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- Perceptions & Potentials… He says that when the mind has this inner sense of virtue, it’s well clothed. So, you’ve got all the requisites: food, clothing, shelter, medicine for the mind. You’re going to need all this support because there are going to be difficulties in the path. It’s not going to be an easy path all the way along. A lot of …
- Mature Happiness… true happiness. And he teaches us to find it in ways that are also worthy of respect. You look at the different factors of the path: They’re all honorable things: virtue, concentration, discernment. They’re noble qualities of mind. And the happiness we’re looking for is a happiness that’s mature. It requires mature wisdom to attain it. As the Buddha said …
- Developing the Path… For discernment to become a faculty—in other words, a dominant factor in your mind—you have to actually develop conviction, persistence—which includes developing virtue—and then mindfulness and concentration. In other words, all the factors of the path have to be developed for right view to really become strong, to have a good solid foundation. Not only do you have to do …
- Anchored by Skillful Roots… If your survival is accomplished without generosity, without virtue, without meditation, it’s not worth much. It’s not the sort of survival that keeps you healthy and well- nourished. You look at survivors of war, who had to go and kill and steal and cheat and bomb, and then go into a lot of denial about it. Look at all the veterans of …
- Outside the Box… It’s loss in terms of your view, loss in terms of your virtue, that can. So look at your views. Try to develop a sense of values that is outside the ordinary, and learn how to question things you haven’t been questioning before. Ajaan Maha Boowa has some good questions for questioning pain. When you first read them, they sound kind of …
- Admirable Friendship, Inside & Out… You ask them about their conviction, their generosity, their virtue, their discernment, and then you try to follow their example. Most difficult, of course, is the discernment. You find that it comes down to the questions they ask. Look at the Buddha teaching his son: At the very beginning, he said that if you’re going to do anything, look first at your intention …
The Truth of Rebirth
1 : Questioning Assumptions
… When discussing more mundane topics, such as the rewards of generosity and virtue, he would cite the rewards they brought not only in this life but also in future ones. Even in cases where he was asked specifically to confine his discussion to the present life, he would end the discussion by referring to the rewards of these skillful actions after death (AN 5 …Show one additional result in this book- A Good-natured Attitude… It might be the Buddha, it might be the Dhamma, the Sangha, the good that you’ve done either in terms of your generosity, in terms of your virtue. Then when the dryness goes away or the antsiness in the mind goes away, you can bring it back to the breath. Remember that you’ve got to have a number of tools at hand …
- Defiant Like the Buddha… It’s a path of virtue, a path of concentration, a path of discernment. These are all safe qualities. There’s not only safety in these qualities, but there’s also victory: the defiant attitude that the young prince had when he was thinking that there’s got to be a way out of here. He was actually able to carry it through. When …
- To Have a Purpose… When you develop the quality of truth, that includes the perfection of virtue, the perfection of truth, and the perfection of persistence. When you develop relinquishment, there’s still more persistence, along with the perfection of giving and the perfection of renunciation. Then finally, as you calm the mind, there’s the perfection of endurance and the perfection of equanimity. You’ve got all …
- A Sense of Duty… the fourth noble truth, which boils down to virtue, concentration, and discernment. These are your duties. Now, no one’s imposing them on you, aside from the fact that suffering imposes them. If you really want to get beyond suffering, these are the things you have to do. It’s important that you have a strong sense that if something is a duty, you …
- Chew Your Food Well… If you don’t see the virtue, the value of gratitude, if you don’t see the value of generosity, it’s hard to do anything else on the path. You have to appreciate the good that other people have done for you, and see that something really good does come from being generous. Generosity is not a sham. It’s one of the …
- Return of Wisdom for Dummies… This is why the Buddha’s discussion of generosity would then often lead on to virtue. When you look at your actions outside—the things you do and say—you have to ask yourself, what is your intention? This is the beginning of his teaching to Rahula. First he emphasized the need for truthfulness: He said if you feel no shame in telling a …
- The Origination of Suffering… The practice also involves generosity and it involves virtue. But the fact that you’re doing something here that nobody else can do for you, and that you can’t do for anyone else—that should give you a good sense of priorities. This is work that has to be done within. After all, the true causes of suffering are within, the work is …
- Ego… These pleasures come not only from concentration but also from understanding, from virtue, from generosity, the pleasure that comes from doing something noble with your life. You want to nurture this sense of pleasure and a sensitivity to this kind of pleasure, because when we talk about happiness it’s not just about people running around smiling all the time and being kind of …
Sense Pleasures & Sensuality
… He would start with a talk on generosity, a talk on virtue, a talk on heaven. Heaven, of course, would be a description of the pleasures you could experience up there based on the fact that you’d been generous and virtuous down here. But then the talk would turn: He said, actually there’s a downside to sensuality. He called it not only …- Inner Discontent… You look for what that something right might be, in terms of your virtue, in terms of your commitment, in terms of your mindfulness and concentration. How do you make these things right, or even more reliable than they are now? So it’s not simply a case of learning how to accept things just the way they are. If the Buddha had been …
- Cheerfully Ardent… of suffering is, and where the suffering itself is. The same with the path and the cessation of suffering: You don’t do the cessation of suffering. You do the path: virtue, concentration, discernment. The release that comes—that’s going to be the result. You don’t do release, but to get the path to be the middle path you have to try …
- Reading Your Meditation… the themes of meditation called recollection of generosity, recollection of virtue. In other words, you think about the things you’ve done in the past that have been good, such as times when you’ve been generous. If you bring in a negative narrative, you tend to focus on the foolish things you’ve done. And we’ve all done foolish things. Sometimes it …
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Beyond Here & Now : In Quest of Awakened Consciousness
… All aspects of the training in virtue, concentration, and discernment are needed to develop the sensitivity, the powers of judgment, and the dispassion needed to abandon all fabrications. This point explains why the schools of meditation that aim only at a judgment-free present-moment awareness tend to view many parts of the path as unnecessary. Their goal doesn’t require the sensitivity demanded …
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