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- 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 …
- 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.
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-
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
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 …-
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… Readings Buddha The Quest for Awakening The Buddha’s Passing Away Dhamma Basic Principles Generosity Virtue Heaven Drawbacks Renunciation The Four Noble Truths The First Truth The Second and Third Truths The Fourth Truth Right View Right Mindfulness and Concentration Liberation Sangha The Rewards of the Contemplative Life Aids to Awakening Sister Sona on Aging Ven. Punna on Death Sister Patacara on Awakening III …
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Noble Warrior
The Last Year
… This is the first drawback coming from an unvirtuous person’s defect in virtue. “And further, the bad reputation of the unvirtuous person, defective in virtue, gets spread about. This is the second drawback coming from an unvirtuous person’s defect in virtue. “And further, whatever assembly the unvirtuous person, defective in virtue, approaches—whether of noble warriors, brahmans, householders, or contemplatives—he/she …Show 14 additional results in this book
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Contents
… Saṅghaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi Summary The Path to Peace & Freedom for the Mind Introduction The Path Discussion Virtue Discussion Concentration Discussion Discernment Discussion Basic Themes Prologue Introduction I. Recollection of the Buddha II. Goodwill III. The Foul: Tranquility Meditation A. ‘Among the forty themes, breath is supreme.’ B. Focal points for the mind C. Images D. The Ten Corruptions of Insight IV. Mindfulness of Death …
- The Gradual Path of Skill… It’s not the case that you develop virtue and then move on to concentration and then finally get the chance to develop discernment. You need discernment as you’re developing your virtue and you need to develop discernment in order to get into concentration. If you don’t understand what’s going on in the mind, if you don’t have strategies for …
- The Treasure of Virtue… As the Buddha said, your two most important possessions are right view and virtue. It’s based on these two things that you can develop mindfulness, and through mindfulness you can get the mind into concentration. So you want to make sure that these foundations are really strong. Right view starts, of course, with the principle that if you act on skillful intentions, the …
- A Sense of Yourself… How is your conviction in the Buddha’s awakening? Is it strong? Is it enough to get you up early in the morning? Is it enough to keep you meditating late at night? Is it enough to make you want to keep on meditating in the little cracks that are provided in the course of the day? The second topic is your virtue. How …
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