‘yaṁ bhikkhave sadevakassa lokassa samārakassa sabrahmakassa sassamanabrāhmaniyā pajāya sadevamanussāya idaṁ saccanti upanijjhāyitaṁ tadamariyānaṁ etaṁ musāti yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya sudiṭṭhaṁ – ayaṁ ekānupassanā’ – 12 Dvayatānupassanā suttaṃ – Khuddakanikāye, Suttanipātapāḷi, 3. Mahāvaggo
“Monks, whatever that has been pondered over as ‘This is true’ by the world with its gods, Māras and Brahmas with its recluses and Brahmins, that by the Ariyans has been seen as it is with right wisdom as ‘That is false.’ This is one mode of contemplation.” And then the second mode of contemplation is introduced as follows:
Anattani attamāniṁ – passa lokaṁ sadevakaṁ – niviṭṭhaṁ nāmarūpasmiṁ – idaṁ saccanti maññati ‘yena yena hi maññati – tato taṁ hoti aññathā taṁ hi tassa musā hoti – mosadhammaṁ hi ittaraṁ’ “
See the world with all its gods entertaining a conceit of self where there is no self. Having entered into or entrenched in name and form, it loves to fancy: ‘This is the truth.’ With that the Buddha is stating the condition of the world and then he says: In whatever way one fancies a thing thereby it becomes otherwise. That itself is the falsity in it – the puerile deceptive thing that it is.”………
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