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Training in Virtue | The Craft of the Heart
Normalcy in bodily action is expressed by three precepts: refraining from taking life, from stealing, and from engaging in illicit sex. Normalcy in speech is expressed by the precept against lying, which involves refraining not only from lying, but also from divisive tale-bearing, from coarse or abusive speech, and from aimless or idle talk.
SN 42:6 Paccha-bhūmika Sutta | (Brahmans) of the Western Land
There is the case where a man is one who takes life, steals, indulges in illicit sex; is a liar, one who speaks divisive speech, harsh speech, & idle chatter; is greedy, bears thoughts of ill-will, & holds to wrong views.
6 : Developing Goodwill | Non-violence
6 : Developing Goodwill §46. "There is the case, headman, where a Tathāgata appears in the world, worthy & rightly self-awakened, consummate in clear-knowing & conduct, well-gone, an expert with regard to the cosmos, unexcelled trainer of people fit to be tamed, teacher of devas & human beings, awakened, blessed.
Safety in a Duality
The examples are offered as rules and precepts, such as the precepts against killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, and taking intoxicants. Many people don't like rules, seeing them as small-minded and confining, but it's hard to argue with some of the rules the Buddha offers for your protection.
AN 10:92 Vera Sutta | Animosity
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Animosity Vera Sutta (AN 10:92) Then Anāthapiṇḍika the householder went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to the Blessed One, sat to one side.
Foundations for Mindfulness | The Karma of Mindfulness ...
Q: What is illicit sex? A: If you are married, it means having any sex outside of the marriage. If you are not married, illicit sex means having sex with a person married to someone else, with a person who is under-age, or with a person who has taken a vow of celibacy.
Readings : Kamma | The Karma of Mindfulness : The Buddha's ...
Which four? There is the case where a certain person takes life, takes what is not given [steals], engages in illicit sex, lies, speaks divisively, speaks abusively, engages in idle chatter; is covetous, malevolent, & holds wrong views. On the break-up of the body, after death, he reappears in the plane of deprivation, the bad destination, the ...
MN 117 Mahā Cattārīsaka Sutta | The Great Forty
Abstaining from killing, from taking what is not given, & from illicit sex. 6 This is the right action with effluents, siding with merit, resulting in acquisitions. "And what is the right action that is noble, without effluents, transcendent, a factor of the path? The abstaining, desisting, abstinence, avoidance of the three forms of bodily ...
MN 136 Mahā Kamma-vibhaṅga Sutta | The Greater Analysis of ...
There is the case where a certain person is one who takes life, takes what is not given [steals], engages in illicit sex, lies, speaks divisively, speaks abusively, engages in idle chatter; is covetous, malevolent, & holds wrong view. With the breakup of the body, after death, he reappears in a plane of deprivation, a bad destination, a lower ...
The Celibate Life | Awareness Itself
§ For anyone who tries to follow the celibate life, the opposite sex is the biggest temptation to leave the path. If Ajaan Fuang was teaching monks, he'd say, "Women are like vines. At first they seem so weak and soft, but if you let them grow on you, they curl up around you until they have you all tied up and finally bring you down."
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Part I : Looking Inward | An Unentangled Knowing: The ...
Those who practice the Dhamma should train themselves to understand in the following stages: The training that is easy to learn, gives immediate results, and is suitable for every time, every place, for people of every age and either sex, is to study in the school of this body—a fathom long, a cubit wide, and a span thick—with its perceiving mind in charge.
Pleasant Practice, Painful Practice | Meditations8 ...
It helps with a lot of defilements, not just with your attachment to lust. It's interesting to note that the Buddha's analysis of lust is that you start with your attraction to your own body and then you transfer that to the body of the opposite sex or whatever the sex you're attracted to. But it starts with your own body.
End Notes to the Dhammapada - Home | dhammatalks.org
231-233: Bodily misconduct = killing, stealing, engaging in illicit sex. Verbal misconduct = lies, divisive speech, harsh speech, idle chatter. Mental misconduct = covetousness, ill will, wrong views. 235: Yama = the god of the underworld. Yama's minions or underlings were believed to appear to a person just prior to the moment of death.
The Service for the Lunar Sabbath | The Craft of the Heart
3. To refrain from illicit sex. (This is for those who are taking the five precepts. The precept, Abrahma-cariyā…, for those taking the eight precepts, forbids all forms of sexual intercourse.) 4. To refrain from speaking falsehood. 5. To refrain from taking intoxicants. 6. To refrain from eating food during the period from noon until the ...
The Way to Stream Entry | Into the Stream
There is the case where a person of integrity is one who refrains from taking life, refrains from stealing, refrains from illicit sex. This is how a person of integrity is a person of integrity in the way he acts.
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illicit sex. Normalcy in speech is expressed by the precept against lying, which involves refraining not only from lying, but also from divisive tale-bearing, from coarse or abusive speech, and from aimless or idle talk. As for the precept against taking intoxicants, it fits in with the third precept—against illicit sex—in that both
PDF 140101 Pleasure Has a Price - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
cat's life is when it's indulging in pleasure: whether food or sex or sleep or even defecating. If it lets down its guard and gets distracted by the pleasure, it tends to get attacked by other animals. So, it has to be especially wary during those times.
SN 42:8 Saṅkha Sutta | The Conch Trumpet
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. The Conch Trumpet Saṅkha Sutta (SN 42:8) Although the Jains, like the Buddhists, teach a doctrine of the moral consequences of actions, the teachings of the two traditions differ in many important details.
MN 110 Cūḷa Puṇṇama Sutta | The Shorter Full-Moon Night ...
There is the case where a person of no integrity is one who takes life, steals, engages in illicit sex. This is how a person of no integrity is a person of no integrity in the way he acts. "And how is a person of no integrity a person of no integrity in the views he holds? There is the case where a person of no integrity is one who holds a ...
Sn 4:9 To Māgandiya
Theravada Buddhist Sutta from the Pāli Canon. Notes. 1. This information is taken from SnA. The Sanskrit version of this sutta found in the Divyāvadāna provides the same basic information in a narrative much more elaborate than that in SnA.
PDF 150806 Pleasant Practice, Painful Practice
then you go to the body of the opposite sex or whatever the sex you're attracted to. But it starts with your body. This analysis is not just for lust. It's also for pride, such as the pride of racism. Skin is just skin, and nobody's skin is attractive when it's put in a pile. Whatever kind of
PDF The Large Canvas
sex and there's no use for sex at all. But in a lot of other areas, we do make use of what we're ultimately going to overcome, what we're going to go past. And intention is one of theses things. We get to the point where the mind no longer has any need for intention, but we have to intend to practice this path. We
Pācittaya Five: The Naked Ascetic Chapter | The Buddhist ...
The Commentary offers an alternative explanation, defining aiming at privacy as being impelled by any defilement related to sex, but this explanation opens as many questions as it tries to resolve. Does it refer solely to the desire for intercourse or to other more subtle sexually-related desires such as those listed in AN 7:47 ?
Sn 1:12 The Sage
abstaining from sex, in youth bound by no one, abstaining from intoxication 12. complacency, totally apart: The enlightened call him a sage. Knowing the world, seeing the highest goal, crossing the ocean, 13 the flood, 14
Meditation in Daily Life | With Each & Every Breath
1) Killing any person or animal. 2) Stealing (i.e., taking something belonging to someone else without that person's permission) 3) Having illicit sex (i.e., with a minor or with an adult who is already in another relationship or when you are already in another relationship). 4) Telling falsehoods (i.e., misrepresenting the truth)
3 : Rebirth & Action | The Truth of Rebirth
All those who take what is not given… who engage in illicit sex… who tell lies experience pain & distress in the here-&-now.' "Now there is the case where a certain person is seen garlanded & adorned, freshly bathed & groomed, with hair & beard trimmed, enjoying the sensualities of women as if he were a king.
Pushing the Limits | Purity of Heart
Your desire for sex, for instance, can get in the way of your desire for peace. In fact, conflict among desires is what alerts us to how painful desire can be. It's also what has taught each desire how to speak, to persuade, to argue or bully its way into power. And just because a desire is skillful doesn't mean it's more skillful at ...
Living in the World | Awareness Itself
Sex is the creator of the world. The reason we're all born is because we worship the Siva linga in our hearts." § Once, when one of Ajaan Fuang's students was being pressured by her parents to look for a husband so that she could settle down and have children, she asked him, "Is it true what they say, that a woman gains a lot of merit ...
Honest to Goodness | First Things First - dhammatalks.org
This means no killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, or taking intoxicants. In any situations. At all. As the Buddha says, if you can hold to these precepts without exception, you're giving universal protection to all beings. If you make exceptions, that protection is only partial—and you're only partially protected as well. ...
Antidotes | Gather 'Round the Breath
The heads are not going to stand straight up until they've had sex." I walked out of the movie and said: "I don't need to see a movie about that." But there is that aspect in our society that says if you don't give in to your passions, you're going to get all distorted and crooked. You have to say: "Well, wait a minute.
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PDF 150806 Pleasant Practice, Painful Practice
then you go to the body of the opposite sex or whatever the sex you're attracted to. But it starts with your body. This analysis is not just for lust. It's also for pride, such as the pride of racism. Skin is just skin, and nobody's skin is attractive when it's put in a pile. Whatever kind of
3 : Rebirth & Action | The Truth of Rebirth
3 : Rebirth & Action. There is still the question, though, of why the Buddha felt compelled to discuss the issue of karma and rebirth. We know that he refused to take a position on other issues that were hotly contested at the time—such as whether the cosmos was eternal or not ()—so what led him to take a position here?The first part of the answer is that knowledge of rebirth formed an ...
On Ordaining Bhikkhunīs Unilaterally | The Question of ...
This is the rule forbidding sexual intercourse. Even though the origin stories describe only incidents of heterosexual sex, the explanatory material in the Sutta Vibhaṅga makes clear that the rule applies to all sorts of intercourse—anal, oral, and genital—heterosexual or not.
Pushing the Limits | Purity of Heart
Your desire for sex, for instance, can get in the way of your desire for peace. In fact, conflict among desires is what alerts us to how painful desire can be. It's also what has taught each desire how to speak, to persuade, to argue or bully its way into power. And just because a desire is skillful doesn't mean it's more skillful at ...
Living in the World | Awareness Itself
Sex is the creator of the world. The reason we're all born is because we worship the Siva linga in our hearts." § Once, when one of Ajaan Fuang's students was being pressured by her parents to look for a husband so that she could settle down and have children, she asked him, "Is it true what they say, that a woman gains a lot of merit ...
Antidotes | Gather 'Round the Breath
The heads are not going to stand straight up until they've had sex." I walked out of the movie and said: "I don't need to see a movie about that." But there is that aspect in our society that says if you don't give in to your passions, you're going to get all distorted and crooked. You have to say: "Well, wait a minute.
Right View | On the Path : an Anthology on the Noble ...
AN 4:234 defines dark kamma with dark result with the following example: "There is the case of a certain person who kills living beings, steals what is not given, engages in illicit sex, tells lies, and drinks fermented & distilled liquors that are the basis for heedlessness," and bright kamma with bright result with the following example ...
Honest to Goodness | First Things First - dhammatalks.org
This means no killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, or taking intoxicants. In any situations. At all. As the Buddha says, if you can hold to these precepts without exception, you're giving universal protection to all beings. If you make exceptions, that protection is only partial—and you're only partially protected as well. ...
The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
The full offense here is composed of four factors: effort, object, knowledge, and consent. Effort. The term sexual intercourse refers to all kinds of sexual intercourse involving genitals (literally, the "urine path" (passāva-magga)—i.e., a woman's vagina or a man's penis); the anus (vacca-magga); or the mouth (mukha). The Vibhaṅga summarizes the various possible combinations of ...
Dhamma-Vinaya | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
The first rule, for instance, was formulated when a bhikkhu had sex with a former wife, and was amended when another bhikkhu had sex with a monkey, but the rule is not limited to cases where monkeys and former wives are a bhikkhu's partner in sex. In some instances—such as the origin story dealing with the establishment of the Invitation ...
Readings | Karma Q &A
AN 4:234 repeats most of the above, defining dark kamma with dark result with the following example: "There is the case of a certain person who kills living beings, steals what is not given, engages in illicit sex, tells lies, and drinks fermented & distilled liquors that are the basis for heedlessness," and bright kamma with bright result ...
Karma | Fistful of Sand & The Light of Discernment
Karma. Question: You've spoken of the five topics that should be contemplated every day: that we're subject to aging, subject to illness, subject to death, subject to separation from the things and people we love, and that we're the owners of our karma. This fifth topic is the most difficult of the five to understand. I was wondering if you could explain karma, and in particular the role ...
The Awakening | Noble Warrior : A Life of the Buddha
The Blessed One said, "Ānanda, there are four kinds of people to be found in the world. Which four? There is the case where a certain person is one who takes life, takes what is not given [steals], engages in illicit sex, lies, speaks divisively, speaks abusively, engages in idle chatter; is covetous, malevolent, & holds wrong view.
Sn 1:12 The Sage
abstaining from sex, in youth bound by no one, abstaining from intoxication 12. complacency, totally apart: The enlightened call him a sage. Knowing the world, seeing the highest goal, crossing the ocean, 13 the flood, 14
The Work of a Contemplative | Things as They Are : A ...
The body: Usually it's the body of the opposite sex. As the Dhamma says, there is no sight that's a greater enemy to the state of a contemplative than the sight of the opposite sex. The same holds true for the voice, the smell, the taste, and the touch of the opposite sex. These are the foremost dangers that face contemplatives, so we have ...
AN 8:54 Dīghajāṇu Sutta | To Dīghajāṇu
In the same way, these are the four inlets to one's store of wealth: not being debauched in sex, not being debauched in drink, not being debauched in gambling, and having admirable people as friends, associates, & companions. "These, TigerPaw, are the four qualities that lead to a lay person's happiness and well-being in this life.
2. Prayer vs. Resolve | The Sublime Attitudes: A Study ...
"So it is with any man who takes life, steals, indulges in illicit sex; is a liar, one who speaks divisive speech, harsh speech, & idle chatter; is greedy, bears thoughts of ill-will, & holds to wrong views.
Empathetic Joy | Meditations7
The idea that meditation is a purification that burns away your old kamma is actually a Jain teaching that he ridiculed. And you wonder what he would have said about a passage I read the other day in a Buddhist magazine—that if you can maintain equanimity during sex, that can also be a form of purification. The Buddha had no use for these ideas.
PDF The Middles of the Middle Way - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Buddha—no intentional killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, or taking of intoxicants—with the precepts taught by the other contemplative schools of his time, we find that the Buddha's precepts lie between two extremes. On the strict side, the Jains taught that all activity, intentional or not, is harmful, and that the
The Skill of Restraint | Meditations4
When your happiness is dependent on sensory pleasures being a certain way, it can lead to all sorts of unskillful behavior as you try to keep on feeding the mind the kind of sights, sounds, etc., it likes. This is why we see so much killing and stealing, illicit sex, lying, getting drunk around us in the world.
Faith in Awakening | Purity of Heart
Faith in Awakening. The Buddha never placed unconditional demands on anyone's faith. For people from a culture where the dominant religions do make such demands, this is one of Buddhism's most attractive features. It's especially appealing to those who—in reaction to the demands of organized religion—embrace the view of scientific empiricism that nothing deserves our trust unless it ...
Feelings of Pain | Straight from the Heart : Thirteen ...
Feelings of Pain. In the Discourse on Good Omens (Maṅgala Sutta), the Buddha teaches us to associate with sages, and not with fools. The first and foremost fool here is our own heart. In other words, there are fools outside and fools inside, and for the most part the fools inside are the ones who keep stirring up trouble all the time. When we live with meditation masters, which is called ...
Principles in the Practice, Principles in the Heart ...
Don't be in a hurry to contemplate a corpse that hasn't fallen apart or been bitten, a corpse that is still new and hasn't swollen or grown foul. Don't be in a hurry to approach such a corpse. And be especially careful with a corpse of the opposite sex—that's what he said—until the mind is capable enough in its contemplation.
Conviction (1) | The Five Faculties : Putting Wisdom in ...
Conviction (1) Tonight's talk is on the topic of conviction, which is the first of the five faculties. The Pāli word for conviction, saddhā, can also mean belief or faith. When coming to Buddhism, most people don't like to hear the word "faith" because they've been burned from previous exposures to belief systems demanding faith in things that are unreasonable and that also place ...
Protecting Your Space | Gather 'Round the Breath
The first step in creating a good environment is following the precepts. For the monks, of course, this means following all the precepts the Buddha laid out for them. For laypeople, it means the five and the eight precepts: no killing, no stealing, no illicit sex, no lying, no intoxicants. Those are the five.
H. The Noble Eightfold Path | The Wings to Awakening
The noble eightfold path is the most standard description of the Buddhist way of practice. The Buddha taught it to his first disciples and to his last [], as well as to the majority of those in between.It is called noble because when all of its factors come together in a fully developed form, they stand on the threshold to stream-entry, the first of the noble or transcendent attainments.
The Wisdom of the Ego | Head & Heart Together
Ego functions are our mental strategies for gaining lasting happiness in the midst of the conflicting demands whispering and shouting in the mind. They enable you to say No to the desire to have sex with your neighbor's spouse, in the interest of a happiness that would have less disastrous consequences for the things you truly value in life.
A Home for the Mind | Fistful of Sand & The Light of ...
So let's try to decipher our body, our actions in thought, word, and deed. Our actions don't lie anywhere else. They show themselves in the activity of the body. So we use the body in line with the Dhamma, abstaining from the activities that defile it: killing, stealing, engaging in illicit sex.
On Majjhima Nikāya 61 - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
As he explains the issue in AN 4:96, you harm yourself when you break the precepts against killing, stealing, engaging in illicit sex, telling lies, or taking intoxicants. You harm others when you get them to break those precepts.
The Streams of Emotion | First Things First
After all, we cling to food and sex knowing full well that they're not permanent and have no inherent essence—in fact, knowing their impermanence makes us cling all the more. Only when we see that the pleasure these things offer isn't worth the effort that goes into clinging to them will we be willing to let go.
Introduction to the Theragāthā & Therīgāthā
Only in the Therīgāthā poems does awakening come with overcoming attachment to one's own body. In this respect, the Therīgāthā is closer than the Theragāthā to the sutta accounts of what is required for overcoming this attachment, because, as AN 7:48 points out, attraction to the opposite sex begins with attraction to one's own body ...
PDF Arising & Passing Away - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
in to the desire for sex. But the actual impulse—if you sit through it and learn how to breathe through it, and learn how to relax the body around it—is not that overwhelming. We talk often about this in terms of physical needs, but the body doesn't really have that many needs. It's perfectly content to die.
II. Truth | Ten Perfections: A Study Guide
"Furthermore, abandoning illicit sex, the noble disciple abstains from illicit sex. In doing so, he gives freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings. In giving freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings, he gains a share in ...
The Healing Power of the Precepts | Noble Strategy
Practical: The standards set by the precepts are simple—no intentional killing, stealing, engaging in illicit sex, lying, or taking intoxicants. It's entirely possible to live in line with these standards—not always easy or convenient, maybe, but always possible. Some people translate the precepts into standards that sound more lofty or ...
A Wilderness Mind at Home | Gather 'Round the Breath
The environment you create by killing, stealing, having illicit sex, lying, and taking intoxicants, is very different from the environment you create by not killing, not stealing, not having any illicit sex, not lying, not taking intoxicants. It's a very different life.
Basic Principles | Karma Q &A - Home | dhammatalks.org
sexual misconduct (having sex with minors, with people already in another committed relationship, or with those who have taken a vow of celibacy) — to rivalry and revenge; telling lies — to being misrepresented and falsely accused; divisive speech — to the breaking-up of your own friendships; harsh speech — to hearing unappealing sounds;
Introduction | The Sublime Attitudes: A Study Guide on the ...
Still, it's worth noting that even the loyal friend doesn't adopt an uncritical attitude toward your behavior, and doesn't encourage you to engage in activities— such as killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, and taking intoxicants—that would go against the precepts of moral virtue.
Summary | Refuge: An Introduction to the Buddha, Dhamma ...
Virtue begins with the five precepts—against killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, and taking intoxicants—includes prohibitions against five forms of wrong livelihood—selling slaves, intoxicants, poisons, weapons, and animals to be killed for food—and goes on to cover abstention from all forms of harmful behavior.
PDF First Things First: Essays on the Buddhist Path
killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, or taking intoxicants. In any situations. At all. As the Buddha says, if you can hold to these precepts without exception, you're giving universal protection to all beings. If you make exceptions, that protection is only partial—and you're only partially protected as well. The third good quality is ...
PDF 141129 The True Dhamma Has Disappeared
Buddha was so down on sex and lust because he had spent too much time with his austerities. Now, back in the days of the Buddha, that opinion would have been laughed out of the Sangha. But the sad truth is that at present, there are people who are happy to give it credence. Even obviously false dhamma isn't all that obvious to some.
A Meditative Life | Meditations2
The Buddha described observing the precepts as a gift, both to yourself and to the people around you. You give protection to other people's lives, their property, their knowledge of the truth. You protect them from your being drunk; you protect them from your engaging in illicit sex.
PDF The Problem of
American money and sex—are typical of the Buddhist tradition. But I wonder if this is so. My own experience in Asia certainly doesn't confirm this. During my sixteen years in Thailand I met, per capita, more people with a genuinely individual
Virtue: Questions & Answers | The Craft of the Heart
The three bodily actions to be avoided are taking life, stealing, and taking intoxicants and engaging in illicit sex. To avoid these things, not letting the body deviate in their direction, is for the body to be in a state of normalcy. The four types of speech to be avoided are lies, divisive tale-bearing, coarse and abusive speech, and idle ...
PDF Karma Q & A : A Study Guide - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
course of action would be to kill, to tell a lie, or to have illicit sex. To give good results, an action has to be not only good, but also skillful: in other words, free of delusion. To minimize delusion, you have to gain practical experience in what actually gives good results in the long term, and what doesn't. This is why
Precept Meditation | Meditations5
The precept against illicit sex turns into a precept against sex, period. That covers all of the sense doors right there. Then there's the precept against eating after noon or before dawn. That covers pleasures of taste. The precept against watching shows, listening to music, using perfumes and scents covers pleasures of sight, hearing, and ...
PDF In the Elephant's Footprint - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
think sex is permanent? No. We all know that these things are impermanent and yet we still cling anyhow. In fact, knowing that they're impermanent makes us cling all the more. We cling not because we think they are permanent but because we think that the effort that goes into clinging is worth it. The Buddha
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Skills to Take with You | Meditations1
Most people's minds are like bus stations. Everyone who wants to go through the bus station has the right to do so. And they can do all kinds of weird things while they're there in the bus station: mugging people, having sex in the restroom stalls, shooting up heroin back in the dark corners. That's what most peoples' minds are like.
B. Kamma & the Ending of Kamma | The Wings to Awakening
§ 11. There are four kinds of persons to be found in the world. Which four? There is the case where a certain person takes life, takes what is not given [steals], engages in illicit sex, lies, speaks divisively, speaks harshly, engages in idle chatter; is covetous, has a hostile mind, & holds wrong views.
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"So it is with any man who takes life, steals, indulges in illicit sex; is a liar, one who speaks divisive speech, harsh speech, & idle chatter; is greedy, bears thoughts of ill-will, & holds to wrong views. Even though a great crowd of people, gathering & congregating, would pray, praise, & circumambulate with their hands palm-to-palm over ...
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First Things First | Food for Thought: Eighteen Talks on ...
The basic level of virtue is to prevent our words and deeds from being bad or evil. This means observing the five precepts: not killing any living beings, not stealing, not engaging in illicit sex, not lying, and not taking intoxicants. These are the precepts that wash away the gross stains on our conduct.
The Essence of the Dhamma | Gather 'Round the Breath
For the deva realm, they had a picture of someone meditating in a cabana by a beach: Club Med, in two senses of the word. The human realm was a couple lying on the grass. I would put that second image in the animal realm. What makes the human realm really good is not the sex.
Goodwill as Restraint | Meditations8 : Dhamma Talks
They can justify war, justify stealing, justify illicit sex, justify lying. The mind can create excuses for all kinds of behavior and make it sound very advanced and compassionate and spiritual. But it's not. Keep the basics in mind and try to keep your mind at a basic level. That way, it's hard to go wrong.
Lust | Meditations5
If having sex were such a good thing, why would they turn around and murder each other? Family court is the most vicious and violent of the different branches of the court system. All because of the power of lust. Or just look at what lust does to the mind, right here, right now, when it starts flaring up. Think of how much you lie to yourself ...
Rebirth is Relevant | Meditations7
The Buddha has a long list of people who thrive because they kill, steal, engage in illicit sex, lie, or take intoxicants. They do it with the right people and they do it in the right way to please someone in power, so they actually get rewarded by society in one way or another. But as the Buddha commented, those are only the short-term ...
PDF Right Action
The same with illicit sex: That can be motivated either by sensual desire or by ill will. This focuses you on the two big hindrances, to remind you that you don't want to go there, because if you're going to get the mind in a good solid state of concentration, then, as the texts
All Winners, No Losers | First Things First
• The third tactic is to take on the five precepts: no killing, no stealing, no illicit sex, no lying, and no taking intoxicants. Ever. At all. As the Buddha notes, when you hold to these precepts in all your encounters with others, regardless of who they are or what they've done, you give universal safety from danger and vera—at least ...
Chapter 3: Three Levels | The Paradox of Becoming
Which four? There is the case where a certain person takes life, takes what is not given [steals], engages in illicit sex, lies, speaks divisively, speaks abusively, engages in idle chatter; is covetous, malevolent, & holds wrong views. On the break-up of the body, after death, he reappears in the plane of deprivation, the bad destination, the ...
Saṅghādisesa | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
Whether this idea was first formulated by faithful women or by clever contemplatives is hard to say. Several cases in the Vinita-vatthu to Pr 1 tell of bhikkhus approached or attacked by women professing this belief, which shows that it had some currency: Sex was somehow seen as a way to higher benefits through the law of kamma.
Conviction (2) | The Five Faculties : Putting Wisdom in ...
In a Vajrayāna version, recorded in the Caṇḍamahāroṣana Tantra, the Buddha actually gained awakening when he was back home in his palace, having tantric sex with a consort, and all the Buddhas of the past came to give him awakening. Only after that did the Buddha go out and sit under the Bodhi tree, pretending to practice austerities to ...
PDF Safety in a Duality - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, and taking intoxicants. Many people don't like rules, seeing them as small-minded and confining, but it's hard to argue with some of the rules the Buddha offers for your protection. They give you clear warning signs for when your ignorance is blinding you to behavior that will, in the long term, cause ...
Don't Underestimate Merit | Meditations8 : Dhamma Talks
So you don't kill, you don't steal, you don't have illicit sex, you don't lie, you don't take intoxicants. At the same time, you're looking after your own welfare because you don't create the kind of kamma that will come back and bite you. Other people benefit; you benefit, too.
Ordination | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II
If, however, she willingly disrobes and has sex, it doesn't. 4) The prohibition against ordaining an animal comes from one of the more poignant origin stories in the Canon: Now at that time a certain nāga was horrified, humiliated, and disgusted with the nāga-birth.
Practicing from Gratitude | Gather 'Round the Breath
No stealing, no illicit sex, no lying, no taking of intoxicants. Ever. Once you decide that these are things you're going to avoid in all situations, and you carry through with that decision, it's said to be a universal gift. You're giving protection to everybody. And then you have a share in that universal protection as well.
Views, Virtue, & Mindfulness | Gather 'Round the Breath
You make an intention, you set up an intention that you're not going to kill, you're not going to steal, you're not going to have illicit sex, you're not going to lie, you're not going to take intoxicants, and then you stick with it. Now, to stick with it, you have to keep remembering.
PDF 200330 Put the Other Person's Heart in Yours
Do you want to have people have illicit sex with people who are dear to you? Do you want to be lied to? Do you want to live in a society where people are drunk?" "Well, No." "Well, then don't do those things." "Do you like to be spoken to in a harsh and malicious way?" "No." "Then don't go do those things."
109 Itivuttaka - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
The seizers & demons stand for the opposite sex. Against the flow stands for renunciation. Making an effort with hands & feet stands for the arousing of persistence. The man with good eyesight standing on the bank stands for the Tathāgata, worthy & rightly self-awakened." ...
PDF 161030 True Happiness Starts with Giving
illicit sex, no lying, no taking of intoxicants. You're protecting yourself; you're protecting others. And if you stick with that precept consistently—in other words, you don't hold to it only when it's convenient or when you feel like it; you hold to it no matter what: That means your gift is universal. You give it to everybody.
The Third Frame of Reference | The Noble Eightfold Path ...
The Buddha talks about the precepts as a gift, a gift you give to all. This is why the precepts have to be precepts without exceptions. You make up your mind that you're not going to kill anybody, anything, under any circumstances. You're not going to steal anything from anybody. You're not going to engage in illicit sex with anybody.
PDF Merit: Actively Happy - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
illicit sex, lie, take intoxicants, ever, at all—and you stick with that in all situations, then you're giving universal safety. It doesn't mean you're protecting everybody from all bad things, but from your quarter, at least, there's no danger. When you can give universal safety like that, you get a share in that universal safety, too.
Right View | The Noble Eightfold Path : 13 Meditation Talks
But we kill, steal, have illicit sex, lie to one another, indulge in intoxicants, all because of sensual craving, sensual attachment—none of which happens because of our attachment to jhana. The only danger of being stuck on jhana is that as long as you're stuck, you don't gain awakening.
PDF 120809 Moral Intelligence - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
the precepts but if your heart is still killing and stealing and having illicit sex, then it's not a virtuous heart. You have to bring its preoccupations into line, which is what we do when we concentrate. We use mindfulness to remind ourselves that this is where we want to stay. We're not
Danger is Normal | Noble & True
Specifically, this means that if you really want to find safety, your strategy can't involve killing, stealing, or telling lies. At the same time, you can't expose yourself to unnecessary dangers by taking intoxicants or engaging in illicit sex.
PDF 200404 Wealth & Strength
Angeles who was charged with having sex with two women. The monk tried everything he could to make sure that the case was never brought to any kind of adjudication. Ajaan Suwat decided to have nothing to do with the guy. Soon after we set up the monastery here, this monk came one evening with a group
PDF 190120 Dedicating Goodness, Spreading Goodwill
in killing any living beings, you don't steal, you don't have illicit sex, you don't tell lies, you don't take intoxicants. In this way, you avoid the harm that would come from those activities. And as the Buddha said, you want to make that universal, in other words, no killing ever, no stealing ever. This means even when the situation in
3. The Judgments of Insight | In the Elephant's Footstep
Maybe sex isn't really a good kind of food. The various things I've been looking for all my life: Maybe they're not really good nourishment for me." But the important thing is that you now have an alternative source of food, so that it's easier to peel away your attachment to the kinds of food that are not so skillful.
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Take Good Aim | Meditations9
You can't make up your mind, say, that you're going to be a sex addict and have perfect happiness, too. The universe doesn't work that way. Your mind doesn't work that way. This is why we have the teachings on the principles of action—to remind ourselves, "This is how things work." If you act on this kind of desire or this kind of ...
Seeing the Stillness | ePublished Dhamma Talks : Volume I
The mind's normal state is when it's not deciding to kill or steal or have illicit sex or lie or take intoxicants. But it's a state of mind we tend to overlook. The Buddha tells us to bring the mind to normalcy first by bringing our words and deeds to normalcy. When that state of normalcy grows more consistent, it grows stronger, to where ...
Pācittaya Four: The Food Chapter | The Buddhist Monastic ...
(e) giving the item to an unordained person (because a spontaneous sex change would turn a bhikkhu into a bhikkhunī, unordained person here apparently includes not only lay people and novices, but bhikkhunīs as well), (f) abandoning the item, having lost interest in it, (g) the theft of the item.
Dealing with Limitations | Meditations5
As the Buddha said, when you make your precepts limitless—in other words, you decide that you're not going to kill under any circumstances, you're not going to steal under any circumstances from anyone at all, no illicit sex, no lying, no intoxicants ever at all, period—that's a universal gift.
PDF Can All Beings Be Happy? - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
we act. oe tells you to avoid killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, taking intoxicants, and other forms of wrong speech in addition to lying: such as divisive tale-bearing, where you're trying to break people up, break up a friendship because you feel threatened by the friendship; hurtful
Between Either & Or | Meditations7
Illicit sex is never skillful. Lying is never skillful. Divisive speech, coarse speech, idle chatter: There are a few cases in those three where you can engage in them, but you have to know a sense of moderation. This doesn't mean that you do them a little bit. You engage in them only when you're confident that your intention is skillful ...
PDF 140121 Doing the Right Thing - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
have illicit sex; you don't lie; you don't take intoxicants. Period. Tose are the big fences the Buddha puts around us to protect us. Ten to help the mind see clearly, e practice concentration and get the mind to settle do n and be still for a hile. You do hatever it takes to get the mind to settle do n. Tis
II. The Seven Sets | The Wings to Awakening
The same holds true with other actions forbidden by the precepts, such as drinking alcohol, stealing, illicit sex, lying, and abusive language. [For a more complete list, see §§103-104 .] Passage §103 shows that the Buddha's teachings on virtue consist not only of the "don't's" of the precepts, but also of the "do's" of such ...
Intelligent Design | Meditations3
You start with sex, which requires a lot of lust, but then lust — whoever designed lust, if there was a designer, was pretty malicious because lust isn't something you can control. You start lusting after the wrong people, which is what most people seem to do most of the time. And lust doesn't only create babies.
Virtue Without Attachment | Beyond All Directions
Virtue Without Attachment. Sīla—a term that can be translated as "virtue," "precept," or "habit"—is the first of the three trainings that lead to the end of suffering.The other two are concentration and discernment. In the noble eightfold path, sīla covers three factors: right speech, right action, and right livelihood.
Heedfulness | Beyond Coping: A Study Guide on Aging ...
[AN 4:234 repeats most of the above, defining black kamma with black result with the following example: "There is the case of a certain person who kills living beings, steals what is not given, engages in illicit sex, tells lies, and drinks fermented & distilled liquors that are the basis for heedlessness," and white kamma with white ...
Ekaggata | Gather 'Round the Breath
No stealing, no illicit sex, no lying, no intoxicants: In every case, watch yourself. The precept on lying is particularly subtle, because there are so many little ways that we misrepresent the truth. So you've got to be especially careful there. And as you watch over your speech, you begin to see that when you're very careful about what ...
The Gift of Spiritual Materialism | Meditations9
A young monk comes to see the ajaan and talks about how he's been obsessed with sex and can't stop thinking about it. In one case, the ajaan was Ajaan Chah; in another, it was Ajaan Thate. And in both cases their cure for that was to say, "Okay, tomorrow you can get up on the sermon seat and tell everybody in the community in great detail ...
PDF 150725 Goodwill as Restraint - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
illicit sex, breaking any of the precepts. Harming others is getting them to do those things. In other words, you treat people not simply as objects of your actions. They're agents, too. They have free will, too. So you don't want to influence their choices in a bad way because that's what's going to create suffering for them down the line.
The Transmission of Romantic Religion | Buddhist Romanticism
"The reason why the world lacks unity is because man is disunited with himself.… We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meanwhile, within man is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One.
Chapter 4: Four Clingings | The Paradox of Becoming
All those who indulge in illicit sex… All those who tell lies are destined for a state of deprivation, are destined for hell.' A disciple has faith in that teacher, and the thought occurs to him, 'Our teacher holds this doctrine, holds this view: "All those who take life are destined for a state of deprivation, are destined for hell." ...
Persistence | The Five Faculties : Putting Wisdom in ...
Skillful is harmless and blameless. Unskillful is the opposite, anything harmful and blameworthy. The Buddha gives a list of things that are unskillful: killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, idle chatter, inordinate greed, ill will, and wrong view, particularly, not believing in the power of your actions.
Dwelling near Sāvatthī | Noble Warrior : A Life of the Buddha
The darkness then vanished for Anāthapiṇḍika and the light appeared. The fear, terror, & horripilation that had arisen subsided. So Anāthapiṇḍika went to the Cool Forest.
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Turning Anxiety into Heedfulness | Meditations9
All the precepts are like that. When you make up your mind that you're not going to kill under any circumstances, you're not going to steal, you're not going to lie, you're not going to have illicit sex or take intoxicants under any circumstances, you're giving universal safety.
Why Meditate? | The Skill of Release - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
As for meditation, everyone can practice it, no matter what their age, sex, or station in life. § A mind without concentration is like a pile of wooden posts left lying on the ground for people and animals to step all over. But if we stand the posts up and plant them in the soil, we can get good use out of them. Even if they're not tall ...
PDF What Is Skillful?
abstaining from illicit sex, abstaining from lies, divisive speech, harsh speech, idle chatter; trying to get rid of inordinate greed, ill-will, and wrong views. You notice there's a lot of abstaining and getting-rid-of there. And there will be parts of the mind that don't want to abstain and don't want to get rid. They don't like rules.
Dhamma | Refuge: An Introduction to the Buddha, Dhamma ...
"Abandoning illicit sex, he abstains from illicit sex…. "Abandoning lying, he abstains from lying…. "Abandoning the use of intoxicants, he abstains from taking intoxicants. In doing so, he gives freedom from danger, freedom from animosity, freedom from oppression to limitless numbers of beings.
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Respect for the Precepts | Meditations9
Where would you be tempted to kill, where would you be tempted to steal, to have illicit sex, to lie, take intoxicants? The two big ones tend to be killing and lying: Where would you be tempted to do these things? You ask yourself and then, when you get an answer, you ask yourself further, "Well, why would you be tempted?
The Ennobling Path | ePublished Dhamma Talks : Volume III
When life is in danger, your first impulse may be not your best impulse at all. You need clear-cut precepts to keep reminding you that under no circumstances would you kill, steal, have illicit sex, lie, or take intoxicants. That's why the precepts are so simple, to be easy to remember in difficult situations.
The True Dhamma Has Disappeared | Meditations7
The Dhamma—the Dhamma as the truth—is something that's always in the world. In one of the suttas that we chant, the Buddha says that whether Tathagathas arise or don't arise, there are truths that are always true across the board: All fabrications are inconstant, all fabrications are stressful, all dhammas are not-self.
Better to Give than to Consume | Meditations6
Virtue is also a gift. As the Buddha said, when you make up your mind not to harm anyone under any circumstances—no killing, no stealing, no illicit sex, no lying, no taking of intoxicants—you're giving limitless protection to all beings. In other words, at the very least, from your quarter, they have nothing to fear.
The Buddha's Teachings - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
3) having illicit sex, i.e., with a minor or with an adult who is already in another relationship or when you are already in another relationship; 4) telling falsehoods, i.e., knowingly misrepresenting the truth; and. 5) taking intoxicants.
Disenchantment | ePublished Dhamma Talks : Volume III
One of the biggest issues in life of course is lust. If you actually look at what's involved in the sexual act, it's pretty disgusting. And so people spend a lot of time dressing it up. This last week I heard a group of people complaining when they heard about the whole idea of disenchantment and dispassion: Can't we still have sex?
PDF Repaying Our Parents - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
known before: that killing is bad, stealing is bad, illicit sex, false dealings, intoxication are bad. A lot of people had already seen that. Many of us have learned these things from our parents. Even if we didn't, we can repay our parents by setting a good example for them in avoiding these unskillful forms of behavior.
Strengthening Concentration | Meditations7
No stealing, no illicit sex, no lying, no taking of intoxicants. You set these principles up as promises and then try to keep to them. You learn things about yourself in the process. One is that you learn the areas where you have difficulty. And two, you've got to learn how to negotiate with your conflicting intentions.
PDF 140609 Looking in the Dhamma Mirror
can give yourself reasons for illicit sex. We have the spectacle now of a famous Buddhist monk saying that there are times when killing is okay. Well, you look at his reasons, and you begin to wonder what kind of defilements he's hiding through his reasonable-sounding rhetoric. The same goes with all the other
PDF The Seeds of Karma - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
for a teacher to have sex with a student. To give good results, an action has to be not only good, but also skillful. This is why the Buddha taught his son, Rahula, to develop three qualities in his actions: wisdom—acting for long-term happiness; compassion—intending not to harm anyone with his actions; and purity—checking
PDF 121230 On Denying Defilement
your actions, you don't kill, steal, or have illicit sex. In terms of your speech, you don't lie, you don't speak divisively, you don't speak harshly, you don't engage in idle chatter. And finally in terms of the mind, you try to abandon any overweening greed, any ill-will, any wrong views.
PDF Goodwill for Bad People - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
going to kill anyone, not have illicit sex with anyone, not lie to anyone, not take intoxicants under any situations. It's when your precepts become limitless that you have a share in that limitless safety. And for the precepts to be limitless, your goodwill has to be limitless as well. You can't
Ovāda-pāṭimokkh'ādi Pāṭha | A Chanting Guide
"There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones abstains from taking life, abstains from taking what is not given, abstains from illicit sex, abstains from lying, abstains from distilled & fermented drinks that cause heedlessness." In this way the Blessed One has rightly declared virtue with a basic explanation.
PDF 180824 A Sense of Yourself - Home | dhammatalks.org
types of harm you want to avoid across the board: killing, stealing, illicit sex, lying, and taking intoxicants. But there's also the harm that comes by inciting greed, aversion, and delusion in yourself by the way you look at things or listen to things. How careful are you as you go through the day? What kind of fantasies do you
PDF 200121 A Generosity of Spirit
harm anybody, we don't kill anybody, we don't steal from anybody, have illicit sex with anybody, don't lie to anybody, don't take intoxicants. At all. Under any circumstances. That, the Buddha said, is a gift that's universal and unlimited. Generosity, however, has its limitations. You give in line with your means, and if your
Normalcy | ePublished Dhamma Talks : Volume II
The precept against illicit sex: Don't try to become one with everything around you. The precept against lies: Don't try to hoodwink yourself into thinking that these states are special. And the precept against intoxicants: Don't try to intoxicate yourself with a trance state. You want to be normal, clear.
How to Feed Mindfulness | Meditations5
I want to think about sex, or I want to think about drugs, or I want to think about who-knows-what." If there's part of the mind that says, "Hey, you can't do that without consequences," you've got your first line of defense against those wandering, unskillful thoughts.
PDF 071120 Right View - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
over attachment to jhana, attachment to concentration. We kill, steal, have illicit sex, lie to each other, indulge in intoxicants all because of sensual craving, sensual attachment—none of which happens because of our attachment to jhana. The only danger of being stuck on jhana is that as long as you're stuck, you don't gain Awakening.
The Path of Mistakes | Meditations4
Meditations 4: Dhamma Talks by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu. An essential aspect of Buddhist practice is that we have to learn how to make use of things we'll eventually have to learn how to let go of.
PDF 131106 How to Be an Admirable Friend(Alt)
very friendly - no illicit sex, no creating any problems around sex, no lying, no divisive speech, no harsh speech, no idle chatter. This doesn't mean you don't say anything critical at all, simply that you're very careful in your criticisms. Again, the criticism has to come from goodwill.
PDF II. The Seven Sets - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
63 II. The Seven Sets A. THE TREASURES OF THE TEACHING Nowhere in the Canon does the Buddha list the seven sets of teachings under the name of Wings to Awakening.
PDF Virtue Contains the Practice
that you don't want to kill, you don't want to steal, you don't want to have illicit sex, you don't want to lie, and you don't want to take intoxicants. That last one is important because, as he said, we're already intoxicated with youth, we're intoxicated with health, we're intoxicated with beauty, we're intoxicated with life.
Insight from Jhana | Meditations7
It's a test case for all the suffering that's created by this felt need to feed, feed, feed, eat, nibble, gobble, whatever, all the time. It's our most basic attachment. I've heard that people held in concentration camps or in prisoner-of-war camps, in the very beginning, talk about sex. After a while, they lose their interest in sex.
Nissaggiya Pācittiya | The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes ...
The lay man undergoes a spontaneous sex change and becomes a bhikkhunī before washing the robe, and again, the bhikkhu incurs the full penalty. What lesson is intended here is hard to say. Summary: Getting an unrelated bhikkhunī to wash, dye, or beat a robe that has been used at least once is a nissaggiya pācittiya offense.
Jhana: Responsible Happiness | Meditations5
People steal, kill, have illicit sex, lie, speak divisively, speak coarsely, use intoxicants, not because of their ability to access the pleasure of concentration, but because they don't have that ability. They go looking around for sensual pleasures. People engage in self-torment, and then they get very censorious and very strict with other ...
PDF 170808 Wealth Worth Holding Onto
steal anything from them, have illicit sex with people they love, lie to them, or take intoxicants under any circumstances. In that way, you're giving universal safety, a gift to everybody. And when the safety is universal, then you have a part of that safety as well. So it's by giving that you gain.
PDF 0110n2a1 Technique & Attitude
And the precepts are not superhuman: no killing, no stealing, no illicit sex, no lying, no drugs or alcohol. People can follow these principles and still live. And they find that they live very happy lives as well There's a sense of solidity within them. They have something that's very valuable.
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PDF 0111n1a1 Overcoming Complacency - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
You can't let go of anything until you've become skillful at it, the one exception being sex: as the Buddha says, the most skillful thing you can do with sex is to let go of it. But with other things—such as learning how to hold on to what you should hold on to, what your sense of "I"
Unromantic Dhamma | Buddhist Romanticism
Abstaining from taking life, abstaining from stealing, abstaining from illicit sex: This, monks, is called right action. "And what, monks, is right livelihood? There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones, having abandoned dishonest livelihood, keeps his life going with right livelihood. This, monks, is called right livelihood.
Chapter 4: Analytical Answers | Skill in Questions: How ...
There is the case where a certain person takes life, takes what is not given (steals), engages in illicit sex, lies, speaks divisively, speaks abusively, engages in idle chatter; is covetous, malevolent, & holds wrong views. With the breakup of the body, after death, he reappears in a plane of deprivation, a bad destination, a lower realm, hell
CHAPTER IV | The Mind like Fire Unbound
Virtue includes abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from harsh speech, & from idle chatter; from killing, stealing, & having illicit sex; and from engaging in dishonest or abusive forms of making a living, such as dealing in poison, slaves, weapons, intoxicants, or animal flesh.
Stream Entry & its Results | Into the Stream
When treating the experience of stream entry and its results, the Canon uses all three of its typical modes of discourse: the narrative mode—stories about people who have attained stream entry; the cosmological mode—descriptions of the after-death destinations awaiting those who have attained stream entry; and what might be called the "emptiness" mode, which describes mental states in ...
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Kindfulness | Meditations6
Illicit sex, maybe; alcohol and drugs, maybe. But controlling your mouth: That's 24/7, except when you're asleep. As you exercise more restraint over your mouth, you're showing more respect for yourself. As Ajaan Lee once said, you should bow down to your mouth every day. You went to all the trouble of developing the perfections that ...
Spread Goodness Around | Meditations9
The precept against illicit sex: You respect people's rights; you don't let your lust overcome the bounds of propriety. The precept against lying: You try to be a person who tells the truth, you try to promote friendships, you try to promote goodness in other people as well. So there's a positive side to virtue, too.
The Path | Basic Themes
A. Dukkha: physical and mental stress and discomfort. B. Samudaya: the origin of physical and mental stress, i.e., ignorance and such forms of craving as sensual desire. Right View sees that these are the causes of all stress. C. Nirodha: the ending and disbanding of the causes of stress, causing stress to disband as well, leaving only the unequaled ease of nibbāna.
PDF 100819 Survival Dhamma
Clear-cut rules are easier to remember: Don't kill, don't steal, don't have illicit sex, don't lie, don't take intoxicants, period. Although some people would prefer a little wriggle room in the rules, they're being shortsighted and heedless. The times when you need clear-cut rules the most are when you're most tempted to break them.
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Under Your Skin | Noble & True
At the same time, the hidden agendas of beauty often confuse and pervert your perception of what "good" really is. This confusion, for instance, is what allows spiritual teachers to claim that sex with their students can be a sacred and healing activity.
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The Sa盪【utta Nikﾄ【a, a collection of short to medium-length discourses, takes its name from the way the discourses are organized into groups connected (sa盪【utta) by a particular theme.
PDF 120607 Right Resolve - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
is a recipe for a serial sex offender. The book actually had it all backwards. The desiring and the obsession with your desires: That's where the real problem lies. You've got to learn how to look at the drawbacks of sensuality, this kind of obsession. This is why the Buddha has all those analogies and images for the drawbacks of sensuality.
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and having illicit sex, and then you try to tell other people not to do those things. You set the example. This is one of the reasons why we meditate, to learn the skills: first, the precepts and then, the skills for dealing with whatever is coming up in our mind in terms of passion, aversion, and delusion—both through
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