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- The Buddha’s Wisdom… You get more and more sensitive to the ways in which you do cause harm—some of which are expressed in the precepts, and others which are not, but they become part of your virtue. After all, virtue is expressed not only in precepts, but also in principles like contentment, modesty, restraint: ways in which you can look at your impact on the world …
- Appropriate Attention Always… The serious ones are loss of right view and loss of your virtue. The ones that are not serious are the kinds of things that the world takes seriously, like loss of wealth, loss of health, loss of your relatives. The Buddha said that those are minor. You lose those things, you get them back—if not in this lifetime, then in another lifetime …
Right Mindfulness
The Lessons of Fabrication
… And what is the basis of skillful qualities? Well-purified virtue & views made straight. Then, when your virtue is well-purified and your views made straight, in dependence on virtue, established in virtue, you should develop the four establishings of mindfulness.… Then, when in dependence on virtue, established in virtue, you develop these four establishings of mindfulness, you will go beyond the realm of …Show 3 additional results in this book- Taking Stock… You’ve got the potential for virtue, concentration, discernment. It’s simply a question of learning to develop these potentials. Of course, you’ll find, as you look in your mind, there are a lot of other potentials as well, a lot of less skillful potentials. You’ve probably had some practice in developing those, too. But it’s important that you realize you …
- Helping Yourself by Helping Others… So when you find yourself getting irritated by one another, remember that endurance is a virtue, and it helps you see clearly where something might be positively changed. All too often we think of patience or endurance as a weakness—it’s the virtue of people who have to put up with things because they can’t do anything else. But that’s not …
- Turtle Mind… The discourse starts with giving, and then goes to virtue. Virtue, too, is a form of giving. As the Buddha says, you give safety to others. When you develop the brahmaviharas in your search for merit, again, you’re radiating. You’re not taking in. Ultimately, of course, when you get into meditation and your mind gets still enough so that you can gain …
- The Range of Our Responsibility… She went to see her teacher, and the teacher said, “Reflect back on your virtue; reflect on your generosity.” His meaning was for her to remind herself that she did have virtue and she had been generous. But she started thinking, “Well, the fact that my meditation isn’t going well is a sign that I haven’t been virtuous and I haven’t …
- Cleanliness is Next to Mindfulness… The title of the talk is “Reflection on Virtue,” or “Recollection of Virtue,” but a good two-thirds of the talk is about being clean. That’s an important part of virtue. In other words, while you’re living here, don’t think that the day-to-day facts of eating or having a place to sleep are minor matters to hurry through so …Show 9 additional results in this book
- In the Land of Wrong View… The third prerequisite is that you want your friends to be people of virtue, people who have strong principles about certain types of behavior that they won’t engage in because they know that those things are harmful. Again, you benefit not only because they’re not going to harm you, but also because they’ll teach you how to be harmless. And they …
- From Anxiety to Confidence… Based on shame and compunction, you practice virtue. You develop the virtue of the mind. In other words, you have principles in how you’re going to behave—how you’re going to find your happiness. You’re going to find it in a way that doesn’t create harm for others. This is probably one of the most dismaying things about the human …
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The Mind Like Fire Unbound
Chapter IV
… With the ending of the effluents, he remains in the effluentless release of awareness & release of discernment, having directly known and realized them for himself right in the here-&-now.’ AN 3:88 As the text makes clear, stream-winners and once-returners are those who have fully developed virtue, non-returners are those who have fully developed virtue & concentration, and arahants are those …Show 3 additional results in this book
- All Winners, No Losers… The same with virtue. When you’re not harming anyone, you gain the perfection of virtue. At the same time, the people around you don’t have to be harmed by you in any way, which contributes to their happiness. And when you meditate, you’re gaining some control of your aversion and delusion, which means that other people don’t have to be …
- How to Be Happy… When he talks about virtue, what does he mean? When he talks about generosity, when he talks about meditation, learn about these things. Our educational system nowadays teaches you how to be a good member of the society, productive and all that, but it doesn’t teach you how to find happiness. That’s something you have to learn on your own, and this …
- Generosity First… They haven’t had any experience in developing virtue in line with the Buddhist precepts. They come to the Buddha’s teachings without having tested them in daily life, so they don’t have the sense of confidence they need to get them through the hard parts of the meditation. They feel they have to rely on sheer determination instead. If you look at …Show 6 additional results in this book
- Strategies for Generosity… There’s one gift the Buddha said is limitless, and that’s the gift of virtue; i.e., you make a promise to yourself that you’re not going to kill anybody, you’re not going to steal from anybody, you’re not going to have illicit sex, you’re not going to lie to anybody, and you’re not going to take any …
- How to Be an Admirable Friend… In addition to generosity, there’s virtue. Virtue means abstaining from things that are harmful: no killing, no stealing – that right there is very friendly – no illicit sex, no creating any problems around sex, no lying, no divisive speech, no harsh speech, no idle chatter. This doesn’t mean you don’t say anything critical at all, simply that you’re very careful in …
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Things as They Are
To Be an Inner Millionaire
… The same holds true with the virtue and goodness we call merit. If unintelligent people search for merit and try to develop virtue and goodness like the people around them, the results will depend on their ingenuity and stupidity. If they have little ingenuity, they’ll gain little merit. As for those of us who have ordained in the Buddha’s religion, our aim …Show 7 additional results in this book
- It’s What You Give… Then he moves on to virtue. Here, too, he has you regard virtue as a gift. It’s a gift of safety. He says if you can make your virtue universal—you’re not going to harm anyone anywhere—then you have a share in that universal safety. You will get some goodness back, but what’s important is what you put in. Then …
- Dedicating Merit… through generosity, through virtue, and meditation. All three, going together, make it complete. So we’ve given the food; we’re holding to the precepts; now’s the time for the work of the meditation. You want to make the meditation a high-quality meditation because, after all, you’re giving a gift to somebody else. You don’t want to give a shoddy …
- Noble Conversation… And your virtue. Encourage one another in our precepts. These are things we can talk about. When you find that you’ve slipped with the precepts and you want advice from somebody you know is better at observing the precepts, you go get the advice. And then again, once the topic has been discussed, everything’s been settled, you go back and you look …
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