All Life Forms be happy!

 All Life Forms be happy!

Mind you, Dhamma is for insightful realization (wisdom guide) and not an academic exercise.

Sabbe satva anatta
 

All life forms (higher or lower reams) are impermanent.

What is Dhamma not;
Greed-Loba
Hate-Dhosa
Deceit-Moha

What is Dhamma is;

No greed-Benevolence
Metta-there is no proper English translation for this Pali word.

Wisdom or Self realization there is no permanent Soul or Self.

Dhamma is boundless and timeless.

It permeates all reams and universes (There is no one world but many worlds).
 
Four abodes of the enlightenment ones are

Metta
Karuna
Muditha (no proper word in English nearest is “Sympathetic Joy”)
Upekka
 
Way forward is Meditation either;
 

Samatha Bhavana
Samatha bhavana, the development of mental tranquillity with concentration, is accompanied by three benefits; it gives happiness in the present life, a favorable rebirth, and the freedom from mental defilements which is a prerequisite for attainment of insight.
 

Vipassana Bhavana-Insight Meditation
Vipassana bhavana is realization of the three signs of being, anicca, dukkha, and anatta,


One needs a good teacher not BOOKS.

Read Francis Story (his site) for details

I believe this phrase “sabbe dhamma anatta” is introduced by design by other faiths to discredit Dhamma (meaning non existing Dhamma)

A subtle way of destroying the teaching.

Flowers

Flowers are the most beautiful things in the world, so here, we are offering the most beautiful things in the world to the Buddha.
 And when they fade, it is also a reminder that things of the world also fade – so it’s reminds us of the teaching that
“Whatever is of the nature to arise is also of the nature to change”.

What is changing is impermanent
life is is a state of flux or ever changing!
It does not say it ceases
There is Sansara with rebirth.
The word reborn is wrong since its connotation is one is born with “repairs”
 

Merits take one up the reams of life.
 

Demerits takes one to lower forms


Read the following that I extracted from another site with some reservation.
 
Mind you, Dhamma is for realization (wisdom guide) and not an academic exercise.

The Meaning of sabbe dhamma anatta
So what does this phrase mean?

    sabbe – means “All”
    dhamma – means “things” – specifically it means phenomena experienced through your 6 senses
    anatta – means “not Atta” – not Self or not the Atta or not the Atman – not me, not what I am, not my self

In the Pali language, the words “Sabbe dhamma” are synonymous with the word “sabba” which means “All” (which the Buddha himself defined as the 6 sense spheres in the Sabba Sutta).  

So “sabbe dhamma” or “sabba” means “all things” or “all phenomena”.
 

The phenomena are related to the mental accompaniments of all sorts.
 

And “sabbe dhamma anatta” does NOT mean “There is no self”.

What it means is, “All phenomena are not Atta (Self)”.  All things (all of the phenomena that you perceive through your 6 senses) are not you.  So this applies to everything within the sensory realms – that’s the limit to which sabbe dhamma anatta applies – this is crucial to understand because it does NOT apply to anything beyond the world of the senses.

Finding a Tortoise (not Nemo)

Finding a Tortoise (not Nemo)

A Reproduction
Finding a Book on Turtles / Tortoises
Turtles / Tortoises are now classified in the same species category.

I used to feed tortoises daily.
They were in plenty in Kandy Lake.
One day bystander told me not to do that.
Why?
If you do that the our Kassipu /Toddy / Illicit drinkers will take them and eat them was the answer.

His prediction was right in 1973 when food was scarce and children were dying of hunger our population of tortoises vanished.
 
This the Buddhist heritage city and that was how we practised Metta to all animals.
 
Other reason probably was the pollution of its water.
All the cesspits were opened to it with the waste water.
Then they (once the species was exterminated/genocide) pass a law stating it is a protected species.
We are good at closing the stable door once the horse has bolted.
We no longer practice Buddhist virtues.
Animal are food material and then they started catching dogs and cats for food during Perehara festival.
 
Vanishing species is not FOOD for THOUGHT anymore.
 
Below is a reproduction from elsewhere for your perusal.
Conservationists have declared 2011 the Year of the Turtle in an effort to raise public awareness of the precarious state of turtle populations around the world. 
Nearly half of all living turtle species are considered to be threatened with extinction. 
Of the well-known animal groups, turtles are disappearing the fastest.
We are in the midst of a worldwide decline in biodiversity. 
A staggering 12 percent of birds, 25 percent of mammals and 30 percent of amphibians are threatened with extinction.
Sadly, turtles offer no exception to this trend towards species loss. 
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an organization that maintains a comprehensive list of the status of the world’s species, categorizes 47 percent of all living turtle species as Threatened.
Turtles first appeared in the fossil record more than 200 million years ago during the Triassic Period. Since that time, they have changed little and today’s turtles bear much resemblance to their ancestors. Despite their long evolutionary history, turtles are now in danger of disappearing due to a variety of threats including habitat loss, over exploitation, pet trade, hunting for use in traditional medicine, by catch, invasive species, disease and climate change.
Many of the threats facing turtles are derived from human activities. Conservationists look to this fact with optimism—if man can create these threats, we can also reduced or eliminate them. They suggest a number of actions that can help ensure a more secure future for turtles. These actions include protecting rare turtle species and the habitats on which they rely, looking after common turtle species to ensure their populations remain healthy and managing crisis situations such as saving critically endangered turtle species and responding to emergencies such as oil spills.