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- A Happiness Without Boundaries… And you understand that to be happy doesn’t require that much in terms of material things, especially if you augment this with the practice of virtue, the practice of meditation. Virtue is the resolve not to harm anyone, not to act in ways that are going to adversely affect yourself, adversely affect others. Again, this blurs the line between your happiness and other …
- Gifts of Noble Wealth… When you have the virtue that comes from training in the precepts, it’s a form of wealth. You’re refraining from doing the kinds of things you’d like to do just because you feel like doing them. You start thinking about the consequences, which helps you to avoid bad consequences—and that’s an important form of wealth. Virtue here is supplemented …
Undaunted
Aging
… The Buddha also talks of virtue as a form of wealth. A loss of your virtue, he says, is more serious than a loss of health, of material wealth, or even of your relatives (AN 5:130). Virtue is an inner wealth that’s essential to any trustworthy form of well-being. The basic definition of virtue expresses it in terms of five precepts …Show 7 additional results in this book- In the Mood to Meditate… So recollection of the virtue you’ve practiced in the past and recollection of the generosity you’ve practiced in the past are not just to put you in a good mood. They’re also to remind you: You’ve learned lessons from generosity, you’ve learned lessons from virtue that are going to be really useful as you sit here and meditate. After …
- What Are You Becoming?… So take advantage of this opportunity, especially in a place like this where you have the opportunity to develop goodness in all kinds of ways, through your generosity, through virtue, through your meditation. Generosity can take many forms. It’s not just being generous with material things. It also can mean being generous with your time, being generous with your help, being generous with …
- Your Own Mainstay… We train it in virtue. We train it in concentration, discernment. We train it in generosity to begin with. When you learn that there’s a lot of happiness that comes from giving things away, this is counterintuitive to children. They’re happy when they get things. But as you get more mature, you realize there’s a lot more long-term happiness that …
- A Special Happiness… People are talking a lot about happiness and merriness today, but what are the causes of happiness? There’s generosity, there’s virtue, and then there’s developing the mind. Those are the things that give rise to a happiness that’s lasting. The happiness you get from presents or the happiness you get from parties and things: That doesn’t last very long …
- To Take Danger in Stride… your virtue and your right view. A loss of those, he says, is serious. As for external losses, those are not nearly as serious, because when things outside are lost, they can be regained. But if you lose your virtue and your right view, it’s going to be a long, long time before you can get those back, and you can do a …
- Visakha Puja – True Homage… There’s a tradition that the incense stands for virtue, because the scent of virtue, as the Buddha said, even goes against the wind. The scent of incense goes with the wind, but the scent of virtue, the attraction that comes when you see a virtuous person, goes against the wind. The flowers stand for concentration as the mind blooms. The candles stand for …
- Faith as a Virtue… As he once said, “Let someone come who is honest and observant, who is no deceiver, and I’ll teach that person the Dhamma that leads to freedom.” In this sense, conviction is a virtue. If you take it on as conviction in your own desire to be responsible and to use the power of your actions in an honorable way, you’re willing …
- Faith in the Practice… It’s even sometimes said to be a virtue: the more unreasonable the object of faith, the greater the virtue in believing in it. But faith in the Buddha’s teachings doesn’t mean that. It means very basically faith in the fact that the Buddha really was awakened. He did it through his own efforts and then he taught the Dhamma well. That …
- Happiness Comes from Inner Strength… through generosity, virtue, and fostering thoughts of universal goodwill. In each case, we find that we have to take something we have inside and develop it further. In doing so, we gain inner strength. That inner strength, that sense that we can depend on ourselves and we have something inside that we didn’t have to take from anyone else but it’s there …
- A Monk’s Wealth… Someone asked Ajaan Mun if you could separate a person’s virtue from his mind. And Ajaan Mun said, “No. If you could, someone would probably steal their virtue.” The goodness in your mind goes with you wherever you go. Of course, the bad qualities you develop in the mind go with you wherever you go, too. So ask yourself: What do you want …
- Admirable Friendship… We practice generosity to train the mind; we practice virtue to train the mind. But sometimes when we do, the focus on the mind is indirect. But when you’re meditating, you’re directly focusing on the mind in and of itself. You start first by focusing on something right next to the mind: the breath in the body, how you sense it right …
- A Simple Path Through a Complex Map… When you’re starting out, he talks about virtue, concentration, and discernment. In doing so, he’s actually getting you to loop things back through name and form, right past attention and intention. So, without giving you the terms or giving you the whole picture, he’s getting you started on the right approach—how to use these functions in the mind. With virtue …
- The Meanings of Buddho… So you develop the perfections like generosity, the perfection of virtue, all the way down through discernment, goodwill, equanimity. These are things of real value in life. And you should respect your ability to develop these qualities. This is why we bow down to the Buddha, as I said, because he has us bow down to the good things in our own minds. So …
- An Attitude of Respect… So treat the meditation with respect; treat generosity, treat virtue with respect, because these things are our lifeline for a genuine happiness. Without these things, the pleasures of the world really have no meaning or substance. But with generosity, with virtue and with meditation, things begin to have meaning, they begin to have substance. They become something you can depend on. So, show them …
- Be Quiet… See that as a virtue. All too often we think that “The more I can talk, the more I can say, the smarter I’ll seem.” Well, not necessarily. Sometimes you open your mouth and you reveal your stupidity that other people wouldn’t have seen otherwise. So see the virtue of being quiet. It’s got a lot to offer.
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The Intelligent Heart
To the Deathless
… He had every virtue. He’s the refuge for all beings in the world. The three levels of the cosmos all pay homage to him. There are many virtues of the Buddha contained in the word buddho, and so we bring those virtues into our heart and mind. After all, the Buddha’s heart and mind were pure, clear, and clean. Thinking buddho can …Show 2 additional results in this book
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First Things First
Wisdom over Justice
… The first is that, by encouraging generosity, virtue, and the development of universal goodwill, you’re addressing the internal states of mind that would lead to injustice no matter how well a society might be structured. Generosity helps to overcome the greed that leads people to take unfair advantage of one another. Virtue helps to prevent the lies, thefts, and other callous actions that …Show 7 additional results in this book
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