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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. Stand Still & Watch
     … generosity, and virtue, and meditation. It’s only then that your happiness will be complete.
  5. 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 … 
  6. 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 … 
  7. 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 … 
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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 … 
  12. Improving Your Speech
     … During the three months, they’re going to try to put more emphasis either on generosity or on virtue or on meditation. Any precepts that are a little bit shaky, a little bit weak, they may try to firm them up. Or ways of being generous that you haven’t been generous before. You might decide you want to chant every day, or choose … 
  13. Inner Strength, Inner Wealth
     … There’s the practice of generosity, the practice of virtue, all the qualities that create strength in the mind and provide the mind with its wealth. There are two lists that the Buddha gives: one of inner wealth, and the other of inner strengths. They’re both useful to think about, especially as you’re leaving the monastery and having to maintain your own … 
  14. Self-restraint
     … But the desire to do it well, the desire to do the practice well in the practice of virtue, concentration, discernment—that’s where the wisdom lies, realizing that’s an issue where you have to depend on yourself. You can’t depend on anyone else. You can get advice from other people. They can set a good example. But the actual doing is … 
  15. Eat, Die, Repeat
     … generosity, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, equanimity.” These are the qualities the Buddha had to develop in order to become Buddha. And these are qualities we should all develop in our lives, because these are the things that really stick with you. You can gain all kinds of wealth, have it piled up all around you, but when you go, you … 
  16. Give Before You Get
     … After giving came virtue: all the good things that come when you give up certain kinds of unskillful behavior. So the principle is there: You have to give before you get. And it’s good to carry that attitude into the meditation. You’re going to have to give up a lot of time. You’re going to have to give up all the … 
  17. Clinging & Its Cure
     … There’s pleasure in virtue. There’s pleasure in right view, in seeing things clearly. Think of all those people who listen to a Dhamma talk by the Buddha and, at the end, they say, it’s magnificent, magnificent, like someone who’s carried a lamp into the dark, who’s turned upright things that were turned over. Just seeing things clearly explained in … 
  18. A Skillful Heart
     … We develop virtue to make sure that our goodwill doesn’t get swayed by ideas that are short-sighted, saying, “Well, it would good for so-and-so if I lie to them a little bit and make them feel good.” You have to realize that, in the long run, that’s not going to be good for anyone at all. They’re going … 
  19. The Energy of Conviction
     … This conviction is strength for the mind, and you feed it through the practice of generosity, virtue, concentration. That way, the strength of the mind will be able to stay stable and solid even though strength of the body may ebb and flow. You want the strength of your mind to be solid, and you’re in charge of making sure that it is.
  20. A Legacy of Strengths
     … that loss in terms of health, wealth, or even relatives is not nearly as serious as loss of your virtue or loss of your right view. As you lose your virtue, you lose your right view, you can create a lot of trouble, not only in this lifetime but for many lifetimes down the line. Even when the people we love and respect are … 
  21. All-around Practice
     … What kind of practice did they have? But as the author pointed out to them, “Well, there’s generosity and there’s virtue, all these other elements of the path that are not encompassed simply by sitting with your eyes closed.” Now, it is important that you get to know your own mind, but a good way to know your own mind is not … 
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