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- 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 …
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 …
- The Duty to Be Positive… That’s why recollection of your generosity and recollection of your virtue are both really important parts of the path. They’re not there to make you simply feel that you’re good enough as you already are. They’re there to give you the energy you need to pick up your duties and carry on. As the Buddha said, death can come at …
- Knowing Your Intentions… the goodness of generosity, the goodness of virtue, and the goodness of meditation. The word meditation literally means to develop. You’re developing good qualities in the mind. You do this first by focusing on the breath. Take a couple of good, long, deep in- and-out breaths. Notice where you feel the breathing. Try to stay with the sensation of the breath all …
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Lost & Found
The Line of Fire
… Take virtue, for instance. Virtue is not just a matter of following the precepts, it’s a quality of mind that’s solid in its intentions. You make up your mind that you’re going to avoid evil and then you just stick with that intention. That’s the essence of virtue. The word sila in Pali is related to the word sela, which …
- In a World of Crooked Wheels… loss in terms of relatives, loss in terms of your health, loss in terms of your wealth, loss in terms of right view, loss in terms of virtue. He says that with the first three—wealth, health, relatives—loss isn’t all that serious. It sounds heartless. How can you say that loss of your relatives is not serious? Loss of your wealth and …
- A Made Up Mind… Where there’s no virtue, you can think about things and develop virtue. In other words, you think about the value of these things, these good qualities of the mind, and then you can bring them into being and see that they really are worthwhile. This kind of independent goodness is something you want to develop as much as you can. Because if you …
- Going Out of Your Way… The first is basically a matter of virtue; the second, a matter of generosity. And it’s interesting to note that when the Buddha teaches, he brings generosity up first. When he explains mundane right view, it starts with: “There is what is given.” In other words, the times we go out of our way to be helpful to other people, generous with other …
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Come & See
Entering for the Rains
… On the lowest level, there’s generosity, virtue, and meditation. The Buddha taught these as daily practices: the lower level of virtue, the medium level of virtue, the refined level of virtue. The lower level is the five precepts. The medium level is the eight or ten precepts. The refined level is the 227 training rules for the monks. In the 227 training rules …Show 3 additional results in this book
The Dhamma Eye : Text & Context
… In the words of the Canon, your virtues are now pleasing to the noble ones: unbroken, untorn, and conducive to concentration. The noble ones are also pleased because your virtues are not grasped at and you yourself are not made of virtue, meaning that you don’t take hold of your virtues to create a sense of conceit or self around them. You embody …-
Selves & Not-self
A Healthy Sense of Self
… generosity, virtue, and the development of goodwill. Each of these practices fosters a healthy sense of self. When the Buddha teaches generosity, he emphasizes the fact that you’re free to give. In fact when a king once asked him, “Who should I give things to?” the king expected that the Buddha would say, “Give to me and my disciples.” Instead the Buddha said …Show 5 additional results in this book
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On the Path
The Stream to Unbinding
… Being heedful, he achieves consummation in virtue. He is gratified with that consummation in virtue, but his resolve is not fulfilled. Because of that consummation in virtue he does not exalt himself or disparage others. He is not intoxicated with that consummation in virtue, not heedless about it, and does not fall into heedlessness. Being heedful, he achieves consummation in concentration. He is gratified …Show 10 additional results in this book
- The Meaning of Happiness… generosity, virtue, and meditation. And those three activities cover pretty much all the goodness in the world. The acts that give meaning to our lives come under these three headings. Generosity means not only giving material things, but also giving your time, giving your energy, giving forgiveness, giving help in all kinds of ways. It’s in the act of giving that a lot …Show 7 additional results in this book
- Appreciating MeritThere’s that chant we have at the end of every chanting session: “Through the power of all the Buddhas, all the Dhamma, all the Sangha, may you forever be well.” What is that power? Where does it come from? The Buddha gained his power from his generosity, his virtue, and his meditation, developing concentration, developing discernment all the way to nibbana. As did …
- Friends Inside… People who have virtue: They try not to harm others, they try not to harm themselves. That’s a good example for you. And then those who have wisdom and discernment: In other words, they understand what’s important in life and what’s not, what has long-term value and what has only short-term value. If you hang around with friends like …
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