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- 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 …
- May All Beings Be Heedful… that you can learn from your suffering, but suffering in and of itself doesn’t constitute a virtue. At the same time, you’re working for happiness, and it’s not a selfish quest. After all, where does true happiness come from? It comes from within, from developing your own inner qualities: virtue, concentration, discernment; heedfulness, ardency, resolution. Developing happiness through these qualities doesn …
- 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 …-
Noble Warrior
Chapter Fifteen: 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
… 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 …
- 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 …
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… 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 …
- 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 …
- When You Practice on Your Own… He’d start with what’s called the “graduated discourse.” He’d start talking about generosity, acts of giving, and then virtue. Then he’d talk about heaven as a place where generosity and virtue are rewarded with sensual pleasures. If you’re listening to this teaching, and you’ve been practicing generosity and virtue, you feel good about what the Buddha is saying …
- Meaning Through Perfections… This is just one example of how discernment takes ordinary, everyday virtues and turns them into perfections. So, as you’re developing the perfections, as you’re studying the perfections—trying to give rise to them in your life—always keep asking yourself, “What does discernment have to tell me about this perfection?” That way, the virtues you develop, as you try to develop …
- A Seeker’s Habits… Once you look at your daily life and you see, “Yes, this is solid,” you see that you’re reliable, dependable, all those virtues that don’t have a lot of flashing lights, but they do provide a good foundation for the practice: Then you find it a lot easier to settle down and get good results out of the action of sitting here …
- Dignity in the Face of Hardship… generosity, virtue, meditation. You’ve got to train your desires to think in terms of cause and effect, and focus on the causes. As the effects seem to be falling apart, resist the temptation to clutch to them because they can pull you down. This may not be easy, but then remember the distinction that Schiller made between dignity and grace. Grace is when …
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Contents Titlepage Contents Cover Copyright Introduction A Connoisseur of Happiness Virtue Contains the Practice Less is More Rehab Work Kindfulness As Days & Nights Fly Past The Wisdom of Wising Up Living Forward, Understanding Backward Awe Conviction & Confidence Concentration Work Three Levels of Evaluation Rapture Truth Your Mind is Lying to You Encouraging Perceptions Broad, Tall, & Deep Your Gyroscope Better to Give than to Consume …
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