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- The Virtues of Consistency
- Patience… That’s why one of the prerequisites for living together in a good community is for everyone to have the same virtue, the same concern for virtue. Everybody values it. This creates a good place to practice. It doesn’t matter whether the surroundings are poor or comfortable as long as there’s that quality of virtue, that appreciation for virtue in the group …
- Bringing Virtue into the Mind
- The Universal Gift of Virtue
- The Triple Training… Heightened virtue is meant to make it easier to get the mind concentrated. Heightened discernment is meant to make it easier to get the mind concentrated. Heightened mind helps with your virtue, it helps with discernment. And your discernment helps with your virtue. It’s not the case that you perfect your virtue, and then you go to concentration, and then you go to …
- Bless Yourself… Someone once asked Ajaan Mun, “Can you separate a person’s virtue from his or her mind?” He said, “No, and it’s a good thing you can’t separate them, because otherwise people would steal one another’s virtues and leave you deprived.” But once you’ve got virtue, it’s really yours. The only way you lose it is if you yourself …
- Four Virtues… The Thai word, siin, the Pali word sila, which means precept, also means virtue. Some of the people got upset, feeling that he didn’t respect them as lay meditators, that he was giving them a lowly practice, insinuating that they weren’t prepared for any higher practice. That wasn’t the case at all. The practice of virtue, observing the precepts, is an …
- No Dharma Without Karma… If you can create a good environment in which to practice through your generosity and virtue, you gain a sense of self-esteem. As Ajaan Suwat once noticed, if you come to the practice without practicing generosity and virtue, you tend to be pretty grim about the practice. You don’t learn the counter-intuitive lessons from generosity and virtue: that happiness comes from …
Discernment
Stages of Awakening
… case where a monk is wholly accomplished in virtue, moderately accomplished in concentration, and moderately accomplished in discernment.… With the wasting away of [the first] three fetters, he is a stream-enterer, never again destined for states of woe, steadfast, headed for self-awakening. “There is the case where a monk is wholly accomplished in virtue, moderately accomplished in concentration, and moderately accomplished in …Show 3 additional results in this book-
The Heightened Mind: Dhamma Talks by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo
The Essence of Merit
… In terms of its flavor, virtue is coolness. For this reason, the act of undertaking the precepts isn’t the essence of virtue; it’s simply a way of fertilizing virtue—our original intention—so that it’ll grow fat and strong. The Pali word for virtue—sīla—comes from selā, or rock, so when you develop virtue you have to make your heart …Show 12 additional results in this book
- Skillful Fear… As the Buddha once said, the main things to fear are that you develop wrong views and that you lose your virtue. In other words, you break the precepts—you kill, steal, engage in illicit sex, tell lies, take intoxicants, engage in divisive speech or harsh speech. When you engage in these things, you’ve lost your virtue, and that’s an important possession …
- Heedful of Dangers… But loss of virtue, loss of right view: That happens only if you allow it to happen. And you can train yourself to be more and more reliable so that it won’t happen. That’s when you’re really safe. So wherever you go, remember that you have to be heedful. You have to protect your true valuables: your virtue, your right view …
- The Wisdom of Merit… generosity, virtue, the practice of developing merit. Because at first glance it seems as if the Buddha has nothing new or distinctive to offer on these topics, and so we miss out on some important aspects of the practice. The Buddha often began his discussion of the practice with the topic of giving, the topic of virtue. These provided the foundation for working up …
- Becoming Consummate… In this way, concentration helps your virtue, and having right view also helps your virtue. All these things go together. Notice that the Buddha said you achieve this quality of being consummate in virtue or views, knowledge, and behavior, by being heedful. Appamada: Sometimes the word is translated as diligence, but that’s not really what the Buddha is talking about. Diligence just means …
Contents
Contents Titlepage Contents Cover Copyright Preface Introduction Guided meditation Questions An Overview Questions Determination Questions Pain Questions Discernment Questions Goodwill Questions Truth Questions Virtue Questions Persistence Questions Mindfulness Questions Giving Questions Selves & Not-self Questions Renunciation Questions Maintaining Concentration Questions Endurance Questions Grief & Remorse Equanimity Questions Conclusion Readings I. Discernment Goodwill II. Truth Virtue Persistence III. Relinquishment Giving Renunciation IV. Calm Endurance Equanimity Glossary …- Ready for the Truth… the practice of virtue, concentration, and discernment—or what the Buddha called heightened virtue, heightened mind, heightened discernment. Discernment, concentration, virtue: all for the purpose of freedom. That’s the alternative, and it does set you free. The ways of the world tie you down. The more you acquire, the more responsibilities you take on, and the less time you have to devote totally …
- Put Some Heart into Your Practice… The same with virtue: Virtue is perfected at stream entry, which is a high level of attainment. Again, virtue is partly a quality of what we see in the mind—when you see that if you want your actions to be the type that allow you to settle down, you want to make sure they don’t harm anybody. But also just the happiness …
- Virtues & Values… It’s a matter of virtues and values as well. Virtues are the good qualities you develop not only when you sit here with your eyes closed but also when you’re being generous, when you’re observing the precepts, and when you’re developing thoughts of goodwill. Values lie in seeing that these are important things to do. We shape our lives through …
- Use Your Defilements… So what are the causes here? First you work on your virtue. It’s not the case that you can’t get the mind into concentration without virtue, but it is the case that if your concentration is not based on virtue, you can’t really trust it. That’s because virtue teaches you that you have to be clear about your intentions. So …
- A Frame for the Day… You don’t want to sacrifice your virtue for anything, because the things that we would ordinarily sacrifice our virtue for are going to go away anyhow, at one point or another. So hold on to your virtue, hold on to your right view as your possession, because it’s through virtue and right view that you can develop mindfulness, and through mindfulness, the …
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