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2. Play AudioNo Boundaries
    … When you’re generous, you gain the benefit of generosity, the virtue of generosity in your own mind. The people who receive the fruits of your generosity benefit, too. When you observe the precepts, you develop the perfection of virtue, and the people around you are not subject to being harassed or harmed by you. When you train the mind, everybody benefits. This is … 
3. Play AudioTake Heart
    … You think about your virtue, the times when you could have behaved in unskillful ways but you chose not to, even though there may have been a sacrifice involved. But you managed to do it. The Buddha says you can think about the qualities that make people devas. Okay, you’ve got those qualities as well: conviction, virtue, generosity, learning, discernment. You have those … 
4. Play AudioOnly One Person
    … Give yourself the dignity of being an agent and not just a recipient, not just a victim of other people’s activities or a recipient of their virtue. You want be a generator of virtue, you want to be a generator of generosity, a generator of concentration and wisdom. That’s how these things come out into the world. You’ve got the source … 
5. Play AudioFrom Compunction to Release
    … The Buddha first teaches you dispassion for unskillful actions by talking about the rewards of generosity, the rewards of virtue, and also the opposite of rewards that come when you act on unskillful intentions. But the rewards of generosity, the rewards of virtue are what? Rebirth in the sensual heavens. Then you get into concentration and you can look back at the pleasures of … 
6. Play AudioUniversal Goodness
    … the goodness of generosity; the goodness of virtue; the goodness of getting your mind under control. These things are good wherever you go. It’s like the difference between the Earth and the sky. You go to different places on the planet, the landscape around you is very different. But you look up, and the stars are the same stars. They may be at … 
7. Play AudioGoing in Light
    … The parents don’t have virtue. Whereas coming in light means you come into a family where you’re well off. You have an opportunity for education, and your parents are virtuous. They know the Dhamma. Or whether they know the Dhamma or not, they’re still virtuous people. Going in darkness means that you, yourself, become a person who’s not observing the … 
8. Play AudioValues
    … Fear of loosing your virtue, fear of loosing your right view, though, is a fear that comes from a sense of power. You have the power to protect these things. No one else can destroy your virtue; no one else can take away your right views. You’re the one who can destroy them; you’re the one who can take them away. You … 
9. Play AudioStrength of Discernment
    … I’m going to need mindfulness and alertness for sure.” So you ask yourself: “What are those things based on?” They’re based on virtue and they’re based on right view. So work on your virtue. When you’re living in difficult times, you have to be very careful and determined that you’re going to maintain your virtue in spite of the … 
10. Play AudioVirtue Nurtures Concentration
    Close your eyes. Try to stay with your breath, all the way in, all the way out. Notice where the breathing is most prominent—where you can see it most clearly. Focus your attention there. And then make sure the breath is comfortable. Right there. You can start with long breathing for a while and see how that feels. If long breathing feels good … 
11. Play AudioFiguring Out Concentration
     … So sometimes, when you’re feeling down about the meditation, remind yourself that you do have generosity as one of your virtues. That lifts the mind, gladdens the mind. And the same with virtue itself, the virtue of holding to the precepts: As you’re sitting here, you’re not getting involved in the various ways you could harm yourself or harm other people … 
12. The Heart a Flowing Stream Everywhere & Always
     … loss of relatives, loss of wealth, loss through disease, loss in terms of virtue, loss in terms of views. He then goes on to show that loss of relatives, loss of wealth, and loss through disease are relatively minor, whereas loss of virtue and loss in terms of views are serious. The former forms of loss won’t send you to a bad destination … 
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13. Play AudioWhen Your Head Is on Fire
     … Some people perfect their virtue and they get contented with that and they stop. Or you get concentration and you get contented with it and you stop there. You don’t get any insight. The Buddha also notes that intention is part of every state of right concentration. So that passage about not needing a further act of will beyond being consummate in virtue … 
14. Play AudioA Safe Haven
     … But you can make your inside certain, that you can depend on your views, you can depend on your virtue. Then when things change outside, you’ll still maintain your virtue; you’ll still maintain your integrity. In that way, you have a sense of confidence living in this world, that you can live in the world and not be affected by the dangers … 
15. Play AudioBeing Right
     … And the sixth quality is that your virtues are things that you hold in common. You all hold to the same standard of virtue. These last two qualities are where things get difficult, especially when you’re living out in the world where people are not practicing the Dhamma, are not interested in the Dhamma. They’ve got totally other ideas, totally different agendas … 
16. Contents
     … 17. Arahants of every sort attain both release through concentration and release through discernment, having developed the threefold training to completion. The Ever-present Truth § 1. The root meditation themes § 2. Virtue. § 3. Potential § 4. Contemplating the body § 5. Purifying the mind § 6. The method of practice for those who have studied a great deal § 7. The principles of the practice are ever-present … 
17. Play AudioPain
     … conviction, virtue, generosity, discernment. But you’re really going to need them at the moment of death, too. Conviction that the Buddha was right: What you do with the mind right now is really going to make a difference. That was one of his major insights in the night of his awakening. Your past karma throughout life may have an influence on where you … 
18. Play AudioA Happy Tradition
     … You develop your virtue; you develop your discernment. So, there are skills that can enable you not to suffer, no matter what your past karma is. He’s giving you power. For a lot of us, that takes a lot of getting used to. Either the culture of our families or the culture of the religion we were raised in told us to have … 
19. Play AudioNurturing Patient Endurance
     … On top of conviction, comes virtue. In fact, virtue is part of conviction. If you really are convinced in the power of your actions, you’re going to be very careful about how you act. And generosity: That, too, grows out of conviction. As the Buddha said, you’re convinced that something good will come from your generosity; it’s not a waste. It … 
20. Play AudioThe Search for Happiness
     … But if you see that you’re living a relatively harmless life, that yields more joy in of the practice of virtue. You see that you’re principled: that people could give you rewards for breaking the precepts but you wouldn’t accept those rewards. That gives you a sense of self-esteem, a higher level of happiness. Then, of course, there’s goodwill … 
21. Play AudioCatch It in the Act
     … All the basic elements of the path—virtue, concentration, and discernment—are things you already have to some extent. So if your virtue is weak, you can develop some concentration, not as much as when your virtue is strong, but still you can develop some. And you can develop some wisdom even when your concentration is weak. It won’t be as good as … 
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