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Mind: Overcoming Its Cankers Acharya Buddharakkhita Discharges, It Oozes from the Sense Faculties Hsi Lai Journal of Humanistic Buddhism Mind: Overcoming Its Cankers Acharya Buddharakkhita discharges, it oozes from the sense faculties. He has quoted at least three definitions from the commentary, K:andy,SriLanka,2004 Papancasudani. The second definition Buddhist Publication Society Inc. given to the term is 'Alternatively, it is The present work written by Ven. Acarya canker in the sense of something that has Buddharakkhita is an exposition of the been fermenting for long, like liquor and Sabbasava Sutra of the Majjhima Nikaya, such other spirits. Thus, because it is like a the second book of the Sutra Pitaka of the fermented stuff, it is canker.' The third Theravada tradition. The book consists of definition is 'Again, whatever extends or twenty four chapters arranged under two prolongs is also canker, in that it parts which is, in author's word, the perpetuates the process of suffering in exposition of the sutra based on the phenomenal existence.' He has briefly Buddha's teaching embodied in the Pali commented on these three definitions canon. In addition, the book has a preface stating that the first one stands for asava as to the first edition, preface to the revised defilements, the second for asava as edition, a word to the reader and an karma. Regarding the third definition the introduction. author states that 'Not only does canker connote defilement and karma but it also In his preface to the first edition the author means varieties of distress or misfortune has mentioned that the spiritual as implied by the last definition.' deliverance is attained by the destruction of the mental cankers, and that, in the first Next the author has paid attention to place, a seeker of the truth should have a various classifications of cankers as found clear idea about cankers before removing in canonical texts: Salayatana Vagga theIP and, secondly the method to be classification of cankers in the Samyutta practiced in eliminating cankers. Nikaya, e.g. (the canker of sensual desire, the canker of desire for continuity of In the first chapter the Sabbasava Sutra, existence and the canker of ignorance); which is the second discourse of the Abhidhamma, where wrong view is added Majjhima Nikaya, is reproduced in. The to the threefold classification of Samyutta second chapter is its complete translation Nikaya; and other classifications like by the author himself. It is a good idea to fivefold, six-fold and sevenfold. Modes of do so as the traditional Pali Text Society's controlling and removing these cankers are translation is obscure. Sub titles have been discussed with reference to many ways of given to the Pali sutra as well as to the overcoming cankers on the basis of Nikaya translation wherever necessary for teaching. clarification. The fourth chapter, The Canker-free mma The third chapter, Exegesis Based on K:hinasava, is based on the Dha pada, Commentary, is long compared to other the second book of the Khuddaka Nikaya chapters of the book. The author explains which has many verses with the term asava. that as Buddhaghosa tends to be quite At the very beginning the reader is extensive in commenting on the sutra he is reminded that life has a meaning only when sticking only to certain pertinent points. there is a purpose for living. Asava is a Therefore, Buddhaghosa's commentary synonym of samsara and asavas are also has not been followed from word to word. tended by continuous feeding. So feeding, The author has attempted a definition to ahara, is a synonym of asava. There is a cankers using the commentary. The Pali good description of Arahant, the term, asava, is defined in its literal sense, emancipated one as well as a story of i.e. that is to say in the sense of flowing Arahant Anuruddhau. out. And also in the sense that it 426 Book Reviews Chapter five, Dark and Bright Paths, that is to say, by insight, by self restraint, begins with a remark regarding duality: In by judicious use, by endurance, by reality there is no good and bad, misery avoidance, by elimination and by and happiness. This sounds like development. Nagarjuna's philosophy of emptiness. It is also mentioned that in ethical reality these In the eleventh chapter, Cankers and dualities like good and bad, wholesome Deliverance, one may find an interesting and unwholesome exist. Referring to twin­ comparison of three cankers with threefold verses of the Dhammapada, it is pointed deliverance: the canker of sensuality stands out that one should follow the bright path opposed to the desireless deliverance, and the dark path should abandoned. which arises from the contemplation of unsatisfactoriness, the canker of ignorance Chapter six, Struggle, is a description of opposed to voidness deliverance and the human struggle to survive and the blessing canker of continuation opposed to signless of deliverance. This is illustrated with the deliverance. The whole chapter is an story of the housemaid, Punna. Chapter elaboration of the canker-free state of seven, Self-important and Heedless, and Nibbana. eight, Resting on Laurels, are very short. The disadvantages of heedlessness and the In the twelfth chapter called Wisdom in advantage of mindfulness in overcoming Action, it has been pointed out that when cankers is emphasized in the seventh one gets used to view phenomena in terms chapter. Chapter · eight concludes that of three characteristics he naturally hanging on to laurels is useless and develops anicca sanna (perception of - unprofitable. impermanence), dukkha sanna (perception of suffering) and anatta sanna (perception The last chapter of the Part one is Fault­ of no-soul). Chapter thirteen, Mental Finding. It emphasizes the task of the Contraband, is a description of counter Kalyana-mitta who helps us in finding our phenomenon that goes against the misdeed as illustrated with three verses psychological laws of a healthy mind. First from the Dhammapada. a definition of contraband is given at the very beginning. Contraband is something Part two begins with the chapter ten, illegal smuggled into a country for the Destruction of Cankers, quoting verse 93 purpose of selling. It has been pointed out of the Dhammapada. Cankers have three that the Buddha identified this stages: dormant, activated and manifest psychological contraband and termed it and the destruction should be done by amanasikaraniya. Author says that asava practicing Sila (purification of morality), can be called the fetter (samyojana), the Samadhi (purification of mind) and Panna flood (ogha) and mental impediment (purfication of insight). Further, it is stated (nivarana). that it has four points: I. The task, 2. The individual to fulfill the task, 3. The Chapter fourteen, The Initiate and Holy rationale and 4. the Method of Company, is a very short. exposition of the overcoming. The technique of overcoming contrast between the holy man and the cankers is called sabbasava-samvara­ worldly man. The chapter fifteen is 'lamed pariyaya which is the Noble Eight-fold Overcoming Cankers and deals with Path. This chapter is a commendable various ways of removing cankers and exposition as to how one should overcome attaining Nirvana. cankers. Referring to the early teaching of the Buddha, author has clarified that the Chapter sixteen is the translation of wise one should endeavor to remove Nibbedhika Pariyaya Sutra from the cankers already arisen in him and guard Anguttara Nikaya, the fourth collection of sense-doors from unarisen cankers. There Buddha's discourses which is a part of the is a quotation from Nikaya texts regarding SutraPitaka. This sutra consists of a system the seven ways of overcoming cankers, of analysis and the method of penetration. 427 Hsi Lai Journal of Humanistic Buddhism Like Sabbasava sutra it is an exposition of has taken a lot of materials from Nikaya cankers. In it six ways of dealing with texts as well as Abhidhamma, references cankers have been explained, i.e. are not given clearly in the form of penetration into cankers, penetration into footnotes or endnotes. There is no Index or conditioned origin of cankers, penetration Bibliography at the end of the Book. into variety of cankers, penetration into Despite these shortcomings, this is a good the results of cankers, penetration into the contribution to Buddhist studies. cessation of cankers and penetration into the path leading to cessation of cankers. In --Kottegoda S. Warnasuriya the chapter seventeen, Probing Into Life, life is compared to a machine. To get the best out of a machine one should know its Shingon Refractions mechanism. What is emphasized is that one should be able to penetrate into one's life in order to overcome cankers. Author: Mark Unno 2004 Chapter eighteen, Persisting Compulsions, Wisdom Publications, Boston, chapter nineteen, Uncovering Mind and chapter twenty, Analytical Approach are Shingon Refractions written by Mark Unno interesting accounts of Buddhist and published by Wisdom Publications of psychology. The chapter twenty one, The Boston is a work dealing with the Mantra Mundane and Supra-mundane, is an of Light - an important esoteric practice of analysis of Sacca, truth, in Buddhism. In the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism. this analysis, Vinaya and Sutta are The original text was written by Myoe considered as the conventional truth and Kohen, a monk of thirteenth-century Japan. Abhidhamma as the ultimate truth. Nine This mantra consists of series of tables are included. Three Ultimates,i.e. incantatory syllables, translated from Citta (mind), Cetasika (mental factors) and original Sanskrit. This practice is said to Rupa (corporeality) are explained briefly have originated in India in the early in terms of the Abhidhamma method. The beginnings of Mahayana Buddhism and fourth Ultimate, Nibbana, is explained in brought to China by an Indian monk named chapter twenty second as Bodhiruci during the sixth century CE, who Asamkhatadhatu.
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