Search results for: virtue

  1. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thag 12:1 Sīlavat
    Thag 12:1  Sīlavat Here master the virtue that in this world is well-mastered, for virtue, when cultivated, brings every consummation near. Wise, one should protect one’s virtue, aspiring to three pleasures: praise, the gaining of wealth, and—after death—rejoicing in heaven. The virtuous one, through restraint, acquires many friends, while the unvirtuous one, practicing evil, from friends is estranged. The … 
  2. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thig 5:10 Paṭācārā
     … So why is it that I, consummate in virtue, a doer of the teacher’s bidding, don’t gain unbinding? I’m not lazy or proud.” Washing my feet, I noticed the water. And in watching it flow from high to low, my heart was composed like a fine thoroughbred steed. Then taking a lamp, I entered the hut, checked the bedding, sat down … 
  3. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thag 10:7 Gotama
     … commitment to the heightened mind: This is fitting for a contemplative. Wilderness lodgings, secluded, with next-to-no noise, right for sages to resort to: This is fitting for a contemplative. Virtue, learning, investigating phenomena, mental qualities, as they have come to be: This is fitting for a contemplative. You should develop inconstancy, the perception of not-self, the perception of unattractiveness, & distaste for … 
  4. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thag 16:7 Bhaddiya Kāligodhāyaputta
     … Standing firm in the aggregate of virtue, developing mindfulness & discernment, step by step I attained the ending of all fetters.
  5. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thig 8 Sīsūpacālā
     … A nun, consummate in virtue, her faculties well-restrained, will reach the state of peace, a nourishment that never cloys.1 Māra: The Devas of the Thirty-three, the Hours, the Contented, devas who delight in creation, & devas in control: Direct your mind there where you lived before.2 Sīsūpacālā: The Devas of the Thirty-three, the Hours, the Contented, devas who delight in … 
  6. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thig 13:2 Rohiṇī
     … I’ll praise to you their discernment, virtue, endeavor. They do like to work, they’re not lazy. They do the best work: They abandon passion & anger. That’s why I hold contemplatives dear. They rid themselves of the three evil roots,1 doing pure actions. All their evil’s abandoned. That’s why I hold contemplatives dear. Clean their bodily action, so is … 
  7. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thag 13 Soṇa Koḷivisa
     … For a monk who is insolent, heedless, wishing for what’s outside, virtue, concentration, & discernment don’t go to completion, because what should be done is cast        aside, what shouldn’t be done        is done. For those who are insolent, heedless, their effluents increase. But those whose mindfulness immersed in the body is constantly well-undertaken, —who don’t engage in what shouldn’t … 
  8. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thag 16:8 Aṅgulimāla
     … But for the Buddhists, training in virtue, discernment, and the ability not to be overcome by pleasure or pain could take the mind to a state where the results of past bad kamma would “be experienced in the here-and-now, and for the most part would appear only for a moment.” In other words, in the Buddhist teaching, but not in the Jain … 
  9. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thag 17:2 Sāriputta
     … With what will he be what in the world? But one who is learned, wise, well-centered in virtues, devoted to tranquility of awareness: Let him stand at the head. One who is devoted to objectification,2 his heart delighting in objectification, attains no unbinding, the unexcelled rest from the yoke. But whoever, abandoning objectification, delighting in the path of non-objectification, attains unbinding … 
  10. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thag 18 Mahā Kassapa
     … I’m like that’; one who’s discerning, who acts as he says, well-centered in virtues, committed to tranquility of awareness, he is the one the wise would praise. One with no respect for his fellows in the holy life, is as far from true Dhamma as the earth from the sky. But those whose sense of shame & compunction are always rightly established … 
  11. Book search result icon Theragāthā
     … Thag 12:1  Sīlavat  —  The rewards of virtue. Thag 12:2  Sunīta the Outcaste  —  An outcaste becomes an arahant and is worshiped by devas. Thag 13  Soṇa Koḷivisa  —  A man delicately brought up develops a mind like rock. Thag 14:1  Revata’s Farewell  —  An arahant, about to die, reflects on his practice and advises his listeners to be in constant quest of what … 
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