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  2. Virtuous Beginnings
     … And what does it mean to have an admirable beginning? We start out with virtue. Often the texts say that virtue is the beginning of the path, the beginning of all skillful qualities, all good qualities of the mind. We start out with virtue, and it’s a quality that gives both worldly benefits and noble benefits. In other words, it’s listed in … 
  3. Moral Intelligence
     … When you develop this virtue and morality of the mind, it becomes more and more your normal state. In fact, that’s how Thai ajaans like to translate virtue: Virtue is normalcy. It’s your normal state. You can have good virtue and you can have bad virtue – your normalcy can be bad as well. What we’re trying to do is develop a … 
  4. Don’t Be Swept Away
     … What you do suffer from, really, is from losing your virtue and losing your right view. These things are your most important possessions. If you lose your virtue, you start behaving in ways that are not really appropriate for a human being. And that pulls you down, even while you’re here in this lifetime. If you lose your right view, then you believe … 
  5. Instructions for a New Monk
     … They start out first with virtue, concentration, and discernment, saying that when your concentration is nurtured through virtue or fostered through virtue it bears great fruit; discernment nurtured through concentration bears great fruit. Some people misinterpret this, thinking that if you don’t have any virtue, or if your virtue isn’t yet pure, you can’t do concentration; or if your concentration isn … 
  6. Discernment
     … Discernment comes first, then virtue, then concentration. In some of his other explanations—say, in the five faculties or the five strengths—it’s virtue, concentration, discernment. In the seven factors for awakening, the factors themselves don’t contain virtue but there’s a passage where the Buddha says they build on virtue. So, in that case, you’ve got virtue, then discernment, then … 
  7. Book search result icon Beyond Desire & Passion Contents
     … Chapters 18 through 23 focus on the training in heightened virtue. 18. Virtue in Rules 19. Rules & Determinations 20. Training Rules for All 21. Virtue as Attitudes (1) 22. Virtue as Attitudes (2) 23. Virtue as Attitudes (3) Chapters 24 through 28 focus on the training in the heightened mind. 24. Herding Your Thoughts (1) 25. Herding Your Thoughts (2) 26. Training in Mindfulness … 
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  8. Book search result icon A Chanting Guide Ovāda-pāṭimokkh’ādi Pāṭha
     … In many ways the Blessed One, the One who Knows, the One who Sees, the Worthy One, Rightly Self-awakened, has rightly declared virtue, rightly declared concentration, rightly declared discernment. Kathañ-ca sīlaṁ sammadakkhātaṁ Bhagavatā? And how has the Blessed One rightly declared virtue? Heṭṭhimena-pi pariyāyena, sīlaṁ sammadakkhātaṁ Bhagavatā. Uparimena-pi pariyāyena, sīlaṁ sammadakkhātaṁ Bhagavatā. The Blessed One has rightly declared virtue with … 
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  9. Normalcy
     … This is why the forest ajaans would say again and again and again, the practice is not a case of working on your virtue and then waiting till your virtue is perfect before working on your concentration, and then waiting till your concentration is perfect before you start working on discernment. You have to work on all three together: Virtue fosters concentration, concentration fosters … 
  10. Concentration Nurtured with Virtue
    Concentration Nurtured with Virtue July 23, 2009 The Buddha once said that concentration, when nurtured by virtue, has great fruit, great reward. Now, he wasn’t saying that you can’t do concentration without virtue. There are many examples around of people who have very strong powers of concentration but very little virtue at all. What he was saying is that if you want … 
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  11. Book search result icon Gifts He Left Behind 59. Knowledge from study vs. knowledge from practice
     … knowledge from practice Someone said: “The teachings about virtue, concentration, discernment, and release that I’ve memorized from books and from the teachings of various ajaans: Are they in line with Luang Pu’s understanding of their essence?” Luang Pu answered, “Virtue means the normalcy of a mind that’s free of faults, the mind that has armored itself against doing evil of any … 
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  12. Virtue, Concentration, Discernment
    There’s a passage in one of his books where Ajaan Lee blurs the distinctions between virtue, concentration, and discernment. Concentration, he says, is a developed aspect of virtue: As you’re sitting here, you’re not only observing the five precepts outside, but as you get the mind into concentration you’re observing them inside. You’re not killing your good qualities; you … 
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