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Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 2 The Fruits of the Contemplative Life | Sāmaññaphala Sutta
… Consummate in his virtue, he guards the doors of his senses, is possessed of mindfulness and alertness, and is content. The Lesser Section on Virtue “And how is a monk consummate in virtue? Abandoning the taking of life, he abstains from the taking of life. He dwells with his rod laid down, his knife laid down, scrupulous, merciful, compassionate for the welfare of all …
Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 33 The Discourse for Reciting Together | Saṅgīti Sutta
… This is the first drawback coming from an unvirtuous person’s defect in virtue. “And further, the bad reputation of the unvirtuous person, defective in virtue, gets spread about. This is the second drawback coming from an unvirtuous person’s defect in virtue. “And further, whatever assembly the unvirtuous person, defective in virtue, approaches—whether of noble warriors, brahmans, householders, or contemplatives—he/she …
Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 16 The Great Total Unbinding Discourse | Mahā Parinibbāna Sutta
… This is the first drawback coming from an unvirtuous person’s defect in virtue. “And further, the bad reputation of the unvirtuous person, defective in virtue, gets spread about. This is the second drawback coming from an unvirtuous person’s defect in virtue. “And further, whatever assembly the unvirtuous person, defective in virtue, approaches—whether of noble warriors, brahmans, householders, or contemplatives—he/she …
Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 1 The Brahmā Net | Brahmajāla Sutta
… Finally, there is the relationship between the Buddha’s virtue and his discernment. As DN 4 points out, virtue purifies discernment, and discernment purifies virtue, in the same way that the right hand washes the left hand, and the left hand washes the right. This relationship, too, is echoed in the Buddha’s standards for debate: A person was worthy of talking to, he …
Dīgha Nikāya
… DN 1 Brahmajāla Sutta | The Brahmā Net — An introductory portrait of the Buddha, dealing both with the minor reasons for which people might praise him—his virtues—and the more subtle and profound reasons for praising him: his comprehension of the difference between right and wrong view, and the release that comes from going beyond both. The Buddha uses right view about kamma and …
Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 26 The Wheel-turning Emperor (Excerpt) | Cakkavatti Sutta
… With the recovery of virtue, the human life span will gradually increase again until it reaches 80,000 years, with people attaining sexual maturity at 500. Only three diseases will be known at that time: desire, lack of food, and old age. Another Buddha—Metteyya (Maitreya)—will gain awakening, his monastic Saṅgha numbering in the thousands. The greatest king of the time, Saṅkha, will …
Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 12 To Lohicca | Lohicca Sutta
… Consummate in his virtue, he guards the doors of his senses, is possessed of mindfulness & alertness, and is content [for details, see DN 2] … Abandoning the Hindrances “Endowed with this noble aggregate of virtue, this noble restraint over the sense faculties, this noble mindfulness & alertness, and this noble contentment, he seeks out a secluded dwelling: a wilderness, the shade of a tree, a mountain …
Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 11 To Kevaṭṭa | Kevaṭṭa Sutta
… Consummate in his virtue, he guards the doors of his senses, is possessed of mindfulness & alertness, and is content [for details, see DN 2].… Abandoning the Hindrances “Endowed with this noble aggregate of virtue, this noble restraint over the sense faculties, this noble mindfulness and alertness, and this noble contentment, he seeks out a secluded dwelling: a forest, the shade of a tree, a …
Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 34 Progressing by Tens | Dasuttara Sutta
… This, too, is a condition that is conducive to amiability, that engenders feelings of endearment, engenders feelings of respect, leading to a sense of fellowship, a lack of disputes, harmony, & a state of unity. “And further—with reference to the virtues that are untorn, unbroken, unspotted, unsplattered, liberating, praised by the observant, ungrasped at, leading to concentration—the monk dwells with his virtue in …
Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 9 About Poṭṭhapāda | Poṭṭhapāda Sutta
… And what is that training? “There is the case where a Tathāgata appears in the world, worthy and rightly self-awakened. [as in DN 2] … “This is how a monk is consummate in virtue.… “Seeing that these five hindrances have been abandoned within him, he becomes glad. Glad, he becomes enraptured. Enraptured, his body grows tranquil. His body tranquil, he is sensitive to pleasure …
Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 22 The Great Establishing of Mindfulness Discourse | Mahā Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
… That is the fetter there.” — SN 35:191 18. “Now, what is the food for the arising of unarisen mindfulness as a factor for awakening, or for the growth & increase of mindfulness… once it has arisen? There are qualities that act as a foothold for mindfulness as a factor for awakening. [According to SN 47:16, these are well-purified virtue & views made straight …- End of results




