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Tonglen is a Buddhist practice that involves breathing in the suffering of others and breathing out peace and healing. Its purpose is to cultivate compassion. Tong means "giving or sending", and len means "receiving or taking". [1] Tonglen is also known as "exchanging self with other." [2] [3]
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]
In the Pali Canon's Bhāvanānuyutta sutta ("Mental Development Discourse," [note 1] AN 7.67), the Buddha is recorded as saying: . Monks, although a monk who does not apply himself to the meditative development of his mind [bhavana [note 1]] may wish, "Oh, that my mind might be free from the taints by non-clinging!", yet his mind will not be freed.
The Dhammapada (Pali: धम्मपद; Sanskrit: धर्मपद, romanized: Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. [1] The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
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 Maṅgala Sutta is a discourse (Pali: sutta) of Gautama Buddha on the subject of 'blessings' (mangala, also translated as 'good omen' or 'auspices' or 'good fortune'). [1] In this discourse, Gautama Buddha describes 'blessings' that are wholesome personal pursuits or attainments, identified in a progressive manner from the mundane to the ...
Sigālovāda Sutta is the 31st Sutta described in the Digha Nikaya ("Long Discourses of Buddha"). [1] It is also known as the Sīgāla Sutta, [2] the Sīgālaka Sutta, [3] the Si ṅ gālovāda Sutta, the Si ṅ gāla Sutta, [4] and the Sigālovāda Suttanta ("The Sigāla Homily").
The Kesamutti Sutta, popularly known in the West as the Kālāma Sutta, is a discourse of the Buddha contained in the Aṅguttara Nikaya (3.65) of the Tipiṭaka. [1] It is often cited by those of the Theravada and Mahayana traditions alike as the Buddha 's "charter of free inquiry ."