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1. On the Path The Stream to Unbinding
    … Being heedful, he achieves consummation in virtue. He is gratified with that consummation in virtue, but his resolve is not fulfilled. Because of that consummation in virtue he does not exalt himself or disparage others. He is not intoxicated with that consummation in virtue, not heedless about it, and does not fall into heedlessness. Being heedful, he achieves consummation in concentration. He is gratified … 
2. On the Path Further Readings
    … The Sublime Attitudes; “Trading Candy for Gold” On virtue: “Educating Compassion”; “Getting the Message”; “The Healing Power of the Precepts” On right effort: “The Joy of Effort”; “Pushing the Limits” On mindfulness: Frames of Reference; Right Mindfulness; Mindful of the Body; “The Agendas of Mindfulness”; “Mindfulness Defined”; “Under Your Skin” On concentration: Keeping the Breath in Mind; Inner Strength; With Each & Every Breath; “Jhāna … 
3. On the Path The Arising of the Path
    … Where there is virtue, there is discernment. Where there is discernment, there is virtue. A virtuous person has discernment; a discerning person, virtue. And further, virtue & discernment are reckoned as supreme in the world. [The passage goes on to define virtue with a long list of virtues, sense restraint, mindfulness & alertness in one’s activities, contentment, and the abandoning of the hindrances. It defines … 
4. On the Path Right Livelihood
   chapter six Right Livelihood Right livelihood is the third virtue factor in the path. Like right speech and right action, it is defined as abstaining from wrong livelihood, but unlike them, the standard description of this path-factor doesn’t state clearly what wrong livelihood is. There is the obvious point that right livelihood should avoid any need to engage in wrong speech and … 
5. On the Path Right Speech & Right Action
   chapter five Right Speech & Right Action Right speech and right action are the first two virtue factors on the path. Both are based on the principle of non-affliction, developed through right resolve, in that they involve abstaining from specific types of behavior that cause harm. Because these two path-factors parallel each other in many ways, they are best discussed together. The suttas … 
6. On the Path Right Resolve
    … And, of course, it supplies direction to the virtue factors of the path as well. This means that it informs—and, as we will see, is informed by—all the other factors of the path. Mundane right resolve. MN 117 (§48) defines wrong resolve as the resolve for sensuality, the resolve for ill will, and the resolve for harmfulness. In contrast, it defines the … 
7. On the Path Right View
    … These are the five benefits in being virtuous, in being consummate in virtue.” — DN 16 § 83. “And further—with reference to the virtues that are untorn, unbroken, unspotted, unsplattered, liberating, praised by the observant, ungrasped at, leading to concentration—the monk dwells with his virtue in tune with that of his companions in the holy life, to their faces & behind their backs. This, too … 
8. On the Path A Framework for the Frame
    … The texts describe, for instance, how the awakened are virtuous, even though they are not defined by their virtue (§164; §325), and how even the completely awakened use the contemplations of right view and the practice of right mindfulness and right concentration as pleasant abidings (§§345–347). Still, one of the features of each factor of the path is that it allows for its … 
9. On the Path Right Effort
    … Readings Desire Focused on Causes § 202. “For a person endowed with virtue, consummate in virtue, there is no need for an act of will, ‘May freedom from remorse arise in me.’ It is in the nature of things that freedom from remorse arises in a person endowed with virtue, consummate in virtue. “For a person free from remorse, there is no need for an … 
10. On the Path Right Mindfulness
     … Whatever virtue they were endowed with… Whatever learning they were endowed with… Whatever generosity they were endowed with… Whatever discernment they were endowed with, so that—when falling away from this life—they re-arose there, the same sort of discernment is present in me as well.’ At any time when a disciple of the noble ones is recollecting the conviction, virtue, learning, generosity … 
11. On the Path Right Concentration
     … At the same time—given that sensuality is one of the major causes inducing people to break the precepts—access to a non-sensual pleasure strengthens your ability to follow the virtue factors of the path as well. This means that the pleasure of jhāna plays an important role in developing all the factors of the path. In terms of the similes of the … 
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