Monks, and human beings in this world experience three feelings: pleasant feelings, unpleasant feelings, and neither unpleasant nor pleasant feelings are the three feelings.
Man loves happiness as well as sorrow. Therefore, suffering is accepted as a taste. Because sorrow and happiness inspire the man in ignorance, he clings to them. When some people experience these sensations, merits increase while vices decline.
Vices grow in some people, and virtues (merit) decline. An impassive person experiences pleasures, pains, and sufferings in the manner of accumulation of merit. A heedless person accumulates evils by experiencing pleasures and pains.
That is why some commit killing others and steal, use drugs, commit adultery, lie, deceive, cheat, and indulge in other sins for temporary pleasure. Monks, those pleasures are temporary. Evil grows from it. Merit declines. Some people go hunting for pleasure. Animals are killed. Happy to see animals die. That happiness is temporary. Some people kill those they don't like, those they think are their enemies. Happy with it. That happiness is also temporary.
Some get rich quickly by possessing what is not theirs, taking it by force, and stealing what was not given. That happiness is temporary
Some enjoy engaging in wrongful sex, which the civilized moral world disapproves of. But that happiness is temporary. Some people are happy to lie, and cheat, to gain profit and fame from it. But it is temporary happiness. Some people prefer to live in warped mind worlds rather than living with a restored mind. So they get happy by intoxicating their minds with various drugs. It is only temporary inspiration.
Temporary pleasure is the death of shit. Death is sorrow. In order to be freed from that sorrow, pleasure must be born again. In order to rekindle pleasure, you must repeatedly do things that give you temporary pleasure. To get them, one has to suffer again and again.
Impatience is the cause of deathless nirvana. Jaramaran means rebirth. heedless leads to rebirth and decay. The path to nirvana is mindfully in merit. Deterioration of merit due to ignorance without sanity leads to eternal sorrow. In other words, even if they don't die, even if they are alive, they are like the dead.
Gates of decline
Lord Buddha has said that the person who is growing as well as the person who is declining can be seen very well. Lord Buddha has taught the destruction of the degenerate person or the gates of destruction in this way.
1. A person who likes the ten merit grows well, while a person who hates the Dharma and loves the ten vices deteriorates rapidly.
What are the ten demerits,
01. destroying others' life 02. taking the not given 03. misbehavior in sensuality 04. telling lies 05. slandering 06. rough talk 07. frivolous talk 08. coveting 09. bearing the angry mind 10. wrong view
2. The degenerate person does not like virtuous people and Great men. He likes sinful people who do wrong and encourages wrongdoing with Worst Man. Also, he likes Mythical vision and dislikes Correct vision.
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what are the Mythical vision and Correct vision?
What is the wrong view? There are no results from what is given., Great alms and donations have no results. There are no results for good and bad actions. There is no this world, no other world (There is no such thing as an afterlife), no mother, and there is no result in treating the mother, no father and There is no result in treating the father, no spontaneously arisen beings, There are no recluses and brahmins who realize this world and the other world declares it.
3. Does one like to sleep too often, too much, spends time talking in gatherings, telling lies, gossiping, using idle words, telling ugly stories, lazy in gossiping, holding anger and hatred, it is one's downfall. A door.
4. Even if there is some wealth, if one's parents do not take care of them in old age, if parents do not nurture them, it is a door to one's decline
5. Whether a beggar, a priest, or a monk, one lies and cheats, it is a door to one's downfall.
6. If a very rich and prosperous person spends his wealth alone and gives nothing to anyone, it is a door to someone's downfall.
7. If one thinks highly of one's race, religion, and caste and condemns others, it is a door to one's decline.
8. If someone gets too addicted to alcohol, gambling, or women, it is a door to someone's decline.
9. Unsatisfied with one's wife or husband, one goes to other women and men, it is a door to one's downfall.
10. If an old man marries a very beautiful young woman and spends time day and night in constant doubt, jealousy, and fear about her, it is a door to someone's decline.
11. If one entrusts the security of his wealth to wasteful, irresponsible, greedy persons, it will lead to his downfall.
12. Is there anyone who hopes for great things that will never be achieved, thinks about them often, and wishes for high positions, kingdoms, and leadership titles even without any qualification, it is a door to degradation for that person.
sources
tipitaka/majjima nikaya/maha chaththarisaka sutta
tipitaka/khuddka nikaya/parabhawa sutta
tipitaka/majjima nikaya/samma ditti sutta
dhamma padaya
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