Search results for: virtue

  1. Book search result icon Things as They Can Be The Desire to Make a Difference
     … By affirming the value of giving and virtue, he showed his listeners that he was a principled teacher, unlike many of the teachers of his day who taught that giving and virtue were fruitless conventions and a waste of time. If his listeners had any sense of integrity—even hired killers can have a sense of right and wrong—they would recognize that the … 
  2. Book search result icon Things as They Can Be In the Context of the Deathless
     … At the same time, it counsels the wisdom of contentment, resilience, and appreciation, all of which are good Buddhist virtues. But it does so at a price. It rejects the Buddha’s teaching on the unchanging bliss to be found in a dimension freed from the confines of space, time, and the present moment. In its place, it contents itself with the meek and … 
  3. Book search result icon Things as They Can Be All about Acceptance
     … conviction (in the Buddha’s awakening), virtue, generosity, and discernment. To enter into an admirable friendship means not only looking for friends of this sort but also trying to emulate their good qualities, so that you can become an admirable friend to yourself and to others as well (AN 8:54). A friendship of this sort, the Buddha said, is the most important external … 
  4. Book search result icon Things as They Can Be Things as They Can Be
     … how inconstant and stressful fabrications can be turned into a path of virtue, concentration, and discernment in order to develop dispassion for all the mind’s activities, resulting in the unending freedom of the deathless. When the reality of this possibility appears in the heart, it has a much greater impact than a mere act of assent or affirmation. Having stepped outside of the … 
  5. Book search result icon Things as They Can Be Deep like the Ocean
     … leper was wise.… With the destruction of the first three fetters, he is a stream-winner, not subject to states of deprivation, headed for self-awakening for sure… Having acquired conviction, virtue, learning, relinquishment, & discernment on encountering the Dhamma & Vinaya made known by the Tathāgata, now—on the break-up of the body, after death—he has reappeared in a good destination, a heavenly … 
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