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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
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-
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
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 …
- Losses… However, if you lose your virtue and lose your right view, then you can go to a bad destination very easily. Right view here meaning belief in the power of your actions, that you really are responsible for your actions, and your actions do have an impact on you and on the world around you. That’s the basis of right view. You don …
- To Delight in the Path… generosity, virtue, and the development of goodwill. Learn how to take joy in the fact that you can have goodwill for everybody, because you’re aiming at a happiness that’s not going to harm anybody, doesn’t require anybody be oppressed. You’re walking lightly in the world: Take joy in that. Then as you sit down to meditate, you can reflect on …
- A Mind Larger than the World… Actually, they came before Mahayana split off, and they really are a powerful way of understanding how Buddhism is practiced in Southeast Asian Theravada countries, because they deal with the virtues you need, the virtues you develop, as you go through daily life. Some of them are related to meditation, like renunciation, which doesn’t mean just giving up pleasures. It means giving up …
- Death Is Normal… This is going to happen, and realizing that—since we’re going to be leaving one another anyhow—we might as well take advantage of the time we have together now to do good for one another through our generosity, through our virtue, through our goodwill for one another. Because even worse than suffering a loss like this, is suffering a loss when you …
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A Handbook for the Relief of Suffering
Part III: The Buddhist Way
… We should develop within ourselves all qualities that we know to be good and virtuous, maintaining the virtues we already have—this is called ārakkha-sampadā—and constantly aiming at developing the virtues we haven’t yet been able to acquire. 3. Whatever activities we may engage in, we should do so with purity of heart. We should make our hearts pure and clean …
- Gaining the Dhamma Eye… When the Buddha recommends virtue, okay, we try virtue. We fit all of our actions and attitudes in line with the requirements for virtue. The precepts are promises we make to ourselves. They’re universal promises. In other words, under no circumstances will we kill. Under no circumstances will we steal and so on, down through the main precepts. In whichever areas you find …
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With Each & Every Breath
Introduction
… Concentration provides the mind with a sense of refreshment that allows it to resist unskillful urges that would create lapses in virtue, and the stability it needs to discern clearly what’s actually going on inside. Discernment provides strategies for developing virtue, along with an understanding of the mind’s workings that allow it to settle down in ever-stronger states of concentration. Virtue …Show 6 additional results in this book
- Goodwill as a Strength… And as for the damage they can do to you and people you love or the people you care for, the Buddha said that kind of damage is much less a concern than damage to your virtue and damage to your right views. Nobody can damage those except you yourself, So goodwill protects both of your virtue and your right views, remembering that we …
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