Search results for: virtue

  1. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self A Healthy Sense of Self
     … generosity, virtue, and the development of goodwill. Each of these practices fosters a healthy sense of self. When the Buddha teaches generosity, he emphasizes the fact that you’re free to give. In fact when a king once asked him, “Who should I give things to?” the king expected that the Buddha would say, “Give to me and my disciples.” Instead the Buddha said … 
  2. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self Not-self for Mundane Happiness
     … generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, and equanimity. Notice that these lists contain the basic acts of merit: generosity, virtue, and the development of goodwill. As we have already noted, each of these meritorious actions gives lessons in developing a skillful sense of self. At the same time, each also gives practice in developing a skillful sense of not-self, for … 
  3. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self The Ego on the Path
    Talk 5 The Ego on the Path May 25, 2011 Last night we discussed some of the traditional ways in which the Buddha taught a skillful sense of self—the self as the agent or producer of happiness, and the self as the consumer of happiness—through the development of generosity, virtue, and meditation on goodwill. We also talked about some of the qualities … 
  4. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self Self, Not-self, & Beyond
     … You use the aggregates to be generous, to develop virtue, and to develop the mind through meditation. As you’re trying to gain skill in these practices, you come face-to-face with the committee inside. For example, when you want to be generous, some of the members of the committee like the idea of making bread to give to your friends, and some … 
  5. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self Health Food for the Mind
     … And the practice of jhāna, in turn, needs to be well fed with right views and the healthy sense of self-esteem that comes from the habits of generosity and virtue. Otherwise we won’t be able to endure the difficulties inherent in getting the mind to settle down and stay there. At the same time, as concentration develops, it provides an even greater … 
  6. Book search result icon Selves & Not-self Readings on Self & Not-self
     … Which seven? The treasure of conviction, the treasure of virtue, the treasure of shame, the treasure of compunction, the treasure of listening, the treasure of generosity, the treasure of discernment. “And what is the treasure of conviction? There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones has conviction, is convinced of the Tathāgata’s awakening: ‘Indeed, the Blessed One is worthy & rightly … 
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