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Noble Conversation : A Study Guide
VI. Virtue
… Virtue Better than a hundred years lived without virtue, uncentered, is one day lived by a virtuous person absorbed in jhāna. — Dhp 110 Virtue is a blessing into old age. — Dhp 333 “Now, there are these five gifts, five great gifts—original, long-standing, traditional, ancient, unadulterated, unadulterated from the beginning—that are not open to suspicion, will never be open to suspicion, and …Show 2 additional results in this book- Visakha Puja… the middle way, which essentially is composed of three things—virtue, concentration, and discernment. The symbolism of our circumambulation right now relates to that. The incense relates to virtue. There’s a saying that the scent of incense can’t go against the wind, but that the fragrance of a person’s virtues does go against the wind. In other words, the appeal of …
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Good Heart, Good Mind
Virtue | Day Five, Morning
Day Five Morning Virtue The Pāli term for virtue, sīla, can also mean morality, precept, or habit. Here the perfection of virtue is a matter of developing the moral virtue of restraint. As we pointed out at the very beginning, one of the insights that come from discernment is that all things are rooted in desire. The desire that underlies virtue is the desire …Show 11 additional results in this book
- The Power of Focus… So how do you protect yourself? You begin with virtue, like those precepts we took just now. You remind yourself, “Okay, there are certain forms of harm I’m not going to engage in.” When you don’t do those forms of harm, the harm won’t come to you. The Buddha’s image is of a hand carrying poison. He says if there …
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The Divine Mantra (Ajaan Fuang Version)
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
- Strength from the Basics… generosity, virtue, and meditation; or virtue, concentration, and discernment. Keep focusing on the basics, even when they seem awfully simple. Virtue, for instance, consists of the intention to hold by the precepts, to hold by the rules. It may not feel very creative to hold to rules rather than expressing yourself, but then again there are parts of life where self-expression and creativity …
- Free to Choose… To practice virtue frees us from all the defilements that would cause us to harm ourselves. To practice meditation frees us from all the internal delusions that make us suffer. So this is where real freedom is found. It’s not found out there in constitutions and bills of rights. It’s found in the fact that the mind doesn’t have to be …
- Succeeding at Happiness… You want to succeed at generosity, succeed at virtue, and succeed at meditation. Despite what you may sometimes hear, that there is no such thing as a good or a bad meditation, there really is. Good meditation helps you to settle down. The mind is still, satisfied, nourished by the meditation. It can be done. The same principle applies to generosity and virtue. You …
- Along the Bright Path… Coming in darkness means that you’re born in a poor family, you’re born with difficult conditions, you may not be good-looking, your parents don’t practice the virtues. In other words, you start out with a really difficult place. Coming in light means that you’re born in a wealthy family, your parents are virtuous, opportunities for education are easy, things …
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Recognizing the Dhamma
Seclusion
… As he was sitting there, the Blessed One said to him, “Is it true, Elder, that you live alone and extol the virtues of living alone?” “Yes, lord.” “But how do you live alone and extol the virtues of living alone?” “Lord, alone I enter the village for alms, alone I return, alone I sit withdrawn [in meditation], alone I do walking meditation. That …
- Look at Yourself… The practice of virtue, for instance, builds on generosity. Virtue is a type of gift. It’s a gift to yourself; it’s a gift to others. It’s a gift to yourself in the sense that you’re not creating the kind of kamma that’s going to lead to suffering down the line. It’s a gift to others in that you …
- One Thing Clear Through… The same with virtue: As the Buddha said, virtue is a gift. You’re giving the gift of safety. You decide that you’re not going to harm anybody: You’re not going to kill anybody or steal anything from anyone, have illicit sex with anyone, lie to anyone, take intoxicants in any cases. He said that when you give this gift of universal …Show 14 additional results in this book
- All-around Practice… That’s how his insights were solidly based—and particularly with the quality of virtue. You want your virtue to be solid because basically you’re being honest with yourself. You notice when you’re causing harm and you stop. You notice when you’re doing something that’s unskillful and you stop. That way you put some brakes on the mind. When you …
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The Five Faculties
Conviction (2) | day three, evening
… 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 …
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