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“This spiritual life is lived with training as its benefit, with wisdom as its overseer, with freedom as its core, and with mindfulness as its ruler.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-08-24 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 1.18 Saṁghātherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Saṅghā

“I left behind the house and went forth.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-08-22 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thag 10.6 Vaṅgantaputtaupasenattheragāthā: Upasena son of Vaṅgantā

“They should be content even with coarse food…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 5.128 Samaṇasukhasutta: An Ascetic’s Happiness

“There are these five kinds of suffering for an ascetic.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Dhp 311–314 From… Niriya Vagga: Hell

“If something’s to be done, then work at it firmly…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-08-19 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thag 1.36 Kumāputtattheragāthā: Kumāputta

“This is the ascetic life for one who has nothing.…”

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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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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-08-01 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 2.64: Two Kinds of Happiness

“There are, mendicants, these two kinds of happiness.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-07-31 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 1.11 Muttātherīgāthā: Muttā (2nd)

“So freed! So thoroughly freed am I!…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-06-23 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 3.7 Selātherīgāthā: Selā

“What you call sensual delight is now no delight for me.…”

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

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 13.5 Subhākammāradhītutherīgāthā: Subhā, the Smith’s Daughter

“My family, why do you urge me on to pleasures, as if you were my enemies?…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2026-01-15 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

SN 45.35 Paṭhamasāmaññasutta: The Ascetic Life (1st)

“Mendicants, I will teach you the ascetic life and the fruits of the ascetic life. …”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-10-24 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 16.1 From… Sumedhātherīgāthā: Sumedhā

“We three friends gave the gift of a newly-built dwelling…”

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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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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-07-31 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thag 3.14 Gotamattheragāthā: Gotama (2nd)

“I know well these states of existence are worthless…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-07-29 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 2.3 Sumaṅgalamātātherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Sumaṇgala’s Mother

“Hiss! Hiss! I destroy passion and aversion.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-07-26 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 16.1 Sumedhātherīgāthā: Sumedhā

“Then Sumedhā took up a knife, and cut off her hair……”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-07-19 · 00:01 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 14.1 Subhājīvakambavanikātherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Subhā of Jīvaka’s Mango Grove

““What do you consider of value here,
in this carcass, full of corpses?…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-07-18 · 00:01 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 5.2 Vimalātherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Vimalā

“I despised anyone who was not my equal.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-07-13 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 12.1: The Verses of Arahant Nun Puṇṇā

“Brāhmin, you have no idea about the results of kamma.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-07-10 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 6.6 Mahāpajāpatigotamītherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Mahāpajāpati Gotamī

“In the past I was a mother, a child, a father, a brother, and a grandmother.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-07-08 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 2.9 Abhayātherīgāthā: Abhayā

“The body is fragile, yet ordinary people are attached to it.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-07-06 · 00:02 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 13.2 Rohinītherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Rohinī

“What is so dear to you about contemplatives?…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-07-04 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 6.7 Guttātherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Guttā

“Sentient beings are misguided by the mind, enjoying the realm of Māra.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-01-07 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 3.5: The Verses of Arahant Nun Ubbirī

“Which of them do you grieve for?…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2025-01-03 · 00:13 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 7.2 Cālātherīgāthā: Cālā

“In whose name did you shave your head?…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2024-09-30 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Thig 3.3 Aparāuttamātherīgāthā: Another Uttamā

“I am the Buddha’s rightful daughter, always delighting in extinguishment.…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2024-09-16 · 00:00 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

Dhp 210–213 From… Piyavagga: The Beloved

“Sorrow springs from what we hold dear…”

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ReadingFaithfully.org☸📗 @[email protected] · 2024-09-15 · 00:14 UTC

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 8.44 Vāseṭṭhasutta: Vāseṭṭha

“If my beloved relatives and family members would observe the uposatha complete in eight factors, that would lead to their welfare and happiness for a long time.…”

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