Terjemahan Indonesia: Pemusatan Perhatian – Perenungan Atas Wujud [2]
Buddhist solution to lust, love torture, crushes.
佛教对治 欲望、爱折磨、单恋、的方法.Source of the above photo: Meditation on Foulness: the Buddha advised those who are ardent on attaining nirvana (release) to contemplate the body's manifold impurities.
The following is from: Shuragama sutra 大佛頂首楞嚴經
Twenty-Five Means to Enlightenment
VOLUME 5, Chapter 2
Extract:
Sutra:
Upanishad arose from his seat, bowed at the Buddha's feet, and said to the Buddha, "I also saw the Buddha when he first accomplished the way. I learned to contemplate the appearance of impurity until I grew to loathe it and came to understand that the nature of all form is unclean. Bare bones and subtle dust all return to emptiness, and so both emptiness and form are done away with. With this realization, I accomplished the path beyond learning."
Commentary:
Upanishad's name means "the emptiness of the nature of form" (se xing kong). He'd always been plagued with strong sexual desire.
Because of it, the Buddha taught him to cultivate the contemplation of impurity. This means that he observed how his own physical body, as well as everyone else's, was unclean.
The specific practice is called "contemplating the nine aspects of impurity":
1. Contemplate swelling. After death, the body starts to swell up.
2. Contemplate the green mottled flesh. After the swelling, the body breaks out in green areas like big bruises.
3. Contemplate flesh broken open. After it turns green, it pops open.
4. Contemplate blood and filth. When it breaks open, the blood and other things flow out.
5. Contemplate pus and rot. The pus begins to ooze out of the body as it starts to rot.
6. Contemplate it being eaten by worms. Out of the pus and rot emerge worms which feast on the flesh.
7. Contemplate it scattering. The flesh begins to fall off.
8. Contemplate the bare bones. Once the flesh is gone, there are just the bones underneath.
9. Contemplate it being burned. It is burned by the fire and turns into ashes. The ashes drift into emptiness and turn into dust, until at last there's nothing left.
Upanishad was very attached to forms. He would take special notice of every woman he saw to remark on how beautiful this one was, how exquisite that one was, and how attractive another was. He put all his efforts into this kind of thing.
After he met the Buddha, the Buddha taught him to cultivate the contemplation of nine aspects of impurity.
Upanishad arose from his seat, bowed at the Buddha's feet, and said to the Buddha: I also saw the Buddha when he first accomplished the way.
1. Contemplate swelling. After death, the body starts to swell up.
2. Contemplate the green mottled flesh. After the swelling, the body breaks out in green areas like big bruises.
3. Contemplate flesh broken open. After it turns green, it pops open.
4. Contemplate blood and filth. When it breaks open, the blood and other things flow out.
5. Contemplate pus and rot. The pus begins to ooze out of the body as it starts to rot.
6. Contemplate it being eaten by worms. Out of the pus and rot emerge worms which feast on the flesh.
7. Contemplate it scattering. The flesh begins to fall off.
8. Contemplate the bare bones. Once the flesh is gone, there are just the bones underneath.
9. Contemplate it being burned. It is burned by the fire and turns into ashes. The ashes drift into emptiness and turn into dust, until at last there's nothing left.
Upanishad was very attached to forms. He would take special notice of every woman he saw to remark on how beautiful this one was, how exquisite that one was, and how attractive another was. He put all his efforts into this kind of thing.
After he met the Buddha, the Buddha taught him to cultivate the contemplation of nine aspects of impurity.
Upanishad arose from his seat, bowed at the Buddha's feet, and said to the Buddha: I also saw the Buddha when he first accomplished the way.
I learned to contemplate the appearance of impurity until I grew to loathe it.
I, too, was with the Buddha just after he accomplished the Way, and the Buddha taught me to cultivate the contemplation of nine aspects of impurity.
From this I realized that no matter how beautiful a person may be while alive,
no matter how attractive or how exquisite she is, so that the more you think about her the more enticing she becomes, nevertheless, once she dies, she will swell up just as grotesquely as anyone else.
She'll get just as green and mottled, and her flesh will break open.
Could you love her then?
Then the blood and filth oozes out, and the corpse starts to stink.
Dogs like it at this stage, but people stay far away from it.
Then the pus and rot forms.
Just thinking about it makes you want to vomit!
It would be impossible to kiss her by this time.
Then the worms grow: big ones and little ones.
The flies and blueflies come in swarms.
They draw near to her and at that point you wouldn't even get jealous.
The flesh scatters and the bare bones are all that remain.
The flesh scatters and the bare bones are all that remain.
Then it's burned and the entire thing disappears.
Tell me, where has that beautiful person gone?
Through this contemplation he grew to loathe forms, and came to understand that the nature of all form is unclean.
He realized that no matter how beautiful the form was, its source was impure.
The father's semen and the mother's blood is an unclean origin.
Bare bones and subtle dust all return to emptiness, and so both emptiness and form are done away with.
With this realization, I accomplished the path beyond learning, that is, the fourth fruition of Arhatship.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Well?
Buddha Dharma are methods to be use for the betterment of all beings!
As long as can work, then the method is good method! :)
Cheers all.
Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef
