Search results for: middle way

  1. Book search result icon Meditations 13 The World of the Noble Truths
     … They are a way of looking at the world but they also play a role in a path of action. The act of taking them on determines how you’re going to act. For most thinkers, the underlying structures start with first principles and then argue from those first principles to build a structure, like building a building based on a foundation. But the … 
  2. Book search result icon Meditations 13 Reading & Meditating
     … There are lots of ways of using what you’ve read that are going to get in the way, but there are also ways that can actually be helpful. One of the prime uses of reading the Dhamma is that it gives you a vocabulary. It’s like the vocabulary that professional tasters and professional scent experts develop for their work. The more refined … 
  3. Book search result icon Meditations 13 What’s Relative, What’s Constant
     … change. And it didn’t necessarily go up. Sometimes it would go down. Way down. An analogy he used later was that it’s like throwing a stick up into the air. Sometimes it lands on this end, sometimes it lands on that end, sometimes it lands splat in the middle. So his question was, is there a pattern to the ups and downs … 
  4. Book search result icon Meditations 13 The Culture of the Practice
     … Sometimes it lands on this end, sometimes it lands on that end, sometimes it lands splat in the middle. Why? In the course of the second knowledge, he saw that it was because of the kamma of beings. Stated simply: Those who acted on skillful intentions tended to go to good destinations. Those who acted on unskillful intentions tended to go to bad destinations … 
  5. Book search result icon Meditations 13 Truth Without Air Quotes
     … And also more sensitive to how you can pull yourself out of something that you’ve fabricated by realizing, “I don’t have to fabricate it that way.” We have moods where we talk to ourselves, and usually it’s the same thing over and over and over again. But you don’t have to talk to yourself in those ways. Can’t you … 
  6. Book search result icon Meditations 13 Things Aren’t as They Should Be
     … Let those with ears show forth their conviction.” When he went to teach the five brethren, even before he said anything about the middle way or the four noble truths, he said, “The deathless has been attained, and if you follow what I teach you, you can attain it, too.” When Sāriputta heard a very short synopsis of the Buddha’s teachings and gained … 
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