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ธรรมเตือนใจแด่คุณประมาท หน้า 31
We should remember that the Buddha in countless former lives as a
Bodhisatta had to accumulate the "perfections" (generosity,
morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness,
determination, loving kindness and equanimity) . In his last life
during which he attained enlightenment, he was a human being,
just like all of us. He was seeing visible object through the
eyes, hearing sound through the ears and thinking of different
things. However, he needed to know the true nature of seeing
while he was seeing, he needed to know the true nature of hearing
while he was hearing. He needed to know these phenomena as they
are because they are realities. After seeing and hearing there
are like and dislike of what had been seen and heard, and these
are also realities which should be known as they are.
The Buddha knew that it is extremely difficult to know the true
nature of phenomena such seeing or hearing, which are realties
occuring time and again, in daily life. We could reduce our life
to just one moment, because life actually occurs during one
moment of citta which experiences an object and is then gone.
However if one is not a Bodhisatta one is absorbed in thinking
for a long time about what appears just for a moment through the
eyes, the ears, the nose, the tongue, the bodysense or the mind.
The Bodhisatta was altogether different from us who are time and
again infatuated with what we experience. Since he knew that the
way leading to enlightenment was extremely difficult, he
accumulated patience, energy and the other perfections, which
were necessary conditons to attain Buddhahood. He had endless
endurance and he did not become disheartened while he accumulated
the perfections with the purpose to penetrate the truth of
realities and to be able to teach other beings, so that they also
could become free from dukkha just like he himself.
