Search results for: "Saddha"

  1. Relating to Kamma
     … intellectually because it’s related to the issue of conviction, or saddha. We hear the word conviction—or even worse, saddha is often translated as faith—and we think that we’re being asked to commit to something that we’re not really sure about, that we don’t have any means of knowing. But that’s not what conviction means in the Buddha … 
  2. Faith as a Virtue
    Ajaan Suwat would often begin meditation instructions by saying to have a sense of saddha and pasada. Pasada means confidence—confidence that you’re doing something good that will have good consequences. Saddha is a word we translate sometimes as faith, sometimes as conviction. The differences in the meaning between faith and conviction seem to be that you have faith that someone or something … 
  3. Terror & Revulsion
     … mindfulness, alertness, concentration, and discernment, all founded on a sense of pasada or saddha, which means conviction, conviction that your actions can make a difference and that there is a way out. This way, samvega’s paired with heedfulness. You realize that your actions are important and so you have to be very careful about what you do. Because it is very easy to … 
  4. Faith in the Buddha’s Awakening
     … aging, illness, and death. This is why one of the major strengths you need in the practice—in fact, the first of the five strengths that the Buddha lists—is conviction. Saddha is the Pali word, sometimes translated as faith. It’s one of those dirty words in Buddhist circles here in the West. Nobody likes to say “faith,” because that’s what we … 
  5. Strength of Conviction
     … makes them all solid, but we have to remember: Discernment doesn’t come simply from things you’ve read—it doesn’t come from perceptions, or sañña. It comes from conviction: saddha, conviction that there’s got to be a way out. There’s got to be a way to survive hardships and come out not only surviving, but thriving. And what do we … 
  6. Conviction & Confidence
     … Then he’d say to combine that attitude with conviction, or saddha—conviction that you’re doing something really worthwhile. We’re not here just going through the motions. We’re working on something that’s really good: training the mind. Whether the results come quickly or slowly is not the issue. We’re working on something that’s noble. There’s dignity to … 
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