"The well-known Five Precepts (pañca sila) form the minimum code of ethics that every lay Buddhist is expected to adhere to. Its first precept involves...
"(A fully awakened person) feels sympathy for others and seeks their well-being, experiencing a sense of satisfaction when they respond to (his/her) teachings,...
"A strange thing happens as we stumble past the first part of our spiritual path. Just when we start to be able to see clearly, and make more out of our...
"AMARAVATI again - a special day, an auspicious day. This morning many of you were here for the traditional offering and special dedication for our parents -...
"Abandon what is unwholesome, oh monks! One can abandon the unwholesome, oh monks! If it were not possible, I would not ask you to do so. If this abandoning of...
"Buddha called [sympathetic joy] 'the mind deliverance of gladness.' What he meant was that the particular form of happiness has the ability to bring us a...
"Striving in spiritual practice to cultivate meditative quiescence and cultivate such qualities as loving-kindness and compassion is certainly a worthy...
". . . there are three [roots of unwholesome states in our consciousness] - hate, greed, and delusion. We also have three wholesome roots - love, generosity,...
Factions in the Mind September 14, 2003 "When you stop to look at your mind, you begin to realize that there's a whole committee in there: lots of different...
"The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. He to whom this emotion...
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~ Carl.G. Jung May this be of benefit. (Antony, your last post...
" . . . there are certain types of persons towards whom loving- kindness should not be developed in the first stages. The attempt, at the outset to regard a...
... p99 "What is the real emotion behind the rage? Is it fear? Probably it is. Stare it down. Stare it down and then you can think about what you can do to not...
Bangkok Post 4 January 1998 The following is the edited text of the 11th Pope Paul VI Memorial Lecture, written by Aung San Suu Kyi and delivered by her...
"The perfection of a rose is that it's a bud, it blooms, it gets overblown and the petals fall off and it dies. Its perfection is the way it is. So when a rose...
"Before discussing the techniques of meditation, it is important that we first define its goals. That is, why does one meditate? What does one hope to achieve?...
"The practice of rejoicing can prevent the arising or pride, jealousy, or anger. Whenever you hear that someone else has been successful, rejoice. Always...
"Q: What about sympathetic joy? How would joy come into this integrated action? Dr Thynn Thynn: An act is joyless if it is done on the basis of pure duty. Joy...
On rejoicing in the happiness of others, even when they harm us, or better, whether they harm us or do us good, equanimously. From "The Bodhisattva Way",...
"Equanimity in Pali is called upekkha. It is characterized as that quality which brings about a sense of neutrality or an evenness of heart towards all beings....
"A young woman wrote to me about finding herself in a small town in the Middle East surrounded by people jeering, yelling, and threatening to throw stones at...
Majjhima Nikaya 62 Maha-Rahulovada Sutta: The Greater Exhortation to Rahula (extract) translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu "(Rahula,) Develop the...
"...Anger is caused by greed and self-attachment and makes me discriminate against whoever disturbs my happiness, producing the enemy. Attachment creates the...
"After we purchased the land for our monastery in 1983 we were broke. We were in debt. There were no buildings on the land, not even a shed. Those first few...
"Loving-kindness is the first of a series of meditations that produce four qualities of love: Friendliness (metta), Compassion (karuna), Appreciative Joy...
Equanimity, reflecting that all beings are heirs of their karma, usually is taught for situations where the other person is suffering and we feel helpless so...
" . . . there are certain types of persons towards whom loving- kindness should not be developed in the first stages. The attempt, at the outset to regard a...
"Stanza IX: "Patience, meekness when corrected..." Khantii: this important virtue, in fact one of the highest, can be translated as patience but it includes...
"It's traditional to begin and end each session of meditation with thoughts of goodwill for all beings without exception. The purpose in each case is...
"I love the story of the Buddha's life. I find it very inspiring. But one of the little episodes - he had a cousin named Devadatta. And if you think you have...
