[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Etienne Arsenault [@JETAR9](/creator/twitter/JETAR9) on x 1.7M followers Created: 2025-07-10 12:18:10 UTC #RightUnderstanding #RightView #Buddha’s Teachings #AnguttaraNikaya Numerical Discourses of the #Buddha #LovingKindness Book of the fours #Mindfulness of Breathing & #Brahmavihara ☀ Loving-Kindness …AND… Compassion, Sympathetic Joy In the two Metta Suttas of the Anguttara Nikaya, the Buddha states that those who practice radiating the four immeasurables (equanimity, love (metta), compassion, and joy).) in this life and die "without losing it" are destined for rebirth in a heavenly realm in their next life. In addition, if such a person is a Buddhist disciple (Pali: savaka) and thus realizes the three characteristics (impermanence, suffering/unsatisfactoriness, and not-self) of the five aggregates, « The five aggregates or heaps of clinging are: X. Form (or material image, impression) – X. Sensations (or feelings, received from form) – X. Perceptions – X. Mental activity or formations – X. Consciousness » then after his heavenly life, this disciple will reach nibbana. Even if one is not a disciple, one will still attain the heavenly life, after which, however depending on what his past deeds may have been, one may be reborn in a hell realm, or as an animal or hungry ghost. ―☀― When a bhikkhu has a mind completely well developed in X things, completely sees their delimitations, and completely breaks through their meaning, in this very life he makes an end of suffering ― What X things? The #NobleEightfoldPath: #RightView #RightResolve #RighSpeech #RightAction #RightLivelihood #RightEffort #RightMindfulness #RightConcentration This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of #Kamma 💥 TEXT - IMAGE💥 Loving-Kindness (extending Goodwill to others), Compassion, Sympathetic Joy (Altruistic Joy). Equanimity ―☀― Loving-Kindness is correlated with the First Jhana, Compassion with the Second, Sympathetic Joy (Altruistic Joy) with the Third, and Equanimity with the fourth. According to the developed Theravada system, however, any of the first three immeasurable meditations can lead to all three jhanas, excluding the fourth; only immeasurable Equanimity Can Lead to the Fourth Jhana.― In Brief… Loving-Kindness (extending Goodwill to others), Compassion, Sympathetic Joy (Altruistic Joy), Mindfulness, & Concentration) You should train yourself thus: ‘My mind will be established inwardly, well-composed. No evil, unskillful qualities, once they have arisen, will remain consuming the mind.’ That’s how you should train yourself. ― Then you should train yourself thus: ‘Goodwill, as my awareness-release, will be developed, pursued, given a means of transport, given a grounding, steadied, consolidated, & well-undertaken.’ That’s how you should train yourself. When you have developed this concentration in this way, you should develop this concentration with directed thought & evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & a modicum of evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & no evaluation, 💥 you should develop it accompanied by rapture… not accompanied by rapture… endowed with a sense of enjoyment; you should develop it endowed with equanimity. ― “When this concentration is thus developed, thus well-developed by you, you should then train yourself thus: ‘Compassion, as my awareness-release. … Empathetic joy, as my awareness-release.… Equanimity, as my awareness-release, will be developed, pursued, given a means of transport, given a grounding, steadied, consolidated, & well-undertaken.’ That’s how you should train yourself. When you have developed this concentration in this way, you should develop this concentration with directed thought & evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & a modicum of evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & no evaluation, you should develop it accompanied by rapture… not accompanied by rapture… endowed with a sense of enjoyment; you should develop it endowed with equanimity. ― “When this concentration is thus developed, thus well-developed by you, you should then train yourself thus: 💥 ‘I will remain focused on the body in & of itself.… feelings in & of themselves.… the mind in & of itself… mental qualities in & of themselves—ardent, alert, & mindful—putting aside greed & distress with reference to the world.’ That’s how you should train yourself. When you have developed this concentration in this way, you should develop this concentration with directed thought & evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & a modicum of evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & no evaluation, you should develop it accompanied by rapture… not accompanied by rapture… endowed with a sense of enjoyment; you should develop it endowed with equanimity. “When this concentration is thus developed, thus well-developed by you, then wherever you go, you will go in comfort. Wherever you stand, you will stand in comfort. Wherever you sit, you will sit in comfort. Wherever you lie down, you will lie down in comfort. 💥 ➡️Cont. – The Text in the Image #Mindfulness of Breathing Tomorrow’s Post 💥  XXXXX engagements  [Post Link](https://x.com/JETAR9/status/1943283604227817492)
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Etienne Arsenault @JETAR9 on x 1.7M followers
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#RightUnderstanding #RightView #Buddha’s Teachings #AnguttaraNikaya Numerical Discourses of the #Buddha #LovingKindness Book of the fours #Mindfulness of Breathing & #Brahmavihara ☀ Loving-Kindness …AND… Compassion, Sympathetic Joy In the two Metta Suttas of the Anguttara Nikaya, the Buddha states that those who practice radiating the four immeasurables (equanimity, love (metta), compassion, and joy).) in this life and die "without losing it" are destined for rebirth in a heavenly realm in their next life. In addition, if such a person is a Buddhist disciple (Pali: savaka) and thus realizes the three characteristics (impermanence, suffering/unsatisfactoriness, and not-self) of the five aggregates, « The five aggregates or heaps of clinging are: X. Form (or material image, impression) – X. Sensations (or feelings, received from form) – X. Perceptions – X. Mental activity or formations – X. Consciousness » then after his heavenly life, this disciple will reach nibbana. Even if one is not a disciple, one will still attain the heavenly life, after which, however depending on what his past deeds may have been, one may be reborn in a hell realm, or as an animal or hungry ghost. ―☀― When a bhikkhu has a mind completely well developed in X things, completely sees their delimitations, and completely breaks through their meaning, in this very life he makes an end of suffering ― What X things? The #NobleEightfoldPath: #RightView #RightResolve #RighSpeech #RightAction #RightLivelihood #RightEffort #RightMindfulness #RightConcentration This is the path of practice leading to the cessation of #Kamma
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Loving-Kindness (extending Goodwill to others), Compassion, Sympathetic Joy (Altruistic Joy). Equanimity ―☀― Loving-Kindness is correlated with the First Jhana, Compassion with the Second, Sympathetic Joy (Altruistic Joy) with the Third, and Equanimity with the fourth. According to the developed Theravada system, however, any of the first three immeasurable meditations can lead to all three jhanas, excluding the fourth; only immeasurable Equanimity Can Lead to the Fourth Jhana.― In Brief… Loving-Kindness (extending Goodwill to others), Compassion, Sympathetic Joy (Altruistic Joy), Mindfulness, & Concentration) You should train yourself thus: ‘My mind will be established inwardly, well-composed. No evil, unskillful qualities, once they have arisen, will remain consuming the mind.’ That’s how you should train yourself. ― Then you should train yourself thus: ‘Goodwill, as my awareness-release, will be developed, pursued, given a means of transport, given a grounding, steadied, consolidated, & well-undertaken.’ That’s how you should train yourself. When you have developed this concentration in this way, you should develop this concentration with directed thought & evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & a modicum of evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & no evaluation, 💥 you should develop it accompanied by rapture… not accompanied by rapture… endowed with a sense of enjoyment; you should develop it endowed with equanimity. ― “When this concentration is thus developed, thus well-developed by you, you should then train yourself thus: ‘Compassion, as my awareness-release. … Empathetic joy, as my awareness-release.… Equanimity, as my awareness-release, will be developed, pursued, given a means of transport, given a grounding, steadied, consolidated, & well-undertaken.’ That’s how you should train yourself. When you have developed this concentration in this way, you should develop this concentration with directed thought & evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & a modicum of evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & no evaluation, you should develop it accompanied by rapture… not accompanied by rapture… endowed with a sense of enjoyment; you should develop it endowed with equanimity. ― “When this concentration is thus developed, thus well-developed by you, you should then train yourself thus: 💥 ‘I will remain focused on the body in & of itself.… feelings in & of themselves.… the mind in & of itself… mental qualities in & of themselves—ardent, alert, & mindful—putting aside greed & distress with reference to the world.’ That’s how you should train yourself. When you have developed this concentration in this way, you should develop this concentration with directed thought & evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & a modicum of evaluation, you should develop it with no directed thought & no evaluation, you should develop it accompanied by rapture… not accompanied by rapture… endowed with a sense of enjoyment; you should develop it endowed with equanimity. “When this concentration is thus developed, thus well-developed by you, then wherever you go, you will go in comfort. Wherever you stand, you will stand in comfort. Wherever you sit, you will sit in comfort. Wherever you lie down, you will lie down in comfort. 💥 ➡️Cont. – The Text in the Image #Mindfulness of Breathing Tomorrow’s Post 💥
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