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AN 9:41 Tapussa Sutta | To Tapussa (On Renunciation)
My heart leaped up at renunciation, grew confident, steadfast, & firm, seeing it as peace. Then, quite secluded from sensuality, secluded from unskillful qualities, I entered & remained in the first jhāna: rapture & pleasure born of seclusion, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation.
No Happiness Other than Peace | ePublished Dhamma Talks ...
N'atthi santi param sukham, there is no happiness other than peace. This saying of the Buddha has an interesting history. Over time, the translation turned from "there is no happiness other than peace" to "there is no happiness higher than peace," which totally changes the meaning. Perhaps people thought that there are other kinds of happiness not related to peace at all-—the ...
The Strategy of a Peaceful Mind | Fistful of Sand & The ...
The Strategy of a Peaceful Mind. Peace means letting go of mental objects so that nothing comes in to disturb the mind. All that's left is a nature devoid of fabrication. Even the nibbāna we want to reach is nothing other than a peace not fabricated by conditions. As for the peace we develop through various techniques by which the mind gathers into concentration, or gathers into stillness ...
Freedom from Buddha Nature | Head & Heart Together
This peace thus grows from the simple choice to keep looking at the mind's fabrications as processes, as actions and results. But to fully achieve this peace, your discernment has to be directed not only at the mind's fabrication of the objects of its awareness, but also at its fabrications about itself and about the path it's creating.
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The Mirror of Insight : The Buddha as Strategist, by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. (revised July 28, 2020) A short explanation of the Buddha's teachings on the topic of insight and how those teachings should be strategically applied in practice. Included is an analysis of the different meanings of the word, saṅkhāra, fabrication, and the various ways in which fabrications are viewed, used, and ...
AN 9:36 Jhāna Sutta | Mental Absorption
He turns his mind away from those phenomena, and having done so, inclines his mind to the property of deathlessness: 'This is peace, this is exquisite—the pacification of all fabrications; the relinquishing of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; unbinding.'
Reconciliation, Right & Wrong | Purity of Heart
The public proof of this Middle Way was the Sangha that the Buddha built around it, in which people agreed to follow his teachings and were able to demonstrate the results through the inner and outer peace, harmony, and happiness they found.
MN 102 Pañcattaya Sutta | Five & Three
"Thus, monks, the Tathāgata has awakened to the unexcelled state of foremost peace: liberation through lack of clinging/sustenance, having known, as they have come to be, the origination, passing away, allure, drawbacks of—and escape from—the six media of contact." 8. That is what the Blessed One said.
PDF With Each & Every Breath - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
pain or finding a little more peace and stability in your life, meditation has plenty to offer you. It can also strengthen the mind to deal with many of the problems of day-to-day life, because it develops qualities like mindfulness, alertness, concentration, and discernment that are useful in all activities, at home, at work, or wherever you are.
Khp 6 Ratana Sutta — Treasures
praised by those at peace: They, disciples of the One Well-Gone, deserve offerings. What is given to them bears great fruit. This, too, is an exquisite treasure in the Saṅgha. By this truth may there be well-being.
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PDF 140130 No Happiness Other than Peace
other than peace: N'atthi santi param sukham. All too often we hear that translated as, "There is no happiness higher than peace," which sounds fairly normal. But when the Buddha says there's no happiness other than peace, he's saying something pretty radical.
Sn 4:14 Quickly
Knowing unbinding as peace, he shouldn't be heedless. of Gotama's message— for he, the Conqueror unconquered, witnessed the Dhamma, not by hearsay, but directly, himself. So, heedful, you. should always do homage & train. in line with that Blessed One's message,"
PDF 141206 Mindfulness, Discernment, & Peace of Mind
Mindfulness, Discernment, & Peace of Mind December 6, 2014 We meditate to gain peace of mind, and part of that means finding something soothing for the mind to focus on. If all you can think about are problems, distractions, then there's not going to be much peace. The mind is going to feel frazzled, rough, raw.
Sn 4:9 To Māgandiya
Once one arrives, one lets go of the path, because the purity of inner peace, in its ultimate sense, is something transcending the means by which it is reached. b) The immediate context of this verse supports this interpretation. The Buddha's initial statement here is an answer, not to the question of how the goal is attained, but to ...
AN 8:103 Yasa Sutta | Honor
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Honor Yasa Sutta (AN 8:103) This is a longer version of the conversation reported in AN 5:30 and AN 6:42.. I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One, on a wandering tour among the Kosalans with a large Saṅgha of monks, arrived at a Kosalan brahman village named Icchānaṅgala.
Introduction | Discernment: The Buddha's Strategies for ...
Introduction. This book is an introduction to the Buddha's teachings on how to use discernment to find an unending happiness. The main body of the book consists of passages selected from the Pali Canon—the earliest extant record of the Buddha's teachings—in which the Buddha and his disciples tell how to develop discernment and apply it to the search for that happiness.
Khp 9 Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta — Goodwill
appreciating the state of peace: Be capable, upright, & straightforward, easy to instruct, gentle, & not conceited, content & easy to support, with few duties, living lightly, with peaceful faculties, astute, modest, & no greed for supporters. Do not do the slightest thing.
Sn 4:10 Before the Break-up (of the Body)
to be at peace, un-intent. on sensual pleasures, with nothing at all. to tie him down: one who's crossed over attachment. He has no. children. cattle, fields, land. In him you can't pin down. what's embraced. or rejected. 7. He has no preference. for that which people run-of-the-mill.
AN 5:78 Anāgata-bhayāni Sutta | Future Dangers (2)
Before this unwelcome, disagreeable, displeasing thing happens, let me first make an effort for the attaining of the as-yet-unattained, the reaching of the as-yet-unreached, the realization of the as-yet-unrealized, so that—endowed with that Dhamma—I will live in peace even when the Saṅgha is split.'
Living in Peace | The Heightened Mind
Peace comes from causes and gives rise to results. If the causes aren't present, the results won't come. The kind of happiness coming from a lack of peacefulness lasts only as long as a quick catch in your breath. But the happiness coming from peace lasts for a long, long time.
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This is the full archive of .mp3 audio files of short morning Dhamma talks given at Metta Forest Monastery. All files are freely downloadable.
MN 75 Māgaṇḍiya Sutta | To Māgaṇḍiya (Excerpt)
But whatever contemplatives or brahmans who have dwelt or will dwell or are dwelling free from thirst, their minds inwardly at peace, all have done so having realized—as it has come to be—the origination & disappearance, the allure, the danger, & the escape from sensual pleasures, having abandoned sensual craving and removed sensual fever."
Trading Candy for Gold | Noble Strategy
In other words, an intelligent sacrifice is like a profitable trade. This analogy is an ancient one in the Buddhist tradition. "I'll make a trade," one of the Buddha's disciples once said, "aging for the ageless, burning for the unbound: the highest peace, the unexcelled safety from bondage. "
Introduction to the Dhammapada
When the path is brought to fruition, it brings the peace and delight of the Deathless . This is where the process initiated by hearing or reading the Dhamma bears its deepest savor, surpassing all others. It is the highest sense in which the meaningful verses of the Dhammapada bring peace. * * *
Sn 4:13 The Great Array - Home | dhammatalks.org
6. "In kindness & peace, without taking up peace"—a pun on the word, santimanuggahaya. 7. The word bhavabhavesu—"through/for becoming & not-becoming"—functions here as a lamp. 8. "The knowledge of a doctrine, any other doctrine"—a pun on the word, dhammamaññam.
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at peace; having clearly known, he. is an attainer-of-knowledge; knowing the Dhamma, he's. independent. Moving rightly through the world, he doesn't envy. anyone here. Whoever here has gone beyond.
Questions & Answers | Fistful of Sand & The Light of ...
Even nibbāna is peace — a peace that lasts and can never be disturbed. That's why nibbāna is the ultimate ease. Question: When I meditate and see the changes in my body and mind, there seems to be one part of the mind that's simply the observer, which doesn't change along with the things it watches.
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Itivuttaka 53. This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, there are these three feelings. Which three? A feeling of pleasure, a feeling of pain, a feeling of neither pleasure nor pain.
A Heart Released | A Heart Released: The Teachings of Phra ...
A person at peace in this way will have a fully developed sense of conscience and shame, mental qualities that are pure and clean, a firm, steady mind, and a personal integrity endowed with the qualities of a deva (celestial being), as stated in the stanza that runs,
MN 64 Mahā Māluṅkyovāda Sutta | The Longer Exhortation to ...
Notes. 1. The list of concentration attainments to be used as a basis for insight while one remains in the attainment stops here. MN 111 indicates that the next two attainments—the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception and the cessation of perception & feeling—can be used as a basis for liberating insight only after one has emerged from the attainment.
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6. "In kindness & peace, without taking up peace"—a pun on the word, santimanuggahaya. 7. The word bhavabhavesu—"through/for becoming & not-becoming"—functions here as a lamp. 8. "The knowledge of a doctrine, any other doctrine"—a pun on the word, dhammamaññam.
Questions & Answers | Fistful of Sand & The Light of ...
Even nibbāna is peace — a peace that lasts and can never be disturbed. That's why nibbāna is the ultimate ease. Question: When I meditate and see the changes in my body and mind, there seems to be one part of the mind that's simply the observer, which doesn't change along with the things it watches.
Sutta Nipāta | suttas on dhammatalks.org
The Buddha refuses and further subdues Māgandiya's pride by describing a state of peace that Māgandiya doesn't understand. Sn 4:10 Before the Break-up (of the Body) — How to live at peace. Sn 4:11 Quarrels & Disputes — The Buddha is questioned on the source of quarrels and disputes, and on the highest level of spiritual attainment.
AN 3:32 Ānanda Sutta | To Ānanda
"There is the case, Ānanda, where a monk is percipient in this way: 'This is peace, this is exquisite—the pacification of all fabrications; the relinquishing of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; unbinding.' This is how a monk would have a concentration-attainment of a such a sort that, with regard to this ...
A Gift of Dhamma | Still, Flowing Water: Eight Dhamma Talks
So the practice of bringing the mind to peace is called, in Buddhism, doing kammaṭṭhāna. Kammaṭṭhāna. Ṭhāna means foundation. Kamma is the work we have to do. One part of this is the body; one part is the mind. That's all there is: these two things. The body is a rūpa-dhamma, a physical condition. It has a shape you can see with ...
Inconstancy | Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment
The peace here is peace in the Dhamma, the peace that comes from practicing the Dhamma. He pointed out that peace is the highest happiness and showed us the path to that peace, which we're practicing right now: developing tranquility and insight, exercising restraint over our words and deeds, and training our mind.
SN 2:19 Uttara Sutta | Uttara the Deva's Son
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Uttara the Deva's Son Uttara Sutta (SN 2:19) Near Rājagaha. As he was standing to one side, Uttara the deva's son recited this verse in the Blessed One's presence:
AN 7:46 Saññā Sutta | Perceptions - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
But if, when a monk's awareness often remains steeped in the perception of not-self in what is stressful, his heart is devoid of I-making & my-making with regard to this conscious body and externally with regard to all themes, has transcended pride, is at peace, and is well released, then he should realize, 'I have developed the perception ...
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This is the full archive of .mp3 audio files of evening Dhamma talks by Thanissaro Bhikkhu given at Metta Forest Monastery from the year 2000 to the present. All files are freely downloadable.
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attaining peace of awareness, all grief transcended, griefless you are. unbound. vv. 574-593. Notes. 1. See the verse at the end of DN 16, part III. 2. See Thig 6:1. 3. These lines can also be translated as follows: So, having heard the arahant, subdue lamentation,
Ud 4:10 Sāriputta Sutta | Sāriputta - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
The Blessed One saw Ven. Sāriputta sitting not far away-his legs crossed, his body held erect-reflecting on the peace within himself. Then, on realizing the significance of that, the Blessed One on that occasion exclaimed: For the monk whose mind is. peaceful, at peace, whose cord is cut, 1.
MN 64 Mahā Māluṅkyovāda Sutta | The Longer Exhortation to ...
Notes. 1. The list of concentration attainments to be used as a basis for insight while one remains in the attainment stops here. MN 111 indicates that the next two attainments—the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception and the cessation of perception & feeling—can be used as a basis for liberating insight only after one has emerged from the attainment.
SN 10:8 Sudatta Sutta | About Sudatta (Anāthapiṇḍika)
About Sudatta (Anāthapiṇḍika) Sudatta Sutta (SN 10:8) Many discourses are set in Jeta's Grove, the monastery donated by Anāthapiṇḍika.
Birth & Death | Straight from the Heart : Thirteen Talks ...
Once we have seen the intrinsic value of the peace that appears this way, we at the same time see clearly the harm that comes from the agitation and turmoil of the mind that has no footing to hold to, and that creates havoc for itself. We needn't ask anyone: The benefits of a peaceful mind and the harm of an agitated mind, we see within our ...
Blatantly Clear in the Heart | Fistful of Sand & The Light ...
Discernment will contemplate them and drive out from the mind any lack of stillness or peace. Discernment on the level of concentration practice — when concentration has fostered a sense of wellbeing and seclusion in the mind — will drive out any disturbance that used to cause stress for the mind.
In the Shape of a Circle | Still, Flowing Water: Eight ...
Peace at last. The mind is at peace." But when you leave the wilderness, is the mind at peace? Not any more. So what do you do then? The Buddha didn't have us stay in the wilderness. He had us use the wilderness as a place to train. You go to the wilderness to find some peace so that your meditation will develop, so that you'll develop ...
PDF 180919 Peace Requires Character
Peace Requires Character September 19, 2018 Sakka the deva-king once came to see the Buddha and asked him, "Why is there conflict in the world?" Because even in his heaven there had been conflict. The asuras and the devas had had a battle as to who was going to take over that particular level of heaven, and ultimately the
PDF 200702 Sensitive to Stress - dhammatalks.org
That, for them, was peace: being able to listen to their music without any interfering sounds from traffic or other people's boomboxes. Of course, for me, it was a lot of noise. Which makes the point that your idea of what's peaceful and quiet depends on how you've been living, what level of noise you've been subjected to.
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29 The Value of Peace; 28 Porous & Tenacious; 27 To Depend on Yourself; 26 Depressurize Inside; 25 Levels of Equanimity; 24 The Face of Your Defilements; 23 Rapture & Pleasure Born of Seclusion; 22 Goal-oriented Practice; 21 Duties in the Present Moment; 20 Mechanical Practice; 19 Remembering All the Time; 18 Certainty Inside; 17 Level-headed ...
Still, Flowing Water | Still, Flowing Water: Eight Dhamma ...
The peace of discernment is like never lifting up the rock, just leaving it there where it is. The grass can't possibly grow again. That's genuine peace, the calming of the defilements for sure. That's discernment.
Sn 5:5 Dhotaka's Questions
that peace supreme, knowing which, living mindfully, I'll go beyond. entanglement in the world. The Buddha: Whatever you're alert to, above, below, across, in between: Knowing it as a bond in the world, don't create craving. for becoming or non-. 2. vv. 1061-1068. Notes. 1.
Our Real Home | Still, Flowing Water: Eight Dhamma Talks
Peace is something that doesn't move forward, doesn't move back, doesn't stay in place. That's why its peace. It's peace in that it's free from going forward, free from moving back, free from staying in place. Pleasure isn't a place for you to stay. Pain isn't a place for you to stay.
Dhp VIII : Thousands
brings peace. Better. than if there were thousands. of meaningless verses is. one. meaningful. line of verse. that on hearing. brings peace. And better than chanting hundreds. of meaningless verses is. one. Dhamma-saying. that on hearing. brings peace. 100-102* Greater in battle. than the man who would conquer.
The Prison World vs. the World Outside | Straight from the ...
Even more so, when we practice in the area of the mind: The more peace we obtain, then the greater the effort, the greater the exertion we make. Mindfulness and discernment gradually appear. We see the harm of the tyranny and the oppression imposed by the defilements in the heart. We see the value of the Dhamma, which is a means of liberation.
MN 36 Mahā Saccaka Sutta | The Longer Discourse to Saccaka
"In search of what might be skillful, seeking the unexcelled state of sublime peace, I wandered by stages in the Magadhan country and came to the military town of Uruvelā. There I saw some delightful countryside, with an inspiring forest grove, a clear-flowing river with fine, delightful banks, and villages for alms-going on all sides.
The Outer Space of the Mind | Things as They Are : A ...
The savor of the Dhamma, beginning with concentration as its basis, will appear as peace and calm within the heart in proportion to the levels of concentration. Then use discernment to unravel the various things that the mind labels and interprets, so as to see them clearly step by step. This is called Right Livelihood—guarding the heart ...
Thag 6:6 Sappadāsa - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
and no peace of awareness —not a finger-snap's worth— attained. Having gained no oneness of mind, I was wracked with lust. Wailing, with my arms upheld, I ran amok from my dwelling— "Or… or shall I take the knife? What's the use of life to me? If I were to renounce the training, what sort of death would I have?"
61. On eating | Gifts He Left Behind: The Dhamma Legacy of ...
61. On eating. A group of monks came to pay their respects to Luang Pu before the Rains Retreat and one of them said, "I've been meditating for a long time and have attained some peace, but I have this problem about eating meat.
The Noble Search | Noble Warrior : A Life of the Buddha
"So, Aggivessana, in search of what might be skillful, seeking the unexcelled state of sublime peace, I wandered by stages in the Magadhan country and came to the military town of Uruvelā. There I saw some delightful countryside, with an inspiring forest grove, a clear-flowing river with fine, delightful banks, & villages for alms-going on ...
From Ignorance to Emptiness | Things as They Are : A ...
I could clearly see my heart settle down in peace. After that the senior monk who was my Pāli teacher asked me to return to Bangkok to continue my studies. He even had the kindness to come after me, and then continued further out into the provinces. On the way back he was going to have me accompany him to Bangkok.
AN 4:41 Samādhi Sutta | Concentration
Notes. 1. For more on the first development of concentration, see AN 5:28.. 2. For more on the second development of concentration, see SN 51:20 and AN 5:28.. 3. For more on the third development of concentration, see MN 118, MN 149, SN 54:8, and AN 8:70. MN 111 and MN 121, which discuss the perceptions and feelings that arise and disappear on shifting from one level of concentration to ...
The Path of Strength | Things as They Are : A Collection ...
As for seclusion from the defilements, this refers to peace with regard to such external things as sights, sounds, smells, and tastes, as well as to peace with regard to internal preoccupations that are the particular enemies of the mind. In other words, you are free both from external enemies and from internal enemies.
The Second Frame of Reference | The Noble Eightfold Path ...
You'd really like to gain the peace, you'd really like to gain the happiness and the freedom that come with awakening, and the fact disturbs you. Now this kind of grief actually goes someplace. It's like the tension when you pull back on a bow to shoot an arrow. It's what allows the arrow to fly.
Pushing the Limits | Purity of Heart - Home | dhammatalks.org
But this peace, too, depends on a deaf inner ear, denying the underlying truth of all desires: that a life of endless limitations is intolerable. Both sorts of people share a common assumption that true, unlimited happiness lies beyond reach.
A Home for the Mind | Fistful of Sand & The Light of ...
The mind will then gain strength, so that it can let go of its external preoccupations and stay focused exclusively within: at peace and at ease, bright and clear, staying right here. Then when you want to gain discernment, you can investigate.
Thag 13 Soṇa Koḷivisa
his heart at peace. There's nothing to be done, nothing to add. to what's done. As a single mass of rock isn't moved by the wind, even so all. forms, flavors, sounds, aromas, contacts, ideas desirable & not, have no effect on one who is Such. The mind
Come & See | Come & See - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
When our hearts are at peace and at ease, the nation is at peace and at ease. After all, the human heart is what creates nations, so the human heart can protect nations (jāti). 3 Jāti—birth—comes from the heart. It doesn't come from anywhere else.
Breath, Tranquility, & Insight | Gather 'Round the Breath
The peace that comes from that is much different from simply hanging out in the pleasant place in the present. It actually takes you outside of time and space. That's where the actual deathless is found. So try to keep the Buddha's steps in mind because they really are beneficial, they really do make a difference.
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§4. The Pleasure of Peace The Lord Buddha taught, N'atthi santi paraṁ sukhaṁ: No other pleasure is greater than peace. What this means is that there are other pleasures, such as the pleasure of watching a play or a movie, mixing with society, having a spouse, the pleasure of gaining wealth, status, and praise. These things are actual ...
The Ballad of Liberation from the Khandhas | A Heart ...
and the result will be peace. Seeing others as bad and oneself as good. is a stain on the heart, for one latches onto the khandha. that holds to that judgment. If you latch onto the khandhas. they'll burn you for sure, for aging, defilement, & death will join in the fray: full of anger & love, obvious faults, worries, sorrows, & fears,
Perennial Issues | The Karma of Questions
Perennial Issues. Toward the end of World War II, Aldous Huxley published an anthology, The Perennial Philosophy, proposing that there is a common core of truths to all the world's great religions. These truths clustered around three basic principles: that the Self is by nature divine, that this nature is identical with the divine Ground of Being, and that the ideal life is one spent in the ...
The Principle of the Present | Straight from the Heart ...
'Heaven' is the enjoyment, the sense of exhilaration in the Dhamma, in the goodness and merit that lie within the heart, causing it to be calm and at peace. This is your 'heavenly treasure.' The Brahmā worlds lie with the levels of the mind.
Right Action, Right Result | The Heightened Mind
When we want to progress in life, we have to give rise to the causes for peace and ease. In other words, we have to practice meditation in line with the factors of the noble path. Sammā-kammanta, right action, is the cause for peace and ease. Our actions come in all sorts of forms.
PDF Steps Along the Path - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
results in full measure, you will still experience a striking sense of peace and well-being in proportion to the extent of your own individual practice. You should then try to maintain this mental state. Don't let feelings of greed or desire, disappointment or dejection arise. Keep the mind neutral and continue practicing as
Sn 1:8 Goodwill
appreciating the state of peace: Be capable, upright, & straightforward, easy to instruct, gentle, & not conceited, content & easy to support, with few duties, living lightly, with peaceful faculties, astute, modest, & no greed for supporters. Do not do the slightest thing.
Wisdom over Justice | First Things First
Wisdom over Justice. A few years ago, in one of its more inspired moments, The Onion reported a video released by a Buddhist fundamentalist sect in which a spokesman for the sect threatened that he and his cohorts would unleash waves of peace and harmony across the world, waves that no one could stop or resist. The report also noted that, in response to the video, the Department of Homeland ...
PDF Basic Themes : Four Treatises on Buddhist Practice
Also, The Path to Peace & Freedom for the Mind makes the point - common to the entire Wilderness tradition - that virtue, concentration, and discernment are inseparable, mutually supporting practices: concentration and discernment bring virtue to perfection; discernment and virtue bring concentration to perfection;
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As this term also denotes the extinguishing of a fire, it carries connotations of stilling, cooling, and peace. "Total nibbāna" in some contexts denotes the experience of awakening; in others, the final passing away of an arahant. Sanskrit form: Nirvāṇa.
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When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. It is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all. 2. The Canon's prime contribution to human spirituality is its insight into how interconnectedness can be cultivated through systematic training in mindfulness, defined ...
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The Power of Goodwill | The Heightened Mind
The power of goodwill can bring peace and security to the world in countless ways. There's a brief story from the time of the Buddha that illustrates this point. Once a king was returning home with his troops after having engaged in a battle. On the way, they stopped off in a cool, quiet forest to rest and to find water to drink and to bathe ...
Recollection of Stilling | A Meditator's Tools : A Study Guide
'I shall be neither percipient nor non-percipient' is a construing. Construing is a disease, construing is a cancer, construing is an arrow. By going beyond all construing, he is called a sage at peace. "Furthermore, a sage at peace does not take birth, does not age, does not die, is unagitated, and is free from longing.
MN 140 Dhātu-vibhaṅga Sutta | An Analysis of the Properties
'I shall be neither percipient nor non-percipient' is a supposition. Supposition is a disease, supposition is a cancer, supposition is an arrow. By going beyond all supposition, he is called a sage at peace. "And further, a sage at peace is not born, does not age, does not die, is unagitated, and is free from longing.
Birth Is Suffering | The Intelligent Heart
When we practice virtue, we gain a type of peace free from animosity or danger—because we don't create them. We look after our speech to make it right speech, and there's no animosity or danger. We gain peace from our speech. We practice right effort and right livelihood and train the mind to gain mental peace and mental happiness.
Ud 1:10 Bāhiya Sutta | Bāhiya
Then Bāhiya, hurriedly leaving Jeta's Grove and entering Sāvatthī, saw the Blessed One going for alms in Sāvatthī-serene & inspiring serene confidence, calming, his senses at peace, his mind at peace, having attained the utmost tranquility & poise, tamed, guarded, his senses restrained, a Great One (nāga).
PDF Poems of the Elders - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
brings peace. — Dhp 102 Both the Theragāthā and Therīgāthā contain many poems that achieve this effect of calm and peace by describing how the speaker attained the peace of awakening. A typical example is from Vimalā's poem, Thig 5:2: Today, wrapped in a double cloak, my head shaven, having wandered for alms, I sit at the foot of a tree
First Things First
It's only within this narrow range of possibilities that our non-clinging creativity can eke out a little peace. And when we compare these understandings with the Buddha's actual teachings on clinging and the end of clinging—returning the three characteristics to their original role as three perceptions, and putting the four noble truths ...
PDF Booklist ~ Metta Forest Monastery Thai Forest Tradition
Triple Gem?, The Path to Peace and Freedom for the Mind, Basic Themes, and Duties of the Saṅgha. The Craft of the Heart On developing virtue (sīla), concentration (samādhi), and discernment (paññā). Food for Thought & Starting Out Small An introductory collection of passages on the training of the heart.
SN 43 Asaṅkhata Saṁyutta | Unfabricated-Connected
Unfabricated-Connected Asaṅkhata Saṁyutta (SN 43) This saṁyutta provides a list of 33 names for the goal of the practice. * * * I "Monks, I will teach you the unfabricated 1 and the path leading to the unfabricated. Listen & pay close attention.
Right Effort | On the Path : an Anthology on the Noble ...
Right Effort. Right effort is the first of the three concentration factors in the path, and is actually contained in the other two. In right mindfulness, it functions as the sub-factor of ardency; right mindfulness, in turn, acts as the theme of right concentration.
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Thig 8 Sīsūpacālā
will reach the state of peace, a nourishment. that never cloys. 1. Māra: The Devas of the Thirty-three, the Hours, the Contented, devas who delight in creation, & devas in control: Direct your mind there. where you lived before. 2. Sīsūpacālā: The Devas of the Thirty-three, the Hours, the Contented,
Sn 1:12 The Sage
the state of peace. Considering the ground, crushing the seed, he wouldn't nourish the sap 4 —truly a sage— ...
Four Bases for Success | Bases of Success : Six Dhamma ...
We're here because we do want to gain peace of mind. We want to gain a genuine happiness, a happiness that doesn't disappoint, a happiness that doesn't place any burdens on anybody, a happiness that causes no harm to anyone. That's a noble goal, and so we should do our best to focus on the causes that will enable us to succeed in ...
Introduction | Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samādhi
The heart is like a god. Good, evil, pleasure, and pain come entirely from the heart. We could even call the heart a creator of the world, because the peace and continued well-being of the world depend on the heart. If the world is to be destroyed, it will be because of the heart.
Buddhist Romanticism | Buddhist Romanticism
"We can find peace and freedom in the face of the mystery of life. In awakening to this harmony, we discover a treasure hidden in each difficulty. Hidden in the inevitable impermanence and loss of life, its very instability, is the enormous power of creativity. In the process of change, there arises an abundance of new forms, new births, new ...
AN 6:85 Sīti Sutta | Cooled
Cooled Sīti Sutta (AN 6:85) "A monk endowed with six qualities is incapable of realizing the unexcelled cooled state. Which six? There is the case where a monk doesn't rein in his mind when it should be reined in.
Thig 6:8 Vijayā - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
having gained no peace of awareness, my thoughts out of control. So, approaching a nun, I cross-questioned her attentively. She taught me the Dhamma: aggregates, sense media, properties, four noble truths, five faculties, seven factors for awakening, the eightfold path. for attaining the highest goal. Hearing her words, I did her bidding.
The Care & Feeding of the Mind | Keeping the Breath in ...
All the properties will be at peace, free from unrest and disturbances. It's like knowing how to look after a small child. If your child starts crying, you know when to give it milk or candy, when to give it a bath, when to take it out for some air, when to rock it in a cradle, when to give it a toy or a doll to play with.
The Four Frames of Reference | Things as They Are : A ...
The mind that's always carried away, without any mindfulness to look after it, is thus always getting disturbed to the point where it can never find any stillness and peace. The guardians of the mind are mindfulness and discernment, which continually watch over it all the time it is thinking about various issues, and which continually try to ...
AN 3:35 Hatthaka Sutta | To Hatthaka - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. To Hatthaka Hatthaka Sutta (AN 3:35) On one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Āḷavī on a spread of leaves by a cattle track in a siṁsapā forest.
DN 2 Sāmaññaphala Sutta | The Fruits of the Contemplative Life
The Fruits of the Contemplative Life Sāmaññaphala Sutta (DN 2) Introduction. This discourse is one of the masterpieces of the Pali Canon. At heart, it is a comprehensive portrait of the Buddhist path of training, illustrating each stage of the training with vivid similes.
Ud 6:8 Gaṇika Sutta | The Courtesan - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Notes. 1. See Iti 49, and the discussion of this point in The Paradox of Becoming, chapters 2 and 6.. 2. For an example of "not existing there," see the Buddha's instructions to Bāhiya in Ud 1:10.For an example of freeing oneself from construing, see the description of a sage at peace near the conclusion of MN 140.MN 140.
Thig 9 Vaḍḍha's Mother - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Vaḍḍha's Mother: Vaḍḍha, don't have any. underbrush-lust. ever, in the world, at all.
AN 10:60 Girimānanda Sutta | To Girimānanda
There is the case where a monk—having gone to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building—reflects thus: 'This is peace, this is exquisite—the pacification of all fabrications, the relinquishing of all acquisitions, the ending of craving, dispassion, unbinding.'
III. Relinquishment | Ten Perfections: A Study Guide
My heart leaped up at renunciation, grow confident, steadfast, & firm, seeing it as peace. Then, quite withdrawn from sensuality, withdrawn from unskillful qualities, I entered & remained in the first jhāna: rapture & pleasure born of seclusion, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation.
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Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Itivuttaka 77. This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, this body falls apart; consciousness is subject to fading; all acquisitions are inconstant, stressful, subject to change."
PDF 200412 Strength of Mindfulness
the mind so that at all times—in times of peace, in times of no peace, in times of illness, in times of no illness—the mind is ready for whatever comes. Because the potential for aging, illness, and death is always there. The potential for social unrest is always there. Think of those dangers the Buddha has the monk in the forest reflect on:
Sn 4:3 The Corrupted Octet - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
relies on a peace. dependent. on the provoked. 1. Because entrenchments 2 in views. aren't easily overcome. when considering what's grasped. among doctrines, that's why. a person embraces or rejects a doctrine— in light of these very. entrenchments.
The Roots of Buddhist Romanticism | Purity of Heart
Or as another has said, "When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world." Adds a third: "Our job for the rest of our life is to open up into that immensity and to express it."
Glossary | Non-violence
As this term also denotes the extinguishing of a fire, it carries connotations of stilling, cooling, and peace. "Total nibbāna" in some contexts denotes the experience of awakening; in others, the final passing away of an arahant. Sanskrit form: Nirvāṇa.
AN 6:55 Soṇa Sutta | About Soṇa
his heart at peace, there's nothing to be done, nothing to add. to what's done. As a single mass of rock isn't moved by the wind, even so all. forms, flavors, sounds, aromas, contacts, ideas desirable & not, have no effect on one who is Such. The mind —still, totally released— focuses on. their passing away.
The Skillful Heart | Fistful of Sand & The Light of ...
In the same way, when the mind isn't at peace, we don't have to look for peace anywhere else. Restlessness comes from an unskillful preoccupation; peace, from a skillful preoccupation right in the same place. When we've developed a good preoccupation that puts the mind at peace, we should look after it and maintain it well.
Introduction | Basic Themes
A mind at peace through the power of discernment has still another level of happiness. And the peace of a mind released is yet another level, with a happiness completely apart from the rest. In these matters, though, meditators tend to prefer the results to the causes.
SN 6:15 Parinibbāna Sutta | Total Unbinding
& bent on peace: the sage completing his span. With heart unbowed. he endured the pain. Like a flame's unbinding. was the liberation. of awareness." ...
Disenchantment | Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment
When your views change often in this way, the mind will experience a new kind of stillness and peace. It will turn away from the fevers of the fires of passion, aversion, and delusion; and turn into mindfulness, concentration, and discernment instead. Its knowledge and views will become clear. It will no longer waver.
Five Piles of Bricks | The Karma of Questions
This is why they have to be based on the first step—the wellbeing constructed in jhāna—and coupled with the third step, the perceptions of dispassion and cessation that incline the mind to the deathless: "This is peace, this is exquisite—the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving ...
AN 5:30 Nāgita Sutta | To Nāgita - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Whoever cannot obtain at will—without difficulty, without trouble—as I do, the pleasure of renunciation, the pleasure of seclusion, the pleasure of peace, the pleasure of self-awakening, let him consent to this slimy-excrement-pleasure, this torpor-pleasure, this pleasure of gains, offerings, & fame.
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From that he is there released. A master of direct knowing, at peace, he is a sage. gone beyond bonds.
Introduction | Frames of Reference - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
When both forms of peace are present, you will know and see the Dhamma as it actually is. So when you put this form of meditation into practice, you should first say your chants and pay respect to the Buddha in whatever way you are accustomed to, and then begin sitting in meditation.
PDF 191009 The Wall of Discernment
So the value judgement of discernment is that the peace of mind you can find through the practice is the most important thing to work for. And anything that's required for that, you're willing to do. So discernment here is based on desire, just as all the other factors of the path are based on desire. You want the highest happiness.
MN 86 Aṅgulimāla Sutta | About Aṅgulimāla
foremost peace, would protect the. feeble & firm. Irrigators guide the water. Fletchers shape the arrow shaft. Carpenters shape. the wood. The wise control. themselves. 6. Some tame with a blunt stick, with hooks, & with whips. But without blunt or bladed weapons. I was tamed by the one who is Such.
The Integrity of Emptiness | Purity of Heart
The skills you need to talk yourself into meditating on a cold, dark morning, or into resisting a drink on a lazy afternoon, are the same ones that will eventually guarantee an undistorted realization of the highest peace. This is how the Buddha's teachings on emptiness encourage you to exercise wisdom in everything you do.
Glossary | Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment
As this term is used to denote also the extinguishing of fire, it carries the connotations of stilling, cooling, and peace. (According to the physics taught at the time of the Buddha, a burning fire seizes or adheres to its fuel; when extinguished, it is unbound.)
Dhp XX : The Path
Just this. is the path -there is no other- to purify vision. Follow it, and that will be Mara's. bewilderment.
Dhp XV : Happy
no ease other than peace. Hunger: the foremost illness. Fabrications: the foremost pain. For one knowing this truth. as it actually is, Unbinding. is the foremost ease. Freedom from illness: the foremost good fortune. Contentment: the foremost wealth. Trust: the foremost kinship. Unbinding: the foremost ease.
MN 122 Mahā Suññata Sutta | The Greater Discourse on Emptiness
Indeed, Ānanda, it is impossible that a monk who delights in company, enjoys company, is committed to delighting in company; who delights in a group, enjoys a group, rejoices in a group, will obtain at will—without difficulty, without trouble—the pleasure of renunciation, the pleasure of seclusion, the pleasure of peace, the pleasure of ...
PDF In Simple Terms
As for your real home, that's peace. The Buddha has us build our own home by letting go till we reach peace. To the Ocean The streams, lakes, and rivers that flow down to the ocean, when they reach the ocean, all have the same blue color, the same salty taste. The same with human beings: It doesn't matter where they're from—when
PDF 190528 On Idle Chatter - dhammatalks.org
He decides to get out and have some peace and quiet. First he visits a group of three monks. They talk about their life together. They're living in the forest together and every five days they have a Dhamma discussion. Aside from that, they try to keep their speech to an absolute minimum.
Glossary | The Truth of Rebirth - Home | dhammatalks.org
Glossary. Arahant: A "worthy one" or "pure one;" a person whose mind is free of defilement and thus not destined for further rebirth. A title for the Buddha and the highest level of his noble disciples. Āsava: Fermentation; effluent. Four qualities—sensuality, views, becoming, and ignorance—that "flow out" of the mind and create the flood (ogha) of the round of death & rebirth.
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The Language of the Heart | Straight from the Heart ...
At the very least, we should get the mind to attain stillness and peace with any of the meditation themes that can lull it into a state of calm, giving rise to peace and well-being within it. For example, mindfulness of breathing, which is one of the primary themes in meditation circles, seems to suit the temperaments of more people than any ...
Glossary | The Truth of Rebirth - Home | dhammatalks.org
Glossary. Arahant: A "worthy one" or "pure one;" a person whose mind is free of defilement and thus not destined for further rebirth. A title for the Buddha and the highest level of his noble disciples. Āsava: Fermentation; effluent. Four qualities—sensuality, views, becoming, and ignorance—that "flow out" of the mind and create the flood (ogha) of the round of death & rebirth.
Sn 5:3 Puṇṇaka's Questions
The Buddha answers that it is possible, and that such a concentration can be attained when one is percipient in this way: "This is peace, this is exquisite—the pacification of all fabrications; the relinquishing of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; unbinding."
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Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Itivuttaka 87. This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, there are these three kinds of unskillful thinking that produce blindness, produce lack of vision, produce lack of knowledge, lead to the cessation of discernment, side with vexation, and are not conducive to Unbinding.
7 : Choosing Dispassion | The Truth of Rebirth
And if they hold to the materialist view that all we can know is known through the senses, then equanimity in the face of sensory experience would be the greatest peace they could imagine. But as the Buddha points out in SN 35:117 , there is a dimension of experience beyond the senses where an even greater peace can be found through the total ...
4 | The Mirror of Insight | The Mirror of Insight
4 | The Mirror of Insight. The mental quality that accurately sees the fact of fabrication and judges its true value is called insight. The Pali term, vipassanā, literally means "clear-seeing." The suttas often pair it with tranquility, or samatha, stating that these two qualities ideally function together. The function of tranquility is to put an end to passion; the function of insight ...
Introduction to the Theragāthā & Therīgāthā
One of the prime candidates for a ninth savor was the calmed, the savor tasted when witnessing another person achieve peace. There are good reasons to believe that the first proponents of the calmed as a legitimate savor for literary works were Buddhist. For example, the great Buddhist poet, Aśvaghoṣa, who wrote epics and plays in the 1st ...
Sn 5:11 Jatukaṇṇin's Question - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Tell me the state of peace, Blessed One, Simultaneous Eye. 1. Tell me. as it actually is. For the Blessed One lives. having conquered sensuality, as the radiant sun, in its radiance, the earth. Limited my discernment, O Deeply Discerning. Teach me to know the Dhamma, the abandoning here. of birth & aging.
DN 1 Brahmajāla Sutta | The Brahmā Net
Second, the term "unbinding" in these theories is defined as the peace found in the pleasures of the senses and the four jhānas (states of mental absorption). So, obviously, it carries no connotations of extinction. This lends support to the point that the Buddha's use of the word unbinding for his goal also did not mean extinction, a ...
Morning Chanting | A Chanting Guide - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
who have seen peace, awakening after the one gone the good way, who have abandoned heedlessness—the noble ones, the wise: I revere that Saṅgha with devotion. Iccevam-ekant'abhipūjaneyyakaṁ, Vatthuttayaṁ vandayatābhisaṅkhataṁ, Puññaṁ mayā yaṁ mama sabbupaddavā, Mā hontu ve tassa pabhāva-siddhiyā.
Strengthening Discernment | Gather 'Round the Breath
There is a sense of peace that fills the body. The important thing is that the ease and pleasure pervade your sense of the whole body. What kind of breath could lead you there? And what perception of breathing could lead you there? This is where it's useful to think of the breathing as a whole body process. The breath is not the air.
All Winners, No Losers : The Buddha's Teachings on ...
The narrative that "He wronged me, and I won't feel at peace until I get back at him" is not one you want to focus on as death approaches—something it's doing all the time. Otherwise, you may find yourself reborn with a vera mission, which is a miserable way to live a life. You've got other, better things to do with your time.
Thig 3:2 Uttamā - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
having gained no peace of awareness, my thoughts out of control. So I went to a trustworthy nun. She taught me the Dhamma: aggregates, sense media, properties. 1. Hearing the Dhamma, I did as she said. For seven days I sat in one spot, absorbed in rapture & bliss. On the eighth, I stretched out my legs, having burst the mass. of darkness.
Free at Last | Food for Thought: Eighteen Talks on the ...
Free at Last. July 13, 1958; May 11, 1957; October 12, 1957. When the heart is a slave to its moods and defilements—greed, aversion, and delusion—it 's like being a slave to poor people, troublemakers, and crooks, all of whom are people we shouldn't be enslaved to.
The Work of a Contemplative | Things as They Are : A ...
Concentration refers to the stability and solidity of the heart, beginning with its small moments of stillness and peace, all the way up to the refined and stable levels of stillness and peace. If the mind isn't trained, isn't improved, isn't forced with various tactics backed up by mindfulness, discernment, conviction, and persistence ...
PDF 200202 The Wisdom of Dualities
Even common animals want peace of mind. If you're a human being, you want something better than that. You want goodness as well." In other words, if you're a genuine human being looking for a happiness that puts your mind at rest, it has to be good, too. It has to be harmless. It has to be blameless.
Introduction | Mindful of the Body: A Study Guide
Then, as many a modern meditation master has noted, the mind and body can live in peace. This study guide focuses on the primary sutta in the Pali Canon dealing with the contemplation of the body: The Discourse on Mindfulness Immersed in the Body . The first section, The Context, establishes the general principles underlying the practice of ...
Introduction | Non-violence
In this way, the basis for papañca is gradually undercut, and there are fewer and fewer occasions for conflict. In following this path, you reap its increasing benefits—more peace, both within and without—all along the way. For more on the topic of non-violence, see the essays, "Educating Compassion" and "Getting the Message."
Sn 3:12 The Contemplation of Dualities
his mind at peace, his wandering-on in birth totally ended: He has no further becoming. "Now, if there are any who ask, 'Would there be the right contemplation of dualities in yet another way?' they should be told, 'There would.' How would that be?
Bhikkhu Pāṭimokkha | The Bhikkhus' Code of Discipline
The first two are external: to ensure peace and well-being within the Community itself, and to foster and protect faith among the laity, on whom the monks depend for their support. The third type of reason is internal: to help restrain and prevent mental pollutants within the individual monks. This last point quickly becomes apparent to anyone ...
PDF 171017 Wise about Happiness - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
The acceptance gives a certain amount of peace. The image the author gave was sitting on a shore with waves coming in. There are good waves and there are bad waves. You just accept the fact that that's the way the ocean is. It's beyond your control—and wisdom lies in learning to accept the fact that waves will come and then they'll go ...
INTRODUCTION | The Mind like Fire Unbound
The discourses of the Pali Canon make a frequent analogy between the workings of fire and those of the mind: The mind unawakened to the supreme goal is like a burning fire; the awakened mind, like a fire gone out. The analogy is made both indirectly & directly: indirectly in the use of terminology borrowed from the physics of fire to describe mental events (the word nibbāna being the best ...
Thag 14:2 Godatta - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Just as a fine, well-bred bull. yoked to a load, enduring his load, crushed. by the heavy burden, doesn't throw down his yoke; so, too, those who are filled with discernment
DN 16 Mahā Parinibbāna Sutta | The Great Total Unbinding ...
The Great Total Unbinding Discourse Mahā Parinibbāna Sutta (DN 16) Introduction. Nibbāna originally was the Pali word for the extinguishing of a fire.The Buddha employed it as one of the names of the goal he taught, in light of the way in which the processes of fire were viewed at his time: A burning fire was seen as clinging to its fuel in a state of hot agitation.
Introduction | The Divine Mantra
The waters were crystal clean. Any diseased animal that happened to pass into the forest and drink the water would be completely cured of its illness. The grasses and vines were always fresh and green. Fierce animals that normally attacked and ate one another would, when entering the forest, live together in peace as friends.
Namakāra-siddhi Gāthā | A Chanting Guide
rightly accomplished, it brings pleasure, makes peace. Dhammaṁ varantaṁ sirasā namāmi. Mohappadālaṁ upasanta-dāhaṁ. Tan-tejasā te jaya-siddhi hotu. Sabb'antarāyā ca vināsamentu. I pay homage with my head to that excellent Dhamma, which pierces delusion and makes fever grow calm. By the majesty of this, may you have triumph ...
Introduction | A Burden off the Mind : A Study Guide
This is why they have to be based on the first step—the well-being constructed in jhāna—and coupled with the third step, the perceptions of dispassion and cessation that incline the mind to the deathless: "This is peace, this is exquisite—the pacification of all fabrications; the relinquishing of all acquisitions; the ending of craving ...
The Open Committee | Gather 'Round the Breath
The desire for peace, the desire for true happiness: That's buried someplace in you. You can bring out that desire and arm it with concentration, you can arm it with all the techniques you need to help strengthen it. As that desire get stronger, you can begin to set down some rules, some parliamentary procedures. ...
III. The Foul: Tranquility Meditation | Basic Themes
When any of these unskillful states occupy the heart, it's not flourishing, blooming, or bright. For the heart to bloom, it has to be free from all five of the hindrances; and for it to be free in this way, we have to develop concentration or absorption (jhāna), which is composed of directed thought, evaluation, rapture, pleasure, and singleness of preoccupation (see below).
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Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Itivuttaka 86. This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "Monks, with reference to a monk who practices the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma, it is this way of according with the Dhamma that he should be described as practicing the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma. . When speaking, he speaks Dhamma and not ...
Sn 3:4 Sundarika Bhāradvāja
at peace, released in the ending of clinging: The Tathāgata deserves. the sacrificial cake. Seeing the end & ending. of fetters & birth, having dispelled the path of passion. without trace, pure, faultless, stainless, clear: The Tathāgata deserves. the sacrificial cake. Who doesn't contemplate.
Thag 1:32 Suppiya
I'll make a trade: aging for the ageless, burning for the unbound— the highest peace, the unexcelled rest. from the yoke.
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the state of peace unsurpassed, consummate in terms of signs, peaceful, delighting in the peaceful state, judicious, an attainer-of-wisdom. makes use of classifications. but can't be classified. 1. Note. 1. At first glance, the verses here do not bear much relationship to the prose introduction.
Introduction | With Each & Every Breath
Even if you simply want help in managing pain or finding a little more peace and stability in your life, meditation has plenty to offer you. It can also strengthen the mind to deal with many of the problems of day-to-day life, because it develops qualities like mindfulness, alertness, concentration, and discernment that are useful in all ...
The Savor of the Dhamma | Things as They Are : A ...
The heart can drink of the Dhamma: mental peace and calm. The heart doesn't jump or run, isn't vain or proud, restless or distracted, flying out after various preoccupations, because it has found a satisfying food to sustain it.
Glossary | suttas on dhammatalks.org
As this term also denotes the extinguishing of a fire, it carries connotations of stilling, cooling, and peace. "Total nibbāna" in some contexts denotes the experience of awakening; in others, the final passing away of an arahant. Sanskrit form: Nirvāṇa. Nigaṇṭha: Literally, one without ties. An ascetic in the Jain religion.
AN 6:42 Nāgita Sutta | To Nāgita - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Whoever cannot obtain at will—without difficulty, without trouble—as I do, the pleasure of renunciation, the pleasure of seclusion, the pleasure of peace, the pleasure of self-awakening, let him consent to this slimy-excrement-pleasure, this torpor-pleasure, this pleasure of gains, offerings, & fame.
Contents | The Heightened Mind
The Heightened Mind: Dhamma Talks by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo
Thag 3:14 Gotama - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Ways of taking birth. are now known: devoid of essence, unstable, conditioned, always blown along. Knowing them. as born from my self, mindful. I went right to peace.
The Basics of Breathing | The Skill of Release
The boat won't tip, and the person in the boat will be still and at peace. This is the point where the mind enters the noble path: It's a free mind with full power, released from the sway of the Hindrances. § The breath in the body isn't limited just to the breath that flows in and out the nose. The breath in the body spreads out to ...
Sorting Yourselves Out | Gather 'Round the Breath
So try to make it a healthy self. Because each self, especially the useful ones, are created around skills. We're working on a good skill here. We're learning to find a sense of well-being simply by the way we breathe, a perfectly harmless peace, a perfectly harmless pleasure.
Contents | Basic Themes - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Basic Themes : Four Treatises on Buddhist Practice, by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo
The Riddle Tree | ePublished Dhamma Talks : Volume III
So this is why meditation is a process of exploration. You're not trying to clone enlightenment. You're trying to explore cause and effect as they reveal themselves in the process of bringing your own mind to peace.
Readings | Discernment: The Buddha's Strategies for ...
no bliss other than peace. Hunger: the foremost illness. Fabrications: the foremost pain. For one knowing this truth. as it actually is, Unbinding. is the foremost bliss.
Sn 2:10 Initiative
Get up! Sit up! Train firmly for the sake of peace. Don't let the king of death, —seeing you heedless— deceive you, bring you under his sway.
PDF 200324 Alone Together
simply to look after the individual's mind, but also to look after peace in the community, harmony in the community. So as we're living together, it's good to think about the principles—not only the rules, but also the larger principles of how we can live together peacefully in harmony and be admirable friends to one
Advanced Practice | With Each & Every Breath
Additional readings: On jhana: See the section, "Jhana," in Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo, Keeping the Breath in Mind, and "Method 2."There are also excellent discussions of jhana in Ajaan Lee's book, The Path to Peace & Freedom for the Mind, under the heading, "Right Concentration" and under the headings of "Virtue," "Concentration," and "Discernment" at the end of the book.
PDF 190822 Sit with It - dhammatalks.org
may not be getting the peace and quiet I want, I'm still learning." And that's really what the meditation is all about: learning about your body, learning especially about your mind. If you want to learn about these things, you have to be able to sit with them both when they're good and when they're bad, when they're
Thag 5:10 Yasadatta - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
But whoever hears the Conqueror's teaching. with guarded 1 intent,. doing away with effluents —all— realizing the unshakable, attaining the foremost peace,
Unwavering Conviction | The Intelligent Heart
When the mind is set on being peaceful, when it's set on meditating, it tends toward peace. It tends toward seclusion. This is what gives rise to concentration, to mindfulness and discernment, and ultimately to the knowledge of release, step by step. All of this comes from setting the mind in the right direction.
