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6th Issue (December, 2007)

The Actuality of World of Experience

By Wong Weng Hon

Dhammasangaṇī, Vibhaṅga and Dhātukathā
Expounding analysis of human personality
Only elementary constituents called dhammas
Evident and ascertained by Ābhidhammikas
Unveiling the Emptiness of Self or Soul
Rightly discerning non-substantialism
Eliminating ontological commitment

Paṭṭhāna revealing synthesis of dhammas
Illuminating interconnection and inter-relationship
Dhammas conditioning and being conditioned
Dhammas supporting and being supported
Forest from trees, trees in forest
Perceiving distinction between Concepts and Realty
Intuiting the twenty-four conditional relations

Analysis unveiling Anattā
Synthesis revealing Paṭiccasuppāda
Single cause not producing single effect
Multiple causes engendering multiple effects
Many in one; one in many
Many is multiplicity of dhammas
One is unity of interdependent co-arising

Perceiving things as they really are
Appeasing mental obsessions
Eradicating mental constructs or fabrications
Cessation of reification of objects
Destruction of cankers or taints
Annihilation of Self or Ego
Emerging as maximally excellent persons

Writer’s Special Note:

The writer was a former undergraduate student of Prof.Y. Karunadasa in the International Buddhist College in southern Thailand, currently fully accredited and recognized by the Ministry of Education of Thailand. Prof. Y.Karunadasa’s illuminating lectures on Dhamma Theory and Paṭiccasamuppāda have exerted an enormous impact on the spirituality and world-view of the writer. The Dhammic seeds were thus sowed and watered activating the writer’s profound immersion in Dhamma cultivation and scholasticism in Buddhist Theosophy and other major esoteric religions. As the current mental dhammas or mind frame of the writer are principally attributed to the influence of Buddhist works of Prof. Y.Karunadasa, this poem has been composed to be specially dedicated to Prof. Y.Karunadasa and his family in Hong Kong and other portions of the world. May Prof. Y.Karunadasa and his family members lead an ariya life of excellent health, longevity and bliss in the Dhamma?

The above poem is, in actuality, a crystallization or quintessence of the philosophical wisdom of Prof.Y.Karunadasa mirrored in his works, namely: ‘Dhamma Theory: The Philosophical Cornerstone of Abhidhamma, and ‘Nibbānic Experience: A Non-transcendental Interpretation’.

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