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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- 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 …
- 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 …
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 …Show one additional result in this book- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …Show 2 additional results in this book
- 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 …
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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.Show 7 additional results in this book
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
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- 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 …
- 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 …
- Peace Requires Character… generosity, virtue, and meditation. You learn to take pleasure, not in eating all the time, but in giving things to other people. This may go against the grain, but when you begin to realize that there’s a happiness there, it raises the mind above its ordinary level. Similarly with virtue: You realize that there are ways of finding happiness that would cause harm …
- Be Consistent… It’s by practicing generosity, practicing virtue, that we gain confidence in our own goodness, and we’re doing good things with a mind like that. It’s a lot easier to watch the mind when it’s doing good and to understand what’s going on. So make sure your practice is complete—not just meditation, but also generosity and virtue. These are …
- Seriously Happy… There are things you have to give up, there are strong virtues you have to develop: the virtue of being responsible, the virtue of being heedful. It’s work. The part of the mind says, “Oh no, more work”: You have to look at it. Reason with it. Argue with it. And find joy in the practice. In other words, you don’t tell …
- Virtue… Yet Ajaan Suwat focused most of his answer on practicing the precepts, developing virtue. I thought I saw a number people rolling the eyes, thinking, “Here we are meditators already, yet he’s teaching us this kindergarten stuff.” But it wasn’t kindergarten stuff. That’s how the practice is lived in daily life: through virtue. Remember that the word for meditation in Pali …
- Admirable Intentions… It starts with generosity, virtue, and developing good qualities in the mind. Of course, with generosity and virtue, you’re already developing good qualities. You’re thinking of other people: You realize that your happiness is not the sort of thing that you can develop just on your own without thinking about other people’s happiness. The same goes with virtue: If your happiness …
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