There is a pertinent story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform on fire. In mere moments, he was surrounded by flames. Through the smoke and heat, he barely made his way out of the chaos to the platform's edge. When he looked down over the edge, all he could see were the dark, cold, foreboding Atlantic waters.

As the fire approached him, the man had mere seconds to react. He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters. The man was standing upon a "burning platform," and he needed to make a choice.

He decided to jump. It was unexpected. In ordinary circumstances, the man would never consider plunging into icy waters. But these were not ordinary times - his platform was on fire. The man survived the fall and the waters. After he was rescued, he noted that a "burning platform" caused a radical change in his behaviour.

We too, are standing on a "burning platform," and we must decide how we are going to change our behaviour.

"If, on examination of one's own mind, a monk knows, 'I usually remain covetous, with thoughts of ill will, overcome by sloth&drowsiness, restless, uncertain, angry, with soiled thoughts, with my body aroused, lazy, or unconcentrated,' then he should put forth extra desire, effort, diligence, endeavor, relentlessness, mindfulness,&alertness for the abandoning of those very same evil, unskillful qualities. Just as when a person whose turban or head was on fire would put forth extra desire, effort, diligence, endeavor, relentlessness, mindfulness,& alertness to put out the fire on his turban or head; in the same way, the monk should put forth extra desire, effort, diligence, endeavor, relentlessness, mindfulness, & alertness for the abandoning of those very same evil, unskillful qualities.

"But if, on examination, a monk knows, 'I usually remain uncovetous, without thoughts of ill will, free of sloth & drowsiness, not restless, gone beyond uncertainty, not angry, with unsoiled thoughts, with my body unaroused, with persistence aroused, & concentrated,' then his duty is to make an effort in maintaining those very same skillful qualities to a higher degree for the ending of the effluents."

1. On the Android phone, Select Menu > select Settings > select Wireless&networks
   
   
2. Select Tethering & portable hotspot
   
3. Select the Portable Wi-Fi hotspot checkbox to share your data connection
   
   
4. If this is the first time the Wi-Fi hotspot is turned on, you should configure your phone's network SSID and password. To do that, select Portable Wi-Fi hotspot settings > select Configure Wi-Fi hotspot, then enter the values and save it.
   
5. From Linux, assuming you are using NetworkManager, you can select your phone's network SSID and enter the password you have set earlier on your phone to connect to Internet via your phone's Wi-Fi hotspot. Subsequently, NetworkManager will by default auto-connect without requiring the password to be entered again.
   
   
6. Open a terminal, and enter the route command to check your phone's IP address. In my case, the default gateway 192.168.43.1 for my wireless network interface (ra0) is my phone's IP address.
   

   
   lcm@skywind:~$ route
   Kernel IP routing table
   Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref   Use Iface
   192.168.43.0    *               255.255.255.0   U     2      0       0 ra0
   link-local      *               255.255.0.0     U     1000   0       0 ra0
   default         192.168.43.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0       0 ra0

   
   
7. On your phone, download and install SwiFTP. It is FTP server for Android.
8. Run SwiFTP. You will need to set the ftp user and password. By default, it listens on port 2121.
9. Using the Linux Gnome File browser, select File menu > select Connect to Server menu, and then enter the ftp user, server and port. You can add the ftp connection as a bookmark so that you only need to enter the password subsequently.
   
   The File browser will prompt for the ftp user's password.
   The File browser is displaying the Android phone's root folder.
10. You can now use normal file operations: cut, copy, paste to transfer files between your phone and Linux. (If you prefer to use a Ftp client software, you can use that also.)

• Abduction!
• Adobe Reader
• Age of Conquest Lite
• Aldiko
• Android System Info
• Angry Birds
• ASTRO
• aTrackDog
• Barcode Scanner
• Bonsai Blast
• CardioTrainer
• Chess Free
• Compass
• Dolphin Browser HD
• Endomondo
• Folder Organizer
• GOdroid
• Gomoku
• Google Pinyin
• Google Translate
• Hanping CE
• Jewels
• Korean for Smart Keyboard PRO
• Labyrinth Lite
• My Tracks
• Proximity
• Replica Island
• Ringdroid
• Screenshot Demo
  (This is demo from the Android Screenshot Library)
• SL4A (Scripting Layer for Android, SL4A is designed for developers.)
• Slicey
• SwiFTP (FTP server for Android, can download apk from the project website)
• Terminal Emulator
• VirtualTENHO-G
• Wifi Analyzer
• 한글 접촉식 키보드

In the Buddha's Words

I. The Human Condition

Introduction

1. Old Age, Illness, and Death

   1. Aging and Death (SN 3:3)
   2. The Simile of the Mountain (SN 3:25)
   3. The Divine Messengers (from AN 3:35)

2. The Tribulations of Unreflective Living

   1. The Dart of Painful Feeling (SN 36:6)
   2. The Vicissitudes of Life (AN 8:6)
   3. Anxiety Due to Change (SN 22:7)

3. A World in Turmoil

   1. The Origin of Conflict (AN 2: iv, 6, abridged)
   2. Why Do Beings Live in Hate? (from DN 21)
   3. The Dark Chain of Causation (from DN 15)
   4. The Roots of Violence and Oppression (from AN 3:69)

4. Without Discoverable Beginning

   1. Grass and Sticks (SN 15:1)
   2. Balls of Clay (SN 15:2)
   3. The Mountain (SN 15:5)
   4. The River Ganges (SN 15:8)
   5. Dog on a Leash (SN 22:99)

II. The Bringer of Light

Introduction

1. One Person (AN 1: xiii, 1, 5, 6)

2. The Buddha’s Conception and Birth (MN 123, abridged)

3. The Quest for Enlightenment

   1. Seeking the Supreme State of Sublime Peace (from MN 26)
   2. The Realization of the Three True Knowledges (from MN 36)
   3. The Ancient City (SN 12:65)

4. The Decision to Teach (from MN 26)

5. The First Discourse (SN 56:11)

III. Approaching the Dhamma

Introduction

1. Not a Secret Doctrine (AN 3:129)

2. No Dogmas or Blind Belief (AN 3:65)

3. The Visible Origin and Passing Away of Suffering (SN 42:11)

4. Investigate the Teacher Himself (MN 47)

5. Steps toward the Realization of Truth (from MN 95)

IV. The Happiness Visible in This Present Life

Introduction

1. Upholding the Dhamma in Society

   1. The King of the Dhamma (AN 3:14)
   2. Worshipping the Six Directions (from DN 31)

2. The Family

   1. Parents and Children
      • Respect for Parents (AN 4:63)
      • Repaying One’s Parents (AN 2: iv, 2)

   2. Husbands and Wives

      • Different Kinds of Marriages (AN 4:53)
      • How to Be United in Future Lives (AN 4:55)
      • Seven Kinds of Wives (AN 7:59)

3. Present Welfare, Future Welfare (AN 8:54)

4. Right Livelihood

   1. Avoiding Wrong Livelihood (AN 5:177)
   2. The Proper Use of Wealth (AN 4:61)
   3. A Family Man’s Happiness (AN 4:62)

5. The Woman of the Home (AN 8:49)

6. The Community

   1. Six Roots of Dispute (from MN 104)
   2. Six Principles of Cordiality (from MN 104)
   3. Purification Is for All Four Castes (MN 93, abridged)
   4. Seven Principles of Social Stability (from DN 16)
   5. The Wheel-Turning Monarch (from DN 26)
   6. Bringing Tranquillity to the Land (from DN 5)

V. The Way to a Fortunate Rebirth

Introduction

1. The Law of Kamma

   1. Four Kinds of Kamma (AN 4:232)
   2. Why Beings Fare as They Do after Death (MN 41)
   3. Kamma and Its Fruits (MN 135)

2. Merit: The Key to Good Fortune

   1. Meritorious Deeds (It 22)
   2. Three Bases of Merit (AN 8:36)
   3. The Best Kinds of Confidence (AN 4:34)

3. Giving

   1. If People Knew the Result of Giving (It 26)
   2. Reasons for Giving (AN 8:33)
   3. The Gift of Food (AN 4:57)
   4. A Superior Person’s Gifts (AN 5:148)
   5. Mutual Support (It 107)
   6. Rebirth on Account of Giving (AN 8:35)

4. Moral Discipline

   1. The Five Precepts (AN 8:39)
   2. The Uposatha Observance (AN 8:41)

5. Meditation

   1. The Development of Loving-Kindness (It 27)
   2. The Four Divine Abodes (from MN 99)
   3. Insight Surpasses All (AN 9:20, abridged)

VI. Deepening One’s Perspective on the World

Introduction

1. Four Wonderful Things (AN 4:128)

2. Gratification, Danger, and Escape

   1. Before My Enlightenment (AN 3:101 §§1–2)
   2. I Set Out Seeking (AN 3:101 §3)
   3. If There Were No Gratification (AN 3:102)

3. Properly Appraising Objects of Attachment (MN 13)

4. The Pitfalls in Sensual Pleasures

   1. Cutting Off All Affairs (from MN 54)
   2. The Fever of Sensual Pleasures (from MN 75)

5. Life Is Short and Fleeting (AN 7:70)

6. Four Summaries of the Dhamma (from MN 82)

7. The Danger in Views

   1. A Miscellany on Wrong View (AN 1: xvii, 1, 3, 7, 9)
   2. The Blind Men and the Elephant (Ud 6:4)
   3. Held by Two Kinds of Views (It 49)

8. From the Divine Realms to the Infernal (AN 4:125)

9. The Perils of Samsara

   1. The Stream of Tears (SN 15:3)
   2. The Stream of Blood (SN 15:13)

VII. The Path to Liberation

Introduction

1. Why Does One Enter the Path?

   1. The Arrow of Birth, Aging, and Death (MN 63)
   2. The Heartwood of the Spiritual Life (MN 29)
   3. The Fading Away of Lust (SN 45:41–48, combined)

2. Analysis of the Eightfold Path (SN 45:8)

3. Good Friendship (SN 45:2)

4. The Graduated Training (MN 27)

5. The Higher Stages of Training with Similes (from MN 39)

VIII. Mastering the Mind

Introduction

1. The Mind Is the Key (AN 1: iii, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10)

2. Developing a Pair of Skills

   1. Serenity and Insight (AN 2: iii, 10)
   2. Four Ways to Arahantship (AN 4:170)
   3. Four Kinds of Persons (AN 4:94)

3. The Hindrances to Mental Development (SN 46:55, abridged)

4. The Refinement of the Mind (AN 3:100 §§1–10)

5. The Removal of Distracting Thoughts (MN 20)

6. The Mind of Loving-Kindness (from MN 21)

7. The Six Recollections (AN 6:10)

8. The Four Establishments of Mindfulness (MN 10)

9. Mindfulness of Breathing (SN 54:13)

10. The Achievement of Mastery (SN 28:1–9, combined)

IX. Shining the Light of Wisdom

Introduction

1. Images of Wisdom

   1. Wisdom as a Light (AN 4:143)
   2. Wisdom as a Knife (from MN 146)

2. The Conditions for Wisdom (AN 8:2, abridged)

3. A Discourse on Right View (MN 9)

4. The Domain of Wisdom

   1. By Way of the Five Aggregates

      • Phases of the Aggregates (SN 22:56)
      • A Catechism on the Aggregates (SN 22:82 = MN 109, abridged)
      • The Characteristic of Nonself (SN 22:59)
      • Impermanent, Suffering, Nonself (SN 22:45)
      • A Lump of Foam (SN 22:95)

   2. By Way of the Six Sense Bases

      • Full Understanding (SN 35:26)
      • Burning (SN 35:28)
      • Suitable for Attaining Nibbana (SN 35:147–49, combined)
      • Empty Is the World (SN 35:85)
      • Consciousness Too Is Nonself (SN 35:234)

   3. By Way of the Elements

      • The Eighteen Elements (SN 14:1)
      • The Four Elements (SN 14:37–39, combined)
      • The Six Elements (from MN 140)

   4. By Way of Dependent Origination

      • What Is Dependent Origination? (SN 12:1)
      • The Stableness of the Dhamma (SN 12:20)
      • Forty-Four Cases of Knowledge (SN 12:33)
      • A Teaching by the Middle (SN 12:15)
      • The Continuance of Consciousness (SN 12:38)
      • The Origin and Passing of the World (SN 12:44)

   5. By Way of the Four Noble Truths

      • The Truths of All Buddhas (SN 56:24)
      • These Four Truths Are Actual (SN 56:20)
      • A Handful of Leaves (SN 56:31)
      • Because of Not Understanding (SN 56:21)
      • The Precipice (SN 56:42)
      • Making the Breakthrough (SN 56:32)
      • The Destruction of the Taints (SN 56:25)

5. The Goal of Wisdom

   1. What is Nibbana? (SN 38:1)
   2. Thirty-Three Synonyms for Nibbana (SN 43:1–44, combined)
   3. There Is That Base (Ud 8:1)
   4. The Unborn (Ud 8:3)
   5. The Two Nibbana Elements (It 44)
   6. The Fire and the Ocean (from MN 72)

X. The Planes of Realization

Introduction

1. The Field of Merit for the World

   1. Eight Persons Worthy of Gifts (AN 8:59)
   2. Differentiation by Faculties (SN 48:18)
   3. In the Dhamma Well Expounded (from MN 22)
   4. The Completeness of the Teaching (from MN 73)
   5. Seven Kinds of Noble Persons (from MN 70)

2. Stream-Entry

   1. The Four Factors Leading to Stream-Entry (SN 55:5)
   2. Entering the Fixed Course of Rightness (SN 25:1)
   3. The Breakthrough to the Dhamma (SN 13:1)
   4. The Four Factors of a Stream-Enterer (SN 55:2)
   5. Better than Sovereignty over the Earth (SN 55:1)

3. Nonreturning

   1. Abandoning the Five Lower Fetters (from MN 64)
   2. Four Kinds of Persons (AN 4:169)
   3. Six Things that Partake of True Knowledge (SN 55:3)
   4. Five Kinds of Nonreturners (SN 46:3)

4. The Arahant

   1. Removing the Residual Conceit “I Am” (SN 22:89)
   2. The Trainee and the Arahant (SN 48:53)
   3. A Monk Whose Crossbar Has Been Lifted (from MN 22)
   4. Nine Things an Arahant Cannot Do (from AN 9:7)
   5. A Mind Unshaken (from AN 9:26)
   6. The Ten Powers of an Arahant Monk (AN 10:90)
   7. The Sage at Peace (from MN 140)
   8. Happy Indeed Are the Arahants (from SN 22:76)

5. The Tathagata

   1. The Buddha and the Arahant (SN 22:58)
   2. For the Welfare of Many (It 84)
   3. Sariputta’s Lofty Utterance (SN 47:12)
   4. The Powers and Grounds of Self-Confidence (from MN 12)
   5. The Manifestation of Great Light (SN 56:38)
   6. The Man Desiring Our Good (from MN 19)
   7. The Lion (SN 22:78)
   8. Why Is He Called the Tathagata? (AN 4:23 = It 112)

• The Lesser Discourse on Emptiness (MN 121)
• The Greater Discourse on Emptiness (MN 122)

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