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  2. 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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  3. 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 … 
  4. 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 … 
  5. 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.
  6. 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 … 
  7. Page search result icon Contents
    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
  8. 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 … 
  9. 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 … 
  10. 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 … 
  11. 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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  12. 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 … 
  13. Mental Experiments
     … It begins with generosity and virtue, because generosity and virtue help you gain a sense of self esteem. When you’re generous, you see the good that comes from being able to give things away. That, in and of itself, gives the mind a sense of wealth. Generosity is one of the forms of noble wealth. It gives the mind a sense of contentment … 
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  14. The Skillful Heart
     … But that’s basically what the Buddha’s teaching, because you’re not going to gain insight unless you have a good grounding in generosity and virtue. As he said, you’re not going to be able to get into concentration properly, and you’re not going to gain the discernment that goes to the transcendent levels without generosity and virtue. After all, if … 
  15. Book search result icon Beyond All Directions
    The fifth collection of essays. Includes: Beyond All Directions, Lost in Quotation, An All-around Eye, Mettā Means Goodwill, On Denying Defilement, Virtue Without Attachment, The Limits of the Unlimited Attitudes, The Essence of the Dhamma, The Middles of the Middle Way, and The Arrows of Thinking.
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  16. Training Heart & Mind
     … This sense of self-worth comes from looking at yourself as you practice acts of generosity, *as *you practice acts of virtue, and you get a sense of your own goodness. It gives you confidence. As the Buddha said, people who are stingy and greedy can’t get into right concentration, to say nothing of levels of awakening. As for lack of virtue, there … 
  17. Practicing for Dispassion
     … So we practice virtue for the sake of dispassion, we practice concentration for the sake of dispassion, discernment for the sake of dispassion. That’s what turns these things from simple activities that would lead to more becoming into something that leads beyond becoming. So what would that mean: virtue for the sake of dispassion? In the beginning, you do have to hold on … 
  18. Virtue
     … We do that every week to remind you that virtue is a real treasure. The fact that you make up your mind you’re not going to kill, steal, have illicit sex; you’re not going to lie; you’re not going to take intoxicants: That’s a real treasure, because it’s really yours. As the Buddha said, other things that you can … 
  19. Sutta search result icon Thag 2:42 Dhammapāla
    Thag 2:42  Dhammapāla The young monk devoted to the Buddha’s message, is wakeful among those who sleep. His life is not in vain. So, intelligent, one should commit oneself to conviction & virtue, confidence & Dhamma-vision, remembering the Buddhas’ message. See also: SN 11:14; SN 55:26
  20. Good Before, During, & After
     … generosity, virtue, meditation. We have to reflect on the fact that these are all skills. Generosity seem to be the easiest of them, but it’s actually not all that easy to do it well. When the Buddha was asked where should you give a gift, he said give where you feel inspired. In other words, you have freedom of choice. And that’s … 
  21. Virtues Bright & Neither Dark nor Bright
     … That’s the kind of virtue the Buddha said is pleasing to the noble ones. On the one hand, none of the precepts are broken, but at the same time it puts the mind in a good frame of mind, where you feel good about yourself. That makes the mind easy to settle down in concentration. So as you practice the virtue for the … 
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