Thursday, October 3, 2013

Tangled up Again

and on Page Ninety-Five, Sayadaw concludes by stating that his tradition teaches these methods to improve insight, to escape the round of rebirth, and they are absolutely necessary.  He quotes the Buddha;


"Deep is this dependent co-arising, and deep its appearance. It's because of not understanding and not penetrating this Dhamma that this generation is like a tangled skein, a knotted ball of string, like matted rushes and reeds, and does not go beyond transmigration, beyond the planes of deprivation, woe, and bad destinations."

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