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  1. Book search result icon Sutta Nipāta Sn 2:9 With What Virtue?
    2:9  With What Virtue? This sutta mentions the metaphorical notion of “heartwood” (sāra) three times. Although sāra as a metaphor is often translated as “essence,” this misses some of the metaphor’s implications. When x is said to have y as its heartwood, that means that the proper development of x yields y, and that y is the most valuable part of x … 
  2. Book search result icon Sutta Nipāta Sn 2:7 Brahman Principles
     … the holy life, virtue, being straightforward, mild, austere, composed, harmless, enduring. The foremost brahman among them, firm in perseverance, didn’t engage in copulation even in a dream. Those imitating his practice praised the holy life, virtue, & endurance. They asked for rice, bedding, cloth, butter & oil. Having collected all that in line with rectitude, from that they performed the sacrifice. And in setting up … 
  3. Book search result icon Sutta Nipāta Sn 4:9 To Māgandiya
     … On the other, one cannot attain inner peace without using a measure of right view, learning, knowledge, habit (virtue), and practice. It defines right view in terms of mundane right view, described in MN 117; learning in terms of the voice of another (AN 2:124) and the nine traditional divisions of Dhamma in the Canon: dialogues, narratives of mixed prose and verse, explanations … 
  4. Book search result icon Sutta Nipāta Sn 1:9 Hemavata
     … Always consummate in virtue, discerning, well-centered, internally percipient,10 mindful, one crosses over the flood hard to cross. Abstaining from perceptions of sensuality, overcoming all fetters, having totally ended delight in becoming, one doesn’t sink into the deep.11 Hemavata the yakkha: The one deeply discerning, seeing the subtle goal, having nothing, unattached in sensual becoming: See him, everywhere released,12 the … 
  5. Book search result icon Sutta Nipāta Sn IV : Introduction
     … These points are in line with the passage in MN 78 that defines the “cessation of skillful habits” as the case where one is virtuous but not fashioned of virtue—i.e., one does not define oneself in terms of one’s virtue. Similarly with views: 4:9 states that an attainer-of-knowledge isn’t fashioned of views, and so isn’t measured … 
  6. Book search result icon Sutta Nipāta
     … Sn 2:9  With What Virtue?  —  The attitudes and behavior that enable one best to learn and benefit from the Dhamma. Sn 2:10  Initiative  —  Get up! Don’t let the opportunity for practice pass you by. Sn 2:11  Rāhula  —  Ven. Rāhula reflects on the teachings he received from his father, the Buddha. Sn 2:12  Vaṅgīsa  —  Ven. Vaṅgīsa, the foremost poet among … 
  7. Book search result icon Sutta Nipāta Sn 3:4 Sundarika Bhāradvāja
     … The Dhamma is a lake whose ford is virtue —limpid, praised by the good to the good— where attainers-of-knowledge, having bathed cross, dry-limbed, to the further shore. Truth, Dhamma, restraint, the holy life, attainment of Brahmā dependent on the middle: Pay homage to those who’ve become truly straightened: That, I call a man in the flow of the Dhamma. After … 
  8. Book search result icon Sutta Nipāta Sn Introduction
     … As we have already noted, the Buddha redefined this question by making the action that qualifies one as a brahman, not a matter of brahmanical traditions, but a matter of virtue and all the other skills that lead to full awakening. This meant that neither brahmanical birth nor brahmanical traditions could guarantee a good rebirth after death, a point that the Buddha makes clear … 
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