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The Five Faculties Conviction (2)
… your virtues. As a result, you don’t exalt yourself for your virtue and don’t disparage other people who lack that level of virtue. In other words, you don’t need to create a sense of becoming around your virtues. This is why your virtues are appealing to the noble ones. However, because you still have to develop concentration and discernment further, there …
The Five Faculties Conviction (1)
… For example with virtue, you know a person’s virtue by living with that person for a long time, by being observant, and by being virtuous yourself. If you want to learn about a person’s purity, you need to have dealings with them. In other words, you make trades, for example, you have projects that you work on together—or you can even …
The Five Faculties Readings
… He emulates consummate conviction in those who are consummate in conviction, consummate virtue in those who are consummate in virtue, consummate generosity in those who are consummate in generosity, & consummate discernment in those who are consummate in discernment. This is called admirable friendship.” — AN 8:54 §6. “And how is mindfulness the governing principle? The mindfulness that ‘I will make complete any training with …
The Five Faculties Q&A
… But if there is no self, who meditates, who practices virtue, who attains awakening? And if you look in the Canon, you see that the Buddha does talk about depending on yourself, and there’s the passage that says the self is its own mainstay. There’s another passage where he recommends taking your love for yourself as your guiding principle for keeping on …
The Five Faculties Discernment
… In the beginning of the path, as you’re developing your virtue, you focus these three perceptions on things that would pull you away from your virtue. For instance, the Buddha says that we might feel tempted to break a precept out of concern for our health, our relatives, or our wealth. An example would be deciding you had to lie to get out …
The Five Faculties Conclusion
… This means that you have to treat your virtue and right views as your most valuable possessions. Don’t let the fear of losing wealth, health, or relatives cause you to be willing to do unskillful things. Think for a moment of the ways in which society tries to use your fear or your greed to get you to do what they want, to …
The Five Faculties Letting Go & Holding On
… Ajaan Lee would comment that people who’ve been reading a lot of Dhamma want to go straight to the teaching on inconstancy, stress, and not-self right away, and that way they treat even virtue, concentration, and discernment as being inconstant, stressful, and not-self. As a result, these things never get developed and the path never gets anywhere. As he noted, when …
The Five Faculties Distracting Thoughts
… Another gladdening theme would be to think back on your own virtue, remembering the times when you could have done something harmful and may have gotten away with it, but you saw that it was beneath you, so you didn’t do it. That gives you a sense of self-esteem. You can also think of the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Saṅgha: any …
The Five Faculties Concentration
… And the pleasure of jhāna actually makes your virtue and discernment stronger. If you have a sense of internal well-being, it’s easier to say No to sugary food, to say nothing of breaking the precepts. This pleasant abiding is also useful when you’re suffering from an illness. In some cases, you hear about people who are able to cure an illness …
The Five Faculties Mindfulness : The Second Stage
… For example, recollection of the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Saṅgha, generosity, virtue, or the brahmavihāras—the sublime attitudes: These are themes to gladden the mind. For steadying the mind, you can use equanimity or recollection of death. As for techniques for releasing the mind, we’ll discuss those Saturday night. The Buddha says that, in addition to focusing on these dhammas inside yourself …
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