Search results for: virtue

  1. Book search result icon Things as They Are To Be an Inner Millionaire
     … The same holds true with the virtue and goodness we call merit. If unintelligent people search for merit and try to develop virtue and goodness like the people around them, the results will depend on their ingenuity and stupidity. If they have little ingenuity, they’ll gain little merit. As for those of us who have ordained in the Buddha’s religion, our aim … 
  2. Book search result icon Things as They Are Glossary
     … Topic of effacement (effacing defilement)—modesty, being content with what one has, seclusion, unentanglement in companionship, persistence, virtue, concentration, discernment, release, and the direct knowing and seeing of release. Samādhi: Concentration; the practice of centering the mind in a single sensation or preoccupation. Sammati: Conventional reality; convention; relative truth; anything conjured into being by the mind. Sampajañña: Alertness; self-awareness; presence of mind; clear … 
  3. Book search result icon Things as They Are The Four Frames of Reference
     … The virtues we are maintaining will become dependable virtues and won’t turn into virtues floating in the wind. Our practice of concentration will become dependable concentration on every level and won’t turn into concentration floating in the wind, i.e., concentration only in name but without the actuality of concentration in the heart. And when we develop each level of discernment, it … 
  4. Book search result icon Things as They Are The Outer Space of the Mind
    The Outer Space of the Mind August 24, 1982 People who practice in earnestness, trying to develop and improve the qualities in their hearts step by step, beginning with virtue, the stages of concentration, and the levels of discernment, are—to make a comparison—like the people who build a rocket or a satellite to travel in outer space. They have to put their … 
  5. Book search result icon Things as They Are The Work of a Contemplative
     … Wherever you go, wherever you stay, don’t forget the basic principles—virtue, concentration, and discernment—which are the basic principles of our work as contemplative. These are the essential principles of each monk’s work. This is where we become ‘sons of the Sakyan (sakya-putta), of the victorious Buddha,’ disciples of the Tathāgata, and not when we simply shave our heads and … 
  6. Book search result icon Things as They Are The Middleness of the Middle Way
     … A teacher who possesses the Dhamma, who possesses virtue, has to be resolute so as to eliminate evil. He has to be resolute. He can’t not be resolute. The stronger the evil, then the more resolute, the stronger his goodness has to be. It can’t not be resolute and strong. Otherwise it’ll get knocked out. Suppose this place were dirty: However … 
  7. Book search result icon Things as They Are From Ignorance to Emptiness
     … Even virtue, concentration, and discernment—the qualities we use to straighten out the heart—are realized for what they are and let go in line with their actuality. Nothing at all remains lurking in the nature of this final stage of emptiness. I ask that we all reflect on these three kinds of emptiness and try to develop ourselves to attain them—and especially … 
  8. Book search result icon Things as They Are Principles in the Practice, Principles in the Heart
     … 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 results, it comes in stages. The mind is solid and doesn’t stray or lean in line … 
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