Search results for: virtue

  1. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Meditation on Kamma
     … So you can see that the Buddha’s teachings on kamma affirm the social virtues of generosity and gratitude. Without these two virtues, human society would be chaos. Therefore, the Buddha is encouraging us to develop these virtues in ourselves as well. And his teaching on kamma—as following a pattern that allows for free will—is what actually allows for these virtues to … 
  2. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Training in Skillful Kamma
     … So, in looking at these various courses of action, you can see that skillful kamma is not just a matter of precepts or of external virtue. It also relates to concentration and discernment. All levels of skillful action are interrelated. This also means, though, that having good virtue and understanding the principles of kamma are an important foundation for the entirety of the path … 
  3. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Foundations for Mindfulness
     … purified virtue and views made straight. “Purified virtue” here means not breaking any of the five precepts: not killing, not stealing, not having illicit sex, not lying, and not taking intoxicants. If you break any of these precepts and then you try to meditate, you will start remembering the times in the past when you have harmed people. Either you will feel regret for … 
  4. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Readings : Mindfulness
     … And what is the basis of skillful mental qualities? Well-purified virtue & views made straight. Then, when your virtue is well purified and your views made straight, in dependence on virtue, established in virtue, you should develop the four establishings of mindfulness.… Then, when in dependence on virtue, established in virtue, you develop these four establishings of mindfulness, you will go beyond the realm … 
  5. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Kamma & Mindfulness Together
     … Second, you develop your virtue, which basically means avoiding any action that you know would be harmful. This is a type of protection. If you have not harmed others, then no harm will come to you. When you look back on your own actions, there’s nothing to regret. This allows you to open your mind more, and, as we noted the other day … 
  6. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Cooking Past Bad Kamma
     … Now a trifling, evil deed done by what sort of individual is experienced in the here and now and for the most part barely appears for a moment? There is the case where a certain individual is developed in contemplating the body, developed in virtue, developed in mind, developed in discernment, unrestricted, large-hearted, dwelling with the unlimited. A trifling, evil deed done by … 
  7. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Mindfulness of Dhammas III : The Five Clinging⥋Aggregates
     … As we’re developing virtue, concentration, and discernment, we’re using these activities to shape our experience in a more skillful way. In fact, the more skillful we get at these activities, the more we understand them. This is why you can’t let go of any clinging to these activities simply by knowing that they’re suffering. You have to explore them first … 
  8. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Mindfulness of Feelings & Mind States
     … There are quite a few skillful methods, such as the contemplation of your own generosity and the contemplation of your own virtue. Seeing that you have made progress on the path is a skillful form of pride. So when you’re feeling that you’re a no-good meditator, call to mind times in the past when you were generous when you didn’t … 
  9. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness A Healthy Understanding of Kamma
     … As I said earlier today, having purified virtue is one of the qualities that develop mindfulness. And one of the reasons why this is so is that the qualities of mind implicated in the Buddha’s instructions to Rāhula are developed through observing the precepts. To observe the precepts requires these same qualities of mind. You need to use appropriate attention to ask yourself … 
  10. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Readings : Kamma
     … There is the case where the very same sort of trifling deed done by another individual is experienced in the here & now, and for the most part barely appears for a moment. “Now, a trifling evil deed done by what sort of individual takes him to hell? There is the case where a certain individual is undeveloped in [contemplating] the body, undeveloped in virtue … 
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