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A Heart Released The Ever-present Truth
… We need to know where virtue lies, what it is, and who maintains it. If we know the factor maintaining it, we will see how that factor forms the essence of virtue. If we don’t understand virtue, we’ll end up going astray and holding just to the externals of virtue, believing that we have to look for virtue here or ask for …
A Heart Released Introduction
… As Ajaan Mun once told a pair of visiting monks who were proud of their command of the medieval text, The Path of Purification, the niddesa (analytical expositions) on virtue, concentration, and discernment contained in that work were simply nidāna (fables or stories). If they wanted to know the truth of virtue, concentration, and discernment, they would have to bring these qualities into being …
A Heart Released Glossary
… Perfection; qualities that lead to awakening—generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truthfulness, determination, goodwill, and equanimity. Paṭibhāga: The manipulation of visions that appear in meditation. Satipaṭṭhāna: Establishing of mindfulness: the practice of staying focused on body, feelings, mind, or mental qualities in and of themselves. Uggaha nimitta: An image appearing spontaneously during meditation. Upakkilesa: Mental corruption or defilement—passion, aversion, and delusion in …
A Heart Released A Heart Released
… When people practice in line with the virtue, concentration, and discernment forming the cure, then, na tiparivattaṁ: They won’t have to keep spinning in threes. The three realms won’t exist. In other words, they will gain utter release from the three realms. § 13. Only a visuddhi deva is an individual truly at peace. akuppaṁ sabba-dhammesu ñeyyadhammā pavessanto: ‘One must have a …
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