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2. Dhamma Is What Dhamma Does : The Buddha as Strategist
    … The four noble truths are a special kind of Dhamma in that they cover everything needed to serve that attha, beginning with the “rudiments of the holy life”—this is a short-hand reference to the virtues of the five precepts—as well as the attha itself: the attainment of total unbinding, an unconditioned dimension that’s the highest possible happiness (SN 43; Dhp … 
3. MvIV: pavāraṇākkhandhako
    … Why are you canceling it? Are you canceling it because of a defect in virtue, are you canceling it because of a defect in conduct, (or) are you canceling it because of a defect in view?’ (Mv.IV.16.11) so ce evaṁ vadeyya sīlavipattiyā ṭhapemi ācāravipattiyā ṭhapemi diṭṭhivipattiyā ṭhapemīti. “If he should say, ‘I am canceling it because of a defect in virtue … 
4. Play AudioBasic Breath, Basic Insight
    … The first is virtue, where you learn how to behave in a way where you’re not harming anybody. Then there’s concentration, where you get the mind centered. There’s discernment, when you begin to see what’s going on in the mind and understand why the mind is creating suffering and also what you can do to put an end to it … 
5. Unhindered at Death
    … The Blessed One has criticized being worried at the time of death.” When the Buddha gives advice to his cousin, Mahānāma, on how to counsel a dying person (SN 55:54), he tells him first to comfort the person as to his/her virtue, and then to ask if the person has any worries. The suttas list a wide range of things that people … 
6. The Autobiography of Phra Ajaan Lee The Autobiography of Phra Ajaan Lee
    … Otherwise they’ll cause death within three, five, or nine days.’ ‘Will I be affected?’ ‘No, because you appreciate the virtues of your elders. I’ll give you the formula for the cure. If you hear that any of these diseases have appeared, go quickly to help.’ I asked him, ‘Can’t you tell them the cure yourself?’ ‘I could,’ he said, ‘but it … 
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7. MvX: kosambakakkhandhako
    … In this case, in what manner should a man doing great benefit act? How is a monk worthy in his efforts?” anānuvajjo paṭhamena sīlato avekkhitācārasusaṁvutindriyo [The Buddha:] “First of all, for one faultless in virtue, well-considered in conduct, with senses well-restrained, paccatthikā nopavadanti dhammato na hissa taṁ hoti vadeyyu yena naṁ. his enemies, insulting him, can’t criticize him with regard to … 
8. Worlds & Their Cessation : The Buddha’s Strategic View of the Cosmos
    … Instead, they should be observed to see if they possess two very natural virtues: They wouldn’t tell a person to do something that would lead to that person’s harm; and they wouldn’t claim knowledge that they don’t possess (MN 95). In other words, teachers are to be judged by their actions, to see if they’re reliable guides on how … 
9. The Question of Bhikkhunī Ordination On Multiple Ordination : Second Letter
    … Triple-Refuge [these were two early types of Acceptance], an auspicious bhikkhunī, a heartwood bhikkhunī [these two types refer to those endowed with any of the qualities of the practice from virtue up through the destruction of the āsavas], a learner bhikkhunī, an adept bhikkhunī, a bhikkhunī accepted by both Saṅghas in unity, by means of a transaction with a motion and three proclamations … 
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10. Not-self Q & A Readings | Not-self Q & A
     … skillful qualities.” — MN 61 “And how is a monk one who knows self? There is the case where a monk knows himself: ‘This is how far I have come in conviction, virtue, learning, generosity, discernment, ingenuity.’” — AN 7:64 The Blessed One said: “Even if a monk is not skilled in the ways of the minds of others [not skilled in reading the minds … 
11. The Limits of Description : Not-self Revisited
     … On these stages, the perception of “not-self” is applied to things that would pull you away from the practice of virtue, concentration, or discernment. Only when these practices have been mastered (AN 9:36) can the perception of not-self be applied to all phenomena, for at that point the strategy of thinking in terms of a self is no longer needed. The … 
12. Bhikkhu Pāṭimokkha | The Bhikkhus’ Code of Discipline
     … Rules, however, are not the only way to express ethical norms, and the Buddha also made use of principles and models in teaching the virtues he wanted his following to develop. The rules thus function in a wider context than simple legality, and work together with the principles and models formulated by the Buddha to provide a complete training in behavior, with each side … 
13. MvII: uposathakkhandhako
     … There ‘Pāṭimokkha’ (means) the virtue of the training rules. ‘For one who keeps watch and guards it, it frees and releases him from the sufferings of the realms of deprivation, etc.’: pāṭimokkha. From the Commentary to DN 14: pātimokkheti yaṃ taṃ pātimokkhaṃ, atipamokkhaṃ, uttamasīlaṃ, pāti vā agativisesehi mokkheti duggatibhayehi, yo vā naṃ pāti, taṃ mokkhetīti “pātimokkhan”ti vuccati. ‘In the Pāṭimokkha’: the Pāṭimokkha (means … 
14. A Trojan Horse
     … of three discourses in the Aṅguttara-nikāya and their respective parallels in the Saṁyukta-āgama even go so far as to indicate that someone who has fulfilled the higher training in virtue could still commit breaches of the minor rules; in fact the same holds even for someone who has fulfilled the training in the higher mind.” (Saṅgīti, 213) He neglects to note, however … 
15. MvVIII: cīvarakkhandhako
     … dadatippamoditā] sīlūpapannā sugatassa sāvikā dadāti dānaṁ abhibhuyya maccharaṁ sovaggikaṁ sokanudaṁ sukhāvahaṁ “She who gives food & drink—joyful, possessed of virtue, a female disciple of the Well-gone One— having conquered stinginess, gives a gift conducive to heaven, dispelling sorrow, bringing happiness. dibbaṁ balaṁ sā labhate ca āyuṁāgamma maggaṁ virajaṁ anaṅgaṇaṁ sā puññakāmā sukhinī anāmayā saggamhi kāyamhi ciraṁ pamodatīti. She gains heavenly strength and life … 
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