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For Theravadin scholars, this discourse of the Pāli Canon is one of several considered key to understanding Buddhist lay ethics. [2] In this discourse, the Buddha instructs a householder named Dīghajāṇu Vyagghapajja, [3] a Koliyan householder, on eight personality traits or conditions that lead to happiness and well-being in this and ...
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 ...
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:
the happiness of debtlessness (ana ṇ a-sukha) be free from debts; the happiness of blamelessness (anavajja-sukha), to live a faultless and pure life without committing evil in thought, word, and deed; Of these, the wise (sumedhaso) know that the happiness of blamelessness is by far the greatest householder happiness. [5]
Gaman (我慢) is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means "enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity". [1] [2] The term is generally translated as "perseverance", "patience", or "tolerance". [3]
Mangala Suta Uannana by Ven. K. Gunaratana Thera (docx- file 69kB) [* Chandrabodhi chants the Mahamangala Sutta and other suttas in an 'Indian style' at [1] and Sangharakshita reads the Mahamangala and Karaniyametta suttas, although with other readings from the Pali Canon at [2] both retrieved from freebuddhistaudio.com
The Mahāsāṃghika, another one of the early Buddhist schools, had the doctrine of ekakṣaṇacitta, "according to which a Buddha knows everything in a single thought-instant". [57] This process however, meant to apply only to the Buddha and paccekabuddhas. Lay people may have to experience various levels of insights to become fully enlightened.
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)