Search results for: middle way

  1. Book search result icon Things as They Are The Middleness of the Middle Way
    The Middleness of the Middle Way Informal remarks after a talk, August 5, 1981. I can tell a resolute person when I see him—like our Ven. Ācariya Mun. It was intimidating just to look at him. How could the defilements not be intimidated by him? Even we were intimidated by him, and the defilements are smarter than we are, so how could they … 
  2. Book search result icon Things as They Are Glossary
     … Phenomenon; event; the way things are in and of themselves; the basic principles that underlie their behavior. Also, principles of behavior that human beings ought to follow so as to fit in with the right natural order of things; qualities of mind they should develop so as to realize the inherent quality of the mind in and of itself. By extension, ‘Dhamma’ is used … 
  3. Book search result icon Things as They Are The Work of a Contemplative
     … This is why it’s called the middle way: the Dhamma always appropriate for curing every sort of defilement to the point where defilement no longer remains. This is how you should understand the power of the middle way. Hold to this path in your practice, because release from suffering and stress is something with a value transcending all three levels of becoming. And … 
  4. Book search result icon Things as They Are The Outer Space of the Mind
     … in the middle of the sea. They keep climbing on board, climbing on board, until the day when the beings of the world have no more belief in the teachings of the religion. That’s when the ship will no longer have any function. Those who are still left in the sea will have to stay there adrift, with no more way of escape … 
  5. Book search result icon Things as They Are Principles in the Practice, Principles in the Heart
     … The Buddha taught it rightly in every way, in every facet, for remedying defilement of every sort. Nothing excels this Dhamma—in particular, the Dhamma of the middle way, which is summarized as virtue, concentration, and discernment. This is the Dhamma of causes, the methods with which we should train ourselves and which the Buddha taught us in full. As for the Dhamma of … 
  6. Book search result icon Things as They Are The Four Frames of Reference
     … Don’t act like a log, simply going through the motions of walking, sitting, meditating, sitting like a stump in the middle of a field without any sense of circumspection in the heart. This sort of going through the motions isn’t any different from the way people in general normally act. To be a disciple of the Tathāgata, whose fame has spread throughout … 
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