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Noble Warrior The Last Year
… This is the first drawback coming from an unvirtuous person’s defect in virtue. “And further, the bad reputation of the unvirtuous person, defective in virtue, gets spread about. This is the second drawback coming from an unvirtuous person’s defect in virtue. “And further, whatever assembly the unvirtuous person, defective in virtue, approaches—whether of noble warriors, brahmans, householders, or contemplatives—he/she …
Noble Warrior Devadatta
… Which five? “There is the case where a certain teacher, being impure in virtue, claims to be pure in virtue, ‘My virtue is pure, clean, & undefiled.’ But his students know of him that, ‘This honorable teacher, being impure in virtue, claims to be pure in virtue: “My virtue is pure, clean, & undefiled.” But if we were to tell the householders, he wouldn’t be …
Noble Warrior Birth
… through the rut, put an end to the round, and transcended all suffering & stress: ‘Such was the birth of those Blessed Ones, such was their name, such their clan, such their virtue, such their Dhamma, such their discernment, such their (mental) dwelling, such their release.’’ When this was said, Ven. Ānanda said to those monks, “Friends, Tathāgatas are both amazing & endowed with amazing qualities …
Noble Warrior Old Age
… Action, clear-knowing, & mental qualities,165 virtue, the highest (way of) life: Through this are mortals purified, not through clan or wealth. Thus the wise, seeing their own benefit, investigating the Dhamma appropriately, should purify themselves right there. As for Sāriputta: any monk who has gone beyond, at best can only equal him in discernment, virtue, & calm.” That is what Anāthapiṇḍika the deva-son …
Noble Warrior Dwelling near Sāvatthī
… I hope you have no anguish.” “Yes, lord, I do have not a small amount of anxiety, not a small amount of anguish.” “I hope you can’t fault yourself with regard to your virtue.” “No, lord, I can’t fault myself with regard to my virtue.” “Then what are you anxious about? What is your anguish?” “I understand that the Blessed One has …
Noble Warrior After the Awakening
… Developing virtue, concentration, & discernment, the path to awakening, I’ve attained the highest purity. But you, End-maker, are struck down.” Then Mara the Evil One—sad & dejected at realizing, “The Blessed One knows me, the One Well-Gone knows me”—vanished right there. — SN 4:1 I have heard that on one occasion, when the Blessed One was newly self-awakened, he was …
Noble Warrior Spreading the Dhamma
… 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 Yasa was of ready mind, malleable mind, unhindered mind, exultant mind, confident mind—he proclaimed to him the distinctive teaching of the Buddhas: stress, origination, cessation, path. Just as a clean piece …
Noble Warrior Training the Saṅgha
… the training in heightened virtue, the training in heightened mind, the training in heightened discernment?” “Yes, lord, I can train in reference to the three trainings: the training in heightened virtue, the training in heightened mind, the training in heightened discernment.” “Then train in reference to those three trainings: the training in heightened virtue, the training in heightened mind, the training in heightened discernment …
Noble Warrior Introduction
… that he is limitless like the ocean (MN 72), and that the full range of his powers and virtues is inconceivable (AN 4:77). However, there is plenty of material in the Canon for us to grasp that his awakening was an earth-shaking achievement, and that he was an outstanding teacher—enough to inspire us to want to attain awakening ourselves, and to …
Noble Warrior The Awakening
… He is endowed with virtues pleasing to the noble ones. “‘Ghaṭikāra the potter has no doubts about stress, no doubts about the origination of stress, no doubts about the cessation of stress, no doubts about the path of practice leading to the cessation of stress. “‘Ghaṭikāra the potter eats one meal a day and is celibate—a person of virtue, with fine qualities. “‘Ghaṭikāra …
Noble Warrior Endnotes
… Contentment, of course, is a virtue on the path, but as AN 4:28 shows, it is a quality to be developed around the material requisites of life. As this discourse shows, it is not to be applied to mental qualities. MN 2 makes a similar point: One should endure pains and harsh words but not the presence of unskillful states in the mind …
Noble Warrior Portraits of the Buddha
… Which five? “There is the case where my disciples esteem me for my heightened virtue, (thinking,) ‘Gotama the contemplative is virtuous, endowed with the foremost aggregate of virtue.’ This is the first quality.… “Further, there is the case where my disciples esteem me for my exceeding knowledge & vision, (thinking,) ‘Only when knowing does Gotama the contemplative say, “I know.” Only when seeing does he …
Noble Warrior Contemporary Views
… May the Blessed One remember me as a lay follower who has gone to him for refuge from this day forward, for life.” Then the Blessed One gave a graduated talk to Upāli 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 …
Noble Warrior The Buddha as Victor
… But how could there be such virtue & restraint in an unvirtuous, evil character?” Now at that time Ven. Aṅgulimāla was sitting not far from the Blessed One. So the Blessed One, pointing with his right arm, said to King Pasenadi Kosala, “That, great king, is Aṅgulimāla.” Then King Pasenadi Kosala was frightened, terrified, his hair standing on end. So the Blessed One, sensing the …
Noble Warrior The Noble Search
… He enjoys that, wants more of that, and luxuriates in that… “Or… he practices the holy life intent on being born in one or another of the deva hosts, (thinking,) ‘By this virtue or practice or abstinence or holy life I will be a deva of one sort or another.’ He enjoys that, wants more of that, and luxuriates in that. This is a …
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