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One who lives restrained in the senses
And focused on unpleasant things,
Who is moderate in food,
Who has faith and diligence:
Mara cannot overcome him,
Just as wind cannot overcome a rocky mountain.
~Dhammapada 8

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-09-06 · 00:01 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 10.17 Nātha Sutta: Protectors (1)

“Live with a protector, monks, and not without a protector.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-09-05 · 00:01 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 10.23 Kāyasutta: Body

“There are things to be abandoned … having repeatedly seen with wisdom.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-09-04 · 00:01 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 8.83 Mūlakasutta: Rooted

“Reverends, all things have what as their root?…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-09-03 · 00:01 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 5.12 Kūṭasutta: Peak (1)

“Just as the peak is the chief part of a peaked-roof house……”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-09-02 · 00:02 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 1.336 Catutthavagga: The Wise are Few

“The sentient beings who are wise … are few…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-09-01 · 00:12 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Dhp 372 From… Bhikkhuvagga: The Monk

“There is no meditative concentration for him who lacks insight…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-08-31 · 00:02 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 42.10 Maṇicūḷakasutta: With Maṇicūḷaka

“They neither accept nor receive gold and currency. They have set aside gems and gold, and quit using gold and currency…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-08-30 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Snp 2.6 Kapilasutta: A Righteous Life

“A righteous life, a spiritual life, they call this the supreme treasure.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-08-07 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 4.25 Brahmacariyasutta: The Spiritual Life

“Bhikkhus, this spiritual life is not lived for the sake of deceiving people and cajoling them…”

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Anagārika Alāra, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-07-14 · 19:55 UTC

Did Buddha spend 45 years tirelessly walking and teaching, or was that a 'retcon' story invented by the later prose authors of the suttas, to justify the long canon they needed to write in order to compete with Hinduism?

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Anagārika Alāra, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-07-14 · 19:55 UTC

Did Buddha spend 45 years tirelessly walking and teaching, or was that a 'retcon' story invented by the later prose authors of the suttas, to justify the long canon they needed to write in order to compete with Hinduism?

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Anagārika Alāra, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-07-14 · 19:55 UTC

Did Buddha spend 45 years tirelessly walking and teaching, or was that a 'retcon' story invented by the later prose authors of the suttas, to justify the long canon they needed to write in order to compete with Hinduism?

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Anagārika Alāra, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-07-14 · 19:55 UTC

Did Buddha spend 45 years tirelessly walking and teaching, or was that a 'retcon' story invented by the later prose authors of the suttas, to justify the long canon they needed to write in order to compete with Hinduism?

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Anagārika Alāra, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-07-14 · 19:55 UTC

Did Buddha spend 45 years tirelessly walking and teaching, or was that a 'retcon' story invented by the later prose authors of the suttas, to justify the long canon they needed to write in order to compete with Hinduism?

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-06-05 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Iti 96 Kāmayogasutta: The Bonds

“Though in the world, have gone beyond.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 1.296: One Thing—Recollection of the Buddha

“This one thing, when developed and cultivated, leads solely to disillusionment, dispassion, cessation, peace, insight, awakening, and extinguishment.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-01-27 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 12.68 Kosambisutta: Kosambī

“Suppose, friend, there was a well along a desert road, but it had neither a rope nor a bucket.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-01-25 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 12.68 Kosambisutta: Kosambī

“Suppose, friend, there was a well along a desert road, but it had neither a rope nor a bucket.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-12-09 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 1.24 Manonivāraṇasutta: Shielding the Mind

“You needn’t shield the mind from everything.…”

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Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com · 2025-10-08 · 04:55 UTC

Religious Ecstasy

This is a reported form of altered state of consciousness that’s characterized by greatly reduced external awareness & purportly expanded interior mental & spiritual awareness. It’s frequently accompanied by visions & emotional (& sometimes physical) euphoria.

Even though this experience is usually a brief period of time, there are records of such experiences lasting several days or even more. There are also recurring experiences of ecstasy during a person’s lifetime.

In Sufism, this is called: wajd. In Buddhism, it’s called: piti. It’s usually translated as “joy” or “rapture,” & is an element of jhana, a state of oneness with an object that 1 focuses on in meditation.

With the adjective “religious” means that the experience occurs in connection with religious activities or is interpreted in the context of a religion.

In yoga, it provides certain techniques to attain a state of ecstasy called: samadhi. Practitioners say that there are various stages of ecstasy. The highest one being Nirvikalpa samadhi. Bhakti Yoga, in particular, places emphasis on ecstasy as being 1 of the fruits of its practice.

In Buddhism, especially in the Pali Canon, there are 8 trance states, called absorption. The first 4 states are: Rupa (materially oriented). The next 4 states are: Arupa (non-material). These 8 states are preliminary trances which lead up to the final saturation. In the Visuddhimagga, lots of effort & years of sustained meditation are practiced to reach the first absorption. Not everyone can do this at all.

In monotheistic traditions, ecstasy is normally associated with communion & oneness with God. Some charismatic Christians practice ecstatic states (like “being slain in the Spirit”). They view these as being given by the Holy Spirit, or gifts of the Spirit.

However, such experiences can also be a quite personal mystical experience with no significance to anyone but the person experiencing them.

Religious ecstasy in certain Christian movements has also been seen as: squealing, shrieking, an inability to stand/sit, uttering apocalyptic prophecies, holy laughter, crying, & barking. Some have made some interesting claims of seeing “gold dust,” “angel feathers,” “holy clouds,” or precious gem stones spontaneously showing up during ecstatic worship events.

In hagiographies (writings about Christian saints), there are plenty of records in which saints are granted ecstasies. Some Modern witchcraft traditions call themselves “ecstatic traditions.” They focus on reaching ecstatic states in their rituals. The Reclaiming Tradition & the Feri Tradition are 2 modern ecstatic Witchcraft examples.

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