THE LUST AND THE BURDEN OF THE LUST.

There are two types of Truths. First one is the 'Factual' Truth. Second one is the 'Emotional' Truth. Both the Truths are called as Truths as we can agree of their existence, by many people together, a common agreement.

Factual Truths.

When water is heated to 100 degrees Celsius at the normal air pressure, it will evaporate. This is a Factual Truth. Here everyone who understand this agrees. There won't be any disagreement due to personal traits of oneself.

Even if some people disagree to this, water will continue to evaporate at 100 degree Celsius at the normal air pressure.

Emotional Truths.

She is very beautiful and Pretty. This is an Emotional Truth. People who have lust would agree to this. People who are burdened with lust, and hence see this as truth, when they try to load the same burden of lust to others, emphasizing on the truth, that "She is very beautiful and Pretty", others would agree, if they are already are in the lust.

But it would be very annoying to a person, who is not in Lust, but just to listen and keep quite out of friendliness, to the person who is trying to load this truth to others.

And it would be disgusting as well.

There is the same situation, when one is burdened with the Emotions of Anger, Desire, Ego and Ignorance (ideas and opinions), and when he tries to load to others, these Emotional truths they see as true to others, it would be disgusting to others, who are not burdened with the Emotions of Anger, Desire, Ego and Ignorance.

Associating such people are a burden.

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THERE IS NO FALLING DOWN FROM JHANIC SAMADI.

Jhanic Samadi is a Skill just as the typing, driving, swimming skills etc. As one will always have the Skill of typing, driving, swimming skills etc., until one continues to do the same, one will have Jhanic Samadi, if one continues in the absorption of Jhanic Samadi daily. But there is some exception here:-

That is, that there aren't any single thing, which are contrary to the skill of typing, driving, swimming skills, etc., which would bring down the skill of them, but there are things contrary to the skill of Jhanic Samadi, which would bring down the skill of it. What are they?

If one abandons the Celibacy there wont be any Jhanic Samadi, until he get to reestablished in it again. For a person who got established in Jhanic Samadi, it would be much easier to get reestablished in Celibacy with ease. It is very hard to drop the Skill of Jhanic Samadi, as it is a very powerful Skill.

If one falls to the 'thinking' in hate, desire again, together with the abandonment of the daily absorption into Jhanic Samadi, then the skill of the Jhanic Samadi will erode away gradually, but it may take about 20 years or more for the erosion of the skill, as the Skill of Jhanic Samadi is a Powerful one.

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WISDOM (PANNA) HAS A SPECIFIC MEANING IN BUDDHISM.

Wisdom is an English word having many meanings. To translate the Buddhist word Panna, we use the same word, Wisdom.

Then what is the exact meaning of Wisdom?

And who do have the wisdom?

Wisdom means to understand at surface level or at deeper level to 'See and Know', that all things, outside things and inner things of Mind and Body, are Impermanent, Selfless (Essence-less) and leads to suffering when grasped at them.

If one Understands the above statement with respect to everything, then he only understands the Wisdom.

If one 'Sees and Knows' the above three states of things of the wisdom to everything, by which he drops the grasping of things and becomes not attached to things, be free from things, then he has gained the Wisdom.

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THERE IS 'NO MIND'S ACTION' IN FORTH JHANIC SAMADI.

Mind is a Function or 'set of action', which is done by oneself one after the other. That is, after 'observation' of an object, Mind functions takes place or more correctly, one does the 'actions' one after the other starting from Sensation -> then Cognition -> then Memory -> finally Thinking (Perceiving the object).

Though the 'observation' is an action of the mind, it is not included in the Function of the Mind, where Mind Function is referred to as the Mind.

By practicing the 'Attention' on breathing, in Buddhist Bhavana (Mind Development), one gets the skill of the 'Attention', where 'Attention' itself an action, but not that of the function of the mind, which helps to get rid of the Functions or actions of the mind, one by one to have different stages of Samadi.

First the skill of the 'Attention' helps to get rid of distracting 'Thinking', where such thinking takes away the 'Attention' from the object, i.e. from the breathing. Practicing Attention helps fixing the 'thinking' on the breathing itself, i.e. in the Bhavana object itself. Once the thinking is fixed, it is First Jhanic Samadi.

In this First Jhanic Samadi, where one of the Function of the Mind is brought under control (not controlling), that is 'Thinking' is under control, and deviant thinkings are stopped.

By the time one comes to the First Jhanic Samadi, the 'Attention' becomes a 'Skill', meaning one no longer need to make and effort to maintain the 'Attention', but it becomes effortless, continuous and this state of Attention is called as 'Sati'.

In the Second Jhanic Samadi, 'Thinking' on the object of Bhavana, i.e. on breathing is stopped to Cognize the Breathing continually through the 'Sati'. So at this stage two functions of the mind are stopped. That is 'Thinking' and the 'Memory' which is needed to think. Here one pays 'Sati' to the Cognition of the Breathing.

In the Third Jhanic Samadi, Cognition of the 'object' is stopped and one pays 'Sati' to the Sensation of the object of the Bhavana, i.e. Breathing.

In the Forth Jhanic Samadi, one stops the Mind function of the Sensation on the Breathing, and hence, there is no detection of the breathing through 'Sati', but 'Sati' remain focused on the place, where the 'breathing' was. This is made further possible by breathing getting 'suspended' at this stage. So, at this Fourth Jhanic Samadi, the functions or actions of the mind is Stopped altogether. But other functions, such as 'observations' and 'Sati' remains.

At Forth Jhanic Samadi, without having Sensations, one is not attracted by pleasant Sensations or not dispelled by unpleasant Sensations. Hence, one is in Equanimity here, and steady, without falling to 'this or that'.

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MISSING ATTRIBUTE OF 'COGNITION' CAUSES 'SENSATIONS' TO LEAD, TO BAD DREAMS WHILE WAKE.

While Sleeping.

When one sleeps, specially half sleep, thinking arises leading to dreams. Here, the Mind Function does not take its full course. As usual the Mind function is kicked off by the 'Observation' (Contact). What sense, out of Six Senses makes the Contact or the Observation here, while sleeping? All senses except 'Touch' sense works here. The heat, cold, touch of the pillow, blanket or any other object in the bed, etc., give rise to the touch 'Sensation'. Usually the 'Touch' sense is accompanied by the Visual sense, while one is wake, to Cognize the Object correctly.

Therefore, without a proper Cognition, the dream of the 'Thinking' starts with erroneous ones of the Memory, purely stimulated by Sensation directly. Sometime dreams would be a pleasant ones if one is healthy. But when one is not healthy or specially having indigestion etc., related to the stomach, the dreams would be scary.  

While Wake.

While one is wake and if he is mentally not stable, where his Mind does not Functions fully, as in the above situation of sleep, and if Cognition does not take place, then only the Sensation will have to stimulate the Memory, and will bring up erroneous Memories, creating wrong Thinking. For that person this 'Thinking' would be a dream like thing, happening to him, and he would not be able to understand any of it. This is a Cognition Gap of the Mind or even some of the Sensation gaps added to it.

The thinking is always a Bad Dream to such a person, bringing in Fear, insecurity, Doubt, etc. He will feel that his Mind is Fragmented. And he will never have Awareness of the surrounding and himself, where the Awareness is normally brought about by healthy thinking.

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