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  2. 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 … 
  3. How to Look, How to Listen
     … Right speech, right action, and right livelihood are factors of heightened virtue. Right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration are factors for heightened concentration, or the heightened mind. But then when he lists the order in which they come as the triple training is accomplished, he starts with virtue and then the concentration, and then—from the virtue and the concentration—you foster discernment … 
  4. The Need for a Purpose
     … Someone asked the Buddha one time, “What is virtue for?” “Virtue is for the sake of developing concentration.” “What’s concentration for?” “Concentration is for the sake of developing discernment.” “What’s discernment for?” “For the sake of release.” “What’s release for?” “For the sake of unbinding, total freedom.” “What’s unbinding for?” The Buddha said, “No, stop there. Your question is going … 
  5. Skillful Thinking
     … Now, to be able to do this, you’ve got to develop good strong qualities in the mind—virtue, concentration, discernment—-which are things you want to develop. Then when you see the craving passing away, that’s something you want to notice. You want to watch that and realize what’s happening. So there are four potential duties you’ve got here in … 
  6. Audacious & Undaunted
     … Everything from right view to right concentration boils down to virtue, concentration, and discernment. These are the qualities that allow you to abandon your cravings if you do them right. You practice virtue to get some control over your cravings, and also to get sensitive to what the mind is thinking, what its intentions are when it acts. Because the precepts can be broken … 
  7. Hold On to the Right Perceptions
     … One of the virtues of meditation is that it gets you skilled at sticking with one perception despite other contacts that are coming in. The contact comes and it goes. And the perceptions, if you’re not careful: They can come and go, too. But you want to latch on to the ones that are really helpful right now. That gives you the strength … 
  8. Magha Puja
     … The incense stands for virtue. As the texts say, the fragrance of virtue is greater than any other fragrance in the world because it can go against the wind. Other fragrances can only go downwind, but this one goes against the wind. A person who’s virtuous is attractive to other people no matter where they are. So the incense stands for virtue, the … 
  9. A Dhamma Bucket List
     … The second quality is virtue. You want to make sure that your actions are in line with the five precepts, because you don’t want the kind of kamma that comes from having broken the precepts. This involves a certain amount of pride, a certain sense of self-esteem. This is a healthy pride that goes with observing the precepts. And it builds up … 
  10. Your Inner Teacher
     … As he said, if you want to know a person’s virtue, you have to live with that person for a long time and be very observant. If you want to know that person’s purity—in other words, that person’s honesty, uprightness—you have to have dealings with that person over a long period of time and you have to be very … 
  11. Anumodana
     … Not necessarily to encourage them to come back and give more, but just to encourage them in the qualities of generosity virtue, and developing goodwill. These are things that should be encouraged because we all benefit. After all, the practice is one where we’re not in competition with one another. If someone else is practicing really well, it gives energy to the people … 
  12. Page search result icon On Majjhima Nikāya 61
     … As for loss in terms of your wealth or health, the Buddha doesn’t regard those kinds of loss as anywhere near as serious as loss in terms of your virtue (AN 5:130). This means that sacrificing your wealth or health either for the sake of your virtue or for the sake of helping others to protect their virtue doesn’t count as … 
  13. Look After Yourself with Ease
     … We sometimes hear that you develop the precepts or the virtues that correspond to the precepts and then you practice concentration and then you develop discernment. But these three parts of the path are all interrelated. After all, the noble eightfold path starts with right view and right resolve, which are factors of discernment, and then moves into virtue and on to concentration. So … 
  14. Stand Still & Watch
     … generosity, and virtue, and meditation. It’s only then that your happiness will be complete.
  15. Up for the Challenge
     … As the Buddha points out, when you practice generosity and virtue, the happiness doesn’t come later. It’s there in the action itself—and a lot of that happiness has to do with learning how to appreciate what you’re doing. Appreciate your generosity, appreciate your virtue, and you’ll come to the concentration with a sense of competence and confidence that you … 
  16. Admirable Friendship
     … As the Buddha said, when you find an admirable friend who has conviction, generosity, virtue, and discernment, you try to emulate those qualities. You try to develop your powers of observation, too, to see how they do it. This means, of course, asking questions but also just noticing. The same with generosity, the same with virtue, and the same with discernment: You listen carefully … 
  17. The Resolve to Let Go
     … If what everybody does is determined by forces outside of them, there’s no real virtue in giving, there’s no freedom there: That’s what they taught. So if somebody gives you something, it wasn’t because they had the choice not to give it. They just had to. So there’s no real virtue there, no real merit. Of course, as you … 
  18. Food for the Mind
     … This is why we practice generosity, why we practice virtue, and why we meditate. We’re practicing fixing good food for the mind, food that gives you a sense of conviction that your actions really do matter. And when you make good choices, it brings good results. When you have that conviction, then other forms of strength develop as well. You stick with the … 
  19. Food Insecurity
     … The only cure for that is to develop some confidence in the path, that the practice of generosity, the practice of virtue, the practice of meditation will feed you better. So look into these practices. To what extent are you not yet fully confident in them? What can you do to develop more confidence? Turn your thinking in this direction. The Buddha talks about … 
  20. Focus on the Good
     … Which of those qualities are you lacking in? In generosity, virtue, equanimity, renunciation, goodwill, discernment, endurance? There are lots of good qualities to work on. Not all of them are fun to work on, not all of them are enjoyable, but they’re good qualities to be able to build within yourself, because that’s what you can take with you when you go … 
  21. Page search result icon Talk collections | dhammatalks.org
     … 110810 Gather ’Round the Breath 061103 Allowing the Breath to Spread 100207 Brahmaviharas at the Breath 111205 Turn Off the Automatic Pilot 120721 Choiceful Awareness 110816 Artillery All Around 111206 Views, Virtue, & Mindfulness 050422 Ekaggata 110410 Training Your Minds 110927 Equanimity 120121 A Mirror for the Mind 070508 Centered in the Body 100328 Mindful Judgment Part Two 120523 Pain is Not the Enemy 120731 … 
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