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- 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
- 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 …
- 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 …
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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Straight from the Heart
Glossary
… Perfection of the character—generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, forbearance, truthfulness, determination, good will, and equanimity. Parisā: Following; assembly. The four groups of the Buddha’s following are monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen. Pāṭimokkha: The basic code of 227 precepts observed by Buddhist monks, chanted every half-month in each assembly of monks numbering four or more. Phala: Fruition. Specifically, the fruition of any …Show 2 additional results in this book
- Bless Yourself… It’s something, like virtue, that you want to make universal. It’s a wish for your own happiness and a wish for happiness of all other beings. The way the Buddha expresses this, in what might be called his metta phrases, always includes the fact that people are going to be happy not because you wish them happiness, but because they behave in …
- Strength of Persistence… If generosity comes with difficulty, if virtue comes with difficulty, goodwill comes with difficulty, try to look at these activities as a challenge, look at them as an adventure. You’re going to try something new, and you’re going to learn to see satisfaction in seeing your stinginess fall away or the carelessness that would get in the way of virtue: You see …
- Steal the Dhamma… You ask yourself, “How far have I come in conviction? How far have I come in generosity, virtue, discernment, learning, ingenuity?” Four of those qualities—conviction, virtue, generosity, discernment—are the qualities of an admirable friend. So, to what extent have you learned from your admirable friends? To what extent are you an admirable friend to yourself? Then there’s learning, which means learning …
- Not Resolved on Self… This relates to the practice of virtue. So right resolve is basically taking the insights that come from the four noble truths and applying them to your practice of virtue, concentration, and the discernment that sees that goodwill is the way to go—in other words, really working on developing goodwill, because you see that the skillfulness of your actions depends on goodwill for …
- Refuge in the Dhamma… What qualities do you want to develop in the mind? Virtue, concentration, discernment, mindfulness, alertness, patience, endurance? This is where you develop another level of refuge, when you start to take the Dhamma inside and you turn yourself into a more reliable person. If you work on developing your mind through mindfulness, you find over time that it really does make a difference in …
- Your Karma Comes First… We’re convinced of the value that the real treasures that we have are our virtue, our concentration, our sense of shame and compunction, the effort we put into the practice. These are our treasures, because they really do have value. There are times when in following the precepts we may lose out in terms of the goods of the world. But those goods …
Beyond All Direction
… persistence, mindfulness, concentration, discernment, virtue. He showed that by developing these things, we can get the same results he did. So when anyone else teaches otherwise, we have this to hold on to: that our actions really do make a difference. They really are important. Having that external refuge helps protect us from external dangers. In terms of the Dhamma, the external level of …-
Bringing Daily Life into the Practice
… Those come under virtue—training in heightened virtue. Seclusion comes under training in heightened mind, or concentration. And then, right view comes in training in heightened discernment. So, you’re taking this triple training and you’re making *this *the framework of your life. Then you can judge which parts of your life as you’ve been living it so far fit into that …
- Good All Around… Ananda went to see the Buddha and said, “When I heard that Sariputta had passed away, I lost my bearings.” The Buddha responded, “Did he take virtue with him? Did he take concentration? Did he take discernment with him?” “No.” Those things are still there. They’re still things that we can do. So that gives us hope, that there are good things that …
- The Dhamma Bucket List… Generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, equanimity: Which of these qualities is lacking in your mind? See if you can squeeze some of that out of your activities. And how would you go about developing those qualities? You can develop them in daily life. You can develop them by making up your mind you’re going to make a special donation …
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