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  2. Your Primary Duties
     … This is why we practice generosity, why we practice virtue, why we develop the mind, especially in meditation, because it’s time for the mind to spread out a bit and assume its own shape, and look after the duties that are really in its own true interest. As I said, nobody’s forcing these duties on you, but there is the fact of … 
  3. Rooted in Desire
     … Gladden it with generosity; gladden it with virtue. Then you can get it glad with concentration and discernment. The path creates a sense of well-being. It doesn’t lead only to nibbāna. That’s not the only pleasure it provides. It provides pleasure all along the way: When you’re generous, there’s a sense of self-worth, that you’re not a … 
  4. Trust in the Power of the Mind
     … Practice virtue. Develop the qualities of goodwill in the mind. He teaches the precepts for the areas of virtue that can be taught. But then there are a lot of areas are not covered by the precepts, not covered by those three answers. That’s where he’s saying: Here’s how you go about answering those questions yourself. You start by asking them … 
  5. Skills to Make a Difference
     … When the Buddha talks about how you reflect on yourself as you meditate, he says you reflect on your conviction, you reflect on your generosity, your virtue, your discernment, your learning about the Dhamma, and your ingenuity. To be ingenious, you have to think outside the box a bit. It’s the craftsmen who think outside the box who move their craft forward. In … 
  6. Monotasking
     … The Buddha has you think about your generosity and your virtue. I remember reading once about a woman who was studying meditation in Asia, and her meditation was beginning to get very dry. Her teacher told her to reflect on her virtue. But all she could reflect on was how she had broken precepts in the past and all the other horrible things she … 
  7. Desire
     … When you live a life of generosity and virtue, you find it really does make a big difference letting go of those unskillful desires. Then you start applying the same principle to the mind. This is why we meditate. Right effort is the first factor of the path that deals with meditation. It’s a factor of desire: It’s about generating desire to … 
  8. The Freedom to Give
     … If you’ve been making a practice of being generous, if you’re clear about the principles and precepts that your want to follow in your behavior of not harming other people, not harming yourself, then that right there creates a sense of well-being as you reflect back on your generosity, reflect back on your virtue, think of the times when you went … 
  9. The Wheel of Dhamma
     … developing virtue, developing concentration, developing discernment. You have to want to do these things. You have to use all your ingenuity in doing these things, because they’re going to take you to where you want to go. So learn to develop a desire for them. And keep in mind that third noble truth, too: There is a possibility for the end of suffering … 
  10. Teachings to Rahula
     … The fact is, the Buddha said, the two things that are most conducive to the practice of right mindfulness are right view and virtues pleasing to the noble ones—in other words, virtues that are really in line with the precepts. And notice that the principles that the Buddha stated here have to do not only with your words and your deeds, but also … 
  11. The Path of Adventure
     … We come to the practice with some virtue, some concentration, some insight already. But we also come with a lot of other things that are not part of the path. They’re obstacles. Our virtue is not all around. Our concentration and insight are not all around. Sometimes there are little gaps, sometimes the gaps are enormous. So as we come to the practice … 
  12. Lessons for New Monks
     … For the Buddha, virtue is that important. You see this theme again, and again in the teachings: that if you really want to know the Dhamma, you have to be a virtuous person. I mean, there are people who can know about the Dhamma without being virtuous—we see this all around us—but to really gain the concentration and discernment that allow you … 
  13. To Gain Inner Wealth
     … So make sure that you look after your virtue, your generosity, and your meditation, because these are forms of inner wealth that will keep you from being poor, that will keep you from suffering hardship wherever you go.
  14. Book search result icon Desires for the End of Desire The Skills of Right Concentration
     … We also base our concentration on virtue to make it more honest, with a sense of the worth of what you’re doing, which is why virtue and views made straight are an important part of the foundation not only of mindfulness, but also of concentration. Now, as you master any skill, your sense of self begins to fade away as your actions fall … 
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  15. Karma Fields
     … This is what the Buddha teaches us through our generosity, through our virtue, through developing the mind in meditation. We develop a happiness that has no boundaries, that creates no boundaries. In fact, it erases boundaries. That’s when you really can be said to be skillful in the way you look for happiness. And that’s how you succeed in finding a happiness … 
  16. Catch Yourself Lying to Yourself
     … But you do know that if you kill them, you’ve committed a breach of the precept, a breach of your moral virtue. In other words, you’ve abandoned responsibility for what you are responsible for. This is where the Buddha focuses his attention. Be responsible for what you’re responsible for. In other words, don’t do something that you know is against … 
  17. Old Kamma & New
     … To do that, the Buddha said to develop the mind in virtue—in other words, learning how to say No to things that you know are unskillful. You also want to develop it in discernment so that you can see where the act of identifying with these things is going to weigh you down. And you also want to see that it’s unnecessary … 
  18. Help Others, Help Your Mind
     … So these are the qualities, the Buddha said that, when you develop them in the course of dealing with other people, they become part of your own virtue, part of your set of inner qualities that benefit you: equanimity, patience, goodwill, kindness. So remember, everything you do throughout the day can be part of the practice. You’re training both the heart and the … 
  19. Guardian Meditations
     … about generosity and virtue, the rewards of generosity and virtue in heaven, the drawbacks of those rewards, and then how to see renunciation—in other words, the pleasure of concentration—as rest for the mind. You can imagine, being someone who was a hired killer, listening to this Dhamma, being the focus of that teaching. I’ve always thought it was a shame that … 
  20. Nobility Through Inner Strength
     … Things outside can always be replaced, but the virtue of your mind, once you’ve destroyed it, is hard to repair. The things you do with the mind when you lose your virtue, you regret for the whole rest of your life. Remind yourself of that when you’re tempted to do something like that. That way, you can save yourself a lot of … 
  21. A Handful of Leaves
     … by developing the qualities of the path, which come down to virtue, concentration, and discernment. Virtue is when you avoid harmful behavior. Concentration is when you get the mind solidly gathered around one object. And that’s to give strength to your discernment, to see exactly what you’re doing that’s causing the suffering and what you can do to stop. That chant … 
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