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  2. Book search result icon Karma Q & A Readings
     … He emulates consummate conviction in those who are consummate in conviction, consummate virtue in those who are consummate in virtue, consummate generosity in those who are consummate in generosity, and consummate discernment in those who are consummate in discernment. This is called admirable friendship. “And what is meant by maintaining one’s livelihood in tune? There is the case where a lay person, knowing … 
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  3. Page search result icon MvV: cammakkhandhako
     … talk on generosity, talk on virtue, talk on heaven, talk on the drawbacks, lowliness, and defilement of sensuality, and talk on the rewards of renunciation. yadā te bhagavā aññāsi kallacitte muducitte vinīvaraṇacitte udaggacitte pasannacitte atha yā buddhānaṁ sāmukkaṁsikā dhammadesanā taṁ pakāsesi dukkhaṁ samudayaṁ nirodhaṁ maggaṁ. When the Blessed One knew that their minds were ready—malleable, free from hindrances, uplifted, and bright—he proclaimed … 
  4. Feeding on Right Resolve
     … And goodwill is expressed in what sorts of actions? It’s expressed through our generosity; it’s expressed through our virtue. In the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta, the Buddha talks about all that goes into living a life that makes it possible for your goodwill to be honest and sincere. It requires being restrained. In fact, the Buddha calls goodwill a type of restraint. You … 
  5. Mindful of the Buddha’s Shoulds
     … When the Buddha recommends generosity, recommends virtue—these are things that you choose to do because they’re worth doing. That’s a value judgment. Then you get the mind into meditation. Even a simple practice like goodwill is a mindfulness practice—you’ve got to keep reminding yourself to do it. Goodwill for all beings doesn’t come naturally. You focus on the … 
  6. Prepare to Die
     … When you train your mind in virtue, concentration, and discernment, those qualities can lead to release. They don’t cause that dimension to exist. An image in one of the texts is that the path is like a road to a mountain. The road doesn’t cause the mountain, the fact that we’re following the road doesn’t cause the mountain to exist … 
  7. Kamma & Rebirth—A Handful of Leaves
     … The first is that you’re developed in virtue and developed in discernment. In other words, you learn to see your own mind and understand what’s going on in your own mind. You can talk yourself into doing the things that you know are good but you may not like; and you talk yourself out of doing the things that you may dislike … 
  8. Stern Kindness
     … fortress, they’ve got to do it through the gate.” In the same way, the Buddha’s knowledge of his awakening is that he knows that there is this one path: virtue, concentration, and discernment; or the noble eightfold path; or the different variations that we find in the Wings to Awakening. Anyone who’s going to gain awakening will have to do it … 
  9. Clinging & Feeding
     … As the Buddha said, you want to be aware of your conviction, your virtue, your generosity, your discernment, your level of learning, your level of ingenuity. Have you developed these skills to a point where they really can lead to awakening? As for the self as consumer: If you ever feel tempted to leave the path, you remind yourself, “Hey, I got on this … 
  10. Page search result icon A Tradition of Ingenuity
     … How is your conviction? Is your conviction strong or is it weak right now? Are you convinced of the Buddha’s awakening, or are you convinced of other teachings that you’ve picked up here and there? Then there’s the question of virtue. How meticulous are you about your precepts? And how about your generosity? Are you truly generous with the things you … 
  11. Determined to Stay with the Breath
     … This is where it’s good to have virtue as an aspect of the practice. It teaches you to make a promise to yourself that you’re not going to get involved in killing or stealing or illicit sex or lying or drugs or whatever. That forces you to learn the skills that are required to stick with that determination, to stay with it … 
  12. The Will to Awaken
     … This is where the precepts or virtue as a perfection comes in. Once you’ve realized that you don’t want to harm anybody, you’ve got to follow through and really abstain from activities that are harmful, whether it’s easy to abstain or not. Discernment helps here, in its practical mode. When you find that a precept goes against your desires, you … 
  13. Self-starting
     … How’s your virtue? How’s your concentration? How’s your discernment? What are the ways of developing these things? It’s okay to want these things. If you don’t want them, they’re not going to happen. Remember, an important part of right effort is generating desire. And how are you going to overcome your unskillful desires unless you’ve got some … 
  14. The Karma of Meditation
     … But the virtue of a complex system is that you take the principles that put it together and you play them in a certain way that makes the whole system break down. In this case, you realize that this can go on and on and on, forever. Consciousness depends on craving, craving depends on consciousness, and they can feed each other along the way … 
  15. No Happiness Other than Peace
     … What this means is that if you take your search for happiness seriously, you have to develop wisdom, compassion, and purity, the virtues that are traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself. This is part of his skill as a teacher to show that if you take your happiness seriously, you have to develop good qualities of mind. It’s not a purely hedonistic pursuit … 
  16. Training the Committee
     … It’s a whole string of Pali words, but they point to the virtues of the Buddha, the primary one being that he was able through his own efforts to train his mind. And he really did understand how to put an end to suffering. You think about that and it gives you encouragement. Here we are, born as human beings. It’s not … 
  17. The Power to Transcend Suffering
     … He gives us the tools—starting with practicing generosity and virtue, as ways of creating a sense of well-being, a sense of esteem in ourselves. These things strengthens the mind in the face of suffering. And then there’s the practice of meditation. This strengthens the mind as well, but it also makes the mind a lot more sensitive, so that we can … 
  18. The Four Bases of Success
     … This is one of the reasons why generosity is emphasized as an important virtue leading up to meditation. Try to develop the mind state where you’re happy to give, happy to share, happy to go out of your way. What this means is that you’re willing to put forth an effort even though the results may not be immediate. You trust that … 
  19. Book search result icon In Simple Terms In Simple Terms: 108 Dhamma Similes
     … They don’t have the virtues of human beings at all. The Buddha called them manussa-tiracchano: human-common-animals. That’s the way they are because they lack good will, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. The Dog on a Pile of Unhusked Rice … This is like a dog lying on a pile of unhusked rice. Its stomach is gurgling—jawk, jawk—and it … 
  20. Developing Discernment
     … When the breath gets boring, you can think about the different parts of the body, think about the virtues of the Buddha, the Dhamma, the Sangha. You can think about death if you find yourself getting lazy or complacent. There are a wide variety of things that you can use as topics of concentration. There’s a sad story about a young Western monk … 
  21. Selfing & Not-selfing
     … The things that are dangerous to lose, the Buddha said, are right view and your virtue, because it’s not necessary that you have to lose those things. You lose them only when you throw them away. So you hold on to them. You identify them as yours, and as for the things that will pull you away from the practice, you identify them … 
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