Delete Switch You may have used some kinds of modern electronic devices. Maybe the mobile phone is the most fmailiar to almost every one. Every one, young and old, often like it as it is a compact one and can perform a lot of functions. As I say mobile phone, I dont want you to think that it is only for using phone contact. That is why a mobile phone is built with the functions which are included in a computer. A mobile phone connected with internet web site can bring the users up to the world wide conact within several touches on the screen. That the information we want to know and send and the photos and the videos can be obtained, save and kept in it. However, whether one makes phone calls or uses other functions, the device will be over-loaded as the using period gets longer and longer. In addition, unwanted falses occuring while using the multi-functions again make the divice over-loaded. The device will get delayed, harmed or up to destroyed because of either over-loaded by long period of using or bad effects of the unwanted errors. Besides, the save data which were useful for the user at that moment but they were not later make the device over-loaded. All know well that a certain switch is built in these devices in order to remove the overload and unwanted saved data. It is called Delete switch . It is very effective and useful in getting rid of overload and the bad effects of errors, How many errors one has made and how long the save data has existed, the delete switch can get rid of them within seconds. Whenever I use the delete switch, an opnion dawns upon in my mind. It is nothing but how good it will be,if there is a switch like the Delete switch in a humans life. When errors and unwanted data have been removed with the delete switch, a phone or a computer is left in the orginal contions. In the same way, I often think it will be very good if there is a delete switch which will make the errors we have made clean and leave us in the original status. As an ordinary human being, we have made countless errors since the beginning of our lives. Some are very triffle and they are forgotten later. Some are rather big and it takes a long time to be nullified. However, some follow the person concerned and torture him or her as a black spot just like a shadow of them. You, the readers, may have heard the saying Ten years mending is not sufficient for a days error. For instance, maybe a drunkard who over-indulges in amusement commits a murder case and is punished into ten years imprisonment. In such case, it can assumed, the law makes him deleted from his error. In the mundane world, man has to do vrious errors of deeds and words unconsciously. Such errors can be nullified solving by an appropriate way. For exmple, if one is in heavy debt as he does gambling of two or three digit lottery, he can solve it by selling his own dewlling. In the way to escape from worldly desires and attachments, errors of deeds, words and thoughts are all inclusive in the list of mistake. Buddha indicated that the error of thoughts is the worst although is is known by none. If one manages to do the error only in his thought, it is already consummated and he cannot escape from punishment. In the mundane world, although one can get rid of his errors of deeds and words mentioned above with any kind of delete switch, in the way to escape from - 2 - worldly desires and attachments, it is the four nether worlds that will delete the errors of deeds words and thought. The more one thinks, the more frightening it is. No one will wish to go there. Is there a delete switch that will get rid of all errors in the mundane world as well as in the way to escape from worldly desires and attachments just like the one that removes the errors in a modern electronic device within seconds....? Such question will be a silly one in an average persons thought. We, the ordinary human beings, have made errors to our hearts content. We occupy the sight seeing in our eyes with the false consciousness . We occupy the sound hearing in our ears with the false consciousness. We occupy the smell entering in our noses with the false consciousness. We occupy the taste occuring on our tongues with the false consciousness. We occupy the touch on our bodies with the false consciousness. We occupy the thoughts in our mind with the false consiousness. It is not a wrong doing only when one curses the other. It is not also a wrong doing only when one beats the others head. How many times have we falsely occupied the objects of consciousness occuring on the six apertures by the aspect of concept, not by the aspect of ultimate reality ? How much volume does it increase ? It cannot be guessed. Then, which delete switch are we on in orderto get of such huge volume ? Many people including mayself are confusedly vague with these questions ? In the mundane world, one made mistake whether he did it consciously or not, I would like to continue, there is an excellent way in which he does not need to settle these debts by suffering in the four neither worlds. This is encouraging for the Buddhists. It is Magga . In completion, Sotapatti magga. When one pratises the Eightfold Path, he can attain Sotapatti magga in hand. As soon as he attian it , the errors he made countlessly all his life as well as along the cycle of rebirth are immediately got rid of and the door of the four mether worlds is entirely shut down. Clear evidences are seen in the life of Milakkha, the great hunter, and Hainsaka, the great thief. Here, I would like to be let me state the summarized account of the elements of Eightfold Path . 1.Right Understanding Having insightful knowledge of the Dhamma. 2.Right Thought Banishing thoughts free from Lust, ill-will and cruelty and culti- vating thoughts of loving kindness, compassion, non-hatred and equanimity towards all living beings. 3.Right speech Abstaining from uttering false words and language that is stande- rous, rude, harsh and abusive as well as idle, frivolous gossip. 4.Right Action Conduct that is moral, honourable and not harmful to others. 5.Right Livelihood Avoiding a living that is harmful to others. 6.Right Effort To be deligent in the avoidance of evil by thought, word and deed 7.Right Mindfulness To be consciously aware of all the activities of mind and body. 8.Right Concentration Meditating to prevent violent emotions from arising. While one is pratising the Noble Eightfold Path, he cannot attain the completion of it at once. However, if he follows the teachings of a perfect teacher, he can attain it between dawn and dusk, it was said. The moment of saturation in completion of the Eightfold Path pratice is the time he attains Sotapatti magga. If he attains Sotapatti magga, it will be similar to that he has already switched on the delete switch that will directly get rid of all errors he made without delay and shut the door of the four nether worlds down . Yin Nwe Ko (Linn)
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 00:07:59 +0000