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  1. Book search result icon Poems of the Elders Thag 12:1 Sīlavat
    Thag 12:1  Sīlavat Here master the virtue that in this world is well-mastered, for virtue, when cultivated, brings every consummation near. Wise, one should protect one’s virtue, aspiring to three pleasures: praise, the gaining of wealth, and—after death—rejoicing in heaven. The virtuous one, through restraint, acquires many friends, while the unvirtuous one, practicing evil, from friends is estranged. The … 
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  2. Book search result icon The Craft of the Heart Virtue: Questions & Answers
     … This translates as fat virtues, plump virtues, rich virtues, the virtues taught by the Buddha Gotama. Whoever can’t do this will end up with poor virtues, sickly virtues, orphaned virtues, withered-and-wasting-away virtues. To have virtue is to have character, to have character is to have wealth, to have wealth is to be happy; the happiness of virtue is something supreme … 
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  3. Book search result icon Handful of Leaves, Volume Four AN 5:79 Future Dangers (3) | Anāgata-bhayāni Sutta
     … They—being undeveloped in body, undeveloped in virtue, undeveloped in mind, undeveloped in discernment—will give full ordination to others and will not be able to discipline them in heightened virtue, heightened mind, heightened discernment. These too will then be undeveloped in body… virtue… mind… discernment. They—being undeveloped in body… virtue… mind… discernment—will give full ordination to still others and will not … 
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  4. Book search result icon Basic Themes Virtue
    Virtue There are three levels of virtue – 1. Heṭṭhima-sīla: normalcy of word and deed, which consists of three kinds of bodily acts – not killing, not stealing, not engaging in sexual misconduct; and four kinds of speech – not lying, not speaking divisively, not saying anything coarse or abusive, not speaking idly. If we class virtue on this level according to the wording of the … 
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  5. Book search result icon Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 46:11 Living Beings | Pāṇa Sutta
    Living Beings Pāṇa Sutta  (SN 46:11) “Monks, just as the living beings that assume the four postures—at times walking, at times standing, at times sitting down, at times lying down—all assume the four postures in dependence on the earth, established on the earth; in the same way, it’s in dependence on virtue, established on virtue, that a monk develops the … 
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  6. Book search result icon Itivuttaka 97 Itivuttaka
    Itivuttaka 97 This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: “Monks, a monk who has admirable virtue, admirable qualities, & admirable discernment is called, in this Dhamma-&-Vinaya, one who is complete, fulfilled, a superlative person. “And how is a monk a person with admirable virtue? There is the case where a monk is virtuous. He dwells restrained … 
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  7. Skillful Fears
     … You have your virtue. Nobody can steal these things. They become part of the mind itself. Someone once asked Ajaan Mun if you can distinguish between the mind of a person and the person’s virtue. Ajaan Mun said, No, you can’t. And that’s a good thing. If you could, people would probably steal your virtue, just as they could steal other … 
  8. Book search result icon Udāna Ud 8:6 Pāṭali Village | Pāṭaligāma Sutta
     … This is the first drawback coming from an unvirtuous person’s failure in virtue. “Furthermore, the bad reputation of the unvirtuous person, failing in virtue, gets spread about. This is the second drawback coming from an unvirtuous person’s failure in virtue. “Furthermore, whatever assembly the unvirtuous person, failing in virtue, approaches–whether of noble warriors, brahmans, householders, or contemplatives–he/she does so … 
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  9. Book search result icon Handful of Leaves, Volume Two MN 29 The Longer Heartwood Simile Discourse | Mahā Sāropama Sutta
     … Being heedful, he achieves consummation in virtue. He is gratified with that consummation in virtue, his resolve fulfilled. Because of that consummation in virtue he exalts himself and disparages others: ‘I am a person of virtue, with fine qualities, but these other monks are unvirtuous, with evil qualities.’ He is intoxicated with that consummation in virtue, heedless about it, and falls into heedlessness. Being … 
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  10. The Perfection of Virtue
     … The word for virtue in Pali, sila, is very close to the word for rock, which is sela. So make your virtues like rock. Once you make up your mind you’re going to follow a precept, you follow it solidly. You don’t start making excuses for this or that. As the Buddha said, a loss of your virtue is much more serious … 
  11. Sticking with It
     … If you look at your five precepts and see that they’re okay, then you might want to move on to the “four,” which may sound strange but these are four virtues that the Buddha talks about. The first one is just this: sticking with the five precepts. Then there’s the virtue of sense-restraint. Then there’s the virtue of right livelihood … 
  12. Book search result icon The Buddha Smiles 9 : The Buddha Smiles
     … Now, Kassapa the Blessed One, worthy & rightly self-awakened, had a lay follower named Gavesin who didn’t practice in full in terms of his virtue. But because of Gavesin, there were 500 people who had been inspired to declare themselves lay followers, and yet who also didn’t practice in full in terms of their virtue. “Then the thought occurred to Gavesin the … 
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  13. Book search result icon A Heart Released The Ever-present Truth
     … We need to know where virtue lies, what it is, and who maintains it. If we know the factor maintaining it, we will see how that factor forms the essence of virtue. If we don’t understand virtue, we’ll end up going astray and holding just to the externals of virtue, believing that we have to look for virtue here or ask for … 
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  14. Virtue & Right View
     … If you really are convinced of that principle, then you’re going to have virtues that the Buddha said are *pleasing to the noble ones: virtues that you don’t break, virtues that you aren’t “spotted” or “*torn,” in the words of the Canon—virtues that are solid; virtues that you follow not for the sake of being proud of yourself, but because … 
  15. The Triple Training
     … And you don’t have to wait until your virtue is perfect before you can start meditating, which is what people were taught back in those days. If your virtue isn’t perfect, then you start meditating, you’re going to go crazy: That’s how the people were warned. But your virtue isn’t going to get anywhere near perfect until your concentration … 
  16. Five Precepts, Five Virtues
     … To develop these five virtues—the virtue of kindness, the virtue of generosity, the virtue of renunciation, the virtue of truthfulness, the virtue of heedfulness—requires work, requires strength. This is one of the reasons why we meditate and get the mind to settle down like this, because when the mind settles down, it gains strength. It’s not running around all the time … 
  17. Concentration Nurtured by Virtue
    Toward the end of his life, the Buddha gave a Dhamma talk that he repeated many times, and it started with the phrase, “Concentration nurtured by virtue is of great fruit, great benefit.” Notice what he’s saying there. He’s not saying that you can’t get into concentration without virtue, although many people have misinterpreted his words in that way, and in … 
  18. Be True
     … But if they were receptive and saw the value of generosity, then he’d move on to virtue. And again, if they didn’t see the value of virtue, he’d spend a lot of time explaining virtue and stop there. But if they already saw that virtue was a good thing, something worth maintaining, worth being strict with yourself about, then he would … 
  19. Book search result icon Starting Out Small Recollection of Virtue
    Recollection of Virtue September 20, 1960 One of the things that defiles the mind is gaṇa-palibodha: concern over the group. You’re entangled with the group, or with the individuals in the group. This is called gaṇa-palibodha. Your mind isn’t at peace, and when the mind isn’t at peace, it gains no happiness or ease. It’s not conducive for … 
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  20. Heightened Skillfulness
     … As for virtue, heightened virtue relates to the virtues of a stream-enterer: virtues that are pleasing or appealing to the noble ones. They’re untorn, unbroken, unsplattered. In other words, you really hold to the five precepts, but the way you hold them is qualified in two ways. On the one hand, you practice virtue in a way that’s liberating, conducive to … 
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