On eight worldly conditions
which obsess the world
and round which it revolves:
gain and loss, status and disgrace,
blame and praise, pleasure and pain.– Śākyamuni Buddha
(Lokavipatti Sutta)
As summarised from the Lokavipatti Sutta…
How Ordinary Beings Are Trapped:
When the eight worldly conditions arise,
unlearned ordinary ones do not reflect on them,
as impermanent, dissatisfactory and unsubstantial.
Without equanimity, and with minds consumed by them,
wanting gain and rejecting loss,
wanting status and rejecting disgrace,
wanting praise and rejecting blame,
wanting pleasure and rejecting pain.
Thus are they not liberated from physical suffering
of birth, ageing, death,
and from mental suffering
of separation from the beloved,
meeting the hated,
not attaining the sought…
trapped in the cycle of birth and death.
How Noble Beings Are Liberated:
When the eight worldly conditions arise,
well-learned noble ones see them as are,
as impermanent, dissatisfactory and unsubstantial.
With equanimity, and without minds consumed by them,
not wanting gain and not rejecting loss,
not wanting status and not rejecting disgrace,
not wanting praise and not rejecting blame,
not wanting pleasure and not rejecting pain.
Thus are they liberated from physical suffering
of birth, ageing, death,
and from mental suffering
of separation from the beloved,
meeting the hated,
not attaining the sought…
not trapped in the cycle of birth and death.
Desirable things do not charm the mind,
undesirable ones bring no resistance.
His welcoming and rebelling are scattered,
gone to their end, do not exist.– Śākyamuni Buddha
(Lokavipatti Sutta)
Related Article:
Lokavipatti Sutta: Failings Of The World
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN/AN8_6.html
