{"id":961,"date":"2006-08-15T16:28:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T21:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=938"},"modified":"2008-12-15T16:30:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:30:51","slug":"dhamma-corner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2006\/08\/15\/dhamma-corner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhamma Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Friends<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The Way to Escape:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><P>    Life is like being caught up inside an empty bottle&#8230;<BR><br \/>\n    Even buzzing much around like a housefly one gets<BR><br \/>\n    actually nowhere &#038; quite often ends up stone dead,<BR><br \/>\n    lying heaped up among other corpses on the bottom&#8230;<BR><br \/>\n    The only Way out is Upwards, towards the Light and<BR><br \/>\n    through the always apparent yet as if hidden hole &#038;<BR><br \/>\n    out into the open &#038; free space !!!  <BR><br \/>\n     <BR><br \/>\n    &#8216;Inside the Bottle&#8217; signifies the repeated round of<BR><br \/>\n    rebirth &#038; death, again &#038; again in this Samsara &#8211;<BR><br \/>\n     <BR><br \/>\n    &#8216;Buzzing Around&#8217; signifies the useless &#038; futile urge<BR><br \/>\n    craving, &#038; monotonic restless stress of life itself!<BR><br \/>\n     <BR><br \/>\n    &#8216;Upwards&#8217; signifies progress along increased morality,<BR><br \/>\n    absorbed concentration &#038; insight of understanding!<BR><br \/>\n     <BR><br \/>\n    &#8216;The Light&#8217; signifies the Buddha-Dhamma to follow &#038;<BR><br \/>\n    utilize like a guiding lighthouse &#038; torch in the dark&#8230;<BR><br \/>\n     <BR><br \/>\n    &#8216;The Hole&#8217; signifies the Noble 8-fold Way to initiate,<BR><br \/>\n    develop, expand, refine, purify, complete &#038; perfect!<BR><br \/>\n     <BR><br \/>\n    &#8216;Open &#038; Free Space&#8217; signifies the Deathless Nibbana;<BR><br \/>\n             silent &#038; still, safe &#038; same, even &#038; eternal<BR><br \/>\n                              Peace &#038; Bliss !!!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>              Come Along, friends!<BR><br \/>\n               I&#8217;ll show it to you!<BR><br \/>\n                    Directly !!!  <\/P><br \/>\n<P> Friendship is the Greatest !<\/P><br \/>\n<P>***<\/P><br \/>\n<P>author bio:<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.what-buddha-said.net\/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.what-buddha-said.net\/<\/A><BR><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/DirectDhamma\" TARGET=\"_blank\">http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/DirectDhamma<\/A><BR><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Buddha-Direct\" TARGET=\"_blank\">http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Buddha-Direct<\/A><BR><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.smartgroups.com\/groups\/TrueDhamma<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Dhamma-Questions sent to my email are quite Welcome<BR><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"mailto:bhikkhu_ekamuni@yahoo.co\">bhikkhu_ekamuni@yahoo.co<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends The Way to Escape: Life is like being caught up inside an empty bottle&#8230; Even buzzing much around like a housefly one gets actually nowhere &#038; quite often ends up stone dead, lying heaped up among other corpses on the bottom&#8230; The only Way out is Upwards, towards the Light and through the always apparent yet as if hidden hole &#038; out into the open &#038; free space !!! &#8216;Inside the Bottle&#8217; signifies the repeated round of rebirth &#038; death, again &#038; again in this Samsara &#8211; &#8216;Buzzing Around&#8217; signifies the useless &#038; futile urge craving, &#038; monotonic restless stress of life itself! &#8216;Upwards&#8217; signifies progress along increased morality, absorbed concentration &#038; insight of understanding! &#8216;The Light&#8217; signifies the Buddha-Dhamma to follow &#038; utilize like a guiding lighthouse &#038; torch in the dark&#8230; &#8216;The Hole&#8217; signifies the Noble 8-fold Way to initiate, develop, expand, refine, purify, complete &#038; perfect! &#8216;Open &#038; Free Space&#8217; signifies the Deathless Nibbana; silent &#038; still, safe &#038; same, even &#038; eternal Peace &#038; Bliss !!! Come Along, friends! I&#8217;ll show it to you! Directly !!! Friendship is the Greatest ! *** author bio: Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka. http:\/\/www.what-buddha-said.net\/ http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/DirectDhamma http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Buddha-Direct http:\/\/www.smartgroups.com\/groups\/TrueDhamma Dhamma-Questions sent to my email are quite Welcome bhikkhu_ekamuni@yahoo.co<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}