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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
SN 20.8 Kaliṅgarasutta: Wood Blocks
“These days the mendicants live using wood blocks as pillows, and they meditate diligently and keenly.…”
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“Cessation” is an important word in Buddhism, and it’s one that I like to define as the fading away of the sense of self.
The sense of self fades away when we don’t attach to an experience. Cessation occurs when we learn to look at experience objectively.
~Ajahn Viradhammo#Buddhism #Dhamma #BuddhistPractice #Theravada #BuddhistWisdom #Dharma
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
Thig 1.18 Saṁghātherīgāthā: Verses of the Elder Saṅghā
“I left behind the house and went forth.…”
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Train in acts of merit
that yield the foremost profit of bliss–
develop generosity,
a life in tune,
a mind of good will.Developing these
three things
that bring about bliss,
the wise reappear
in a world of bliss
unalloyed.
~Iti22 -
🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 3.99 Potthakasutta: Jute
“Jute canvas is ugly, unpleasant to touch, and worthless whether it’s new, worn in, or worn out.…”
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Real injustices are being done out there. The question is: what to do about them? Often we see a situation that we don’t like, anger arises and we try to think of what to do about the situation while the anger is still in the mind.
From the Buddha’s perspective, ...
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
Thag 10.6 Vaṅgantaputtaupasenattheragāthā: Upasena son of Vaṅgantā
“They should be content even with coarse food…”
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Those who are ashamed of what they should not be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they should be ashamed of — upholding false views, they go to states of woe.
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🌱 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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But the greatest, most profound and meaningful human potential is overlooked by most people, and this is the ability to understand the truth of the way it is, to see the Dhamma, to be free from all delusions.
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🌱 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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In the Vitthatadhana Sutta, the Buddha says:
Monks, there are these seven treasures. Which seven?
The treasure of ...
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
Thag 1.36 Kumāputtattheragāthā: Kumāputta
“This is the ascetic life for one who has nothing.…”
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When there is pain, ...
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 5.111 Kulūpakasutta: Visiting Families
“A mendicant with five qualities who visits families is unlikable and unlovable…”
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When one has faith in the Tathagata,
unshakable and well established, ...#Buddhism #Theravada #Dhamma #PaliCanon #suttas #faith #virtue
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
Dhp 375 From… Bhikkhuvagga: Mendicants
“This is the very start of the path……”
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Try not to react to whatever ...
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 10.71 Ākaṅkhasutta: One Might Wish
“Live by the ethical precepts and the monastic code.…”
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These two hopes are hard to give up. What two?
The hope for wealth, and the hope for long life.
~AN2.118#Buddhism #Theravada #Dhamma #PaliCanon #suttas #wealth #longlife
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 3.133 Yodhājīvasutta: A Warrior
“And how is a mendicant a marksman?…”
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The First Noble Truth is not: ...
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 2.39: Good and Bad Mendicants
“At a time when kings are strong, bandits are weak.…”
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Venerable Sariputta addressed the bhikkhus near Savatthi in Jeta’s Grove:
They speak of this thing called ‘right view’. How do you define a noble disciple who has right view, whose view is correct, who has ...
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
Iti 105 Taṇhuppādasutta: Arousing Craving
“A person companioned by craving wanders on the long journey…”
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 5.235 Anukampasutta: A Compassionate Mendicant
“A resident mendicant with five qualities shows compassion to the lay people.…”
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