ABANDON

Upekksha (捨/abandon) – a term for tranquility – is a serene state of mind, which is a common human condition; however, in consequence of evolution, the mankind has started to increasingly forget about it. Above all contributed to this, as for me, the industrial revolution of the twentieth century, when more and more new discoveries have been mad has extremely accelerated the rhythm of modern life, which sometimes seems completely impossible to break out of it, and because of that, many people think that the constant anxiety and stress is characteristic for a human initially.

In practice, Upekksha (abandon) is resolve of unattachment to anything, letting go of greed and selfishness, and self-centered view. Calmly when people disparage, defame…is characteristic of Upekksha; unnattachment to wealth, lust, fame… is the wisdom of Upekksha; the resolve is not caught up in opposition of the duality, in a state of ‘nothingness', so one is not tied by sufferings and afflictions, and can live inc states of bliss and peace.

“In this case, monks, a monk cultivates the enlightenment-factors of mindfulness, investigation-of-states, energy, rapture, tranquillity, concentration, equanimity accompanied by equanimity which is based on detachment, dispassion, leading to maturity of surrender. If he wishes to dwell... he dwells thus, equanimous, mindful and clearly aware. Or by passing utterly beyond the sphere of infinite consciousness, thinking 'there is nothing,' he attains and dwells in the sphere of nothingness. I declare that the heart's release by equanimity had the sphere of nothingness for its excellence. This is the attainment of a wise monk who penetrates to no higher release.”

As it was mentioned above, ‘sraddha’ means trust and loyalty. Do not confuse it with Western notions of faith, plaiting them here, as soon as ‘sraddha’ means our Right resolve to the truth and our respond to it. What is also included in the concept of ‘sraddha’ is respect to the three "jewels" of Buddhism which consist of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

Shortly, the Right Resolve centered 3 meanings: resolve of detachment, resolve of rageless and resolve of harmless.” The ‘resolve of detachment’ is to let go of greed and craving; ‘resolve of rageless’ is to eradicate hatred, and develop metta; the ‘resolve of harmless' is the elimination of murder, arising. And the resolve is also divided into three categories: Wrong resolve, Right Resolve of leakage (āsava dhammā), and Right resolve of no leakage (no-āsava dhammā). The ‘wrong resolve’ is lust, anger, and hurt oneself and others. The ‘Right resolve of leakage’ is the renunciation of desires, no anger, and harmless. And the ‘Right resolve of no leakage’ is the resolve of achievements of sacred mind, no leakage mind; it is thinking of a saint. This resolve is result of diligent practice in Noble Path.

To the term of society, the ‘Right resolve of leakage’ is capable to prevent the negative feelings, bad desires, and stop the arising in our anger and aversion that harm us and others. The ‘Right resolve of leakage’ is also thinking of human development with a perfect heart; how ideal the society is if everyone would have such thinking, and when each person has no much greed, anger and hurt each other!

TNTQ