10 Things

Buddha said that there are these 10 things that are wished for, desired, agreeable, and rarely gained in the world. Wealth, beauty, health, virtuous behavior, celibacy, friends, learning, wisdom, good qualities and the heavens. He also said that there 10 nutriments for these 10 things that are wished for, desired, agreeable and rarely gained in the world. Diligence and initiative, adorning and beautifying oneself,doing what is beneficial, good friendship, restraint of the sense faculties, recitation, willingness to listen and asking questions, applying oneself and reflection, right practice...from Anguttara Nikaya, Sutta 73.

Teachings of the Buddha

Fortunate to have opportunity to access the discourses of the Buddha. The middle length discourses of the Buddha, the long discourses of the Buddha, the connected discourses and the numerical discourses of the Buddha.

A Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Happy to receive The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, A Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya by Bhikkhu Bodhi from Wisdom Publications, Boston. There are 57 pages for the Introduction text of the book and the whole book has 1924 pages. I know it will take me 1 to 2 year to finish reading it. My deep respect to Bhikkhu Bodhi. Sadhu. Sadhu. Sadhu.

The aims of people.

Once, Buddha told brahmin Janussoni that a householder's aim is wealth, his quest is for knowledge, his mainstay is his craft, his desire is for work and his ideal is to bring his work to an end, and a woman's aim is a man, her quest is for adornments, her mainstay is sons, her desiere is to be without a co-wife and her ideal is domination.

There are different levels of "need satisfaction".

Abraham Maslow classified needs at 5 hierarchical levels:

The lowest needs are biological, next are the safety needs of security, stability and order. Then come belongingness such as affiliation, affection, and identification. Follow self-esteem needs including prestige, success, and self respect. Finally at the top comes the need for self-actualization to develop one's full potential in whatever field one works in.

Art making is at which level?

Walking meditation

Each step is a new step.
Be aware of every moment of each step.
Arising, moving, dropping, touching, pressing and balancing.
Let awareness follows each moment.
Know it and be with it.

Sometime thoughts come and go in between a moment.
That appears and disappears so fast.
Be aware and be happy.
Be present.

Disappear

All that you have thought of or felt of, all that have disappeared. All that come to your mind again will also disappear again.