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The Five Faculties
Conviction (2)
… your virtues. As a result, you don’t exalt yourself for your virtue and don’t disparage other people who lack that level of virtue. In other words, you don’t need to create a sense of becoming around your virtues. This is why your virtues are appealing to the noble ones. However, because you still have to develop concentration and discernment further, there …Show 9 additional results in this book- Heedfulness & Confidence… There’s training in virtue, concentration, discernment; or generosity, virtue and meditation. These skills provide us with protection, in teaching us how to deal with whatever negative things do come up, and how to send out a good energy. There’s a good energy that comes with generosity, and it tends to attract other good energies in the world. The same with virtue, the …
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Dhammapada
Dhp IV : Blossoms
… among these scents, the scent of virtue is unsurpassed. Next to nothing, this scent –sandalwood, tagara– while the scent of virtuous conduct wafts to the devas, supreme. 54-56* Those consummate in virtue, dwelling in heedfulness, released through right knowing: Mara can’t follow their tracks. 57* As in a pile of rubbish cast by the side of a highway a lotus might grow …Show 11 additional results in this book
- Grace & Dignity… Some of the things you want to maintain, you realize you’ve got to give up if you want to maintain your virtue. But your virtue is always worth sticking with. Always always remember that. But right now, it’s easy. You sit here with this breath and the next breath, and there’s nobody running in to disturb us. You strengthen your mindfulness …
- The Ten Perfections: Truth and Virtue (Part 3)
- Let Go Like a Millionaire… Like when you’re working on your virtue and your precepts: You apply the three perceptions to anything that would pull you away from your virtue. For example, you learn to see your wealth, your relatives, and your health as impermanent things. So wherever concern for those things gets in the way of observing the precepts, you apply these perceptions to see that these …
- Relationships… You develop virtue, you develop concentration, and then based on the concentration you develop discernment. You need the virtue for good powers of concentration, because it helps you lead a life in which there are no regrets. You don’t do anything harmful to yourself; you don’t do anything harmful to other people. As a result, when the time comes to settle down …
- Hitting a Wall… It’s not that you do discernment and then you drop it and then you do resolve or do your virtue. You bring the discernment to the virtue, and the virtue teaches your discernment to be wiser. The concentration teaches your discernment to be wiser as you figure out the problems of getting the mind concentrated. This is how the path all comes together …
- Wise about Happiness… When the Buddha explained the four noble truths, often he’d preface them with what he called a graduated discourse, talking first about generosity, and then virtue, and then the rewards of generosity and virtue. Only when he saw you were secure in those ideas would he be willing to talk about the drawbacks of the rewards. Some people go straight to the drawbacks …
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The Karma of Mindfulness
Meditation on Kamma
… So you can see that the Buddha’s teachings on kamma affirm the social virtues of generosity and gratitude. Without these two virtues, human society would be chaos. Therefore, the Buddha is encouraging us to develop these virtues in ourselves as well. And his teaching on kamma—as following a pattern that allows for free will—is what actually allows for these virtues to …Show 9 additional results in this book
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Contents Titlepage Contents Cover Copyright Introduction The Noble Search for Happiness Why Train the Mind Counter-cultural Values The Intelligent Heart Home Schooling Your Inner Children The Open Committee Organizing Your Inner Committee Unskillful Voices The Kamma of Self & Not-self The Need for Stillness Everybody Suffers Why the Breath Why Mindfulness Concentration Nurtured with Virtue Concentration & Insight Part I : Basic Instructions In Shape …-
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Contents Titlepage Table of Contents Cover Copyright Abbreviations Introduction Quotation I. Discernment Good Will II. Truth Virtue Persistence III. Relinquishment Generosity Renunciation IV. Calm Endurance Equanimity
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Contents Titlepage Table of Contents Cover Copyright Introduction Basic Wisdom Puñña: Merit Dana: Giving Sila: Virtue Bhavana: Meditation The Merit of Stream-entry Beyond Merit Glossary Abbreviations
- Timeless Practice… Even as we’re practicing generosity or virtue, it’s not just a matter of our words and deeds. It has to do with our intentions. As the Buddha said, there are many layers of intention that you can have when you give a gift. The lowest level is thinking, “I’ll get this back someday, in line with the law of karma.” That …
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Contents Titlepage Contents Cover Copyright Introduction I. Modesty II. Contentment III. Seclusion IV. Non-entanglement V. Persistence VI. Virtue VII. Concentration VIII. Discernment IX. Release X. Knowledge & Vision of Release
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The Divine Mantra
Part II: Chanting
… The chant for each of the remaining properties is identical with the chant for the wind property, i.e., (1) the passage on the Buddha’s virtues, (2) the passage on the Dhamma’s virtues, (3) the passage on the Saṅgha’s virtues, followed by the passage beginning, ‘Dhātu-parisuddhānubhāvena….’ Only the name of the property is changed: 2. Fire property: Tejo ca buddha …Show one additional result in this book
- Merit: Actively Happy… And, building on the practice of generosity and virtue, when you then develop the meditation of goodwill, it’s not hypocritical. It’s simply an extension of what you’re already doing. You’re spreading it out in all directions—realizing if you want to be able to trust your virtue, you have to be able to trust yourself not to have ill will …
- Three Virtues for the Mind… So it’s good to keep these three virtues of the mind in mind as we practice, to realize that one of the reasons we’re practicing is to make these virtues easier, make them more solid, so that the mind doesn’t feel inclined to go running after having a lot of material things. It doesn’t give into an impulse to wish …
- Fear of Death… virtue concentration, discernment; virtue, concentration, discernment. Just have a strong sense that this is the Dhamma you can take as your refuge. You don’t need anything else aside from this. This is your protection against those fears, your protection against the dangers that otherwise await. So do your best to cultivate these three trainings, because they really provide safety.
- Merit: Goodness of the Heart… So both with virtue and with meditation, you’re developing greater sensitivity in your actions. Virtue is for more sensitivity in what you say and do and what your intentions are for what to say and do. Meditation goes deeper still. We’re engaging in what the Buddha calls five aggregates: the form of your body as you feel it from within; your feelings …
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