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  2. 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 … 
  3. 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 … 
  4. Book search result icon The Karma of Mindfulness Meditation on Kamma | day five : afternoon
     … 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 … 
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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
  8. 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 … 
  9. Book search result icon 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 … 
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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
  11. 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 … 
  12. 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 … 
  13. 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.
  14. 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 … 
  15. Harmony, Right & Wrong
     … As the Buddha said, true harmony is based on having goodwill for one another expressing it in thought and word and deed; sharing whatever special gains you get; having right view in common; having virtue in common—again, right virtue, not just any old virtue. Make sure that everybody lifts the level of his or her virtue to a level pleasing to the noble … 
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    Contents Titlepage Contents Cover Copyright The Buddha’s Teachings Mindfulness of breathing Kamma & rebirth The four noble truths The three characteristics Unbinding The stages of awakening Generosity Virtue Goodwill The Triple Gem Dependent co-arising
  17. Over the Pass
     … And yet, the path requires that you develop certain qualities of mind that we would call virtues in English: things like integrity, heedfulness, honesty. The Buddha says those are prerequisites for the path. So they’re there, it’s simply that they’re not listed under virtue. Virtue is mainly a matter of abstaining. As Ajaan Maha Boowa says in one place, virtue is … 
  18. Sincere Goodwill
     … But the happiness that comes from generosity, the happiness that comes from virtue, that comes from meditation: that spreads around. You can consume that happiness and yet they don’t get use up. There’s plenty left over for other people, too. This is one of the few areas where your well-being doesn’t conflict with somebody else’s. They talk about interconnectedness … 
  19. Looking after Yourself & Others
     … It overflows boundaries, leads the mind to being unlimited—especially if it’s the goodness that comes from generosity, virtue, and developing good qualities of the mind. That’s the kind of goodness that creates harmony in society. The goodness that’s measured in terms of money, wealth, status creates a lot of divisions. When some people have, other people are deprived, and there … 
  20. Book search result icon Khuddakapāṭha Khuddakapāṭha Introduction
     … Passage 6 expands both on Passage 1 and on Passage 5, detailing some of the virtues of the Buddha, Dhamma, and Saṅgha, while at the same time elaborating on the practice of meditation and the attainment of stream entry—the point at which the meditator has his/her first glimpse of unbinding. Passage 7 elaborates on the theme of generosity, showing how gifts to … 
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  21. Inner Wealth
     … It carries over into virtue, a healthy sense of shame and a healthy sense of compunction. Virtue is when you avoid harmful activity, things that would harm yourself or harm other people. Shame is the sense that wehn you think about doing something harmful, you would be ashamed to do it. You’d think it’s beneath you. This kind of shame doesn’t … 
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