Search results for: virtue

  1. Book search result icon Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment Blatantly Clear in the Heart
     … Come to see clearly what sufferings virtue can drive out of the heart, what obstacles to happiness and peace it can drive out of the heart — to see what sorts of benefits it can bring. Ask yourself: if you didn’t observe this or that precept, what would appear in your physical or verbal actions? A life composed of those actions: in what direction … 
  2. Book search result icon Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment Straightening Out Your Views
     … When our views are impeccable, our virtues will be impeccable. And when our virtues form a good, solid foundation, training the mind becomes easy and free from difficulties. The problem right now is that our views run contrary to the truth and are always ready to make false assumptions. We see stressful things as pleasurable, short things as long, things that should be done … 
  3. Book search result icon Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment Glossary
     … recollection of the Buddha, recollection of the Dhamma, recollection of the Saṅgha, recollection of virtue, recollection of generosity, recollection of the qualities that make one a deva, mindfulness of death, mindfulness of the in-and-out breath, mindfulness immersed in the body, and recollection of the peace of nibbāna. Arahant: A person whose heart is free of passion, aversion, and delusion, and who is … 
  4. Book search result icon Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment Right Concentration
     … So virtue, concentration, and discernment cover the path. Or if you want to condense things even further, there are physical phenomena and mental phenomena — i.e., the body and mind. When we correctly understand the characteristics of the body, we’ll see into the ways the body and mind are interrelated. Then we’ll be able to separate them out. We’ll see what … 
  5. Book search result icon Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment Karma
     … The society of good people recognizes us as good people, as clean people, pure in body because our virtues are pure. This is where purity comes from. To save time, I’ll condense the remainder of the discussion. The ten kinds of skillful actions are the opposite of the ten kinds of unskillful ones. In terms of the three kinds of skillful physical karma … 
  6. Book search result icon Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment The Strategy of a Peaceful Mind
     … You need to be earnest in your practice, to complete all three parts of the Triple Training — heightened virtue, heightened mind, heightened discernment — until you gain true knowledge of what the Buddha taught. You have to practice all the way to the end, so that you can gain true knowledge, through proper discernment, of the noble truths.” Stress, for instance, is a noble truth … 
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