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  2. Book search result icon The Mirror of Insight 4  |  The Mirror of Insight
     … To develop insight, AN 4:94 recommends visiting someone skilled in insight and asking, “How should fabrications be regarded? How should they be investigated? How should they be seen with insight?” A way of understanding these terms in line with other passages in the suttas would be to say that regarding here has to do with noting the various ways of analyzing fabrications as … 
  3. Book search result icon Buddhist Romanticism Unromantic Dhamma
     … This being so, he doesn’t attend to ideas unfit for attention and attends (instead) to ideas fit for attention.… “He attends appropriately, ‘This is stress’ … ‘This is the origination of stress’ … ‘This is the cessation of stress’ … ‘This is the way leading to the cessation of stress.’ As he attends appropriately in this way, three fetters are abandoned in him: self-identification view … 
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  4. Book search result icon Right Mindfulness A Structure for Ardency
     … As for the exception—a constricted mind and a scattered mind—both members of the pair are unskillful; they’re paired because they represent two extremes between which you have to find a middle way to bring the mind to concentration. There are eight pairs in all: a mind with passion / a mind without passion a mind with aversion / a mind without aversion a … 
  5. Book search result icon Discernment Introduction
     … The practice of moderation is so central to the path that the Buddha introduced the path to his first listeners as the “middle way.” In particular, the practice of right concentration requires balance in many areas: in your use of the physical requisites, in your ability to avoid excesses and deficiencies in the desire and effort you bring to your practice, and in emphasizing … 
  6. Sutta search result icon Introduction: The Authenticity of the Pāli Suttas
     … The way you look is actually a type of kamma that, when done appropriately, shapes those experiences in a way that promotes the goal of the practice. In this way appropriate attention shades into the fourth factor for stream-entry. Practice in accordance with the Dhamma Once you have gained a sense of the Dhamma and the duties it entails through appropriate attention, the … 
  7. Book search result icon Desires The Fourth Noble Truth
     … How can I inflict on others what is displeasing & disagreeable to me?’ Reflecting in this way, he refrains from taking life, gets others to refrain from taking life, and speaks in praise of refraining from taking life. In this way his bodily behavior is pure in three ways. “Furthermore, he reflects thus: ‘If someone, by way of theft, were to take from me what … 
  8. Page search result icon MvIX: campeyyakkhandhako
     … Acceptance in the Middle Country and rehabilitation. [Mv.V.13.12] tatra bhikkhave yvāyaṁ dasavaggo bhikkhusaṅgho ṭhapetvā ekaṁ kammaṁ abbhānaṁ dhammena samaggo sabbakammesu kammappatto. “Of these, the quorum-of-ten Saṅgha of monks—if united and in accordance with the Dhamma—is competent for the doing of all transactions except for one: rehabilitation. tatra bhikkhave yvāyaṁ vīsativaggo bhikkhusaṅgho dhammena samaggo sabbakammesu kammappatto. “Of these … 
  9. Page search result icon MvII: uposathakkhandhako
     … Then the thought occurred to the monks, “How many (ways of) reciting the Pāṭimokkha are there?” bhagavato etamatthaṁ ārocesuṁ. They reported the matter to the Blessed One. pañcime bhikkhave pātimokkhuddesā nidānaṁ uddisitvā avasesaṁ sutena sāvetabbaṁ ayaṁ paṭhamo pātimokkhuddeso. “Monks, there are these five (ways of) reciting the Pāṭimokkha: Having recited the nidāna, the rest may be announced as ‘heard.’ This is the first way … 
  10. Sutta search result icon Suttas (Handheld Index) | dhammatalks.org
     … The Buddha responds by addressing the question, “Knowing in what way, seeing in what way, does one without delay put an end to effluents?” SN 22:82Puṇṇama Sutta | The Full-moon Night A thorough discussion of issues related to the five aggregates. Toward the end of the discussion, a monk thinks that he has found a loophole in the teaching. The way the Buddha … 
  11. Page search result icon MvX: kosambakakkhandhako
     … tathā tathā rathaṁ pesesi yathā yathā aññeneva senā agamāsi aññeneva ratho. “He drove it in such a way that the king’s entourage went one way, and the chariot another. athakho bhikkhave brahmadatto kāsīrājā dūraṁ gantvā dīghāvuṁ kumāraṁ etadavoca tenahi bhaṇe māṇavaka rathaṁ muñcassu kilantomhi nipajjissāmīti. “Then, after they had gone far, King Brahmadatta said to Prince Dīghāvu, ‘I say then, my young man … 
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