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Still, Flowing Water Becoming a Samaṇa
… So just as he took those people and trained them to practice so as to attain the noble paths and fruitions, we today take the same sort of people to practice—to develop virtue, develop concentration, develop discernment. Virtue, concentration, and discernment are the names of our practices. When we practice virtue, practice concentration, and practice discernment, we practice right at ourselves. We practice …
Still, Flowing Water Our Real Home
… Through virtue they go to a good destination. Sīlena bhogasampadā: Through virtue there’s consummation of wealth. Sīlena nibbutiṁ yanti: Through virtue they go to nibbāna. Tasmā sīlaṁ visodhaye: So virtue should be purified. NOW, GRANDMA, set your heart on listening respectfully to the Dhamma, which is the teaching of the Buddha. While I’m teaching you the Dhamma, be as attentive as if …
Still, Flowing Water In Body & Mind
… This is why we’re taught that virtue, concentration, and discernment—the path by which the noble ones go to nibbāna—are all one and the same thing. To put it even more briefly: Virtue, concentration, and discernment are one and the same thing—one and the same piece of Dhamma. Virtue is concentration; concentration is virtue. Concentration is discernment; discernment is concentration. It …
Still, Flowing Water Still, Flowing Water
… Actually, virtue, concentration, and discernment are all the same thing, not different things, just like the one mango. When it’s small, it’s that same mango. When it’s large, it’s that same mango. When it’s ripe, it’s that same mango. It just simply changes its characteristics, and so we keeping running, running, running, running after them. Actually, in practicing …
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