Buddha as backdrop for sexy song (video)

Haley Bennett; Amber Larson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY

Haley Bennett as the character Cora, singing "Buddha's Delight" (photoshoot/hotactress.org)

I think I'm more beautiful. I certainly have more followers and views. I'm famous AF.

Not the Buddha: Tibetan yogi

Now that Nazi Barbie (Taylor Swift) has gotten so popular that even Margot Robbie envies her, and Beyonce gets more attention when she lightens her Becky-do hairdo, it's time to wonder if Haley Bennett -- who severely upstaged uncomfortable Drew Barrymore and old man (and former British heartthrob) Hugh Grant -- really could have had a legitimate hit on her hands.

The Monkees weren't a real band, but they did have real hits. A good song's a good song, like "Buddha's Delight."

Hollywood already had its go with Keanu Reeves

It wouldn't be the first time Hollywood did something right. They present an image, and that image gains more currency than the real thing. Just look at hate Californian governor and turncoat Ronnie Reagan. Image carries more weight than substance does. Haley Bennett was beautiful back then, and the ditty was catchy. As if "Buddha Bars" weren't bad enough, can anyone prevent the exploitation of beautiful Buddha statues as elements in pop culture.

What? I guess, technically, I'm a Ginger. Maybe I was an elf in a past life (hotactress.org)

• Olden But Golden: Celebrities who have aged under the spotlight who have stayed in the limelight (Funtripe)
• Whatever happened to TikTok influencer Addison Rae?

Original trailer for the Barrymore-Grant rom-com Music and Lyrics

Ajahn Brahm: Feel body delight (video)

Ajahn Brahm, Buddhist Society of W. Australia; Amber Larson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

(Ajahn Brahm, June 23, 2020, Buddhist Society of Western Australia) This is from a series of daily meditation and Dharma teachings offered by the Buddhist monks at Bodhinyana Monastery and the nuns at Dhammasara to support the community during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Support the BSWA in making these teachings available for free online via patreon.com/BuddhistSocietyWA. More

"Sweet Veggie" vegetarian buffet (SGV)

Veggie editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Mr. and Mrs. Minion (facebook.com/SweetVeggieLA)

Going vegan/vegetarian just got easy. The San Gabriel Valley has a great new buffet restaurant hidden on Valley Bl. in the sketchy town of El Monte next to the river, near the big bus station: Sweet Veggie with multiple locations.

Newest location opens in El Monte, SGV

This place is incredible with tons of vegan sushi, salad, and Chinese food favorites -- popcorn chik'n with basil, stir fry, build-your-own tacos, mushrooms, savory soups, all kinds of tofu dishes, self-serve ice cream (six flavors), desserts, drinks, pizza, French fries noodles...and so much more.

Call first because the place is packed.

It's all you can eat and drink at only about $10. It's incredible, authentic, non-profit, and delicious. The delicious part is the amazing thing for authentic vegetarian Chinese Buddhist temple food and mock meats, seafood, and dumplings. Some of the food

• 10478 Valley Blvd.
• El Monte, California 91731
• (626) 453-8876
• facebook.com/SweetVeggieLA
• instagram.com/SweetVeggieLA
• twitter.com/SweetVeggieLA
• Now also attend veggie cooking classes!
• Also in West Covina, Walnut, Diamond Bar, and spreading

The true (spiritual-scientific) value of GOLD

Mike Donkers, NewsTarget, 2/24/08; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The historical Buddha's skin had a golden sheen when he emerged from meditation.

 

Spiritual and medicinal gold with incredible healing potential

Ormus, also known as ORMEs, m-state elements, white powder gold, or the Philosopher's Stone, was discovered in 1975 by an Arizona farmer named David Hudson.

He discovered some material in his soil that he had never seen before. He laid it out to dry in the hot Arizona sun so he could have it analyzed. What happened next was absolutely remarkable: The stuff exploded in a big flash of light and disappeared! But when he dried it without the use of sunlight it didn't disappear.

Hudson was a very successful farmer and businessman, so he could afford to have an expensive assay of the material done by a professor at New York's Cornell University. The stuff turned out to contain gold, silver, iron, and aluminum, among other things.

However, the gold and silver did not dissolve in fluid, as is usually the case. The iron and aluminum also did not dissolve in various acids and in their isolated form, they formed a strange black matter.

One by one the elements were isolated. Until the standard tests revealed that there should be nothing left. But there was something left -- a lot of it, in fact. The scientist told Hudson there was nothing, although after removal of the individual elements a staggering 98% of the material was still left.

Hudson had spent a lot of money on the various analyses and left the university completely disappointed with academic science.

David Icke met "Her" on DMT/ayahuasca.

Dissatisfied but determined, Hudson sought out a German expert who, together with him, was willing to analyze the stuff further and build special machinery to do so. The assays showed that it contained various precious elements such as platinum and variants thereof such as rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, and osmium.

The tests also showed that this material reacted differently to various heat and cold treatments. The time period to which they exposed the stuff to hot or cold temperatures also produced different results.

The turning point was at 70 seconds heat treatment. When Hudson stopped the process at 69 seconds the powder contained no precious elements, yet at 70+ seconds it did.

Hudson then went to a specialist at the University of Iowa. They conducted several experiments and once again produced the most amazing results.

The material expressions of the stuff magically changed depending on the degree of warming or cooling they subjected it to. Among these forms were a white powder and also glass.

Elements such as iron spontaneously disappeared or morphed into other elements. The material also changed weight, particularly when exposed to air.

Hudson was advised to patent these elements to prevent others from using his findings to keep him from experimenting further. In March of 1988 Hudson patented these elements. He called them Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elements (ORMEs).

Kalapas (atom particles) are strange

This substance has become known as Ormus and stands for what are 12 known elements, which exist both in a [fine] material and an immaterial [arupa] or purely energetic form.

Hudson found this out by getting in touch with one of the American pioneers of quantum physics, Hal Puthoff. Puthoff explained to him the strange phenomena associated with Ormus.

Ormus elements are capable of losing their material form (disappearing) under the influence of warmth and sunlight, making them no longer subject to the laws of gravity and even capable of dissolving into sunlight.

This is what Hudson had himself witnessed when he first dried the material in the hot sun. The Ormus had literally become one with the light and transferred to another dimension in which there is no space-time.

• Science: TIME may just NOT be real

By cooling it down, he learned to bring the stuff back to the exact place where he had set it to dry, back to the material world of space-time in which we live.

Ormus is a superconductor. These elements resonate with the primal energy, the zero-point from which all life originates and which is a quantum potential of possibilities.
 

I knew there was something in this thing.

Ormus is one with this endless source of energy, which can be found in the air, soil, plants, stones, and sea. Hudson even showed by dissecting animal brains that they, too, contained Ormus. According to Hudson our brains contain at least 5% Ormus.

This percentage can be raised considerably if we take in food and water with a high Ormus content.

It is exactly these foods that are so sadly lacking today. Hudson refers to Ormus as "the light of life" and "the Spirit" [prana]. He claims it not only makes us more spiritual but that it's capable of correcting DNA, too.

Now think of the experiments the alchemists carried out in which they tried to change metals into gold and made a white powder out of gold, the long sought after Philosopher's Stone.

The Church persecuted, tortured, and killed these people. What did they discover that we're not supposed to know? The ancient Egyptians also knew.

Gold has always been the true money and remains so to this day. But the true value of gold may well be medicinal and spiritual instead of material or financial.

There are, unfortunately, dark and powerful forces at work which are trying to keep us from realizing our true potential, our true evolution to a higher consciousness. CONTINUED IN PART II 

MIKE DONKERS is an English teacher from the Netherlands who started taking care of his own health in October 2006 because doctors could not help him. His interest in the food and health connection has him led to in-depth research, particularly on the role sea minerals play in the regeneration of cells. He is in the band The Mellotones (nubluz.com).

Not thinking of SEX in spring (video)

Ananda M. (Dharma Meditation Initiative), Dhr. Seven, Jen B., CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Strangers With Candy (Comedy Central); Ajahn Jotiko, Awareness Itself; Dhammapada verses

I'm here to help you! - Then why do you have that sword? - To cut your vine. - Go away!

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The soft embrace of delight

Let me climb and embrace you.

One day a vine took root at the base of an elder tree in an ancient grove of trees.

It sprang soft tendril-arms and took hold of the base of the tree. The tree sighed at the embrace. As the vine began to grow, its sweet fragrance perfuming the base of the tree as its tendrils extended and it began to climb.

At that time the spirits of the other ancient trees, dryads, came to pay their final respects to the elder tree. "It has been nice knowing you, sir tree!" they said.

The elder tree grimaced and wondered why they spoke such insolence in such a kind and respectful manner, as if mocking him.

"I am a grand old tree; moreover, I have have this gorgeous vine which I wear like a colorful robe over my old bark. What reason have they to speak to me in such a way?"

Day and night, in a solemn procession, the tree spirits came by and paid their condolences until finally the elder could take it no more. The vine had climbed all the way to the top and was beginning to enfold its canopy.

I won't get clingy!

The elder tree cried out to a particularly old, wise, and venerable tree spirit: "Why do you speak to me in such a manner, as if someone has died?!"

The venerable tree spirit looked surprised, "Why surely you know why we have all come, each in our turn, to bid you farewell and speak of our affection?"

"But I am still here! I'm not going anywhere! What have I done that you should all turn on me?"

"Friend, do you not know hat will happen when this vine you wear like a charm enfolds your canopy?"

"It will look all the more gorgeous as I support it with its soft tendril-embrace about my great trunk!"

"Then what?"

"'Then what' what? I will wear it like a beautiful gown, a magnificent, multi-colored robe!"

"Then it will weigh you down until you snap, your old, brittle body unable to support the weight of its clinging any longer."

"Ahh!" the elder tree gasped, suddenly understanding its predicament. "Then I will ask this vine to climb down!"

"Good luck with that request," the venerable spirit said full of compassion as it turned and went off into the grove.

Just so does the tender touch of sensuality delight one...until, clinging and unable to let go, it eventually fells one by its weight.

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Sex: The Great Temptation

Awareness Itself by Thai Master Ajahn Jotiko, Ven. Thanissaro/Geoffrey DeGraff (trans.)

Let's have sex? - No, let's just wrap like a vine and a tree. - OK, that's intimate, too.

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World's tallest tree, CA

Western women are often upset when they learn that Buddhist monks aren’t allowed to touch them.

They usually take it as a sign that Buddhism discriminates against women.

But as Thai Master Ajahn Fuang explained it, “The reason the Buddha didn’t allow monks to touch women is not that there’s anything wrong with women. It’s because there’s something wrong with the monks:

“They still have mental defilements, which is why they have to be kept under control.”

 

For anyone who tries to follow the celibate life [of a Buddhist monastic aiming for immediate enlightenment], the opposite sex is the biggest temptation to leave the path [that leads to awakening].

If Ajahn Fuang were teaching monks, he’d say: “Women are like vines. At first they seem so delicate and soft, but if you let them grow on you, they cling and curl up around you until they have you all tied up and finally bring you down.”

Similarly, when teaching nuns, he’d warn them about men. Once a nun was thinking of disrobing [giving up the saffron robes of a celibate Buddhist nun's life] and returning home, knowing that her father would arrange a marriage for her.

She asked Ajahn Fuang for advice, and he told her: “Ask yourself, do you want to live inside the noose or out?” As a result, she decided she’d rather stay out of the noose. More

What did I learn in life?
Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) never learned morals on Strangers With Candy, but there were a lot of funny times. Like all "after school specials," every episode climaxed in a tidy life lesson. lol

The delicate vines blossom and wait for The One, a tall handsome tree to climb.

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What danger is a vine to a tree?

Dhammapada (Verses 163-166 334-336) edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Dryads (devas) live in trees.

(163) When overspread by extreme vice -- like a sal tree by a vine -- one does oneself what an enemy would wish.

They're easy to do -- things no good and of no use to oneself. What is useful and good is really harder than hard to do.
 

(164) The teaching of those who live the Dharma, worthy ones, nobles [enlightened beings]: whoever maligns it -- a dullard, motivated by wrong view -- bears the fruit of one's own destruction, like the fruiting of the bamboo.*

• *Certain reeds of the bamboo plant family perish immediately after producing fruit.

(165) Great harm is done by oneself. By oneself is one defiled. Great harm is left undone by oneself. By oneself is one cleansed. Purity and impurity are one's own doing. No one purifies another. No other can purify one.

(166) Let one not neglect one's own welfare because of [or even for the sake of] another, however great. Clearly understanding one's own welfare, let one be intent upon the good.

Rise above like a lotus

The bigger our trees the better!

(334-336) When one lives heedlessly, one's craving grows like a creeping vine.

One runs now here, now there, like a forest monkey in desperate search of sweet fruit.

If this sticky and sucky craving overcomes one in the world, one's sorrows grow like wild grass following a rain.

But if in the world one overcomes this sucking craving, so hard to escape, sorrows roll off one like beads of water from a lotus flower.

How to HUG a Buddhist Tree (sutra)

Ananda M. (Dharma Meditation Initiative), Dhr. Seven, Jen B., CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

Imagine a tree so tall we need to invent equipment to climb it and all our friends to hug it.

It's true! The kundalini energy is tingles. Buddhist meditation is better under trees!

California has the best, oldest (bristlecone), and tallest (redwood) trees in the world.

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1. If you would hug a tree, do it slowly, softly, with friendliness, full of altruistic kindness the Buddha called metta. Trees are very sensitive, remarkably sensitive, more than most humans will ever know.

Roots of trees are best for meditating.

(Ask Maitreyi, who will be at Shakti Fest-Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, California, in May of 2018 or consult the scientific research in The Secret Lives of Plants).
 

Why did the ascetic Siddhartha retire to various groves of trees in his quest for enlightenment and even after his great awakening? There was the banyan tree grove where he gave up penances and self-starvation, where the maiden Sujata offered him solid food. 

The bodhi tree still lives in Bodhgaya, India

There was the bodhi tree grove (bodh gaya), where he became enlightened. There was the grove of trees in the Deer Park, where he gave his first discourse.

There was the bamboo grove (Veluvana) where he found cool shade and took up residence. There were the mango groves (like the one the courtesan Ambapali donated to the Buddha) he stayed at on the outskirts when visiting big cities.

Could some energy emerge from the ground to feed the tree and his own spine, or fruit to gather without getting up (like the nutritious figs of the pipal tree, Ficus religiosa, the bodhi tree that are said to contain a chemical quite like an entheogen)?

Veneration of a sacred grove of trees in India

2. Ask permission to warn the tree and/or any "spirit" (dryad, bhumi deva, woodland fairy) residing in or above it. Trees serve as wonderful homes to the fairies or elementals.

This does not mean that trees have "souls" or "spirits" but rather that devas frequently take up residence in some old, special, or tall trees. There is a long history of veneration of such trees and sacred groves of trees.

3. Then slowly approach, embrace, open your heart, clear your head, and hold on out of loving compassion. You may then feel the bounce back of energy. What we put out into the world comes back to us in manifold ways, exponentially grown all out of proportion to our action (karma). It is not "cause and effect" (which states that the effect will be the equal and opposite force of the cause). It will be like one oak seed or acorn giving rise to a giant tree and countless acorns. Thank the tree, and go in peace. The tree will remember you.

• A California tree (Methuselah) older than Buddhism's Bo

Wonderland: PLAY Made the Modern World

Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Steven Johnson (P&P, KABC)

TALK: Steven Johnson traces the development of play and chronicles the essential evolution of popular entertainment using an appealing blend of illustrations, profiles, science, and stories. Our insatiable quest for wonder and novelty has driven technology to achieve the pyrotechnics of rock concerts, the special effects of film, and other mass consumer enchantments (politics-prose.com).

Look at this guy. He's about to meditate.

“A house of wonders itself...Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-d’ya-knows.” —The New York Times Book Review

This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of wonder and novelty is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change.

I'd rather be meditating right now.

Author Steven Johnson argues that, throughout history, the cutting edge of innovation comes wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused.

Johnson’s storytelling is just as delightful as the inventions he describes, full of surprising stops along the journey from simple concepts to elaborate modern systems.

He introduces us to the colorful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showpersons, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, public taverns, gambling tables, and illusory magic shows.

Johnson compellingly argues that observers of technological and social trends should be looking for clues in novel amusements. In the future it’ll be found wherever people are having the most fun.

Praise for How We Got to Now:

That Roadrunner loves it when I give chase.

“Johnson’s writing derives its appeal from his ability to illuminate complex ideas in unpretentious language...Johnson’s prose is nimble, his knowledge impressive...Wonderland is original and fun, as well it should be, given the subject.” —The San Francisco Chronicle

“Wonderland brims with...tidbits, memorable moments, and bits of information that light up the mind.... [Johnson] surprises and delights as he traces the path of how various objects of fun and fancy -- mechanized dolls, follies, and music boxes -- drove advances.” —The Boston Globe

“Mr. Johnson’s narrative is crammed with elegantly told vignettes from the history of ideas.... The book is full of excellent facts.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Johnson...provides a compelling counter-intuitive argument that the Industrial Revolution, democracy, and the computer age were all driven by diversions and appetites that historians too often ignore.” —Kirkus (starred review)

“In an entertaining and accessible style, he takes tangents that arrive at sometimes startling conclusions, like a magician practicing misdirection…Johnson connects the dots in a way that sheds new light on everyday concepts.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Johnson is a master storyteller, weaving disparate elements together into a rich and seamless tapestry of technology and human history.” —Booklist (starred review)

“An engaging survey full of unexpected connections that readers of a historical or sociological bent will find particularly riveting.” —Library Journal 

More praise

“[Johnson’s] point is simple, important, and well-timed: During periods of rapid innovation, there is always tumult as citizens try to make sense of it.... Johnson...makes their evolution understandable.” —The Washington Post

“An unbelievable book...it’s an innovative way to talk about history.” —Jon Stewart

“What makes this book such a mind-expanding read is Johnson’s ability to appreciate human advancement as a vast network of influence, rather than a simple chain of one invention leading to another, and the result is nothing less than a celebration of the human mind.” —The Daily Beast

“The reader of How We Got to Now cannot fail to be impressed by human ingenuity, including Johnson’s, in determining these often labyrinthine but staggeringly powerful developments of one thing to the next.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Brilliant.... Johnson is an exemplar of the post-categorical age.... The ‘long zoom’ approach gives Johnson’s book power, makes it a tool for understanding where we stand today, and makes it satisfying.” —New York Times Book Review
 
“A vision of innovation and ideas that is resolutely social, dynamic, and material...Fluidly written, entertaining, and smart without being arcane.” —Los Angeles Times More (Amazon)

Sex Sells: Why Americans love Witchcraft

WISDOM QUARTERLY (OPINION)

• October is "Monster Month" on Wisdom Quarterly

LYRICS TO BUDDHA'S DELIGHT: "I'm starting to believe, boy, that this is meant to be, boy, 'cause I believe in karma. Boy, do you believe in karma? So forget about your past life, 'cause this could be our last life. We're going to reach nirvana, boy, we're going to reach nirvana! Like sitting meditation, you give me elevation. Can you take me higher? Wonder, can you take me [even] higher. I want a revelation and sweet salvation and the eternal fire. Show me the eternal fire. Each time you put your lips to mine, it's like a taste of Buddha's delight! I see the gates of paradise. You're a taste of Buddha's delight. Tell me all your fantasies tonight. And I will make them happen, 'cause I'm not satisfied if I don't get my Buddha's delight!"

"Buddha's Delight" (featured on the soundtrack to "Music and Lyrics" Atlantic Records) utilizes sacred Buddhist imagery in an American "sex sells" marketing campaign. Why? -- all to make another dull and draining Drew Barrymore movie.

Those sacred Buddhist images have been replaced with clips from the popular television series "Charmed" (The WB). The original mock music video, featuring Haley Bennett, was deemed too prurient for Wisdom Quarterly (by a narrow margin of editorial votes). But if you must see it, look below.*

A mock Wiccan ceremony conducted for educational purposes in Latin America. These girls almost certainly do not get The WB (NIMBY: "not in my backyard").

Images of Hollywood-style magical powers, relationship issues, and the lives of pretty urban witches all conspire to explain our fascination with witchcraft, the supernatural, Harry Potter, vampire sagas, mystery and mysticism.

Now that Druidry is a recognized religion in Britain, it will not be long before more girls are out in their backyards enacting unprofitable rites and rituals (silabata), casting spells, and conjuring dangerous entities, which sadly do in fact exist like a hidden plague distorting the human experience.

WHY?

So the reason we love witchcraft (and the supernatural) is because we have a simplistic and idealized notion of magic. It answers all our prayers. Or at least we think it answers the thing we most frequently pray for -- satisfaction of desires. Because craving is at the root of all our suffering, we think satisfaction-of-craving is the solution.

But the solution is not endlessly trying to satisfy all the desires that arise life after life, which leads to utter misery. The solution is much better. It is the ultimate: It is realizing the end of craving and therefore the complete and utter extinction of all suffering.

*WARNING: obscene, offensive material not suitable for Buddhists or anyone under 65!

Where there is Passion (Samy XII.64)

Buddhist monks memorizing and chanting sutras, Wat Sudat, Thailand (jaywye.com)

Originally this sutra evolved out of a long oral tradition. Therefore, it was chanted and memorized by rote, utilizing repetitive phrasings for ease of memory. This made it easier to hear and follow, much like the Greek poets -- for example, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey -- who recounted epic tales with history and a moral embroidered in. The following includes ellipses (...) minimizing this for readers, but this traditional flavor remains (WQ Editor).

Atthi Raga Sutta (Samyutta Nikaya XII.64)

Thus have I heard. The Buddha was dwelling at Savatthi...

"There are these four nutriments for the establishing of beings who have taken birth or for the support of those in search of a place to be born. What are the four?

1. physical food, gross or refined is first;
2. contact is the second,
3. consciousness the third, and
4. intellectual intention the fourth.

These are the four nutriments for the establishing of beings or for the support of those in search of a place to be born.

"Where there is passion, delight, and craving for the nutriment of physical food, consciousness lands there and grows. Where consciousness lands and grows, name-and-form alights. Where name-and-form alights, there is the growth of mental-fabrications. Where there is the growth of mental-fabrications, there is the production of renewed becoming in the future.

Where there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging, and death, together, I tell you, with sorrow, affliction, and despair.

"Where there is passion, delight, and craving for the nutriment of contact...

"Where there is passion, delight, and craving for the nutriment of consciousness...

"Where there is passion, delight, and craving for the nutriment of intellectual intention, consciousness lands there and grows. Where consciousness lands and grows, name-and-form alights. Where name-and-form alights, there is the growth of mental-fabrications.

"Where there is the growth of mental-fabrications, there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. Where there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging, and death, together, I tell you, with sorrow, affliction, and despair.

"Just as -- when there is dye, lac, yellow pigment, indigo, or crimson -- a dyer or painter would paint a picture of a woman or a man, complete in all its parts, on a well polished panel or wall, or on a piece of cloth. In the same way, where there is passion, delight, and craving for the nutriment of physical food... contact... consciousness... intellectual intention, consciousness lands there and grows.

"Where consciousness lands and grows, name-and-form alights. Where name-and-form alights, there is the growth of mental-fabrications. Where there is the growth of mental-fabrications, there is the production of renewed becoming in the future. Where there is the production of renewed becoming in the future, there is future birth, aging, and death, together, I tell you, with sorrow, affliction, and despair.

"But where there is no passion for the nutriment of physical food, where there is no delight, no craving, then consciousness does not land there or grow.

"Where consciousness does not land or grow, name-and-form does not alight. Where name-and-form does not alight, there is no growth of mental-fabrications. Where there is no growth of mental-fabrications, there is no production of renewed becoming in the future. Where there is no production of renewed becoming in the future, there is no future birth, aging, and death. That, I tell you, has no sorrow, affliction, or despair.

"Where there is no passion for the nutriment of contact...Where there is no passion for the nutriment of consciousness...Where there is no passion for the nutriment of intellectual intention...

"Where there is no growth of mental-fabrications, there is no production of renewed becoming in the future. Where there is no production of renewed becoming in the future, there is no future birth, aging, and death. That, I tell you, has no sorrow, affliction, or despair.

"Just as if there were a roofed house or a roofed hall having windows on the north, the south, or the east. When the sun rises, and a ray has entered by way of the window, where does it land?"

"On the western wall, sir."

"And if there is no western wall, where does it land?"

"On the ground, sir."

"And if there is no ground, where does it land?"

"On the water, sir."

"And if there is no water, where does it land?"

"It does not land, sir."

"In the same way, where there is no passion for the nutriment of physical food... contact... consciousness... intellectual intention, where there is no delight, no craving, then consciousness does not land there or grow. Where consciousness does not land or grow, name-and-form does not alight.

"Where name-and-form does not alight, there is no growth of mental-fabrications. Where there is no growth of mental-fabrications, there is no production of renewed becoming in the future.

"Where there is no production of renewed becoming in the future, there is no future birth, aging, and death. That, I tell you, has no sorrow, affliction, or despair."