May good householder blazer then put much effort into finding out about the stranger and his condition clear first, and how it came about. That much evaluation is already very helpful. Knowing causes helps to get by deeds other effects.
Before my Awakening, when I was still an unawakened Bodhisatta, the thought occurred to me: 'Household life is confining, a dusty path. Life gone forth is the open air. It isn't easy, living in a home, to practice the holy life totally perfect, totally pure, a polished shell. What if I, having shaved off my hair & beard and putting on the ochre robe, were to go forth from the household life into homelessness?'
"So at a later time, when I was still young, black-haired, endowed with the blessings of youth in the first stage of life, having shaved off my hair & beard — though my parents wished otherwise and were grieving with tears on their faces — I put on the ochre robe and went forth from the home life into homelessness.
"Having gone forth in search of what might be skillful, seeking the unexcelled state of sublime peace, I went to...
...maybe Grandfather Jieshi Shan ...
Dear Johann,
My question was very simple.
In this world it has become difficult to get answers, people tend to give unappropriate answers to questions they don't properly figure out due to their preliminary assumptions.
Are you free from these ones?
Desires for this and that never ends unless one desires for an escape from desires and starts to give at first place, draws from demanding toward right view, gratitude and feel obligated at first place, starts to serve and abound consume, good householder
blazer .
And what's the reason, what's the condition, why there might lack of answers, lack of understanding, appear in one's world. Yet, what's the reason, what's the condition, that one would not lack of answers, would not run blind and uninformed around.
..."There is the case where a woman or man is obstinate & arrogant. He/she does not pay homage to those who deserve homage, rise up for those for whom one should rise up, give a seat to those to whom one should give a seat, make way for those for whom one should make way, worship those who should be worshipped, respect those who should be respected, revere those who should be revered, or honor those who should be honored. Through having adopted & carried out such actions, on the break-up of the body, after death, he/she reappears in the plane of deprivation... If instead he/she comes to the human state, then he/she is low-born wherever reborn. This is the way leading to a low birth: to be obstinate & arrogant, not to pay homage to those who deserve homage, nor rise up for... nor give a seat to... nor make way for... nor worship... nor respect... nor revere... nor honor those who should be honored.
"But then there is the case where a woman or man is not obstinate or arrogant; he/she pays homage to those who deserve homage, rises up... gives a seat... makes way... worships... respects... reveres... honors those who should be honored. Through having adopted & carried out such actions, on the break-up of the body, after death, he/she reappears in a good destination... If instead he/she comes to the human state, then he/she is highborn wherever reborn. This is the way leading to a high birth: not to obstinate or arrogant; to pay homage to those who deserve homage, to rise up... give a seat... make way... worship... respect... revere... honor those who should be honored.
"There is the case where a woman or man when visiting a brahman or contemplative, does not ask: 'What is skillful, venerable sir? What is unskillful? What is blameworthy? What is blameless? What should be cultivated? What should not be cultivated? What, having been done by me, will be for my long-term harm & suffering? Or what, having been done by me, will be for my long-term welfare & happiness?' Through having adopted & carried out such actions, on the break-up of the body, after death, he/she reappears in the plane of deprivation... If instead he/she comes to the human state, then he/she will be stupid wherever reborn. This is the way leading to stupidity: when visiting a brahman or contemplative, not to ask: 'What is skillful?... Or what, having been done by me, will be for my long-term welfare & happiness?'
"But then there is the case where a woman or man when visiting a brahman or contemplative, asks: 'What is skillful, venerable sir? What is unskillful? What is blameworthy? What is blameless? What should be cultivated? What should not be cultivated? What, having been done by me, will be for my long-term harm & suffering? Or what, having been done by me, will be for my long-term welfare & happiness?' Through having adopted & carried out such actions, on the break-up of the body, after death, he/she reappears in a good destination... If instead he/she comes to the human state, then he/she is discerning wherever reborn. This is the way leading to discernment: when visiting a brahman or contemplative, to ask: 'What is skillful?... Or what, having been done by me, will be for my long-term welfare & happiness?'...
The main reason of proper association is the get guided from improper to proper attention, as there is no exit to be found in the sphere of wrong attention.
(The main ironical thing of those rejecting to get discipled by the Sublime Buddha, but instead think they can follow his Sublimity independent, is that they seek then even to be taught how they could progress...)
Once there had been friends searching for a prostitute who had stolen one of them's possession. Asked whether he knows her path, seen here, on meeting the Buddha, he answered them proper knowing their desires, proper understanding without assumptions: Why don't you try to find your self (the reasons for your conditions of your dwelling now) at first place, instead run after whats lost, of less benefit, anyhow?