PDF The Economy of Gifts - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
The Economy of Gifts According to the Buddhist monastic code, monks and nuns are not allowed to accept money or even to engage in barter or trade with lay people. They live entirely in an economy of gifts. Lay supporters provide gifts of material requisites for the monastics, while the monastics provide their supporters with the gift of the ...
Uncollected essays | dhammatalks.org
The Economy of Gifts; The Karma of Happiness; The Traditions of the Noble Ones; The following essay was collected into the essay book "Head & Heart Together," however in abridged form. The unabridged version is still available here as a .pdf file.
PDF Hunting & Gathering the Dharma - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
towns. People disaffected with the market economy would have someone to turn to, and wouldn't have to reinvent the dharma wheel every time they took to the wilds to live an authentic life. They'd have access to a dharma and discipline with a proven track record over the past two-and-a-half millennia for taking people beyond birth and death.
PDF 200408 Noble Wealth
economy gets swept away—you want your inner economy to stay solid. And you have to realize that that's where your true wealth lies. Because the things of the world belong to the world. You can't take them with you. Even while you're here, you can't keep them all the time. You can't say, "All this wealth that I've
PDF Worry - dhammatalks.org
risk. And then there's a larger picture of what will happen to the economy, the society. It's very easy to get overcome by worry. But being overcome by worry is not going to solve anything. As the Buddha said, worry is a hindrance—one of the obstacles we have to get over if we want to act skillfully in life.
A Refuge from Modern Values | ePublished Dhamma Talks ...
Well, if the economy is built on greed, anger, and delusion maybe it should collapse. It's causing people to do unskillful things, to think and act in unskillful ways. It's not good for us. You might say, "How can we live otherwise?" Well, have one foot outside of the "real world" so you can step back and look at these things from a ...
PDF 200429 You Are Not Powerless - dhammatalks.org
We're looking at the potential for the economy to break down. When the economy breaks down, there's a danger of society breaking down. But what keeps society from breaking down is generosity. If you have . 200429 You Are Not Powerless ...
Purity of Heart | Gather 'Round the Breath
And when fear-mongers come along and say, "You'll die, you'll lose all your wealth, the economy will crash if you don't go along with our agenda," we give in because we're afraid of losing not only physical food, but also food of sensory contact: the nice shows we watch, the nice clothing we can wear, all the things that feel good ...
The Buddha's Investment Strategy | ePublished Dhamma Talks ...
And it is an investment—an investment in something reliable: these qualities of mind. They stay with you whether the economy goes up, whether the economy goes down. And whether the body gets healthier, gets sick, or when it dies, the qualities you've invested in will stay with the mind.
PDF The Traditions of the Noble Ones An Essay on the Thai ...
Administration Act, a land-reform bill, and a "special economy" act—that would have closed many of the Forest monasteries, stripped the remaining Forest monasteries of their wilderness lands, or made it legal for monasteries to sell their lands. These laws would have brought about the effective end of the Forest
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the economy. Laws are struck down because they're not good for the economy — at least for this quarter's profit margin. Educational systems are designed to fit us each into our slot in the economy. The skills we learn center on how to function economically. Then when we get too old to function, they put us out to pasture,
The Context for No Context | ePublished Dhamma Talks ...
If it's not, don't say it. As we go through the day, look for the little things you can do to help one another. If you notice some slack anywhere, take up the slack. We're operating on a voluntary system here, what they call an economy of gifts—which means that some things get done, some things don't.
Introduction to the Theragāthā & Therīgāthā
But the Buddhist monks had essentially returned to an economy very similar to that of hunter-gatherers—hunting, in the words of Thig 13:2, only what is already cooked. Thus they had learned, like earlier hunter-gatherers, to view the wilderness as home, an ideal place to hunt for the deathless.
The Transmission of Romantic Religion | Buddhist Romanticism
• He also placed more emphasis than the majority of Romantics on the idea that actions, in ultimate terms, have no real consequences in the overall economy of the universe. • And he wrote more fervently than they in celebrating the constant evolution of the world and the soul as the highest aspiration of human life.
In Charge of Your World | ePublished Dhamma Talks : Volume III
Even if the economy is great and everybody agrees to lay down their arms, people are still going to get sick, still going to get old, and still going to die. But the empowering thing in all this is that your actions do shape the world you experience: the world you've experienced, the world that you're experiencing now, and on into the future.
Breaking Old Habits | ePublished Dhamma Talks : Volume I
If you ask most people, they'll talk about things outside: their job, their family, their worries about the economy or the environment. But if you look deeply in your own mind, you'll realize that the main burdens on the mind are the things that come from within. This is why the mind needs to be trained.
Right Action, Right Result | The Heightened Mind
Most of us Thai people complain that foreigners are taking over our economy, but actually the fault lies with our own stupidity. We can't even make one big toe's worth of happiness for ourselves, and instead sit staring off into the distance. Other people run and jump and do everything necessary for the sake of their happiness, but we just ...
PDF An Unentangled Knowing
—either directly or indirectly—in the on-going economy. Most religions allow themselves to become domesticated to these values by stressing altruism as the highest religious impulse, and mainstream Buddhism is no different. Wherever it has spread, it has become domesticated to the extent that the vast majority of monastics as well as lay
Love Me, Love My Defilements | Meditations6
The economy turns into a huge casino, and the things that could be done with the wealth of the country just get frittered away. The same with anger. Think of all the money that's spent for armies, munitions; all the intelligence devoted to creating weapons to kill instead of being devoted to solve the genuine problems in life. It's all a waste.
PDF 0109nZa1 M1 The Dignity of Restraint - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
in to that impulse, obey your thirst. It's good for the economy, it's good for you. Microsoft Word - 0109nZa1 M1 The Dignity of Restraint.doc ...
Contentment | Meditations7
Everyone is being trained not to be content, to want things just like this or just like that, faster, faster, faster: to keep the economy going, to keep—I don't know—to keep up appearances. So it's important to remember that the practice of the Dhamma really breaks with that idea.
Giving Meaning to Life | ePublished Dhamma Talks : Volume III
You want to accomplish something large in the world, but then the economy collapses. War comes. Famine comes. All kinds of things can happen. So looking to the world for meaning is a frustrating, very frustrating experience.
Fears | Meditations1
And the more you think about those conditions, the more you realize that they're totally beyond your control: the economy, the climate, the political situation, the continued beating of certain hearts, the stability of the ground beneath your feet, all of which are very uncertain.
Questioning & Conviction | Meditations5
We could focus on lots of other issues in life: the economy, the weather, the environment, this person's ideas, that person's preferences—lots of different things we could choose to focus on as being important. But appropriate attention starts with the conviction that suffering is the important problem, and there must be a solution to it.
Introduction | The Wings to Awakening
A new monetary economy was replacing the older agrarian economy. Absolute monarchies, in alliance with the newly forming merchant class, were swallowing up the older aristocracies. As often happens when an aristocratic elite is being disenfranchised, people on all levels of society were beginning to call into question the beliefs that had ...
PDF 141225 The Duty to Be Positive - Home | dhammatalks.org
your energy. We're here in the monastery. It's an economy of gifts. Everybody here is giving one thing or another. Nobody's getting paid. But you might want to think about extra special ways that you might want to give something, something you feel really satisfed with having given, because the efect of that act of giving ripples through.
Misbehavior | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
A bhikkhu lives in an economy of gifts, entrusting his livelihood to the gifts of the faithful. To maintain the purity of this arrangement, he must not try to influence their faith for his own material benefit through inappropriate means or for the sake of items inappropriate for his use. We have already discussed this topic briefly under Sg 13 ...
PDF 0307n1b2 Breaking Old Habits - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
job, their family, their worries about the economy or the environment.But if you look deeply in your own mind, you'll realize that the main burdens on the mind are the things that come from within. This is why the mind needs to be trained. If the mind isn't trained, it just keeps on creating suffering for itself without realizing what it ...
PDF 080710 Directing Yourself Rightly
cause, and then it all gets dashed to pieces by a change in the economy, a change in the climate—whatever the outside influences may be. So that kind of progress is uncertain. But progress inside, as you develop qualities of mind, can just keep on going and going and making greater and greater progress and ultimately arrive at
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economy, doesn't even have to depend on the health of the body. It becomes more and more an inward issue. And when you're not leaning on your relationships, you're not leaning on things outside, you're putting less weight on them as well. The Buddha talks a lot about clinging. And when we hear those teachings, we immediately
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PDF 181230 Your Goodness Is Your Protection
We look around us and civilization seems pretty uncertain: The economy, the society, the values of the society—everything seems to be falling down, falling apart. And how do you keep yourself protected in a case like that? Through your virtue and generosity and your goodwill. The qualities that the
PDF Giving Meaning to Life - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
the world, but then the economy collapses. War comes. Famine comes. All kinds of things can happen. So looking to the world for meaning is a frustrating, very frustrating experience. But when you look inside for meaning, you find that there is a lot to learn, there is a lot to understand. Things do get accomplished. As you work on the
PDF 150815 A Pleasure Without Stories - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
wealth. Te economy may be going pretty badly, but you've got your internal source. As the Buddha said, if you have this source of inner pleasure, it can help wean you of of your need for sensual pleasures. It can wean you away from your clinging to sensuality. Te word "ssensuality here doesn't mean just sensual pleasures.
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