Search results for: virtue

  1. Book search result icon Merit Introduction
     … giving, virtue, and meditation. The next three sections focus on the ways in which each of these activities can be pursued so as to produce the most happiness. For instance, the section on giving discusses how the happiness of generosity can be maximized by wisely choosing the proper motivation for giving a gift, a proper gift, and a proper recipient for one’s gift … 
  2. Book search result icon Merit Sila: Virtue
     … These are the five benefits in being virtuous, in being consummate in virtue.” — DN 16 This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: “Aspiring to these three forms of bliss, a wise person should guard his virtue. Which three? [Thinking,] ‘May praise come to me,’ a wise person should guard his virtue. [Thinking,] ‘May wealth come to … 
  3. Book search result icon Merit The Merit of Stream-entry
     … This is called right concentration.” — SN 45:8 “There is the case where the disciple of the noble ones [here meaning a stream-enterer] is endowed with verified confidence in the Awakened One… verified confidence in the Dhamma… verified confidence in the Sangha… He/she is endowed with virtues that are appealing to the noble ones: untorn, unbroken, unspotted, unsplattered, liberating, praised by the … 
  4. Book search result icon Merit Puñña: Merit
     … A blessing into old age is virtue. A blessing: conviction established. A blessing: discernment attained. The non-doing of evil things is a blessing. — Dhp 331–333 This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: “Monks, don’t be afraid of acts of merit. This is another way of saying what is blissful, desirable, pleasing, endearing, charming … 
  5. Book search result icon Merit Dana: Giving
     … As she was sitting there, she said to the Blessed One, “Suppose there were two disciples of the Blessed One, equal in conviction, virtue, and discernment, but one was a giver of alms and the other was not. At the break-up of the body, after death, they would reappear in a good destination, a heavenly world. Having become devas, would there be any … 
  6. Book search result icon Merit Bhavana: Meditation
     … A trifling evil deed done by this sort of individual takes him to hell. “Now, a trifling evil deed done by what sort of individual is experienced in the here & now, and for the most part barely appears for a moment? There is the case where a certain individual is developed in body, developed in virtue, developed in mind, developed in discernment: unrestricted, large … 
  7. Book search result icon Merit Basic Wisdom
     … livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.” — AN 4:237 Then the Blessed One gave a graduated talk to Upali the householder, i.e., a talk on giving, a talk on virtue, a talk on heaven; he proclaimed the drawbacks of, degradation in, & defilement in sensuality, and the rewards of renunciation. Then—when he knew that Upali the householder was of ready mind, malleable … 
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