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- Treasured Possessions… You have your virtue. You don’t have to give into someone else’s request or encouragement that you break the precepts. These are things that you keep that nobody else can take. But if you don’t keep them, then they’re not going to stay. So keep this in mind, that you’ve got to preserve your virtue and your right view …
- Virtue Fosters Concentration… These two topics come under a larger frame, called the four virtues of purity. These virtues include your precepts, restraint of the senses, the purity of your livelihood, and reflecting on the requisites. All of these are habits that you develop as you go through the day. If you follow these kinds of virtue, you bring good habits into the mind as you sit …
- Faith in Awakening… The same with virtue: Virtue includes a sense of shame and a sense of compunction. They go together. With virtue, you refrain from doing harm. Your motivation is that, one, you would be ashamed to do harm; you realize it’s beneath you. And two, your sense of compunction is that you really do care about the results of your actions. This, too, is …
- Lessons from Generosity & Virtue… They’re recollection of virtue and recollection of generosity. At the very least they remind you that you have done good, that there are good members to your mind. You’re not totally hopeless. You’re not totally incapable of doing good in the world. They also remind you also that you’re capable of overcoming some of the mind’s more blatant forms …
- The Brahmaviharas on the Path… In other passages, he talks about developing virtue and then, once you’ve got your virtue, you develop mindfulness and contentment; and from mindfulness and contentment, you work on the hindrances, develop concentration, and finally develop discernment—which makes it sound like you have to perfect one step before you can get to the next. But you have to remember that the point in …
Awareness Itself
Glossary
… An inhabitant of the higher heavens of form and formlessness, a position earned -- but not forever -- through the cultivation of virtue and meditative absorption (jhana), along with the attitudes of limitless love, compassion, appreciation, and equanimity. Buddho : Awake -- an epithet of the Buddha. Chedi : A spired monument, containing relics of the Buddha or his disciples, objects related to them, or copies of Buddhist scriptures …Show one additional result in this book- Helping OthersThe Canon often presents a linear picture of the practice, where you work on your virtue and then you work on your concentration and then on your discernment. We like to think it’s nice and stepwise that way. But, in practice, we discover that you have to work on all three at once. Virtue without concentration gets very dry after a while and …
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Along the Way
Happiness as a Skill
… Similarly with virtue: A person practicing the most skillful level of virtue is said to have “virtues pleasing to the noble ones: untorn, unbroken, unspotted, unsplattered, liberating, praised by the observant, ungrasped at, leading to concentration.” These are the virtues of a person who has achieved stream-entry, the first of the four levels of awakening, the first glimpse of the deathless. From this …Show 7 additional results in this book
Happiness as a Skill : The Practice of Puñña
… Similarly with virtue: A person practicing the most skillful level of virtue is said to have “virtues pleasing to the noble ones: untorn, unbroken, unspotted, unsplattered, liberating, praised by the observant, ungrasped at, leading to concentration.” These are the virtues of a person who has achieved stream-entry, the first of the four levels of awakening, the first glimpse of the deathless. From this …-
Food for Thought
Taking the Long View
… People disenchanted with rebirth make an extra effort to build up their virtues so that they won’t have to come back and be reborn. If you want to cut down the number of times you’ll take rebirth, you should steadily increase your inner quality and worth. In other words, make your heart clean and bright with generosity, moral virtue, and meditation. Keep …Show 6 additional results in this book
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Noble & True
The Buddha’s Last Word
… The Buddha himself was consummate in these fifteen types of conduct and in the three cognitive skills they engender, which is why “consummate in knowledge and conduct” (vijjā-caraṇa-sampanno) is included in the standard list of his virtues chanted daily in Buddhist communities throughout the world. By concluding his teachings with “reach consummation,” he was encouraging his followers to develop these same virtues …Show 2 additional results in this book
- Boundless Happiness… The same with virtue: You abstain from harming others, but with the state of mind that develops when you’re virtuous, you look back on your actions and you realize, “I haven’t harmed anybody.” There’s a sense of pride, a sense of self-worth that comes with that. Similarly with the meditation: You’re working on your own mind. You’re not …
- Three More Recollections… conviction, virtue, generosity, learning, and discernment. Conviction is in the Buddha’s awakening. Generosity and virtue we already know. Learning is learning the Dhamma, having a fund of Dhamma within you. Think of the things that go sloshing around in most people’s minds, especially now with the mass media: all kinds of stupid songs and jingles, issues that the media raises as important …
- Start by Giving… There are people in his time who denied that giving had any virtue. Either you gave because outside forces forced you to—in which case there wasn’t any virtue on your part—or because whoever might receive your gifts was going to be annihilated anyhow at death, so nothing really much was accomplished. But right view for him starts out with: “There is …
- The Economy of Goodness… And the way you act on it to begin with is to practice virtue. That’s the second form of noble wealth, in which you abstain from doing harm. No killing. No stealing. No illicit sex. No lying. No taking of intoxicants. You avoid harming yourself. You avoid harming others. In that way, you get to live in a harmless world. Backing up that …
- A Quality of the Character… That’s a virtue. It’s not a technique; it’s a virtue. Then he had Rahula reflect on his actions before, during, and after the actions were done in a way that embodied being responsible, being compassionate, and having integrity. Those are the qualities that form the context of the Dhamma, and it’s within those qualities that you then learn about specific …
- The Lightened Mind… training in heightened virtue, in the heightened mind—i.e., concentration—and training in heightened discernment. Each aspect of the training deals with all three principles mentioned in the earlier verse. For example, with virtue, you start out by avoiding anything that’s going to be harmful. Then you develop the good qualities that go along with those virtues. Instead of just not telling …
- Worthy of Trust… What does that mean? We take the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha on one level as examples to follow; on another level, we internalize their virtues. We make the virtues of the Buddha our virtues, we build them into the mind. The virtues of the Dhamma become our virtues, we build them into the mind. The virtues of the noble Sangha: We become …
- Concentration that Bears Great Fruit… As the Buddha said, concentration fostered with virtue has great fruit, great reward. Now, he doesn’t say you can’t get into concentration without virtue. There are many people who can get into concentration without virtue, but then things go awry. Their observation of what they’re doing, their understanding of what they’re doing, gets skewed. So our concentration is based not …
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