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- Immaterial Gifts… You can give the gift of virtue. As the Buddha said, if your observance of the precepts is total and all around, then you’re giving safety to the whole universe. Nobody has anything to fear from you. Now, there may be dangers coming to them from other places, but the area you’re responsible for is your own activity, your own choices of …
- Heedfulness… So in terms of generosity, virtue, meditation, wherever you’re weak, you want to make yourself strong. You survey yourself to see where your strengths are now, because those are the things you’re going to have to rely on. When we’re born in this world, we’re kind of like those avatars they have in games where the avatar has to have …
- Virtue Contains the Practice… In his graduated discourse, virtue follows right after generosity. The reason for this is that when you’re trying to develop virtue, you have to look at the things you’re doing in your day-to-day life. This is how you develop your mindfulness and alertness. If you see that you’re causing any harm, you try to drop what you’re doing …Show 10 additional results in this book
- Discernment All Along… In that set, your discernment comes first, followed by virtue, and then right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. This emphasizes the fact that you have to have some understanding of what you’re doing if you really want to develop virtue, if you really want to get the mind into concentration. But then, there are the five faculties: You start with conviction. You have …
- Stay Principled… The basic elements in the path are virtue, concentration, and discernment. These are things you want to develop. You just don’t sit back and watch them come and go, and learn to accept their coming and going. Actively try to figure out: How do you give rise to more virtue, more concentration, more discernment? Once it’s arisen, how do you maintain it …
- Protection, Inside & Out… Would he make that deal? Sometimes some of the offers are perfectly fine as far as virtue is concerned. There’d be no problem. It’s when there’s some difficulty in terms of the virtue, difficulty in terms of the precepts: That’s when you have to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of holding to your precepts, but it’s …
The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
Pāṭimokkha | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
… the training in heightened virtue, the training in heightened mind, the training in heightened discernment?’ “‘Yes, venerable sir, I can….’ “‘Then train in reference to those three trainings…. Your passion, aversion, and delusion—when trained in heightened virtue, heightened mind, and heightened discernment will be abandoned. You—with the abandoning of passion… aversion… delusion—will not do anything unskillful or engage in any evil …Show 26 additional results in this book
The Desire for Things to Be Different
… He talks about generosity, he talks about virtue, and the good that can come from doing these things—how you can make your life a better life when you practice these things. Of course, he’s going to get to the point where the goodness of just virtue and generosity has its limitations, but even then, he doesn’t tell you to just give …- Overflowing Happiness… But with the happiness that comes from generosity and virtue and meditation, other people benefit, too. Your generosity: They receive gifts from you, and you gain the perfection of generosity. With virtue: Other people don’t have to be afraid that you’re going to harm them, they benefit. With meditation: You get some control over the greed, aversion, and delusion in your own …
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Good Heart, Good Mind
… giving, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, and equanimity. These perfections provide an excellent framework for understanding how to give meaningful and satisfying purpose to everyday lay life in a way that’s conducive both to genuine goodness and to genuine happiness. As they develop, they foster qualities both of a good mind—wise in understanding cause and effect—and a good …Show 10 additional results in this book
- Days Fly Past… To get there involves virtue, concentration, discernment: heightened virtue, heightened mind, heightened discernment. With heightened virtue, you really are meticulous about your precepts, you really are meticulous about your actions. The heightened mind is the development of strong concentration. Heightened discernment is the discernment that sees though our attachments. These are all activities, things we can do. And then there’s release, which is …
- Wealth You Can Keep… Work on your virtue. Work on your conviction. Conviction here means that you’re convinced that your actions really do make a difference, so what you choose to do is important. Don’t let anybody take that away from you. Work on your conviction, your virtue. The Buddha talks about having a sense of shame and compunction. Here he’s talking about skillful sense …
- Fear & Insecurity… After all, as he said, if you’re afraid of doing something unskillful, that becomes compunction and that’s actually a virtue. If you realize that your actions will make the difference between whether you suffer or not, and you’re afraid of unskillful actions, that’s heedfulness, and that, too, is a virtue. In fact, as the Buddha said, that’s the basis …
- The Rewards of Stream Entry… So when the Buddha says that people like this have completed their virtue, that their virtues are pleasing to the noble ones, and that they have confirmed conviction in the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha, it’s not a small attainment. It’s a major milestone in your practice—that you don’t have to work at these things anymore. You work at the more …
- Noble Treasures… Ajaan Mun once made the comment that qualities like virtue are really, really valuable. If people could steal them, they would. But that’s the nice thing about them: You can’t steal somebody’s virtue, you can’t steal somebody’s generosity. Nobody can steal yours. These things stick with you wherever you go. So look at the qualities you’re developing, because …
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Contents
… Strength for the Journey Into Position Two Guardian Meditations Playing Host An Image of the Buddha Binoculars The Electric Heart Restraint of the Senses Snakes, Fires, & Thieves Enduring Principles Part II Merit On Target The Art of Letting Go At the Tip of Your Nose Part III Fragments Understanding the World & the Dhamma Inner Eyes Noble & True Recollection of Virtue Treating the Mind Dedication
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Honest & Observant
… As he said, “When concentration is nurtured by virtue, it has great fruit, great reward. When discernment is nurtured by concentration, it has great fruit, great reward. When the mind is nurtured by discernment, it’s freed from the effluents.” We’re looking for freedom. We have to build our search on virtue, concentration, discernment. We all know this, but it’s good to …
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Handful of Leaves, Volume One
DN 2 The Fruits of the Contemplative Life | Sāmaññaphala Sutta
… Consummate in his virtue, he guards the doors of his senses, is possessed of mindfulness and alertness, and is content. The Lesser Section on Virtue “And how is a monk consummate in virtue? Abandoning the taking of life, he abstains from the taking of life. He dwells with his rod laid down, his knife laid down, scrupulous, merciful, compassionate for the welfare of all …Show 10 additional results in this book
- Head & Heart… That’s why generosity has meaning—why it is a virtue. If we didn’t have choices in our actions, then giving a gift would be an automatic thing that was determined by somebody else or something else. It wouldn’t have any meaning at all. But it’s because we do have choices in the present moment—and that’s what the main …
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Four Noble Truths
Step by Step to the Truth
… By focusing on generosity and virtue in particular, he’s connecting with his listeners’ experience of looking for happiness in ways that are socially mature. When you find happiness in generosity and virtue, you make the people around you happy as well. In focusing on this point, he’s appealing to his listeners’ nobler side, affirming that it has meaning and serves a genuine …Show 5 additional results in this book
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