Search results for: virtue

  1. Book search result icon Right Mindfulness The Lessons of Fabrication
     … And what is the basis of skillful 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 of … 
  2. Book search result icon Right Mindfulness Appendix Three: Jhāna & Right Concentration
     … The prime example of this type of argument is based on a passage in AN 3:87, which describes a stream-enterer as one who is “wholly accomplished in virtue, moderately accomplished in concentration, and moderately accomplished in discernment.” Only with non-return, the discourse states, does one become “wholly accomplished in concentration.” In support of the idea that this means that the stream … 
  3. Book search result icon Right Mindfulness Fleshing out the Four Tetrads
     … recollection of the Buddha, Dhamma, Saṅgha, virtue, generosity, and the devas. These recollections serve primarily to gladden the mind, although the first three can also release the mind from fear (SN 11:3). “[1] There is the case where you recollect the Tathāgata: ‘Indeed, the Blessed One is worthy & rightly self-awakened, consummate in knowledge & conduct, well-gone, an expert with regard to the … 
  4. Book search result icon Right Mindfulness A Structure for Ardency
     … increase of mindfulness… once it has arisen? There are qualities that act as a foothold for mindfulness as a factor for awakening. [According to SN 47:16, these are well-purified virtue & views made straight; according to MN 118, they would include the qualities fostered by the sixteen steps of breath meditation.] To foster appropriate attention to them: This is the food for the … 
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