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  2. Mental Experiments
     … It begins with generosity and virtue, because generosity and virtue help you gain a sense of self esteem. When you’re generous, you see the good that comes from being able to give things away. That, in and of itself, gives the mind a sense of wealth. Generosity is one of the forms of noble wealth. It gives the mind a sense of contentment … 
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  3. The Skillful Heart
     … But that’s basically what the Buddha’s teaching, because you’re not going to gain insight unless you have a good grounding in generosity and virtue. As he said, you’re not going to be able to get into concentration properly, and you’re not going to gain the discernment that goes to the transcendent levels without generosity and virtue. After all, if … 
  4. Choices
     … Or even if he had it, but if he had had some good practice with generosity and virtue, he would have been able to withstand it, knowing that he had a good side to himself as well. This is why the Buddha teaches that a good foundation for meditation is generosity and virtue—and having a right view about your mind and the thoughts … 
  5. Training Heart & Mind
     … This sense of self-worth comes from looking at yourself as you practice acts of generosity, *as *you practice acts of virtue, and you get a sense of your own goodness. It gives you confidence. As the Buddha said, people who are stingy and greedy can’t get into right concentration, to say nothing of levels of awakening. As for lack of virtue, there … 
  6. Book search result icon Beyond All Directions
    The fifth collection of essays. Includes: Beyond All Directions, Lost in Quotation, An All-around Eye, Mettā Means Goodwill, On Denying Defilement, Virtue Without Attachment, The Limits of the Unlimited Attitudes, The Essence of the Dhamma, The Middles of the Middle Way, and The Arrows of Thinking.
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  7. Practicing for Dispassion
     … So we practice virtue for the sake of dispassion, we practice concentration for the sake of dispassion, discernment for the sake of dispassion. That’s what turns these things from simple activities that would lead to more becoming into something that leads beyond becoming. So what would that mean: virtue for the sake of dispassion? In the beginning, you do have to hold on … 
  8. Virtue
     … We do that every week to remind you that virtue is a real treasure. The fact that you make up your mind you’re not going to kill, steal, have illicit sex; you’re not going to lie; you’re not going to take intoxicants: That’s a real treasure, because it’s really yours. As the Buddha said, other things that you can … 
  9. Sutta search result icon Thag 2:42 Dhammapāla
    Thag 2:42  Dhammapāla The young monk devoted to the Buddha’s message, is wakeful among those who sleep. His life is not in vain. So, intelligent, one should commit oneself to conviction & virtue, confidence & Dhamma-vision, remembering the Buddhas’ message. See also: SN 11:14; SN 55:26
  10. A Noble Choice
     … Then he would move on to virtue. The same sort of thing: what a wonderful thing it is to live a life where you’re not harming anybody. No killing, no stealing, no illicit sex, no lying, no intoxicants. It’s a life you can be proud of. You’re not searching for happiness in a way that harms yourself or harms others. It … 
  11. Good Before, During, & After
     … generosity, virtue, meditation. We have to reflect on the fact that these are all skills. Generosity seem to be the easiest of them, but it’s actually not all that easy to do it well. When the Buddha was asked where should you give a gift, he said give where you feel inspired. In other words, you have freedom of choice. And that’s … 
  12. Virtues Bright & Neither Dark nor Bright
     … That’s the kind of virtue the Buddha said is pleasing to the noble ones. On the one hand, none of the precepts are broken, but at the same time it puts the mind in a good frame of mind, where you feel good about yourself. That makes the mind easy to settle down in concentration. So as you practice the virtue for the … 
  13. Peace Requires Character
     … generosity, virtue, and meditation. You learn to take pleasure, not in eating all the time, but in giving things to other people. This may go against the grain, but when you begin to realize that there’s a happiness there, it raises the mind above its ordinary level. Similarly with virtue: You realize that there are ways of finding happiness that would cause harm … 
  14. Be Consistent
     … It’s by practicing generosity, practicing virtue, that we gain confidence in our own goodness, and we’re doing good things with a mind like that. It’s a lot easier to watch the mind when it’s doing good and to understand what’s going on. So make sure your practice is complete—not just meditation, but also generosity and virtue. These are … 
  15. Seriously Happy
     … There are things you have to give up, there are strong virtues you have to develop: the virtue of being responsible, the virtue of being heedful. It’s work. The part of the mind says, “Oh no, more work”: You have to look at it. Reason with it. Argue with it. And find joy in the practice. In other words, you don’t tell … 
  16. Virtue
     … Yet Ajaan Suwat focused most of his answer on practicing the precepts, developing virtue. I thought I saw a number people rolling the eyes, thinking, “Here we are meditators already, yet he’s teaching us this kindergarten stuff.” But it wasn’t kindergarten stuff. That’s how the practice is lived in daily life: through virtue. Remember that the word for meditation in Pali … 
  17. Admirable Intentions
     … It starts with generosity, virtue, and developing good qualities in the mind. Of course, with generosity and virtue, you’re already developing good qualities. You’re thinking of other people: You realize that your happiness is not the sort of thing that you can develop just on your own without thinking about other people’s happiness. The same goes with virtue: If your happiness … 
  18. Complete Goodness
     … The Buddha talks about three kinds of goodness—generosity, virtue, and training the mind in meditation. The first two help other people, and the meditation helps other people as well. Sometimes we’re accused of looking out after only our own welfare here, but that’s not the case. When you get your mind well-trained, the people around you benefit, too, because your … 
  19. Truth Without Air Quotes
     … Some people treat virtue as an optional part of the practice, while the real practice, of course, lies in the techniques of meditation. But the Buddha never taught it that way. He taught virtue as an integral part of the path, because it’s through the practice of virtue—when you take on certain precepts and you try to follow them—that you start … 
  20. Certainty Inside
     … Generosity is meant to energize the mind, as are virtue and the meditation. Generosity: You realize that you’re not just a guest here in the human realm. You have something you can give it. You become part of the goodness going around in the realm, one of the agents that makes this a good place to be. Rather than just living off the … 
  21. Book search result icon Meditations13 Truth Without Air Quotes
     … Some people treat virtue as an optional part of the practice, while the real practice, of course, lies in the techniques of meditation. But the Buddha never taught it that way. He taught virtue as an integral part of the path, because it’s through the practice of virtue—when you take on certain precepts and you try to follow them—that you start … 
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