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Regarding four traits conducive to happiness in future lives, the Buddha identifies accomplishments (sampadā) in: faith (saddhā), in the fully enlightened Buddha; [10] virtue (sīla), as exemplified by the Five Precepts; generosity (cāga), giving charity and alms; and, wisdom (paññā), having insight into the arising and passing of things.
The Buddha also states that in the practice of meditation, bodhisattvas "gradually refine their thoughts as one refines gold until they realize supreme awakening." [40] The Buddha further explains that there is an "overall image of emptiness" which the bodhisattvas do not discard, this is:
Glenn Wallis states: "By distilling the complex models, theories, rhetorical style and sheer volume of the Buddha's teachings into concise, crystalline verses, the Dhammapada makes the Buddhist way of life available to anyone...In fact, it is possible that the very source of the Dhammapada in the third century B.C.E. is traceable to the need of ...
States that "scholars sometimes treat passage through the four dhyanas as a peculiarly Buddhist experience, but the Buddha's description tallies not only with Hindu authorities like Patanjali but also with Western mystics like John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Augustine, and Meister Eckhart." [9]: 64 4. The Buddha's Universe (pp. 80–98)
Instead, the Buddha says, only when one personally knows that a certain teaching is skillful, blameless, praiseworthy, and conducive to happiness, and that it is praised by the wise, should one then accept it as true and practice it. Thus, as stated by Soma Thera, the Kalama Sutta is just that, the Buddha's charter of free inquiry:
Under the guidance of the buddha Lokeśvararāja ("World Sovereign King"), innumerable buddha-lands throughout the ten directions were revealed to him. [11] After meditating for five eons as a bodhisattva, he then made a great series of vows to save all sentient beings, and through his great merit, created the realm of Sukhāvatī ("Ultimate ...
According to the sutra, the ten major bodhisattva precepts are in summary: [8] Not to kill or encourage others to kill. Not to steal or encourage others to steal. Not to engage in licentious acts or encourage others to do so. A monk is expected to abstain from sexual conduct entirely. Not to use false words and speech, or encourage others to do so.
The use of the word "self" in this sutra is in a way unique to this class of sutra. The great Queen Śrīmālā, who according to this text is empowered by the Buddha to teach the Dharma, affirms: [8] [T]he Dharmakāya of the Buddha has the perfection of permanence, the perfection of pleasure, the perfection of self, the perfection of purity.