Search results for: virtue

  1. Book search result icon Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 1 : Noble Attainments
     … Which three? The training in heightened virtue, the training in heightened mind, the training in heightened discernment. “And what is the training in heightened virtue? There is the case where a monk is virtuous. He dwells restrained in accordance with the Pāṭimokkha, consummate in his behavior & sphere of activity. He trains himself, having undertaken the training rules, seeing danger in the slightest fault. This … 
  2. Book search result icon Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 7 : Same Dhamma, Different Results
     … I hope you have no remorse.” “Yes, lord, I do have not a small amount of anxiety, not a small amount of remorse.” “I hope you can’t fault yourself with regard to your virtue.” “No, lord, I can’t fault myself with regard to my virtue.” “Then what are you anxious about? What is your remorse?” “I understand that the Blessed One has … 
  3. Book search result icon Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 4 : Setting the Standards
     … By affirming the value of giving and virtue, the Buddha showed his listeners that he was a principled teacher, unlike many of the teachers of his day who taught that giving and virtue were fruitless conventions and a waste of time (DN 2). If his listeners had any sense of integrity—even hired killers can have a sense of right and wrong—they would … 
  4. Book search result icon Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 2 : Specific Attainments
     … In the words of the Canon, your virtues are now pleasing to the noble ones: unbroken, untorn, and conducive to concentration. The noble ones are also pleased because your virtues are not grasped at and you yourself are not made of virtue, meaning that you don’t take hold of your virtues to create a sense of conceit or self around them (AN 10 … 
  5. Book search result icon Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma Introduction
     … giving, virtue, heaven; the drawbacks of, degradation in, and defilement in sensuality; and the rewards of renunciation. The Canon records 30 instances in which the Buddha gave a discourse based on this list, leading his listeners to their first glimpse of the deathless. Because he gave these discourses to a wide variety of people—everywhere from kings to lepers and would-be assassins—it … 
  6. Book search result icon Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 3 : The Skills of Listening
     … Feeding the factors for awakening. “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 dhammas that act as a foothold for mindfulness as a factor for awakening [well-purified virtue & views made straight—SN 47:16]. To foster appropriate attention to them: This is … 
  7. Book search result icon Through the Doors to the Deathless : Awakening while Listening to the Dhamma 8 : Talks Inspiring Arahantship
     … In the symbolic language of the Canon, this is a sign of the integrity that holds virtue in respect. There were cases where other people, on seeing restrained monks on their alms round, ridiculed them—“Who is this weakest of weaklings, this dullest of dullards, this most snobbish of snobs? Who, if this one approached, would even give him alms?”—a sign that they … 
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